thumb|A moritat singer in [[Basel depicted in a 19th-century drawing]] ' (; also spelled , or ') comes from Italian for "story-singer" and is known by many other names around the world. It is a theatrical form where a performer tells or sings a story while gesturing to a series of images. These images can be painted, printed or drawn on any sort of material.
thumb|A moritat singer in [[Basel depicted in a 19th-century drawing]] ' (; also spelled , or ') comes from Italian for "story-singer" and is known by many other names around the world. It is a theatrical form where a performer tells or sings a story while gesturing to a series of images. These images can be painted, printed or drawn on any sort of material.
==Asia== In 6th-century India, religious tales called s were performed by traveling storytellers who carried banners painted with images of gods from house to house. Another form called featured the storytellers carrying vertical cloth scrolls and sung stories of the afterlife. In recent times, this is still performed by Chitrakar women from West Bengal, India.thumb|400px|right|Wayang beber, a Javanese form of art thought to be extinct but was rediscovered in the 1960s.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).