Traditional Story
Traditional stories, or stories about traditions, differ from both fiction and nonfiction in that the importance of transmitting the story's worldview is generally understood to transcend an immediate need to establish its categorization as imaginary or factual. In the academic circles of literature, religion, history, and anthropology, categories of traditional story are important terminology to identify and interpret stories more precisely. Some stories belong in multiple categories and some stories do not fit into any category.
Read more about Traditional Story: Anecdote, Apologue, Chivalric Romance, Creation Myth, Etiological Myth, Fable, Factoid, Fairy Tale, Folklore, Folkloristics, Ghost Story, Joke, Legend, Myth of Origins, Mythology, Oral Tradition, Parable, Political Myth, Popular Belief, Popular Misconception, Tall Tale, Urban Legend
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