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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The story I mentioned above is usually called "The Fairy and the Woodcutter." Its origin is oral literature--in other words, it is a Korean folk tale that has been handed down from generation to generation. You can use it on your website, but if you'd like I can provide you with a more complete, literary version (rendered by myself, of course). [quote]Hmm...as for the story I am searching for, I want its moral cause it has to do with accepting a person disregarding how he looks.[/quote] Ah, yes, that is a different story entirely. This is also a very common motif, found in such stories as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Frog and the Princess," and even Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (from "The Canterbury Tales"). You might take a look at the first two and see if they suit your needs. [quote]Have you got some other stories to share?[/quote] Heh. Oral literature is my field of study (specifically, Korean oral literature), so I most certainly do have more stories to share. Too many, in fact. Give me a nudge (say, a type of story you want to hear) and I may be able to come up with something. I'm trying to think of a Korean tale off the top of my head that deals with the "don't judge a person by their appearance" motif, but I'm coming up blank at the moment. There are definitely cases of disguise and deception, but the disguise is usually a monster or fearsome creature transformed into something fair, rather than the other way around. I have no research to back this up, but my gut feeling at the moment is that the motif you refer to might be more prevalent in Western oral literature. I'll have to think about this a little more. [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_taegeuk_sig2.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] Loading...
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