Oral storytelling
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Oral storytelling is the human activity and tradition of intimate storytelling, dating back before ancient times, in which a speaker verbally relates a story to an audience in physically close proximi
A Story-teller reciting from the One Thousand and One Nights – 1911
Vyasa (sitting on the high table), the common title for Indian oral storytellers, reciting epics among villagers, 1913
An Indian traditional oral storyteller Dastangoi artist reciting the "Dastan"
One Thousand and One Nights
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One Thousand and One Nights or The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as Th
Oral storytelling
…throughout human history can be seen in the respect afforded to professional storytellers. The 9th-century fictional storyteller Scheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights, who saved herself from execution by telling tales, is one example illustrating the value placed on storytelling in the past. Centuries before Scheherazade…
Sindbad the sailor and Ali Baba and the forty thieves by William Strang, 1896
Scheherazade and Shahryar by Ferdinand Keller, 1880
1898 illustration of The Fisherman and the Jinni by René Bull
A page from Kelileh va Demneh dated 1429, from Herat, a Persian version of the original ancient Indian Panchatantra – depicts the manipulative jackal-vizier, Dimna, trying to lead his lion-king into war.