The White Elephant a folktale from Asia about how the kind white elephant is treated kindly.

Fable is an example of myth. These included Vishnu Sarma s Panchatantra the Hitopadesha Vikram and The Vampire and Syntipas Seven Wise Masters which were collections of fables that were later influential throughout the Old World. Identify and define examples of fables folktales myths and legends Differentiate between these four types of literature. Examples Myth in Pop Culture.

A traditional or legendary story that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice rite or phenomenon of nature. A short tale to teach a moral lesson often with animals or inanimate objects as characters. All cultures have myths of some kind and ancient cultures themselves had even older stories handed down from prehistory.

The fable should not be confused though it often is with the myth or the more closely related form of writing the parable. The moral comes at the beginning of the story. There is usually one animal who is weak and it often contains a hero or villain.

It had a moral or lesson. A story from the past about a historical. This is an example of a Fable.

The earliest of these tales also included humans and gods as characters but fable tends to concentrate on animating. Without question Aesop created a treasure trove of fables for children to read and draw lessons from. Fables are short tales that usually feature animals real or mythical given human-like qualities to deliver a specific moral or lesson.

Furthermore most religions have a form of creation myth to explain the existence the universe and mankind. Many fables originated from an oral tradition and exist in. An urban myth is the classic example.