Haiti · Folktales and oral traditions
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Haiti
- Tales
- 1
- Dated records
- 1
- Tales linked to multiple countries
- 0
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Diane Wolkstein’s 1978 collection of Haitian folktales includes the song from The Magic Orange Tree. Wolkstein explains how storytellers can sing it before the story to teach the audience their melody. That detail gives a sense of how listeners could take part in a telling.
Tales in the Atlas
The Magic Orange Tree
1978 · Diane Wolkstein · The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales
Tales found across countries
No tales linked to multiple countries are listed for this country yet.