The Dionysus in Euripides ' tale is a young god, angry that his mortal family, the royal house of Cadmus, has denied him a place of honor as a deity.

Plato in his dialogue The Statesman tells a " famous tale " that " the sun and the stars once rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus.

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches began with the tale of Aradia's birth to Diana and Lucifer, who is described as " the god of the Sun and of the Moon, the god of Light ( Splendour ), who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was driven from Paradise ".

The tale " Manannan at Play " features the god as a clown and beggar who turns out to be a harper.

Simek says that Snorri ’ s description is further proven faithful by way of the ( above mentioned ) 10th century skaldic kenning “ Kvasir ’ s blood ” ( Old Norse Kvasis dreya ), and that strong parallels exist between the Old Norse tale of the theft of the Mead of Poetry by Odin ( in the form of an eagle ) and the Sanskrit tale of the theft of Soma — beverage of the gods — by the god Indra ( or an eagle ), and that these parallels point to a common Proto-Indo-European basis.

Likewise, in the tale depicting the origin of the constellation Capricornus, the Greek god of nature Pan became a fish from the waist down when he jumped into the same river after being attacked by Typhon.

They suggested that such descriptions of Moloch might be simply taken from accounts of the sacrifice to Cronus and from the tale of the Minotaur ; They found no evidence of a bull-headed Phoenician god.

He is known as the composer of the Dionysiaca, an epic tale of the god Dionysus, and the Metabole, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John.

The future Buddha may appear in them as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant — but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates.

* Þórsdrápa-A drápa to the god Thor telling the tale of one of his giant-bashing expeditions.

A twist in the tale makes the wind god Zephyrus responsible for the death of Hyacinth.

A twist in the tale makes the wind god Zephyrus responsible for the death of Hyacinth.

This tale was a warning against committing the sin of " hubris ", or overwhelming pride, in that Marsyas thought he might win against a god.

According to a passage in Deipnosophistae, the sophist and dithyrambic poet Licymnius of Chios tells a different tale, in which Hypnos, the god of sleep, in awe of his beauty, causes him to sleep with his eyes open, so he can fully admire his face.

In Oisín in Tir na nÓg, his most famous echtra or adventure tale, he is visited by a fairy woman called Níamh Chinn Óir ( Niamh of the Golden Hair or Head, one of the daughters of Manannán Mac Lir, a god of the sea ) who announces she loves him and takes him away to Tir na nÓg (" the land of the young ", also referred to as Tir Tairngire, " the land of promise ").

In the Karasu tengu, or minor tengu ravens appears as one of the forms of the god Ninsubur in Semitic tales, and the raven, crow and rook all appear in the flood tale of Siberian myth, not one of them returning to the ark, as they were far too busy eating carcasses of drowned animals.

The tale ends with the town becoming the site of a ritual to a pagan god whimsically given the name " Yottle ", possibly an allusion to the Mesoamerican god Yaotl, whose name means " the enemy ".

The plot is based on the Izumo cycle of Japanese mythology and the tale of the god Susanoo and the eight-headed monster Yamata no Orochi.

As the tale of the staff of Quetzalcoatl, an ancient Aztec god, was told, Johny became impatient and left his grandfather alone because he was not interested in the past.

Among these folktales is the tale of Vanapagan stealing the musical instrument stole belonging to the god of lightning Pikne, representing the international tale type " The Ogre Steals the Thunder's Instruments ( Pipe, Sack, etc.

In other tales, Loki's explanations for Thor's behavior has its clearest analogies in the tale Little Red Riding Hood, where the wolf provides equally odd explanations for its differences from the grandmother than Little Red Riding Hood was expecting.

In addition, Heimskringla reports a tale involving king Sveigðir's visit to Vanaheimr, where he meets a woman by the name of Vana and the two produce a child named Vanlandi ( whose name means " Man from the Land of the Vanir ").

Steinbeck inspired his book on a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had registered in a visit to the formerly rich in pearls region in 1940.

The tale is well known of his visit to Protogenes, and the rivalry of the two masters as to which could draw the finest and steadiest line.

The novel tells the tale of three human explorers from Earth who visit a planet orbiting the star Betelgeuse, in which great apes are the dominant intelligent and civilized species, whereas humans are reduced to a savage animal-like state.

The first of the James Bond series largely takes part in a Casino – Fleming had played at Deauville as a young man, and sets his tale of Bond versus Soviet agents in a fictional French gambling resort, drawing parallels with an actual WW2 visit he had made to a Portuguese casino whilst working for the British secret service.

According to local legend, the thunderstorm was the result of a visit by the devil who had made a pact with a local card player and gambler called Jan Reynolds ( or Bobby Read, according to the tale recorded at the Tavistock Inn, Poundsgate ).

The usual tale is that Owain hears at the eisteddfod that Gerald is in the neighbourhood, that Gerald's wife is very beautiful, and so he goes to visit her " as his kinswoman ", but this is unlikely.

The film is a fictionalized tale based on the Shelleys ' visit with Lord Byron in Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, and the famous challenge to write a horror story, which ultimately led to Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein and John Polidori writing The Vampyre.

Other adventures in the book include Mary telling the story of a king who was outsmarted by a cat, the park statue of Neleus that comes to life for a time during one of their outings, their visit to confectioner Miss Calico and her flying peppermint sticks, an undersea ( High-Tide ) party where Mary Poppins is the guest of honor, and a party between fairy tale rivals in the Crack between the Old Year and the New.

A popular tale concerns the pirate Gráinne O ' Malley, who was rebuffed in 1576 while attempting a courtesy visit to Howth Castle, home of the Earl of Howth.

He said Fofana was a griot in Juffure, who, during Haley's visit there, confirmed the tale of the disappearance of Kunta Kinte.

One tale ascribed to Johnson ( while other sources ascribe it to Boone Helm ) was of being ambushed by a group of Blackfoot warriors in the dead of winter on a foray to visit his Flathead kin, a trip that would have been over five hundred miles (> 800 Kilometers ).

In the tale in the Book of Leinster, Labraid invites Cobthach, along with thirty kings of Ireland, to visit him, and builds an iron house at Dind Ríg to receive them, which takes a year to build.

Galloway travels to the Covenant estate on the coast of Ireland to visit his friend, who relates an outlandish tale of supernatural terrors.

In this version of fireship tale, a Portuguese captain arrived on the shores Heron Island in Baie des Chaleurs in 1501, upon his second trip to the region to capture more natives for the slave trade, he was tortured and killed by the locals who had bitter memories of his first visit.

Another tale reveals that Halloween in Bizarro World involves trick-or-treaters giving fruit to the houses they visit.

The tale Culhwch and Olwen, associated with the Mabinogion and perhaps written in the 11th century, draws a dramatic picture of Arthur's hall and his many powerful warriors who go from there on great adventures, placing it in Celliwig, an uncertain locale in Cornwall.

The tale is also alluded to by John Critchley Prince in lines 24 to 29 of his poem " North Wales :" " Thou hast not trod with pilgrim foot the ground / Where sleeps the canine martyr of distrust, / Poor Gelert, famed in song, as brave a hound / As ever guarded homestead, hut, or hall, / Or leapt exulting at the hunter ’ s call ; / As ever grateful man consigned to dust.

The medieval Welsh tale The Dream of Rhonabwy from the 12th or 13th century vividly describes the interior of " an old pitch black hall ":

Worse yet, it consisted largely of scandalous stories, especially about people who had grown to become " the essence of propriety ", one of whom was her father, now Lord Worplesdon ; indeed, the book began with a tale of how Willoughby and Worplesdon were thrown out of a dance hall in 1887.