Folktales are traditional stories that have been passed down generation to generation from different cultures. These stories have been about the importance of religious beliefs, creation myths, tricksters, tales of hero’s and their morals. Peter Klaus and Story of Oisin are two examples of folktales that come from different cultures that tell two unique stories that have difference and some similarities as well. Some similarities in these folktales is when Oisin married Niamh Cinn-Oir he is taken to her beautiful land of Tir Na N-Og where he believed he has only been gone for a short period of time and begins to miss son, father, and the Finna. He later returns to Ireland to find it in ruins the land he once lived in was completely different. …show more content…
Oisin went the Tir Na N-Og, the Land of the Young which was filled with laughter and love and where he will never grow old. There where orchards of tree that bear ripe fruit which was free of disease and when that fruit was pick another would grow in its place. There also was a Land of Silence where people could go to contemplate a life in solitude that was free of worry and sorrow. In Tir Na N-Og there was no since of time there was no day or night, but if you were tired of the sun you could wish for night to fall. And there was one condition he had to live by that once he touched the land of Tir Na N-Og he must remain here and not return to his old home. In the story of Peter Klaus, he decides to follow on of his goats that vanishes for a long period of time and never return to the herd till late. He follows him to a cave where the goat is feeding on grains of oats which is falling one by one from the roof of the cave. While standing in the cave a lad comes along and makes a sing for him to follow him further into the cave where they cross a walled court to come to a glade surrounded by rocky cliffs and final make their way through thick leaved