More humanists should take folktales and fairy tales seriously, because these stories provide unique windows into culture, ethics, human nature and metaphysics. While these tales might seem like ...

Emilie Blichfeldt's take on Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister, just landed on Hulu, and it is truly a sight to behold. While I ...

What makes a folk tale a folk tale? As a form of folklore, it’s distinct from an urban legend, which spreads virally, rests on the illusory authority of a friend of a friend, and is usually false, ...

Read “Jack and the Beanstalk” to your kids this evening, and you are probably putting them in touch with human sentiments that are thousands of years old. Same goes if you read them “Beauty and the ...

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. From “Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America.”Credit...Liniers Supported by By ...

Kirikou and the Sorceress is an animated African folk tale that’s so good, it’s a wonder Disney hasn’t borrowed it. Not yet, anyway. It’s a delightful cartoon that truly feels African in the way it ...

Theater-goers catch a rare glimpse into the world of Danish ballet in the Kennedy Center's production of A Folk Tale. Ballet in Denmark goes back to the mid-18th century, when the Royal Danish Ballet ...