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Q&A Folktale within a folktale [closed]

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 ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by user21629‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T05:37:29Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/24735
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar user21629‭ · 2019-12-08T05:37:29Z (almost 5 years ago)
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?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-09-24T14:50:21Z (about 8 years ago)
Original score: 1