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TALES
OF
LONG
AGO
What
are
folk
tales
and
why
are
they
a
part
of
our
history?
Long
before
stories
were
written
in
books,
they
were
told
by
word
of
mouth.
Families
in
all
countries
told
stories
to
explain
how
things
happened
or
came
to
be.
Many
of
these
stories
began
as
truth
but
over
many
years,
details
were
added.
Some
details
may
have
been
true
but
many
of
them
were
added
to
make
the
story
more
interesting.
A
folk
tale
is
any
story,
song,
rhyme
or
joke
that
has
been
told
over
and
over
for
many
generations.
These
folk
tales,
legends,
and
tall
tales
came
to
be
a
part
of
our
culture.
Today
we
learn
about
life
long
ago,
we
learn
about
justice
and
fair
play,
and
we
have
wonderful
stories
to
enjoy.
Here
are
some
types
of
folk
tales
and
examples
you
may
know.
A
legend
is
a
story
telling
about
real
people
and
places.
It
is
based
on
truth
so
many
people
believe
it
is
true.
Pocahontas
was
a
daughter
of
Chief
Powhatan.
She
may
have
saved
the
life
of
John
Smith,
the
leader
of
the
Jamestown
Settlement.
She
married
John
Rolfe
and
moved
to
England.
David
Crockett
was
born
in
in
Tennessee
in
1786
and
became
a
US
Congressman.
Many
interesting
stories
of
his
outlandish
deeds
came
from
himself.
He
even
bragged
about
“grinning
the
bark
off
a
tree”
in
one
of
his
stories.
After
Davy
Crockett
died
at
the
Alamo
in
1836
many
new
adventures
were
added
to
his
life
story.
Mike
Fink
was
born
around
1770
somewhere
along
the
Mississippi
River.
He
was
known
as
“king
of
the
keelboat
men”
and
claimed
he
could
outrun,
out
jump,
outshoot
and
out
brag
any
man
on
the
river.
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Annie
Oakley
was
born
in
Ohio
in
1860.
She
was
an
expert
with
a
rifle
in
Buffalo
Bill’s
Wild
West
Show.
Casey
Jones
was
a
railroad
engineer
in
the
early
1900’s.
He
died
in
a
train
crash
in
the
early
days
of
train
travel
so
a
ballad
was
written
about
him
after
he
died.
John
Henry
was
a
very
strong
black
worker.
Using
only
a
hammer
he
had
a
race
to
see
if
he
could
tunnel
through
a
mountain
in
West
Virginia
faster
than
a
steam
drill.
He
won
the
race
but
died
with
his
hammer
in
his
hand.
This
tale
told
of
the
struggle
of
old
ways
against
the
new
ways.
George
Washington
and
the
Cherry
Tree
-
George
Washington
was
known
to
be
an
honest
man.
A
story
was
told
about
how
at
age
six,
he
chopped
down
his
father’s
favorite
cherry
tree.
When
confronted
he
said,
“I
cannot
tell
a
lie…I
did
cut
it
with
my
hatchet.”
Johnny
Appleseed
was
really
John
Chapman
who
was
born
in
Massachusetts
in
1775.
He
tended
an
apple
orchard
and
gave
bags
of
apple
seeds
to
pioneers
as
they
headed
west.
As
the
story
goes,
he
left
home
to
plant
apple
seeds
and
tend
to
apple
trees
in
the
West.
One
of
his
many
good
deeds
was
to
heal
the
foot
of
a
wolf
who
became
his
traveling
companion.
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A
tall
tale
is
a
story
that
is
exaggerated
so
much
that
it
cannot
be
true
at
all.
According
to
the
tale
of
Paul
Bunyan
and
his
blue
ox,
Babe,
Paul
Bunyan
was
a
very
large
baby.
At
3
weeks
old
he
rolled
over
in
his
sleep
and
knocked
down
four
square
miles
of
timber
in
the
state
of
Maine.
He
grew
up
to
be
a
lumberjack
taller
than
a
redwood
tree,
stronger
than
50
grizzly
bears
and
smarter
than
a
library
full
of
books.
With
Babe,
he
scooped
out
the
holes
that
are
now
the
Great
Lakes,
formed
the
Grand
Canyon,
and
made
the
Mississippi
River.
In
the
Southwest,
people
made
up
many
tall
tales
of
Pecos
Bill.
As
a
baby
he
fell
out
of
a
wagon
and
was
raised
by
coyotes.
Bill
grew
up
to
be
a
cowboy
living
on
the
Pecos
River
in
Texas
where
he
invented
the
six-
shooter
and
train
robbing!
He
fed
his
horse
nitroglycerin
and
dynamite.
One
day
he
lassoed
a
tornado
and
rode
it
like
a
horse.
He
tamed
the
tornado
until
it
was
a
nice
summer
breeze
that
he
kept
by
his
house.
The
Uncle
Remus
stories
are
based
on
tales
told
by
southern
Negroes
whose
families
brought
similar
stories
to
this
country
from
Africa.
Uncle
Remus
may
have
been
a
slave
but
there
is
no
proof.
In
his
stories,
Brer
Rabbit
is
a
trickster
who
shows
that
the
small
and
weak
can
outwit
the
large
and
powerful.
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In
almost
every
culture,
there
is
a
story
about
making
soup
from
a
stone.
It
has
been
told
so
many
times
that
the
soup
ingredients
are
different
but
the
end
result
is
the
same.
A
clever
man
is
able
to
trick
a
greedy
woman,
and
a
delicious
soup
is
shared
by
many.
Try
this!
If
you
do
not
recognize
these
stories
or
characters,
ask
your
teacher
to
read
some
folk
tales
to
you.
Or
go
to
the
library
and
check
out
some
for
yourself.
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