What is the root of selfishness? Is it innate or learned?

Use of masks in China.

We have forgotten the power of our stories; practical wisdom held and shared to help us deal with everyday problems and cyclic hardships. We have forgotten how to listen to grandma’s advice saturated with practical wisdom and generations of time tested experience. Instead, we listen to today’s stories loaded with cheap advice and lacking the tell-tale signs of worn wisdom.

Folklore has long been used to attract attention in advertising slogans and texts. While proverbs, folk songs, and nursery rhymes are particularly prevalent, folktales have also been used to lure people into a purchasing choice. In fact, the “Pied Piper of Hamelin” can well be considered as a symbol of the world of advertising, with the pied piper playing his pipe ever so sweetly and the consumers following him without resisting his charming and manipulative music.

The concept of “adaptation” refers to the process that occurs when folktales and fairy tales are changed into new versions, or variants, in the course of their transmission.

A teacher sits in front of a class reading a story. Should this be called reading aloud or storytelling?

Why the various mediums of storytelling, such as books and movies, are so important to us as human beings.