Lesson Plan - Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Additional History Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Additional History Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters is an African folktale.
Folktales are stories that are heard and remembered.
They are passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. That is one of the defining characteristics of folktales. Many times these tales are altered from generation to generation or from culture to culture. These terms refer to stories that are highly imaginative and everyone knows they are fictional. They are not believed by the person telling the story or by those listening.