Remembering Folktales as Oral Tradition : A qualitative single case study of a Goze

The article addressed to remember folktales as oral traditions. Very fortunately the latest female minstrel with blind eyes(goze) who could do appeared unexpectedly. A qualitative single case study was adopted in order to divulge the phenomena. Being interviewed exclusively 13 times, she remembered very precious 34 folktales.(Animal Tales 3, Ordinary Folktales 26, and Jokes & Anecdotes 5) The characteristics of them were typically as follows : (1) Almost every folktale was told without faltering. (2) The content of them sometime conveyed the world of animism. (3) Each tone of her voices on the casts communicated the corresponding emotions in her folktale. (4) Ideophone, which was unorganized, but effusive and so lived, often appeared. (5) Gesture was hardly made. Simultaneously, as having reached the period of the latest minstrels, this study strongly indicated that their function of the transmission to the other persons have mostly disappeared. Nevertheless, it survived to the same minstrels scanty but surely