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Green, Thomas A., and Frank Hamilton Cushing. "Zuni Folk Tales." Journal of American Folklore 100, no. 395 (January 1987): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/540010.

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Ludwig, Jonathan Z., and James Riordan. "Russian Folk-Tales." Slavic and East European Journal 46, no. 1 (2002): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3086276.

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Arrington, Melvin S., and Anthony John Campos. "Mexican Folk Tales." Chasqui 26, no. 2 (1997): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/29741360.

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Lipman, Alan. "Architectural folk tales." de arte 41, no. 74 (January 2006): 48–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2006.11877061.

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Cloudsley, Anne. "Zuñi Folk Tales." Journal of Arid Environments 12, no. 3 (May 1987): 285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-1963(18)31173-x.

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Clements, William M., and Franc Johnson Newcomb. "Navajo Folk Tales." American Indian Quarterly 17, no. 1 (1993): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1184809.

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Williams, Fionnuala Carson. "Antrim Folk Tales." Folklore 126, no. 3 (September 2, 2015): 363–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2015.1083708.

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McCall, Dan, and Jack Berry. "West African Folk Tales." International Journal of African Historical Studies 25, no. 2 (1992): 407. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219397.

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Storr, Catherine. "Folk and fairy tales." Children's Literature in Education 17, no. 1 (1986): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01126951.

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Roper, Jonathan. "Formulas in Folk Verse and Folk Prose." Narodna umjetnost 59, no. 1 (June 20, 2022): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15176/vol59no101.

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The existence of formulas in traditional songs of various kinds has been long recognized by scholars, and the presence of formulas in traditional tales has increasingly become a subject of discussion too. This prompts the question whether an individual who has a substantial repertoire of both songs and tales would use some of the same formulas in both these two modes. Or would it be the case that, as tales and songs have their own separate norms and rules, their formulas will not involve any significant similarities? To provide an initial response to such questions, this article draws upon verbal art documented in the third quarter of the twentieth century from one remarkable Newfoundlander, whose recorded repertoire included nineteen different tales and more than thirty songs.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Folk tales"

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何倬榮 and Cheuk-wing Ho. "Engendering children: from folk tales to fairy tales." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227363.

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Kim, Christine. "Munui (문의): Modern Adaptations of Korean Folk and Fairy Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1911.

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Costes, Anne. "La métamorphose Fonctions et investissements sémantiques au sein de cent et un contes européens et africains. Thèse, Université Toulouse le Mirail, juillet 1998 /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/43984176.html.

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Gwyndaf, Robin. "Culture in action : studies in Welsh ethnology." Thesis, Bangor University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369399.

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Connolly, Magdalen Majella. "Linguistic variation in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic folk tales and letters from the Ottoman period." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283608.

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This thesis comprises a comparative typological study of Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic folk tales' and letters' grammatical features from the Ottoman period, with the aim of establishing the degree to which variation exists between two genres of written Judaeo-Arabic, and how it manifests itself. Within Judaeo-Arabic textual studies, the dominant trend is to examine a single genre of this written form of Arabic from one or more chronological period in isolation. As such, we know much about the linguistic features of business letters (Khan 1992, 2006, 2013; Wagner 2010, 2014), Biblical translations (Hary 1992, 2009) and folk tales (Palva 2007-2008; Hasson-Kenat 2016; Ørum 2017). Yet, our understanding of the extent and nature of linguistic variation between genres of written Judaeo-Arabic is somewhat limited. This research project addresses this disciplinary desideratum, working predominantly with previously unedited and untranslated manuscripts and adopting an inter-genre and diachronic comparative approach, throughout. The scope of this thesis is limited to two genres of written Judaeo-Arabic, focsuing on a small number of corpora (which each contain three to five manuscripts) from the fifteenth-nineteenth centuries. The thesis is divided into two main sections. The first of these examines the orthographical and (limited) phonological data available in these corpora. Among the more notable contributions in this section are: (i) a (re)-examination of the diacritical dot, both in relation to the much discussed Arabic letter ğīm, and other graphemes, which have been all but neglected in existing scholarship; (ii) an exploration of the potential motivations behind the separation of the definite article, a key feature of late written Judaeo-Arabic; and (iii) an investigation into the plene spelling of short vowels and the information contained therein. The second section is devoted to a detailed study of diachronic developments and inter-genre variaton in subordination, divided into three sub-sections. In the first of these sub-sections, I focus on syndetic and asyndetic forms of complementation, complement types, the modalities of complementtaking predicates, and complementisers. The second sub-section builds on previous studies of relative clauses in written Judaeo-Arabic (cf. e.g., Wagner 2010). The final sub-section centres on analysis of adverbial subordination and adverbial clause markers. The results of these explorations demonstrate that with regard to written Judaeo-Arabic, we may speak of consistent differences in styles unique to each genre. I conclude by expressing the intention of expanding this research to include an intergenre, diachronic study of written Judeao-Arabic morphological features, at a future date.

