Legends: Based on history Myths: Based on religions, and Fairy Tales: Fiction/ false/unreal Each of them have been passed down through the years and have had changes made to them to make them more interesting.
French folklore encompasses the fables, folklore and fairy tales and legends of the Gauls, Franks, Normans, Bretons, Occitans, and other peoples living in France.
Oral traditions has brought many people together by sharing stories that may or may not be true
Brought people together whether or not it was true or not
Culture has shaped folklore by learning new things and understanding different topics, everyone hears the same stories and may have different perspectives on them, but they all understand the same theme. Oral tradition shaped the culture by connecting the same lessons through our lives by hearing the same stories each other's hears .Oral
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They’re “your” spirit animal and Dames Blanches can hurt you but won’t if you play up to their expectations. These myth reflect this culture by being mysterious in some ways. The values in both stories is that people are not always nice but they can be if they do something to you and you do something back for them and live up to their expectations Matagot or Mandagot aren’t really true and they aren’t really spirit animals people just wanted to have an interesting story and Dames Blanches are not true either people just wanted people to believed it because it was scarey and people may have changed it over the years. Myths are impossible to verify because oral tradition, you can’t know if the stories are true or not because of the years they change. People believed that since oral tradition changes people believe that there could be something other than themselves like gods walks among man. Beauty and the Beast and The White