I thought that a fairy tale was just a written version of an oral folktale.

我以为童话只是那些口头传说的书面版本。

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Every storyteller, or, maybe every town, might have had a slightly different version of the same folktale.

每一个讲故事的人，或者在每一个城镇，关于同一个民间田的版本都可能又细微差别。

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The folktale he told to me is gruesome one.

他给我讲了个令人毛骨悚然的民间故事。

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Some even call this 3rd century folktale an Eastern version of Romeo and Juliet.

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The narrative unfolds in a solemn, glum, stately manner more like a Biblical parable than like a crazy backwoods folktale.

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At the border of life and death, said a folktale, there was a river called the River of Forgetting, and on the bridge an old woman called Mrs.

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