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Shchegriaeva, M. (Mariia). "A traditional value portrait of an individual promoted in Serbian folk tales and fables." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201604081422.

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Literature is a very powerful educational tool shaping ideas, behaviour and values of children. In spite of the fact that folk tales and fables were not originally created as genres for children, nowadays they are viewed by parents and teachers as suitable for young readers and are even included in school programs. However, only few people realise that at different stages folk tales and fables influence all spheres of children’s development: social, cognitive, personal and, most importantly, moral. They are indirectly transmitting knowledge of the society and world construction together with social norms and values. This research aims at uncovering the hidden values and social norms that Serbian folk tales and fables promote. The choice of exactly Serbian folk tales and fables was purposeful since there is almost no research in English dedicated to Serbian folk literature and its influence on children. To achieve the aims of the research, there was a thematic content analysis of a collection of Serbian folk tales and fables done. The texts of all the folk tales and fables included in a book were coded and categorised. The use of content analysis made it possible to describe the importance of certain topics. The book itself called Српске народне баjке и приче (Serbian folk tales and fables) was composed in 2013 by Matijevich and contains 53 stories and a dictionary. I intentionally take the whole book because adults who read folk tales to children are more likely to buy a book and read all the stories from it than to select stories themselves. Social learning theory and modelling theory, used as a foundation of the research, claim that people learn from each other by adopting particular behaviour. Heroes of folk tales possess all the characteristics needed to be models for such imitation: competence, prestige and power, stereotypical gender behaviour, relevance to the child’s social context and familiarity. In such a way, children learn values and social norms presented in folk tales and fables by identifying themselves with heroes. Based on this fact, the values and attitudes of Serbian society could be uncovered by analysing the folk tales and fables in terms of personal traits of characters that are shown as positive or negative, cases of rewards and punishments, types of behaviour and social norms viewed as normal and traditional. Based on the data, I provide a value portrait of an individual that is promoted by Serbian folk tales and fables. The underlying idea of the analysis is that Serbian society is presented as traditional in terms of attitudes and gender roles. There is an obvious hierarchy, in which men are more important than women. However, some women and men possess characteristics not common for their gender, for instance, some heroines are smart and independent and some heroes may cry. In addition to that, Orthodox Christianity values influence all the aspects of life and actions of people by providing them with God’s commandments to follow. People ́s behavior goes in line with nine out of ten commandments. The one proclaiming equality among people does not work since in Serbian society there is a clear hierarchy, which requires addressing and treating others according to their status. The issues of validity and reliability were taken into consideration on all the stages of the research. Since the way I, as a researcher, can interpret the results is subjective and may differ from other people’s, I consulted my Serbian colleagues who helped me with translation in terms of what meanings they see in particular text units and if it is at variance with my views. Overall, the study opens up the educational potential of Serbian folk tales and fables and is useful for parents and adults working with children. I suggest my own ways of using folk tales and fables in working with children and describe the experience that other teachers had in using folk tales in classrooms to preserve traditional worldviews in children or question the status quo. Finally, researchers interested in the field may find quite many topics offered for further research as a possible continuation of this study.

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Reiss, Nicole S. (Nicole Susanne). "Universal fairy tales and folktales : a cross-cultural analysis of the animal suitor motif in the Grimm's fairy tales and in the North American Indian folktales." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=24103.

