Oral storytelling is an ancient and intimate tradition between the storyteller and their audience. The storyteller and the listeners are physically close...

stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view. The term "storytelling" can refer specifically to oral storytelling but also...

from person to person using oral communication, which could be as simple as telling someone the time of day. Storytelling is a common form of word-of-mouth...

cultural activity of sharing narratives is called storytelling, and its earliest form is oral storytelling. During most people's childhoods, these narratives...

things have been structured in threes, a tradition that grew out of oral storytelling and continues in narrative fiction. Examples include the Three Little...

quipu and North American wampum, although those two are debatable. Oral storytelling traditions flourished in a context without the use of writing to record...

information. Storytelling can be put into different types of forms such as textual, oral, personal, mythical, and sacred storytelling. Storytelling is a tool...

World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling. It is celebrated every year on the March equinox, on (or near) March 20...

digital storytelling as the process by which diverse peoples share their life stories and creative imaginings with others. This newer form of storytelling emerged...

Native North American Oral Traditions to Western Literacy: Storytelling in Education. Haring, Lee (27 August 2004). "Framing in Oral Narrative". Marvels...

in the many different Aboriginal Australian languages, and occur in many oral traditions as part of Dreamtime stories. The tubers were often dug out with...

traditional oral storytelling by the elders and the older people is rare, and regionally unique situations and background in oral storytelling are not easily...

Oral. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33794-6. Goody, Jack (2006). "From Oral to Written: An Anthropological Breakthrough in Storytelling"...

other. As children, they developed their imaginations first through oral storytelling and play, set in an intricate imaginary world, and then through the...

bearers of oral storytelling. Nomads of Arabia are one example of the many nomadic tribes that have continued through history to use oral storytelling as a...

Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, however, were composed in a range of oral storytelling registers called Epic Sanskrit which was used in northern India between...

records of the Dobhar-Chú since its legend has relied heavily on oral storytelling and tradition. Physical description of the Dobhar-Chú resembles an...

modernist narrative style that draws from Christian allegory and oral storytelling, Faulkner explores themes of race, sex, class, and religion in the...

of film has drawn on several earlier traditions in fields such as oral storytelling, literature, theatre and visual arts. Forms of art and entertainment...

sophisticated narrative tradition, both oral and written, with ancestral construction from oral storytelling, and overlay from Anglo-French influences...

back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives...

divinity and virtue. Although this genre uses techniques of traditional oral storytelling, it was disseminated in written form. The earliest known wisdom literature...

Burra Katha or Burrakatha, is an oral storytelling technique in the Jangam Katha tradition, performed in villages of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The...

and the rest of southeast Asia. There is an extensive tradition of oral storytelling based on Ramayana in Indonesia, Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia...

folklore, superstitions are often passed down through oral storytelling. Through the 1950s, this storytelling could stem from the mouths of town elders or "solid...

listening, and facilitate connection with the nonhuman, natural world. Oral storytelling is often considered unimportant in settler colonial society; however...

narrowing it to a length that can be covered in the space allowed. Oral storytelling is an effective way to search for a good topic for a personal narrative...

deceive themselves or others. The Anishinaabeg follow an oral storytelling tradition. Storytelling serves as an integral part of Anishinaabeg culture as...

told first through oral storytelling and then in writing. Prose fiction was developed in Ancient Greece, influenced by the storytelling traditions of Asia...

ability for change and growth. For these reasons, among many others, oral storytelling flourished in Greece. Greek tragedy, as it is presently known, was...