Fear of being alone with our own thoughts, as much as fear of missing out, prevents most of us from disconnecting from our ...

Childhood memories are bound to be stirred for many by Our Folktales – The All-Time Favourite Folktales of Asia, a book launched last month by the Singapore Book Council and independent publisher ...

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. From “Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America.”Credit...Liniers Supported by By ...

‘It seems that mankind is born with an avid appetite for details of other lives beside the one his own small span of corporeal existence grants to him,” the late folklorist Sybil Marshall writes by ...

Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s new documentary follows a group of teenagers learning life lessons at a traditional Norwegian folk high school. Documentaries focused on the teen experience ...

Every once in a while you come across a film that is so perfectly made to connect deeply with you and your soul, so wonderfully crafted that your emotions reach a boiling point the moment it starts, ...

“Folktales,” in theaters right now, is one of the most moving and beautiful movies of the year. It follows a few kids as they attend Pasvik Folk High School in Norway. This is where kids come from all ...

As something to do during the lockdown and social distancing caused by COVID-19, reading Korean folk tales is highly recommended. Korean folk tales have been passed down for centuries and provide ...

“I think to be a young woman is chaos. There is no other word for things,” notes Hege, a 19-year-old Norwegian who, like many others her age these days, seems to be searching for something she can’t ...

The trickster is a being that loves to create chaos. In Native American traditions, it takes many forms and appears in many stories. Now it's taking the form of a graphic novel. Trickster is the first ...

FOLK tales consist of mainly traditional oral narratives which include legends, proverbs, music, jokes and stories which belong to a particular culture or social group. Most folk stories or ngano ...