That's part of what calls A Serious Man's made-up Yiddish folk tale to mind — every segment of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs feels like a folk tale.
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The Eyes of My Mother feels like a folk tale.
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Not one folk tale from Puerto Rico is on the shelves.
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For most inhabitants of Bristol Cove, mermaids are just a folk tale.
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In fact, in the original folk tale, Aladdin was actually of Chinese descent.
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Sora Kim-Russell's translation moves gracefully between gritty, whiffy realism and folk-tale spookiness.
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That made it feel more like a folk tale kind of children's horror story.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the title of a Caribbean folk tale.
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Ahmad, fashioned the young author's life and death into a folk tale of its own,
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Anika Aldamuy Denise's intimate telling captures the magical, folk-tale feeling of Belpré's own stories.
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The book's tension is built on language which has the clean power of folk-tale.
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Back in 1998, the original animated Mulan introduced the world to a classic Chinese folk tale.
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Each section comes heavily footnoted, indicating the appearance of traditional folk tale motifs — taboos, odd coincidences.
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"We are faced with a modern European folk tale," she told the weekly Heti Valasz after the incident.
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And before you ask, no—we aren't pitching you the beginning of a delightfully morose Icelandic folk tale.
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Ryugu is named after Ryugu-jo, or dragon's palace — a magical undersea palace in a Japanese folk tale.
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"The Legend of the White Snake" is a famous Chinese folk tale that originated in the Ming dynasty.
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THURSDAY STYLES An article last Thursday about the actor John Boyega misstated the title of a Caribbean folk tale.
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Ryugu is named after Ryugu-jo, or dragon's palace — a magical undersea palace in a Japanese folk tale. Yes.
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His latest, an adaptation of a Korean folk tale, explains how the luminous orbs in its title came to be.
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He dubs his style, which blends satire, folk-tale, epic, chronicle and even science fiction into a head-spinning mix, "mythorealism".
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And yes, they've been found near Jerusalem, so you could probably make up some weird folk tale about crossbills and Jesus.
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Augie receives a visitation from the terrifying "Big Toe," a variant on a familiar folk tale with a kettle-sized twist.
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Mr. Praetorius's first role in a Bournonville ballet was as a tiny troll in "A Folk Tale" when he was 7.
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Mr. Praetorius's first role in a Bournonville ballet was as a tiny troll in "A Folk Tale" when he was 7.
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The lecture took the form of a meditation on a folk tale: An old, blind woman lives on the outskirts of town.
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The cast brings humanizing shades of pain, greed and longing to symbolic figures, without ever tearing the play's somber folk-tale fabric.
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This popular Japanese folk tale arrives on stage via Condors, an all-male contemporary dance troupe founded and led by Mr. Kondo.
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Robert Southey's folk tale is told in an updated version by Jack Kaplan, with hand puppets by Nicolas Coppola, artistic director of Puppetworks.
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Grafting that theme onto a West African folk tale, Ms. Sampson makes a contemporary fable about the black female body and its discontents.
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A folk tale made famous by the late Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai tells of a forest fire that causes all the animals to flee.
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That movie, which opened in New York a few weeks ago, might be described as a perverse folk tale set in the present day.
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Robert Southey's folk tale is told here in an updated version by Jack Kaplan, with hand puppets by Nicolas Coppola, artistic director of Puppetworks.
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The way the story is told and ends is like a folk tale, so how much truth there is to this "true" story, who knows.
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In her 1981 novel, Ms. Morrison mines this folk tale to create a love story between two black Americans from very different socio-economic backgrounds.
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"Winter" is an insubordinate folk tale, with echoes of the fiction of Iris Murdoch and Angela Carter, that plays out against a world gone wrong.
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As the Mexican folk tale goes, "La Llorona" is the ghost of a woman who, upon discovering her husband's affair, drowned her two children as vengeance.
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"I grew up in that community of musicians and music and folk singers like Woody Guthrie, that folk tale is very romantic to me," she says.
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It's a folk tale that is very prevalent in Egypt," he said, adding that the movie is a "very positive depiction of where we came from.
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Lin provides bibliographies of Chinese folk tale collections and writes thoughtful author's notes about her heritage and her choice to use these stories in new ways.
