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Many fairy tales, such as The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs, The Fish and the Ring, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, or The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, revolve about a prophecy that a poor boy will marry a rich girl ( or, less frequently, a poor girl a rich boy ).
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Many of these " Literary RPGs " are fan-fiction based, such as ( most prevalently ) Tolkien's Middle-earth, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight, any number of anime and manga sources, or they are simply based in thematic worlds such as the mythologies of Ancient Greece, fairy tales, the Renaissance or science fiction.
Many English " witches " convicted of consorting with demons seem to have been cunning folk whose fairy familiars had been demonised ; many French devins-guerisseurs (" diviner-healers ") were accused of witchcraft, and over one half the accused witches in Hungary seem to have been healers.
Many of today's fairy tales have evolved from centuries-old stories that have appeared, with variations, in multiple cultures around the world.
Many writers have written in the form of the fairy tale.
Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature.
Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age.
Many of the fairy tales gathered by Asbjørnsen and Moe were collected in this area.
Many fairy tales depict the hero or heroine setting out on a quest, such as:
Many creatures, characters and situations from mythology, fairy tales, and folklore are encountered within the world of King's Quest.
Many myths, legends and fairy tales make use of this motif as a central element of narratives that are designed to illustrate inexorable fate, fundamental to the Hellenic world-view.
Many British fairy tales, such as Jack the Giant Killer and The Black Bull of Norroway, feature shapeshifting.
Many modern writers, such as Angela Carter and Jane Yolen, have revisited classic fairy tales and " damsel in distress " stories or collected and anthologized stories and folk tales that break the " damsel in distress " pattern.
Many fairy tales describe the psychic battle of incorporation in physical terms, with the hero saving his future bride by killing a witch, as in " The Drummer " ( Grimms tale 193 ).
Many folk beliefs generally paint fairy rings as dangerous places, best avoided.
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* Many fables and fairy tales are often extended metaphors.
Many of these fairy tales are the oldest known variants in existence.
Many other supernatural patrons feature in fairy tales ; these include various kinds of animals and the spirit of a dead mother.
Many of her children's books are re-tellings of fairy tales, including The Magic Circle, Crazy Jack, Spinners, Zel, Breath, Bound, Beast, and The Wager for older children, and The Prince of the Pond, Ugly, and Mogo the Third Warthog for younger children.
Many of these fairy tales, in the précieuse style, were written, mostly notably by Madame d ' Aulnoy.
Many early tales had the knight, such as Sir Launfal, meet with fairy ladies, and Huon of Bordeaux is aided by King Oberon, but these fairy characters were transformed, more and more often, into wizards and enchantresses.
Many have dealt with nature and science, Bible stories, nursery rhyme, and fairy tales.
Many of these fairy tales are the oldest known variants in existence.
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Many of these tales have morals or some form of belief that is being taught.
Many of the tales in the Golden Legend of Jacob de Voragine also embody folklore elements in a Christian context, as well as the tales of Old Mr. Brennan.
Many of her stories have a milieu reminiscent of the space opera and pulp tales she read in her youth, but typically with a much darker tone: the cosmic journeys of her characters are often linked to a drastic spiritual alienation, and / or a transcendent experience which brings fulfillment but also death.
Many of the clientele at the saddleshop were trappers and traders, from whom Carson heard stirring tales of the Far West.
Many of the traditional tales about David are found in the Buchedd Dewi, a hagiography written by Rhygyfarch in the late 11th century.
Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age.
Many of Scheherazade's tales are also frame stories, such as the Tale of Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman being a collection of adventures related by Sindbad the Seaman to Sindbad the Landsman.
Many researchers hold this to be caused by the spread of such tales, as people repeat tales they have heard in foreign lands, although the oral nature makes it impossible to trace the route except by inference.
Many sword and sorcery tales have been turned into a lengthy series of adventures.
Many of his stories have been re-released in posthumous volumes ( Best of Beaumont ( Bantam, 1982 ) and The Howling Man ( Tom Doherty, 1992 )), and a set of previously unpublished tales, A Touch of the Creature ( Subterranean Press, 1999 ), is now available.
Many of the Irish tales of the Tuatha Dé Danann refer to these beings as fairies, though in more ancient times they were regarded as goddesses and gods.
Many beings who are described as deities in older tales are described as " fairies " in more recent writings.
Many tales, perhaps apocryphal, were told of him at MIT, especially concerning his absent-mindedness.
Many of them returned to America and spread tales of Whistler's provocative egotism, sharp wit, and aesthetic pronouncements — establishing the legend of Whistler, much to his great satisfaction.
Many tales were told by the " Smith Sound Eskimo ," an Inuit from Smith Sound who was in New York City in the winter of 1897-1898, and published by A. L.
Many tales circulate about the town.
Gerald, a constant supporter of royal authority, in his account of the discovery clearly aims to destroy the idea of the possibility of King's Arthur's messianic return: " Many tales are told and many legends have been invented about King Arthur and his mysterious ending.
Many residents of the town from that time have tales of the young Mondale's shenanigans.
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