But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

In the first place, a good many writers who are said to use folklore, do not, unless one counts an occasional superstition or tale.

A second tale shows still more clearly the kind of powers a truly spiritual monk could possess: `` On one occasion Yang Shan ( Kyo-zan ) saw a stranger monk flying through the air.

This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

The story is narrated by Laura, one of the two main protagonists of the tale.

It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape ( and escapist ) movies of the season.

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 manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

The theatre of my tale is this earth, the one in which we now live, but the historical period is imaginary.

Heimskringla consists of several chapters, each one individually called a saga, which can be literally translated as ' tale '.

* The Aquatic Uncle — A tale on the fact that at one stage in evolution animals left the sea and came to live on land.

He further appears in the medieval tale Breuddwyd Rhonabwy, in which he fights alongside Arthur at the Battle of Badon and is described as one of the king's chief advisors.

Othello is an adaptation of the Italian writer Cinthio's tale " Un Capitano Moro " (" A Moorish Captain ") from his Gli Hecatommithi ( 1565 ), a collection of one hundred tales in the style of Boccaccio's Decameron.

It also resembles an incident described in the earlier tale of " The Three Apples ", one of the stories narrated in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

While Punch and Judy, as with the tale of Robin Hood, might follow no one fixed storyline, there are nevertheless episodes common to many recorded versions.

There was one John the Baptist, who was the forerunner of Jesus in accordance with the law of parity ; and as Jesus had twelve Apostles, bearing the number of the twelve solar months, so had he thirty leading men, making up the monthly tale of the moon.

One such tale is Echtra Nerai (' The Adventure of Nera ') concerning one Nera from Connacht who undergoes a test of bravery put forth by King Ailill.

In one tale, Asmodeus brought a man with two heads from under the earth to show Solomon ; the man, unable to return, married a woman from Jerusalem and had seven sons, six of whom resembled the mother, while one resembled the father in having two heads.

He is immortalized in the tale of Saint George and the Dragon and is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.

Worley discounted concerns that Wright was pursuing his own interests and wrote of it: "' Twelve Years ' is convincingly Northup's tale and no one else's because of its amazing attention to empirical detail and unwillingness to reduce the complexity of Northup's experience to a stark moral allegory.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

Just like the previous three novellas, Lauretta's tale tells of one person censuring another in a clever way.

Fiammetta tells this tale, which like the previous one, was taken from The Seven Wise Masters.

Aeschylus was one of many Greeks who had been initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, a cult to Demeter based in his hometown of Eleusis.

Demeter and Poseidon's names are linked in one Pylos tablet, where they appear as po-se-da-wo-ne and da-ma-te, in the context of sacralized lot-casting.

In front of the temple there was an altar to Demeter and another to Despoine, after which was one of the Great Mother.

Uranus and Gaia prophesied to him that one of his children would overthrow him, so when he married Rhea, he made sure to swallow each of the children she birthed: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus ( in that order ).

Clotho, one of the three Fates, ordered by Zeus, brought the boy to life again ( she collected the parts of the body and boiled them in a sacred cauldron ), rebuilding his shoulder with one wrought of ivory made by Hephaestus and presented by Demeter.

The Mysteries are related to a myth concerning Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility as recounted in one of the Homeric Hymns ( c. 650 B. C .).

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, King Celeus is said to have been one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of her cult.

He was also one of her original priests, along with Diocles, Eumolpos, Polyxeinus and Triptolemus, Celeus ' son, who had supposedly learned agriculture from Demeter.

However, one researcher writes that this Cista (" kiste ") contained a golden mystical serpent, egg, a phallus and possibly also seeds sacred to Demeter.

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

According to interpretatio romana, which sought the equivalence of Roman to Greek deities, she was an equivalent to Demeter, one of the Twelve Olympians of Greek religion and mythology ; this made Ceres one of Rome's twelve Di Consentes, daughter of Saturn and Ops, sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter and sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Pluto.

According to Pausanias, he was the youngest son of Eumolpus, one of the first priests of Demeter at Eleusis and a founder of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

The name comes from the Greek ( khlóē ), meaning " young green shoot " and is one of the many names of the Greek goddess Demeter.

It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Celeus was one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of Demeter's cult the Eleusinian Mysteries.

* Diocles ( mythology ), one of the first priests of Demeter

* One of the first priests of Demeter and one of the first to learn the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

The legendary genealogy of the Eumolpidae cast them as descendants of Eumolpus, one of the first priests of Demeter at Eleusis, through his second son, Herald-Keryx.

In Eleusis, Eumolpus became one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the founders of the Eleusinian Mysteries.