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The finest poem she set there, a multipage elaboration of an Amazonian folk tale, "The Riverman," has the Yeatsian radiance of a land beyond human discourse.
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The folk tale doesn't clearly have a point, and that is, well, the point: You're meant to puzzle over its meaning, and maybe eventually derive your own.
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It translates to Magpie Bridge, a reference to the birds in a Chinese folk tale who form a bridge once per year to unite two separated lovers.
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Based on "Mirza Sahiban," a Punjab folk tale of star-crossed lovers, the plot centers on Soochi (Saiyami Kher, always stunning) and Adil (Harshvardhan Kapoor, always scruffy).
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"The way the story is told and ends is like a folk tale, so how much truth there is to this 'true' story, who knows," he said.
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Editors' Choice Among our recommended works of fiction this week is Ali Smith's "Winter," an "insubordinate folk tale" that continues her projected quartet tied to the seasons.
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Mr. Stone, an Australian director and dramatist, has transplanted Lorca's poetic folk tale of a provincial Spanish woman's yearning to have a child into the London of today.
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The truth is, it's really a folk tale from the 1800s, and Agrabah is a fictional place that's a culmination of India and Asia and the Middle East.
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Rowling allegedly based Nagini off Indonesian mythology, but her character lacks even the depth of a well-crafted folk tale—she is melancholy and helpless, uttering few substantial lines.
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With their white face paint and red lips and, for the women, bustled skirts that bounce as they walk, these could be characters out of a strange folk tale.
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Alain Guiraudie's "Staying Vertical," a minor sensation at Cannes in May, starts like a thriller, proceeds like the setup to a dirty joke and ends like a folk tale.
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The rousing musical "Once on This Island," which uses the style of a Caribbean folk tale about love to explore class tensions, will be revived on Broadway this fall.
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"Ti-Jean and His Brothers," a retelling of a Trinidadian folk tale in which Lucifer tries to steal the souls of three brothers, was produced in Trinidad in 1958.
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In her interview with Entertainment Weekly for our new cover story, she said she doesn't think the criticism fits — at least not this version of the age-old folk tale.
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The song begins like a proper folk tale: Come gather all around me and I'll sing to you a tale, About the boys in Carmanville who almost went to jail.
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She's a folk tale passed down from generation to generation to protect men from the consequences of their own actions, and to remind women not to step out of line.
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" The book features a battle between gods, El-Mohtar adds, but "it feels closer to the register of folk tale than epic, and is all the more riveting for that.
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Colonial America's lonely, haunted wilderness provides a backdrop for Robert Eggers's dark folk tale about a deeply religious farmer (played by Ralph Ineson) whose family destroys itself after a baby disappears.
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A Ghost Story takes the opposite approach to an exploration of the afterlife: As a kind of cosmic folk tale, it's a simple and strong evocation of grief and, yes, regret.
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We suddenly see the landscape from above and hear an ancient folk tale in a woman's voice, and the film takes a double swerve, into harsher realism and more explicit magic.
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But the ending of that true story — I just don't know how true it is, because the end of it is like a folk tale, or something out of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The story of the New England Puritans is itself a folk tale that's been told, retold and fought over through generations of Thanksgiving school pageants, endless productions of "The Crucible" and historical revisionism.
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He (a cockerel is a young rooster, though he's danced here by a woman) is merely the most recent incarnation of a character that first appeared in a folk tale by Alexander Pushkin.
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The libretto, also written by Miss Smyth, was a kind of folk tale that involved peasants, wood nymphs, a primeval forest, noble huntsmen, poachers and, of course, young lovers who die in the end.
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Performers include a troupe from Fez who will perform Issaoua, a form of sung folk tale that is practiced in different cities around Morocco; and several solo acts from Morocco, like Maâlem Seddik Bounhar.
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It tells a folk tale of the history of the diamond, using the standardization of the precious stone throughout history as a metaphor for how humans force ourselves into ever-narrower standards of perfection.
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From Japan, there's Kenji Mizoguchi's devastating ghost story "Ugetsu" (1954) and the folk-tale derived shockers "Onibaba" (1965), about a pair of samurai-slaughtering women, and "Kuroneko" (1968), about ghostly women and eerie cats.
