Today, many traditional storytellers around the world refer back to books where ancestral wisdom was recorded.
For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times.
Centuries after storytellers' imaginations first sent Persian rugs airborne, a Japanese astronaut has demonstrated a real flying carpet aboard the international space station.
This includes fire-breathers， jugglers， storytellers， mime artists and dancers.
One curious thing about Africa is that often people with the least formal education are the best storytellers.
Kids have a chance to meet some of their favorite authors and hear storytellers who perform with music, dance, and puppetry.
They are artists and storytellers who over the years embellished biblical stories and passages with their own twists.
The last effort to collect Khmer folk tales took place more than 50 years ago. Most of the current storytellers are more than 90 years old, making the preservation of these fables extremely urgent.
The best storytellers were mothers who used funny voices to illustrate different characters or made their own special sound effects to keep the story moving.
They were called poets, storytellers, ruthless conquerors, explorers, plunderers and barbarians.
We need to deprive, again, the poets, the song makers, the lyricists, the musicians, the mythmakers, the storytellers, all of them, the power to enchant us.