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The primary objective of this M. A. thesis is to correct some false assumptions found in both older and more recent secondary literature on North American Indian narratives. Many folklorists base their folktale criteria on terms of cultural differences instead of similarities which results in an ethnocentric point of view that holds the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmarchen as a standard against which all other folktale collections falls short. If we want to strive for a world view that will embrace all types of literature, while respecting the individuality of each culture, then we must focus on the essential similarities among world literatures and not the differences. The purpose of using another culture as a comparison, such as that of the North American Indians, is to question the ethnocentric definitions of folktales and fairy tales which have often been too rigid. Perhaps those cultural values exhibited by North American Indian folktales could prove to be beneficial to the world's multi-cultural society, in that these values could enrich and rejuvenate some Western values, such as respect for animals and the environment. These values may offer solutions to urgent contemporary world problems. Through a comparative analysis of the animal suitor motif found in the Grimms' fairy tales and North American Indian folktales, I hope to call attention to the stark cross-cultural similarities in universal folklore and to bring to light the multiplicity of cultural values which are deeply rooted in fairy tales and folklores around the world.

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Meyers, Margaret B. "Telling the Stars: A Quantitative Approach to Assessing the Use of Folk Tales in Science Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1090.

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This research examines the impact of paired folk tales and science explanations on students in third through sixth grades who viewed program modules from the SkyTeller Project of Lynn Moroney and the Lunar and Planetary Institute of Houston, Texas. The audience consisted of over 3500 students in eight locations in the United States. Because few quantitative studies have been conducted to examine the use of stories in science education, the development of an instrument to assess students' attitudes toward science and stories forms a major part of this research. During the final stage of testing, the revised instrument and methods found significant increase in positive attitude toward science after the presentations. Questionnaires, telephone calls, and on-site visits with program presenters and teachers confirmed quantitative results. Despite the difficulties of conducting large-scale studies and the traditionally small response compliance, quantitative assessment can provide useful information for evaluating storytelling media.

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Gelfand, Lynn. "Tales, technology, and transformations how different media environments shape the structure, style, and content of folk narratives /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319906.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3267. Adviser: Mary Ellen Brown.

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Peng, Yan [Verfasser], and Wolfgang [Akademischer Betreuer] Schulze. "Text, grammar, and worlds : towards a narrative typology of Quechua folk tales / Yan Peng ; Betreuer: Wolfgang Schulze." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1212362926/34.

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Books on the topic "Folk tales"

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McCormick, Malachi. Cat tales: Folk tales. New York: C.N. Potter, 1989.

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Menon, Navin, and Surendra Suman. Indian tales and folk tales. New Delhi: Children's Book Trust, 2003.

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Montley, Patricia. Tales from Japan: Folk tales. New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2010.

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Berg, Leila. Tales for telling: Folk tales. London: Magnet, 1985.

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Danica, Cvetanovska, ed. Macedonian folk tales: Fairy tales. Skopje: Bigoss, 1997.

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Douglas, Amy. Shropshire folk tales. Stroud: History Press, 2011.

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Anand, Mulk Raj. Indian folk tales. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1991.

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Riordan, James. Russian folk-tales. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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John, Brian. Pembrokeshire folk tales. Newport, Dyfed: Greencroft, 1991.

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Soman, Rakhi M. Awadhi folk tales. New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Folk tales"

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Ellis, A. B. "Folk-Lore Tales." In The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, 243–74. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003368397-14.

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Inggs, Judith. "Fairy tales and folk tales." In The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation, 146–58. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge handbooks in translation and interpreting studies: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315517131-11.

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Anderson, Graham. "Animal tales." In Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales, 167–77. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429432446-10.

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Anderson, Graham. "Miscellaneous tales." In Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales, 184–94. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429432446-12.

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Smyth, Tim. "Fairy Tales and Folk Tales as Artifact." In Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels, 95–99. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003291671-14.

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Tarlow, Sarah, and Emma Battell Lowman. "Folk Beliefs and Popular Tales." In Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse, 213–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77908-9_8.

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Williams, Gareth. "Everyday Tales of Country Folk." In Angel of Death, 161–74. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230293199_8.

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Pettitt, Thomas. "Folk Legends and Wonder Tales." In A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, 341–58. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444319019.ch65.

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Wood, Brent. "Dancing to fateful folk tales." In The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, 88–123. 1. | New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Ashgate popular folk and music series: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429198380-4.

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Cabral, Brian, and Sarah Bruno. "[Folk]tales of different peoples1." In Critical and Intersectional Gang Studies, 47–63. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003159797-5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Folk tales"

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CHERECHEȘ, Roxana. "Romanian and international folk fairy tales." In Învățământul superior: tradiţii, valori, perspective. "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46727/c.29-30-09-2023.p261-270.

