Folktale within a folktale [closed]
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I am looking for any type of oral literature (folktale, poem whatever), that would include an inserted story, however minor, that is in its content foreign to the primary poem, folktale...
Let me give you an example of what I am looking for: a Russian fable in which a fox would tell to a chicken the story of Noah's ark or something like that. Something in this made up way...
Does anyone know a story like that?
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Yes for example There is a boy who has to find 7 gems to avoid a disaster in his town. And then we can include a folk story of how these gems were made or found. For example we can say a curse of some lady created those gems.
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One example could be the Growltiger song from Cats. In the original staging, the song told the story of Growltiger's Last Stand - when his boat is swarmed by enemies and Growltiger killed.
Immediately prior to the attack, Growltiger and is girlfriend are sitting on the boat, and they sing The Ballad of Billy MaCaw. The ballad could be dropped without affecting the Growltiger story in any way (and has been in some stagings).
The whole piece is about 15 minutes long, and is drawn from T. S. Elliot's poem book, Old Possums' Book of Cats.
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The classic example would be The Arabian Nighs (AKA One Thousand and One Nights) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights) in which Scheherazade tells her husband an new story each night to keep him from cutting her head off.
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