Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in the Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable ; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols ' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader Genghis Khan with Prester John ; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Mongols ' homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

How It Works, compared chauvinistic husbands to the hedgehog from a well-known Russian fable, The Hedgehog and the Fox ; they have one way of thinking, and it is so engrained that they cannot change it.

The priest works for the court as a chaplain, and tells K. a fable, ( which has been published separately as Before the Law ) that is meant to explain his situation.

The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree, less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

Felix Salten's Bambi ( 1923 ) is a Bildungsroman — a story of a protagonist's coming-of-age — cast in the form of a fable.

" Farmer Giles of Ham " is a Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949.

The first part of the Heimskringla is rooted in Norse mythology ; as it advances, fable and fact all curiously intermingle, and it terminates in factual history.

The fable of Oedipus, with a theme of inadvertent incest between a mother and son, ends in disaster and shows ancient taboos against incest as Oedipus is punished for incestuous actions by blinding himself.

What is clear is that " Niger " was an appellation applied in the Mediterranean world from at least the Classical era, when knowledge of the area by Europeans was slightly better than fable.

The fable is an ancient literary genre, often ( though not invariably ) set in verse.

The pope sat briefly on two " pierced chairs " at the Lateran: "... the vulgar tell the insane fable that he is touched to verify that he is indeed a man " a sign that this corollary of the Pope Joan legend was still current in the Roman street.

Robert Graves, quoting Harrison, asserts of the Hesiodic episode that " Pandora is not a genuine myth, but an anti-feminist fable, probably of his own invention.

It is said that a public house ( on the island ) can be cleared of people by calling out the word rabbit and while this was very true in the past, it has gradually become more fable than fact over the past 50 years.

As nothing is essential to the fable, but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented, that they were not known by him, or not observed: Nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus.

Gombrowicz's work is also well known for its playful allusions and satire, as when in " Trans-Atlantic ", a section of the text takes the form of a stylized 19th century diary, followed by a parody of a traditional fable.

His virtues are a fable ; his happiness is a delusion ; his nobility, nonsense.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection.

While many critics have tried to reconstruct the truth behind the shifting narratives, or to show that such a reconstruction cannot be done with certainty or even that there are factual and logical inconsistencies that cannot be overcome, some critics have stated that, fictional truth being an oxymoron, it is best to take the story as a given, and regard it on the level of myth and archetype, a fable that allows us to glimpse the deepest levels of the unconscious and thus better understand the people who accept ( and are ruled by ) that myth — Southerners in general and Quentin Compson in particular.

Perrin Dandin is a fictional character in the Third Book of Rabelais, who seats himself judge-wise on the first stump that offers, and passes offhand a sentence in any matter of litigation ; a character who figures similarly in a comedy of Racine's, and in a fable of La Fontaine's.

* Madame de La Carlière, short story and moral fable, ( 1772 )

The story was a fable in which the protagonists are suddenly thrown back in time to the 15th century, just a little before 1492.

Other examples include: comedy, drama, fable, fiction, folk tale, hagiography, legend, literature, myth, narrative, saga, science fiction, story, theme, tragedy.

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.

The story was passed down over time and the statue erected as a tribute to the well-known fable.

This story is identical to the European fable The Farmer and the Devil, cited in many 17th-century French works.

One story is the fable of Androcles, which is often included in compilations of Aesop's fables, but was not originally from that source.

" The Altar of the Dead ", first published in James's collection Terminations in 1895 after the story failed of magazine publication, is a fable of literally life and death significance.

* The Snow Queen: The fable inspired Joan D. Vinge's science-fantasy novel which added interstellar travel, sea-dwelling sentient mammals, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy to the basic love story.

How the Vietnamese came to be peeved with the Lao is another story which smacks of fable more than fact.

It is a spin-off from Gaiman's best-selling Vertigo Comics series The Sandman, featuring the Sandman ( Dream )' s elder sister, Death of the Endless in a self-contained story based around the fable that Death takes human form once a century, to remain grounded and in touch with humanity, an idea touched upon in several other media, for example in the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday and in the Terry Pratchett novel Reaper Man.

Cartoonist Paul Terry began his own series, called Aesop's Film Fables, in 1921 but by the time this was taken over by Van Beuren Studios in 1928 the story lines had little connection with any fable of Aesop's.

This fable tells the story of how the pharaoh fell in love with a beautiful foreign woman after smelling her hair.

" He commented that the story was a " sentimentally amusing fable " and that the songs were " simple in style and very pleasant to hear.

James referred to the fable of the elephant and tortoise several times, but told the infinite regress story with " rocks all the way down " in his essay, " The Sentiment of Rationality.

An apologue or apolog ( from the Greek ἀπόλογος, a " statement " or " account ") is a brief fable or allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for a moral doctrine or to convey a useful lesson without stating it explicitly.

In this high school event, competitors are given a children's book, fairy tale, fable, myth, legend, or ghost story to read.

There have been a number of film versions of the fable, although some have taken liberties with the original story line.

The traditional story of the disinheritance might be a fable.

Henry Zecher describes the story of the naming of the Grandfather Clock ( 2005 ): " I will note that this may well be a fable that's popularity has made it become folklore turned " fact.

* Elizabeth Strutt The story of Psyche: with a classical enquiry into the significance and origin of the fable ; by Elizabeth Strutt With Designs In Outline By John Gibson Esq.