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" Mr. Toibin said in a telephone interview that the work was "a simple story, almost a folk tale," in which the main characters "sing their own stories," focusing on the personal to "stir emotions.
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Your wildest anxieties, your most God-forsaken imaginings — they could all be pulled out of the sky and made manifest in a woodcut of a nightmare beast, a fresh pox, or a folk tale.
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Wick's respect for library protocol is made plain, however — after using a book (Russian Folk Tale, Aleksandr Afanasyev, 1864) as a deadly weapon, his first instinct is to replace that book where he found it.
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Its mountainlike mass, topped with a glass pyramid, was inspired by a Latvian folk tale about the Castle of Light, representing wisdom, and the Glass Mountain, on which a sleeping princess, symbol of freedom, slept.
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Adapting a 16th-century folk tale, Mr. Jo uses clipped dialogue and comic-book stylings to unfurl a paranoid story of a shady conglomerate with far-reaching political power and tentacles snaking back to Hong's childhood.
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From the start, the comparisons to The Witch seem clear: It's another atmospheric period piece, another gloomy New England folk tale, another horror movie built around the terror of other people instead of some outside boogyman.
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The name comes from the heroine of a Pashtun folk tale and was the pseudonym Malala first wrote under when, at age 12, she started writing a BBC diary about her experience with girls' education in Pakistan.
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It may be difficult to keep up with the old-timey dialect (subtitles definitely help), but if you're willing to wade into director Robert Eggers's disturbing folk tale, you'll see one of the best creepers in years.
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We passed on that, but we let him steer us toward the fu chi fei pian, a Chengdu street food dish whose name translates to "sliced lung made by the married couple," reflecting a quaint folk tale.
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There are also anacondas so huge they are the subjects of this folk tale: A llanero is walking through a riverside jungle, and stops to rest, sitting on a downed tree … which soon begins to slither off.
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"Kalila Wa Dimna," an eighth-century Persian folk tale recounted by two jackals, which was translated into Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffa, and the adaptation and retelling of stories from "One Thousand and One Nights" for children.
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The first installment, titled "Little Red Riding Hood (Has a Gun)" rewrites the folk tale into the story of how Red and her grandma scare away the bad guy with the help of a pair of trusty firearms.
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The version of this story that I think of is Hans Christian Andersen's, but he himself was retelling a folk tale that he'd heard as a child, and the story exists in similar form elsewhere in the world.
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He narrated a folk tale in which a starving woman hears the moo of a cow coming from the heavens and she prays to Allah to bring down the cow so that she can feed her starving children.
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The studio's coming project, Rainbow Crow, an animated virtual-reality series based on a Native American folk tale and developed in partnership with John Legend, who also stars in it, allows players to interact with the storybooklike environment.
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The original cartoon version is a retelling of a popular Chinese folk tale, centering around a young woman who has reached the age where she is expected to find a husband, with the aid of a strict matchmaker.
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Written and directed by Carina Toker, the play continues the plot of the Jewish folk tale "The Golem of Prague," about a 16th-century clay giant that comes to life to defend the Jewish people from their persecutors.
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Mulan's motives are supposed to be tied to filial piety, but the movie's climactic moment—where she is recognized by the emperor and bowed to by the crowd—is too individualistic for a movie based on a traditional Chinese folk tale.
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Without a Rousey/Cyborg fight both women would be condemned to wander through their post-fighting lives like some kind of cursed wraith from an Irish folk tale: unable to find peace, with a great desire gnawing at their insides.
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A post on Yidao's official social media account called Mr Zhou a "modern edition of the farmer and the snake", a reference to a folk tale in which a snake fatally bites the farmer who saves it from freezing to death.
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Through the beautiful cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki and the powerful composition of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, nature and sound are placed front and center in this modern adaptation of an American folk tale about a hunter pitted against the wild.
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"Why?" begins with the cast of three (Hayley Carmichael, Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni) sharing narration duties in a kind of folk tale like those that begot the epic "Mahabharata" in the 1980s and the exquisite "Battlefield" just a few years ago.
