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2 wrz 2024 · Other than Folk songs, Urdu folktales and myths are also essential features of Urdu folk, providing a way to convey wisdom, cultural values, and lessons. As folk tales straightforwardly convey societal norms and moral teachings, they are loved and read by all generations.
Based on subject, meaning and form, folk tales is of fairy tales, mythical tales, religious tales, adventure stories, heroic stories, sage tales, historical tales, legends, animal stories, fables, or comic stories.
Episodes like Kamalasundari or Chaudhurir Ladai in purbabanga-gitika, Kingbadantir Deshe by Subodh Ghosh and Kingbadantir Bangla by Ashraf Siddiqui contain stories with similar characteristics. There is another category of folk tales, locally known as srstikatha and 'creation myth' in English.
Based on subject, meaning and form, folk tales may be divided into twelve classes: fairy tales, mythical tales, religious tales, adventure stories, heroic stories, sage tales, historical tales, legends, animal stories, fables, comic stories and exempla.
14 kwi 2017 · Bangla folk literature has always celebrated a rich tapestry of themes, from heroic religious narratives depicted in ballads and dramas, to the mundane struggles of life reflected in witty...
15 mar 2021 · Be it wedding songs or lullabies, be it riddles or songs sung during ‘saavan’ (the rainy season), these are very much part of Urdu’s folk literature.
14 kwi 2015 · Bangla folktales are often based on unusual characters - unhappy ducks, poor crows, chatty Tuntuni birds, foolish tigers, animals and birds that express themselves like human beings.
