1. Myths, Folk Tales, Fables, and Fairy Tales
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2. What is a myth? A myth is a story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and other superhuman beings.

3. Examples of Myths Baucis and Philemon Medusa’s Head Quetzalcoatl
Daedalus and Icarus
The Lightning Thief

4. What is a Folk Tale?
A folk tale is a story with no known author. Folk tales are passed down from one generation to another by word of mouth.

5. Examples of Folk Tales The Nightingale The Seventh Sister
How the Snake Got Poison
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit
3 Little Pigs
Red Riding Hood

6. What is a fable?
A fable is a very brief story in prose or in verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about how to succeed in life. They have simple truths to them. They teach a lesson and/or value in behavior.

7. Examples of Fables The Crow and the Jar The Wolf and the House Dog
The Fox and the Crow
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
The Maid and the Milk pail

8. What is a fairy tale?
A fairy tale is a type of imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature, as we know them, do not operate. There are giants, and witches, and elves!

9. Examples of Fairy Tales
Cinderella
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Ella Enchanted
Cinder Edna
Aladdin
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10. What is a legend?
A legend is a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated. These stories are very exaggerated!

11. Examples of Legend/Tall Tales
King Arthur
Babe the Blue Ox
Blackbeard
Johnny Appleseed

12. Legend of the Loch Ness Believe ?? Go to the right side of the room.
Don’t believe?? Go to the left side of the room.

13. Loch Ness pg. 437