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You have found an article written by a history expert. The article explains some history
of storytelling.
Storytelling
Before people were able to write, they needed a way to share their history, beliefs, and
way of life. They had to use their memory and listening skills to share information
with future tribe members. This is how storytelling was born. Storytelling has been
today, stories are used to amuse, teach, and explain. Storytelling was used as a way to
people came together to form bigger groups, called clans or tribes. In some groups, it
because they wanted the stories to be remembered by their group. They hoped that one
day one of the listeners would become the new storyteller. Sometimes, storytellers would
come home and share his or her new stories with their group. This caused the spread of
but tried to explain why these things happened. They were also fun to listen to. There
culture.
hear stories today, much like they did a long time ago.
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