Example Sentences

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One of A24’s earliest horror hits, “The Witch” — a spare yet dreadful and beautifully shot folktale — did considerable work synonymizing the company with prestige horror.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025

Drawing from Korean folktale and Chung’s expertise as a Slavic literature professor, the narratives here shamble and ooze across a porous divide between highbrow absurdism and lowbrow jump scare.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

A folktale “is fluid and changing, able to adapt to whatever setting it finds itself in … the folktale survives. Assimilates. And with it — so survives the memory.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2022

The 22-year-old Korean American senior wrote “Shimcheong: A Folktale” — a full-length musical inspired by a Korean folktale with a decidedly Disney movie vibe — as her senior thesis.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Crag’s story sounded like a folktale at the time, but now it seemed entirely possible.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown