Analyze a Folk Tale

A folk tale is a story passed on through oral conversation and once it's been written it's not a folk tale anymore. We can say a story comes from a folk tale and sometimes it contains some key factors of a folk tale such as the explanation to an aspect of nature or a moral. In Coyote Kills the Lion the natural phenomenon explained was the wood tick being flat. In the story, when the Coyote tried to get the people out of the giant's stomach, the last to come out was the wood tick. The wood tick got squished by the giant's teeth and became flat for the rest of his life and all wood ticks are flat now. The folk tale also expressed a point that the time when people told the story, people are interested in the shapes and features of animals. They chose the wood tick to be written into this interesting story. We can tell that the people have interest in wood tick and maybe other animals that we did not read about.