00688nam a2200085Ia 4500100001800000245008000018260000900098520047600107583001900583  aLewis, Linden  aExploring the folk culture of Barbados through the medium of the folk tale.  c1990  aDefines folk culture as the culture of the common people, constituted by folk songs, dance, folk ways, folklore, folk beliefs and customs, folk medicine and generally by the folk expression of a people.  Notes that folk tales, born of the hopes and fears, anxieties, aspirations and frustrations of a people, are popular media for explaining and understanding the complex material conditions of existence of the populace.  At the kernel of the folk tale there is a moral.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR