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Ancient storytellers had to know their stories by heart

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14 March 2022

Ancient storytellers had to know their stories by heart

Before people started writing stories down, storytellers memorized them to recite, and teach to the next generation of performers. These stories existed for hundreds of years before they were ever written down.
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