Ballads
Fairy tales and ballads are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fairy tales" instead a noun "Ballads".
Fairy tales
Ballads and fairy tales are semantically related. You can use "Ballads" instead a noun phrase "Fairy tales".
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Many tales later collected as Fairy Tales or ballads are first found in romances, although we do not know how close they are to the Oral Tradition of their own times.
Source: Chivalric Romance - The genres most often associated with Oral Tradition are Myth, Legend, and Folklore (folktales, fairy tales, folk ballads, folk songs, etc.), or just Mythology.
Source: Oral Tradition -
Appalachian English isn't quite the same as the language of Shakespeare, as is sometimes said; but 16th-century English ballads and ancient European fairy tales long flourished there.
Source: Useful Notes / Appalachia
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