Examples from literature

• Children and storytellers alike will welcome these rich and robust folk tales, long unavailable. 
• In Celtic folk tales high tides and valley floods are accounted for by the presence of a "great beast" in sea, loch, or river. 
• The earliest German literature is composed of folk tales about war heroes—their ideals and manly virtues. 
• The quest of the plant, flower, or fruit of life is referred to in many folk tales. 
• Thirty-one Far Eastern folk tales, full of sly humor, adventure, and virtue rewarded.