Sentence examples for tradition stories from inspiring English sources

Now Harry – there was a clever man …'" In a culture with a strong oral tradition, stories are the way family history, knowledge and values are passed on – as well as a form of self-expression.

She can itemise the professions within a close-knit rural community, unfolds local traditions, stories and superstitions.

The Qur'an also has stories not found in other Abrahamic traditions, stories featuring winged steeds and tours of the heavens that have captivated and inspired hundreds of millions of Muslims.

But in our house there was this tradition of stories.

There exists in children's literature a tradition of stories best described as "absurd" or "nonsense".

There is a rich tradition of stories about disputed wills, tense estate sales, and sibling enmity, all which turn objects into ideas, with variously hilarious or tragic consequences.

The story is brilliantly revealed through many overlapping accounts, tales told from different points of view in the Southern tradition like stories on the porch but all washed in the same, high-coloured prose.

The story that became so powerful it allegedly led children to kill each other was born from the kind of collective storytelling that is at once ancient – akin to the oral tradition of stories told around the campfire of an evening – and modern, enabled by the globalised communities of the internet.

The tradition of stories about the pair might suggest that the two historical figures were acquainted, but little more.

Oral tradition or stories that comes from a variety of different islands in Indonesia contains norms that should be applied on their behavior and daily life, not only in a particular social environment, but also on the wider community in general.

"It would relieve pain, increase appetite, and would help the elders, who are the custodians of culture, when passing their knowledge on to the youth in the oral tradition through stories and proverbs".