Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
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July 2001 The University of Melbourne, Australia
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One of the reasons that the tradition of telling
fairytales has survived in Chile is the challenge felt by storytellers to
distinguish between the fiction and verisimilitude that exist simultaneously in
subjects proper to Märchen. It
is strange that in these times of so-called post-modernity the fantastical
elements inherent in folktales may still be accepted. When storytellers comment
independently on this paradoxical situation, they note the temptation to
believe that the most seductive facts are fabulous tricks, but nevertheless
affirm that these wonderful stories are so coherent and well-described that
they must be true.
Take, for example, the folk narrative of the seven-coloured horse: on the one
hand, the storyteller may ask how there could be a seven-coloured horse which
covers one league (5 572.7 metres) with each stride; on the other hand, because
the tale is so plausibly told, he/she feels it could be true.
This question then is whether cultural traditions are stronger than social
transitions.
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