Vietnamese mythology

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Vietnamese mythology (Vietnamese: Thần thoại Việt Nam) comprises folklore, national myths, legends, or fairy tales from the Vietnamese people with aspects of folk religion in Vietnam.^[1][2][3] Vietnamese folklore and oral traditions may have also been influenced by historical contact with neighbouring Tai-speaking populations,^[4] other Austroasiatic-speaking peoples,^[5] as well as with people from the region now known as Greater China.^[6]