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News New Article: Chicken Licken Unveiled
Posted: 2002-08-06 By Sean Buvala
 Australian Storyteller Mabel Kaplan writes about how folktales are a living entity that breathe and change based on the teller and the culture where the tale is told. This is an excellent article and gives some good examples. She writes:
"A folktale told is essentially a story of/for the folk present - its essence, its vitality derives from the cultures that developed it - and as it travels from place to place it may pick up a different emphasis or gather a new focus and disregard parts of the old. Take for example, the English folktake: ’Chicken Licken’ recorded by Joseph Jacobs (1942)..." Please find the article by clicking here.
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