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Citations?
I forgot to add a note to my edit. This is why I added the needs citations tag: "It is likely that oral storytelling has been around as long as human language. Storytelling is what makes us human and distinguishes us from other animals. Storytelling fulfils the need for human beings to cast their experiences in narrative form." 24.21.10.30 (talk) 21:20, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This is too much too: "Telling stories is a nurturing act because the human psyche is nurtured by stories. Storytelling is nourishment for the listener, who is connected to the storyteller though the story, as well as for the storyteller who is connected to the listeners through the story." Sounds like it was ripped from a story telling website. 24.21.10.30 (talk) 21:22, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Human Need?
It seems to me that a large amount of this section is irrelevant and nonobjective speculation. Whether or not "our early ancestors" told stories orally or not is ultimately of little consequence to the article. Delete? 86.155.49.72 (talk) 17:20, 5 March 2010 (UTC) NB: On reviewing the article, a large part of the history section has this problem, with modern festivals given a small note at the end. This is not the focus this article should be taking. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.49.72 (talk) 17:22, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

not true about matilda makejoy and pearl in the egg
matilda make joy was a dancer reputedly a naked dancer pearl in the egg was a blind male harper (pearl in the egg is old english for cataracts- derived from pearl in the eye, egg and eye are interchangable in old english from the 1300s) neither were story tellers.

Bernard the Liar may have been a story teller at the same party for King Edward but was probably a comic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.31.184.51 (talk) 19:44, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Just remove it
Why not just remove this article? Seems entirely superfluous in comparison to the page on Storytelling, and this is also clearly under the median quality of Wikipedia of today - seems like some sort of a blind alley that everybody's ignored for who knows how long. That "Storytelling" article is on the same exact topic (oral storytelling now and then), and hasn't been cobbled together by copy-pasting some uncyclopedic and vague third-class sources. The factual content here could fit in a thimble, so probably much less work all around to remove it and see if the main article just can't survive without this one. 89.27.70.18 (talk) 21:38, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

I share a similar opinion to yours. This page is disappointing. The content does not flow and there is no organization in how the material is delivered within sections. There are too many voices at work trying to get their individual contributions up, that it seems no one is thinking about the overall quality of the page. That being said, let's not remove it yet. There is valuable information here that is not in the Storytelling page, we just have to wait for an individual with the patience to unravel and give this page the attention it deserve. Thinking about extreme measures though, I think, after edited for clarity and content, we could move the section about oral history over to the storytelling page. However, that would require that we also include the history of oral tradition in non-western communities, which is a lot to tackle. This page is by no means easy, but let's not give up on it yet. Pyrolirion (talk) 00:31, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Nonsense
Well this page is a shit show. No, storytelling probably did NOT start off as chanting...Singing and song probably did...But storytelling is something way more simple than that. We all tell stories: What happened at work....reminiscing over the past....bonding over a shared history. A lot of this page is just woo-woo nonsense and I think it needs a total rewrite.

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