The slaves who could not fly told about the people who could fly to their children. When they were free. When they sat close before the fire in the free land, they told it. They did so love firelight and Free-dom, and tellin.

-"The People Could Fly,"

Virginia Hamilton

How does this passage from "The People Could Fly" show that the story is a folktale?

It is told before a fire.

It is about freedom.

It is passed down orally.

It is changed with every telling.

It is passed down orally.

Explanation:

Most folktales are the stories told by past generations to their younger generations through stories and narrations. And in most of these traditional practices, the tales are passed on through oral narrations, like bedtime stories and even stories to keep children occupied.

Virginia Hamilton's "The People Could Fly," tells the stories of Africans who had come out of their country to work as slaves and how their abilities to fly stopped the moment they were slaves. These tales told to their children were folktales as they were about people who could fly when they were free. By orally passing down the stories to their children, we can infer that the stories are folktales of the African people.