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 ).

In a letter to Horace Mann ( dated 28 January 1754 ) he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes " were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of ".

An example of this is the tale of " The Three Apples " ( see Crime fiction elements below ).

A notable example is in the tale of " The Three Apples " ( see Crime fiction elements below ).

Another Nights tale with crime fiction elements was " The Hunchback's Tale " story cycle which, unlike " The Three Apples ", was more of a suspenseful comedy and courtroom drama rather than a murder mystery or detective fiction.

Carlo Gozzi made use of many fairy tale motifs among his Commedia dell ' Arte scenarios, including among them one based on The Love For Three Oranges ( 1761 ).

Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring anthropomorphic pigs who build three houses of different materials.

In an advert in the British newspaper The Guardian, the aftermath of the Three Little Pigs tale is told in the style of modern news media coverage, including social media reaction and the sociopolitical consequences of the story.

* Three Little Pigs The fairy tale, lushly illustrated in The Colorful Story Book of 1941.

An epistolary wonder tale with parallels suggesting its author knew the Romance of Alexander and the above-mentioned Acts of Thomas, the Letter was supposedly written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus ( 1143 – 1180 ) by Prester John, descendant of one of the Three Magi and King of India.

He is the king who receives the Three Princes of Serendip in the tale that gave rise to the word Serendipity.

* The Three Sisters ( fairy tale ), an Italian literary fairy tale

There are several theories about the origin of the name " Iwate ", but the most well known is the tale Oni no tegata, which is associated with the Mitsuishi or " Three Rocks " Shrine in Morioka.

Joseph Jacobs noted the figure of the Sleeping Beauty was in common between this tale and the Gypsy tale The King of England and his Three Sons, in his More English Fairy Tales.

Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, the Russian tale Peter and the Wolf, reflect the theme of the ravening wolf and of the creature released unharmed from its belly, but the general theme of restoration is very old.

The Three Apples, a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ), is the earliest known murder mystery and suspense thriller with multiple plot twists and detective fiction elements.

Issue # 2 featured a story called " We Three Things ", and issue # 3 featured the Dead Boy Detectives in a tale set during Tim's time at one of the Inns Between the Worlds.

The displacement of the old Italian comedy by the dramas of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni, modelled on French examples, threatened to defeat the society's efforts ; in 1757 Gozzi came to the rescue by publishing a satirical poem, La tartana degli influssi per l ' anno 1756, and in 1761 his comedy based on a fairy tale, The Love for Three Oranges or Analisi riflessiva della fiaba L ' amore delle tre melarance, a parody of the style of the other two poets.

It has also been noted that the story of Othello and Un Capitano Moro resemble the earlier tale of The Tale of the Three Apples, a story from One Thousand and One Nights.

Stanley Weyman's novel A Gentleman of France includes the Duke of Guise in its tale about the War of the Three Henries.

Besides Rodeo, two other de Mille ballets are performed on a regular basis, Three Virgins and a Devil ( 1934 ) adapted from a tale by Giovanni Boccaccio, and Fall River Legend ( 1948 ) based on the life of Lizzie Borden.

A prophesy given to an infant born with the caul is the basis of the Grimm fairy tale The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs.

This is seen in the tale of Cormac mac Airt, among other tales.

In the old Irish tale " The Siege of Druim Damhgaire or Knocklong " ( Forbhais Droma Dámhgháire ), one of King Cormac Mac Art's druids was called Cecht of Magh Slécht.

Examples of journeys to the realm include " Thomas the Rhymer " and the fairy tale " Childe Rowland ", the latter being a particularly negative view of the land.

" Bayad plays the oud to the lady ", Arabic language | Arabic manuscript for Qissat Bayad wa Reyad tale from late 12th century

The band's debut single, " Smalltown Boy ", the tale of a boy who was cast away by his family for being homosexual, was a hit, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

Beside the developed legend of the mandylion or Image of Edessa, was the tale of the Veil of Veronica, whose very name signifies " true icon " or " true image ", the fear of a " false image " remaining strong.

The narrator of the tale is " Billy Duncan ", " a rough, hardened soldier of fortune ", who is frequently involved in fights that leave him near death.

This text is a version of the Irish Longes mac n-Uislenn and offers a tale which bears some comparison to Macpherson's " Darthula ", although it is radically different in many respects.

Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by Zadig when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which Poe called a " tale of ratiocination " and which established the modern detective fiction genre.

:*" Carmilla ", a compelling tale of a lesbian vampire, set in central Europe.

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.

The band got their name from the folk tale featured in Billy Bragg's " The World Turned Upside Down ", on his 1987 album, Back to Basics.

The Silent Gondoliers ( ISBN 0-345-44263-6 ) is a 1983 novel written by William Goldman, under the pseudonym of " S. Morgenstern ", about why the gondoliers of Venice no longer sing through the tale of the protagonist Luigi.

Another one of the earliest known stories to involve traveling forward in time to a distant future was the Japanese tale of " Urashima Tarō ", first described in the Nihongi ( 720 ).

* Edgar Allan Poe briefly mentioned whist in his tale " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", alluding to the analytical mind needed to play:

Keene speculates that in her tale of the " shining prince ", Murasaki may have created for herself an idealistic escape from court life, which she found less than savory.

* " A Retrieved Reformation ", which tells the tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, recently freed from prison.

In yet another tale Scheherazade narrates, " The Fisherman and the Jinni ", the " Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban " is narrated within it, and within that there are three more tales narrated.

This leads to the next tale in the cycle, the " Tale of the Jewish Doctor ", where the doctor accidentally trips over the hunchback's body, falls down the stairs with him, and finds him dead, leading him to believe that the fall had killed him.

In another 1001 Nights tale, " Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman ", the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land, in that the underwater society follows a form of primitive communism where concepts like money and clothing do not exist.

The German term " Märchen " stems from the old German word " Mär ", which means story or tale.

So went the tale of the " Old Man in the Mountain ", assembled by Marco Polo and accepted by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, an 18th century Austrian orientalist writer responsible for much of the spread of this legend.

" there is no historicity in this tale ", also according to Eunice Burr Stebbins, and Arion and the dolphins is given as an example of " a folkloristic motif especially associated with Apollo " by Irad Malkin > Yet there are many more or less reliable historical accounts from many periods of people being saved by dolphins.

In Egyptian accounts, however, the penis of Osiris is found intact, and the only close parallel with this part of Plutarch's story is in " The Tale of Two Brothers ", a folk tale from the New Kingdom with similarities to the Osiris myth.