What is the role of folktales in culture?
What is the role of folklore in human culture?
Contemporary folklore encompasses many forms of creative expression such as folk art, folk song and dance, legends, myths, children's rhymes, and proverbs.

Folklore serves to teach about and preserve the culture of the people, or folk, of which it speaks.

As a collection of narratives about the culture and people from which the narratives originate, folklore has an essential role in passing on a culture groups' traditions.