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"The Raven Tower" also features a war between gods, but it's managed so tightly with reference to the narrating god's perspective that it feels closer to the register of folk tale than epic, and is all the more riveting for that.
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There's a bit of a mystery about the story's origin — scholars say it's not in the early versions of ancient Hindu texts — but in the past century this folk tale about the hijras' loyalty has become an important piece of their identity.
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With the workshop leader, the writer and performer Gcina Mhlophe, focusing their instincts, the children devise a folk tale about a girl named Liyana who sets off, with a friendly bull, to rescue her brothers from thieves who have abducted and plan to sell them.
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By halftime of Monday night's game between the Giants and Philadelphia Eagles, it felt as if Eli Manning was a character in a folk tale, a shunted hero who, in a twist of fate, was granted a last moment to rescue those around him.
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A quilt made by Samuel Sadlowski, a tailor in the Prussian Army taken prisoner during the Napoleonic Wars, is dated 1806; it includes among its many fort blocks, a lovely pastoral frieze in appliqué illustrating the folk tale of a goose-stealing fox pursued by a hunter.
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The play begins with Mr. Jue, as Nanhee's father, relating a bedtime folk tale about an angel who loses her ability to fly and falls in love with a mortal man, and who must later choose between staying on earth or ascending to the skies once again.
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The memories evoked by their childlike quality are a further reminder that our pasts hang around and haunt us, long past when we think they've slipped into history — and that's the mystery of life that A Ghost Story spins into a yarn that's more folk tale than horror.
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Of the 30 most acclaimed movies so far this year, according to the review aggregation site Metacritic, only three that have opened in theaters ("Paddington 2," the Hungarian Oscar contender "On Body and Soul" and the Estonian folk tale "November") are available to stream (as of this writing).
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Mr. Takahata, who was not an animator himself, chose a different approach in later films like "My Neighbors the Yamadas" (1999), a surrealistic family story drawn like a comic strip; and his last film, "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya" (2013), a dreamy, watercolored portrayal of a Japanese folk tale.
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She said a trip to a remote hamlet in Cameroon had inspired her to write and illustrate "The Village of Round and Square Houses" (1986), which recounts a local folk tale describing how women there came to live in round houses and men in square ones after a volcanic eruption.
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It was an immediate smash, aided by two hit songs—"Babooshka" and "Army Dreamers"—which even in an era of inventive singles stood out for their atypical subject matter and arrangements; one a cautionary folk tale in cod-Russian style, the other an understated waltz-time protest lament for a dead boy-soldier.
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At Astor Court, children can hear the Andean folk tale about the fox and the mole and their lunar adventure; make a foil model of Inti, the Inca sun god; and learn Peruvian dance steps from the arts organization Abya Yala Arte y Cultura, which will end each day with a performance.
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Gear up for more Alexei Ratmansky this weekend with continuing performances of "The Golden Cockerel," his 2012 two-act ballet based on Alexander Pushkin's folk tale and inspired by Michel Fokine's 19523 production that brings a fantastical Russia to life as an Astrologer captures a Cockerel to win over the Queen of Shemakhan.
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THE LESS PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT US A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen IdentityBy Axton Betz-Hamilton Despite the particularly modern horror of identity theft that lies at the center of "The Less People Know About Us," a memoir by Axton Betz-Hamilton, the book reads like a grim folk tale.
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Adapted from the novel of the same name by Lillian Lee, which itself is loosely based on a Chinese folk tale, the movie follows two snake-demon sisters (Maggie Cheung and Joey Wang) — one green, one white — who, after training for hundreds of years, take human form to experience life as mortals.
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A defiant teenager (Dior Ka) — the first in her rural Senegalese family to be formally educated — tries to save her 11-year-old sister from an arranged marriage to a much older man in this film, which was conceived by its director, Jeremy Teicher, as a folk tale based on real events and using local, nonprofessional actors.
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Deen is living a fairly settled life as a rare books and antiques dealer when, during a visit with his family, he hears a version of a Bengali folk tale that he knew as a child — about a merchant forever running from the goddess of snakes — and ends up taking an epic trip of his own.
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