Since the 1830s oral stories have been collected among Norwegian pesants, sailors and students.

Because of the importance of language to the culture, stories and oral story telling are very important.

He collected oral stories and wove them together into a unified whole.

These oral stories may focus on a personal experience, incident, describing a place or witnessing an event.

In this way, the author was playing on a long Indonesian tradition of oral story telling.

Roots of the genre come from different oral stories passed down in European cultures.

Traditionally, oral stories were committed to memory and then passed from generation to generation.

Puerto Rican literature evolved from the art of oral story telling to its present day status.

The historic Górale culture was traditionally passed on in oral stories.

Much of this shift was relatively recent, about 100 or so years ago, according to oral stories.