It is a modern-day retelling of the classic Korean folktale "Simcheongga". The tale itself is a variation on a common folktale motif. The tale also appears in American folktale collections. The fairy tale, told orally, is a sub-class of the folktale. The cat-rabbit halfbreed tale has been further reinforced by the more widespread "cabbit" folktale. Skeptics dismiss his narrative as a folktale. Many 18th-century folklorists attempted to recover the "pure" folktale, uncontaminated by literary versions. Most poems focused on myths, legends that were part folktale and part religion. This story is an example of an Egyptian folktale. They wanted to create a piece of populist theatre with elements of myth and folktale. They established the legend as Chinese premier folktale in the 1920s. Indeed, there are both fox or tanuki folktale examples. The Indian folktale "Baital Pachisi" inspired the development of the story. It is based on the same folktale as the , but has a different story. Below are samples of St. Lucian Creole French taken from a folktale.