What does folktales grew up with me mean

It means literally, "I" read a lot of folktales while growing up.

Folktales are one of the most important subjects in folklore. Broadly speaking, the folk tale is the working people to create and disseminate, with the fictional content of the prose form of oral literature, is the collective name of all the folk prose works, and in some places called "blind words", "ancient words",

Folktales have been passed down orally since ancient times as a kind of narrative story with strange language and symbolic form to tell all kinds of relationship between people, with a wide range of subjects and full of fantasy. Folktales start from life itself, but they are not limited to the actual situation and what is considered true and reasonable. They often contain natural and whimsical elements.

The main characteristics of folktales:

1. Long-established and often enduring along with human growth.

2, oral transmission, folk tales are mostly transmitted orally.

3, the plot is exaggerated, full of fantasy, most of them show people's good intentions.

4, more symbolic form, the content often contains supernatural, whimsical components. Folktales, like all good works, start from life itself, but are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable.