Fiammetta's tale ( she is the speaker in this story, contrary to what a couple of incorrect sources may say ) is also told about the legendary Hatim Tai, who lived in the 6th century and sacrificed his favorite horse to provide a meal for the ambassador of the Greek Emperor.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of Paris.

For much of the 1940s, one of the most prolific and successful authors of this often downbeat brand of suspense tale was Cornell Woolrich ( sometimes under the pseudonym George Hopley or William Irish ).

The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera Hänsel und Gretel ( opera ) | Hänsel und Gretel ( 1893 ) by Engelbert Humperdinck and a stop-motion animated feature film based on the opera.

It is crucial, however, not to underestimate the creative and transforming power of subsequent tradition: for instance, Achilles, the most important character of the Iliad, is strongly associated with southern Thessaly, but his legendary figure is interwoven into a tale of war whose kings were from the Peloponnese.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

Dioneo, who has acquired the reputation of the most bawdy of the storytellers, narrates this tale.

Dioneo narrates what is by far the most obscene and bawdy tale in the Decameron.

As is custom among the ten storytellers, Dioneo tells the last and most bawdy tale of the day.

However, the martial arts element is a definite part of a wuxia tale, as most of the characters must know some form of martial arts.

The protagonists of most wuxia stories usually have beautiful maidens to accompany them on their adventures and the story typically concludes like a fairy tale, in which the protagonist and his lover are married and live happily ever after.

Through the various colors, motives and style, the Carnival highlighted four of the most renowned Javanese folk-legends: the Andhe-andhe lumut, Ratu Kencana Wungu, Ratu Laut Selatan ( The tale of the Queen of the South Seas ), and the romantic tale of Roro Jongrang that led to the creation of the Prambanan Temple.

The tale of a young lady who inherits her father's miserliness, it also became the most critically acclaimed book of his career.

" In the Nights, this didactic framework is the least common way of introducing the story, but instead a story is most commonly introduced through subtle means, particularly as an answer to questions raised in a previous tale.

His most influential Viagens novel was the non-Krishna work Rogue Queen, a tale of a hive society undermined by interstellar contact, which was one of the earliest science fiction novels to deal with sexual themes.

There is a tale being told in Moss about the Church fire: The city of Moss always had a lot of crows, most likely because of the corn being harvested in the region.

The idea of ending a tale at a point where the audience is left in suspense as to its conclusion ( which, in most cases, is then given at another time ) may have been a staple part of storytelling for almost as long as the idea of stories has existed.

Julian Symons, in The Times Literary Supplement, considered that it was Fleming's " tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale ", that the author " brings the thriller in line with modern emotional needs ", and that Bond " is the intellectual's Mike Hammer: a killer with a keen eye and a soft heart for a woman ".

However, sceptics question the narrative's reliability, noting that water-beast stories were extremely common in medieval saints ' Lives ; as such, Adomnán's tale is likely a recycling of a common motif attached to a local landmark.

King has indicated that he and Straub will likely write the third and concluding book in this series, the tale of Jack Sawyer, but has set no time for its completion.

Yet while oral fairy tales likely existed for thousands of years before the literary forms, there is no pure folktale, and each literary fairy tale draws on folk traditions, if only in parody.

The character of Faustus, likely based on a historical 16th century magician or charlatan, became the prototypical popular tale of a learned magician who succumbs to a pact with the devil.

This speaker is told ( in parentheses ) to be Zerubbabel, but this detail was likely tacked on to a secular, Hellenized tale about the power of wine, kings, truth, and women.

Although the tale of Adonis has Semitic roots, it is uncertain from where the myth of Myrrha emerged, though it was likely from Cyprus.

However, it's very likely that Ovid fabricated the entire tale himself-his use of " praetereo, dulcique animos novitate tenebo " could be read in several ways, as " novitate " could be translated as either something strange or something new, which would imply that it was a new tale.

In Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers in the Soviet Union to justify the re-allocation of their farmland: the tale describes how a child is awarded to a servant-girl rather than its natural mother, an aristocrat, as the woman most likely to care for it well.

" In a footnote to this passage, Richard Pankhurst states that this is apparently the first recorded statement by an Ethiopian monarch about this tale, and they were likely unaware of the title until Prutky's inquiry.

In this tale the etymology of Culhwch is explained as " sow run " ( cul " narrow, a narrow thing "; hwch " sow, pig "), but this is likely to be folk etymology.

In the German tale, Wizalois, the mother of his son is known as Florie, who is likely another version of the Lorie of Rigomer.

The comment suggests it was not popular with storytellers, though this was more likely due to its position as a literary tale rather than a traditional one.

Even though the miners who mined ore In the Seven Mountains believed in the existence of dwarfs, it is more likely that the cradle of the fairy tale is to be searched in France.

The origin of this tale is debated ; it is likely no older than the Middle Ages.

The song reached # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and stayed there for three weeks, selling over a million copies in just five weeks in the U. S. This sorrowful tale of a whorehouse in New Orleans had previously been recorded by a number of folk and blues performers, including Bob Dylan, whose adaptation was likely responsible for first introducing the song to The Animals.

There is an ongoing debate among Egyptologists as to whether or not the tale is based on actual events involving an individual named Sinuhe, with the consensus being that it is most likely a work of fiction.

This tale of four apprentices who become knights and travel to Jerusalem may have been intended as a burlesque of the old romances, but it is more likely that it was meant seriously to attract the apprentice spectators to whom it was dedicated.

He concludes that " in reality, the most likely inspiration for the mass execution of Verden was the Bible ", citing the biblical tale of the total extermination of the Amalekites and conquest of the Moabites by David ( after the Moabites were defeated, two out of three are recorded as having been stretched out and killed ).

Empire magazine also ranked Suspiria number 312 on their list of the 500 greatest films ever as well as number 45 on their list ' The 100 Best Films of World Cinema '.< ref > AllMovie called it " one of the most striking assaults on the senses ever to be committed to celluloid [...] this unrelenting tale of the supernatural was — and likely still is — the closest a filmmaker has come to capturing a nightmare on film.

The story is most likely apocryphal however, with Herodian attributing a similar tale to the assassination of Commodus.

It is likely, from references in works going back to the tenth century, that some form of the tale of the mad king goes back to the first millennium.