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The most important romanian fairy tales literatures are Ion Vlasiu and Octav Pancu – Iași which develop a kind on interesting stories, well written by children of all ages, but the most fasinating thing is the power to imagine things that could change our lives, such as the ability to do well, to be different, to be very strong, to believe in things that you can see. As George Calinescu once said: „Childhood never disappears inside of us, it continues to be the source of our magic life.” Never give up reading books because those are our pixie dust of our existence.

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Supardjo, Supardjo, Dyah Padmaningsih, and Sujono Sujono. "Folk Tales As A Character Education Tool For Children." In Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Culture Studies, BASA, 20-21 September 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. EAI, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.20-9-2019.2296701.

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Luan, Luan. "Discourse And Child-Centred Discourse In Russian Folk Tales." In International Scientific Conference «Social and Cultural Transformations in the Context of Modern Globalism» dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Turkayev Hassan Vakhitovich. European Publisher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.10.05.85.

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Gromova, Mariya M. "Translations of Slovenian Folk Tales into Russian, 1956–1991." In Slavic World: Commonality and Diversity. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2619-0869.2021.3.03.

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Cherednikova, Ekaterina. "PHRASEOSOMATISMS IN ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN FOLK FAIRY TALES." In LINGUISTIC UNITS THROUGH THE LENS OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS. Baskir State University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.33184/yevssnp7-2022-12-16.6.

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Li, Jing. "The Folk Culture and Cultural Identity in Grimm's Fairy Tales." In 2nd International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icadce-16.2016.94.

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Shalaeva, Nadezhda Vladimirovna. "Archetype Of Power In Folklore: Russian And Moldovan-Romanian Folk Tales." In International Scientific Congress «KNOWLEDGE, MAN AND CIVILIZATION». European Publisher, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.05.191.

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Minasyan, Alla. "CHRONOTOPE IN ENGLISH, ARMENIAN AND RUSSIAN FOLK FAIRY TALES: LINGUO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES." In 5th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS SGEM2018. STEF92 Technology, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018/3.6/s14.011.

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Wu, Winston, Lu Wang, and Rada Mihalcea. "Cross-Cultural Analysis of Human Values, Morals, and Biases in Folk Tales." In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.311.

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Rumiantseva, Olga S. "The Blessed Virgin Mary and the World of Nature in Polish Folk Tales." In Slavic World: Commonality and Diversity. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2619-0869.2021.2.11.

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Reports on the topic "Folk tales"

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Delbridge, Victoria, Astrid Haas, Oliver Harman, Dyson Jangia, and Anthony Venables. Enhancing the financial position of cities: Evidence from Mzuzu. UNHabitat, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-igc-wp_2022/5.

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The case of Mzuzu illustrates how secondary cities, where revenues are often incredibly low and capacity is minimal, can innovate and lead the way on municipal finance reform. Mzuzu is Malawi’s third largest city. The focus of this case study is a simple and fit-for capacity property valuation system that increased realised revenues seven-fold between 2013 and 2018:1 The Revenue Mobilisation Programme (REMOP). Although the programme was initially seen to be a success, several serious misgivings continue to inhibit further progress. These centre on legal barriers in the current property valuation process in Malawi. More broadly, issues such as revenue pilferage, lack of capacity for financial anagement, land ownership disputes between spheres of government, and national rural bias continue to prevent Mzuzu from achieving a sustainable financial position. For development partners, the example of Mzuzu provides a stark reminder of the vital importance of widespread stakeholder engagement and caution for legal obstacles in order to achieve sustainable project success. It also illustrates the potential of using smaller cities, with more flexibility and somewhat strong incentives for reform, as a useful starting point to trial new revenue enhancement innovations. The Development Fund for Local Authorities (DFLA), a special entity set up for small and low-cost loans to local governments in Malawi, also presents an interesting model for further exploration. By helping local authorities through the process of lending, they are building local government creditworthiness and enabling them to develop systems for future debt finance. Malawi’s cities, being some of the poorest in the world and in a country with relatively low level of urbanisation, are still at the beginning of the development curve. This early stage brings numerous challenges that are yet to be faced as well as an enormous opportunity to learn from the mistakes and successes of other cities in similar contexts. The cities are still at the critical juncture where they can invest in the urban infrastructure essential for livability and productivity before mass settlement takes place.

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