• Dr. BHOUMIK CH. BARO

The folktales are prose narrative or oral narrative which is works of fiction. The folktales are stories coming down orally from generation to generation from time unmemorable. There are different kinds of folktales with thousands of regional and cultural variations but they all share a few common characteristics. At the most basic level, the folktale is a story coming down orally from generation to generation. The word ‘folk’ comes from the German word ‘volk’, meaning people and ‘skunde’ meaning ‘knowledge’ or ‘lore’. So, folktales are stories about everyday life and the day-to-day issues of humanity society. Of course, the folktales sometimes tell the stories of supernatural elements, trickster elements and human elements. Other kinds of folktales involve animals, but the animal character behaves like human, with realities, emotions, flows and animals. This is the part of what makes folktales so enduring and appealing and the listener can relate to the characters in the stories. Moreover the stories make the listener to imagine what they had to do in the same situation. Folktales are shared among generation as a way of presenting everyday life lessons and useful information in an essay-to-understand format. The folktales help connect listeners to common cultural values of particular tribes, ethnic group or culture in the society. Folktales are meant to be told out the children by the grand parent. They are parts of an oral tradition emerging from a preliterate age before the invention of writing starts. Folktales contain moral lessons and values that come at the end of the story.

Folk, Tales, tradition, moral, socio-culture, lesson, value

"Moral and Philosophy reflected in Boro Folktales", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.225-230, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905935.pdf

"Moral and Philosophy reflected in Boro Folktales", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp225-230, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905935.pdf