Spiritually, these societies believed in local gods who were only known to others through oral tales.

Grandam used to grill me on aspects of the oral tales in much this way.

I closed my eyes in an effort to remember the actual stanzas of the oral tale I'd learned.

Also it is considered to be an oral tale to be told for everybody.

The Brothers Grimm were among the first to try to preserve the features of oral tales.

Saxo based the story on an oral tale of a son taking revenge for his murdered father.

This is because an oral tale is necessarily different from that of a written story.

What was originally a fearsome oral tale became a cozy family story with only a hint of menace.

By the time the oral tale was finally put to paper, under Ottoman rule in the 18th century, the story ran to 3,000 pages.

The story integrates oral and written tales of many Chinese mythological figures who are involved in the struggle as well.