Many Ghibli films, like The Secret World of Arrietty and Pom Poko are simply masterful retellings of older folktales, such as The Borrowers, and Japanese folklore regarding the tanuki spirits respectively.
Like, one of my favorite books, Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston, was a collection of folklore that lived in the oral tradition until Zora Neale Hurston wrote it down.
就像其中本我喜欢的书,卓拉·尼尔·赫斯特所写的《Mules and Men》,在他写书之前,书中的民间故事是以口耳相传的方式传下来的。