This seems like kind of an edge case to me, and also I can't think of a good example, but how about the "wise old woman tells the protagonist a story that then has a crucial influence on the book's climax" story type? Oddly, most of those I can recall in detail have male storytellers (Cornelia Meigs did several books on this plan, all with male storytellers iirc) - except Elizabeth Enright's (non-fantasy) Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away, both of which feature a male and a female storyteller leading the child protagonists to explore their hidden town and eventually open it up to outside influence again.
(Whoa. I didn't realize the Gone-Away books would sound so mythical when I tried to describe them in terms of storytelling. Wow.) Anyway, the second book fits the pattern I just described more closely, iirc.
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Date: 2012-04-18 08:56 pm (UTC)(Whoa. I didn't realize the Gone-Away books would sound so mythical when I tried to describe them in terms of storytelling. Wow.) Anyway, the second book fits the pattern I just described more closely, iirc.