"The reason I'm interested in this probably lies at the root of everything for me, in that I'm a completely oral storyteller," she said.

In Denmark Hans Christian Andersen adapted folktales he heard from oral storytellers.

Kind of a left handed reference to oral storytellers and their role in society.

A storytelling festival is often an annual event that features local, regional and/or nationally known oral storytellers.

Almost all of the circle members noted in the succeeding section on the Interdisciplinary Blue Circle are also at least oral storytellers.

She is an iconic figure among oral storytellers, particularly in the United States but also abroad, and has advised storytellers' organizations.

Over the many generations before the stories were gathered together in written form, the oral storytellers instinctively put plenty of conflict into the tales.

Many of the swaggies became practised oral storytellers as, night after night, they camped on riverbanks and yarned by the fire.

With the importance of oral literacy now being acknowledged by many Australian educators, oral storytellers have become a valuable resource for teachers.

In Kyrgyzstan I met oral storytellers who knew the longest poem in the world called Manas.