The story hit the national press at about the same time of the official denial of alien big cat evidence on Bodmin Moor.

" is the end of a story about the mice planning how to be safe from the cat.

Both films claimed to have been " suggested by " Poe's story, but neither bears any resemblance to the tale aside from the presence of a black cat.

The plot essentially retells the short story in a semi-autobiographical manner, with Poe himself undergoing a series of events involving a black cat which he used to inspire the story of the same name.

For example, if one wished to remember the list ( dog, envelope, thirteen, yarn, window ), one could create a link system, such as a story about a " dog stuck in an envelope, mailed to an unlucky black cat playing with yarn by the window ".

There are several versions of the traditional story, which tells how Dick, a boy from a poor Gloucestershire family, sets out for London to make his fortune, accompanied by, or later acquiring, his cat.

Folklorists have suggested that the most popular legends about Whittington — that his fortunes were founded on the sale of his cat, who was sent on a merchant vessel to a rat-beset Eastern emperor — originated in a popular 17th-century engraving by Renold Elstracke in which his hand rested on a cat, but the picture only reflects a story already in wide circulation.

Elstracke's oddly-shaped cat was in fact a later replacement by printseller Peter Stent for what had been a skull in the original, with the change being made to conform to the story already in existence, in order to increase sales.

Heinlein later credited the 1905 Ellis Parker Butler short story " Pigs is Pigs " with informing the flat cat incident.

He invented ( or at least, used to tell very often ) the story of the little cat: " A little cat arrives where a few big dogs are eating in a pot.

The imprisoned muse Calliope is forced to provide story ideas, a cat seeks to change the world with dreams, Shakespeare puts on a play for an unearthly audience, and a shape-shifting immortal ( obscure DC Comics character Element Girl ) longs for death.

Although the episodes themselves are not in chronological order ( a single episode may have one story that takes place in the winter and another that takes place in the summer ), many episodes are rife with references to past events within the series ' continuity, in particular D. W .' s missing snowball for which she blames Arthur or Buster's cat saving incident ; these are often intended to amuse long-time viewers.

One of them tells the story of his pet cat eating his partridge.

Seuss rigidly limited himself to a small set of words from an elementary school vocabulary list, then crafted a story based upon two randomly selected words — cat and hat.

One oft-repeated " official " story states that Mel Blanc patterned the voices of both Daffy Duck and Sylvester the cat on Schlesinger.

* Ti-Puss ( the story of her years in India with a tiger cat as her companion )

A medallion accredited to Cornelius Agrippa is used in Mike Mignola's comic book short story Hellboy: The Corpse ; it was mentioned as being effective against a vampire cat from Kyoto and proved valuable against a war-god / pig-man.

An unnamed narrator, while gazing upon his pet cat, begins to reminisce about a law in the town of Ulthar that forbids the killing of cats and relates the story of how this law came to be.

In July 2011, Gnasher was turned into a cat after Dennis watched a Harry Potter film and was inspired to perform magic tricks, although Gnasher's Bit ( e ) appeared as normal during this two week story arc.

In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters.

The series follows the story of four animal friends: Koki the rooster, Lupo the dog, Burlón the cat and Tonto the donkey ; who form a band in the playing respectively guitar, drums, trumpet and saxophone.

It is an epic poem told in historical perspective ; a story of epic events and of great people of a heroic past.

The story of Ulysses and Circe was retold as an episode in Georg Rollenhagen's German verse epic, Froschmeuseler ( The frogs and mice, Magdeburg, 1595 ).

In Lope de Vega's miscellany La Circe-con otras rimas y prosas ( Madrid 1624 ), the story of her encounter with Ulysses appears as a verse epic in three cantos.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

One such epic is the Old English story Beowulf.

For quite some time, he had been planning to direct an epic movie named Megalopolis, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster, but after the city was hit by the real life disaster of September 11, the project was suddenly seen as being too sensitive.

It is probable, therefore, that the story of the Trojan War as reflected in the Homeric poems derives from a tradition of epic poetry founded on a war which actually took place.

The story of Dido and Aeneas derives from the original source in Virgil's epic the Aeneid.

Though some of the episodes of Jason's story draw on ancient material, the definitive telling, on which this account relies, is that of Apollonius of Rhodes in his epic poem Argonautica, written in Alexandria in the late 3rd century BC.

Joseph Campbell attempted to draw parallels between the story of Jonah and the epic of Gilgamesh, in which Gilgamesh obtains a plant from the bottom of the sea.

The epic employs the story within a story structure, otherwise known as frametales, popular in many Indian religious and non-religious works.

Lyric poetry is a genre that, unlike epic and dramatic poetry, does not attempt to tell a story but instead is of a more personal nature.

The story is epic and sweeping, encompassing and describing hundreds of civilizations, races and species on thousands of worlds.

The 35 minute epic tells the story of Link's evolution from child to hero.

Originally written in Hebrew as an epic poem, the story centers on Job, a perfectly just and righteous person.

In the late 1980s, they created the epic recording God in Three Persons, a story about the exploitation of two Siamese twins with healing powers by a male dominant force and The King & Eye, a surreal biography of Elvis Presley and the birth of rock and roll.

The scale and scope of the story is epic.

The story originates in the Ramayana, a Sanskrit epic from before the time of Christ.

In one type of story, the world is born from a world egg ; such stories include the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, the Chinese story of Pangu or the Indian Brahmanda Purana.