One of these, " Surrender into the Roses " ( also known as " Carmilla " and " Coming Up ") was inspired by the tale.

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 ).

One touchstone of the authentic fairy tale is that it is presented as wholly credible.

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.

One of the many versions of a certain tale regarding his creation of the staff method takes place during the Red Turban Rebellion in the Yuan Dynasty.

Some suggest One Thousand and One Nights or the Ephesian Tale may have given some inspiration to the author for this tale, but not enough that either could definitely been called a source.

One is that a single point of origin generated any given tale, which then spread over the centuries ; the other is that such fairy tales stem from common human experience and therefore can appear separately in many different origins.

One tale recounted a man caught by the fairies, who found that whenever he looked steadily at one, the fairy was a dead neighbor of his.

From Chiapas and the western Guatemalan Highlands comes the tale of Younger Brother and his jealous Elder Brethren: Youngest One becomes the Sun, his mother becomes the Moon, and the Elder Brethren are transformed into wild pigs and other forest animals.

One tale says that pygmy hippos carry a shining diamond in their mouths to help travel through thick forests at night ; by day the pygmy hippo has a secret hiding place for the diamond, but if a hunter catches a pygmy hippo at night the diamond can be taken.

It is a central theme and framing device of the collection of stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, wherein the queen Scheherazade, who is facing a morning execution on the orders of her husband, King Shahryar, devises the solution of telling him a story but leaving it at a cliffhanger, thus forcing the king to postpone her execution to hear the rest of the tale.

One often-cited tale is that of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented there in 1957 ; Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine (" it will make a damn mess "), hence the name.

One version of a late Classical tale relates that she was of such striking beauty that both Heracles and Achelous wanted to marry her and there was a contest to win her hand.

Writing for The One, Paul Presley stated that " Lucasfilm appears to have taken all of the elements that worked in its previous releases and, not only incorporated them into this tale of scurvy swashbuckling, but even improved on them in the process!

One local tale of its name comes from a story in which a bartender yells, " Soak Hell " at a patron.

One tale recounts how Wong defeated a group of 30 gangsters on the docks of Guangdong with a staff.

One of the stories they describe is the tale of Urashima Tarō, which has been identified as the earliest example of a story involving time travel.

No Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into the book One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Syrian Arab storyteller from Aleppo.

The history of Nordland is a tale about the gifts from the sea: One of the most productive seas in the world providing food all year since ancient times, the same sea creates a climate more moderate than any other place in the arctic ; even the bedrock itself enriched by sea living organisms millions of years ago in the geological past.

Similarly in Persian literature, " The Adventures of Bulukiya ", a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights, describes the protagonist Bulukiya learning of alternative worlds / universes that are similar to but still distinct from his own.

he tells stories of the Thousand and One Nights, and conjures up before us the bazaars of Damascus.

One veracious woman tells me she has used thin potato parings for both corns and calluses on her feet and they remove the pain or `` fire ''.

One of their Yukar Upopo, or legends, tells that " They lived in this place a hundred thousand years before the Children of the Sun came.

One of the most common objections to rule-consequentialism is that it is incoherent, because it is based on the consequentialist principle that what we should be concerned with is maximizing the good, but then it tells us not to act to maximize the good, but to follow rules ( even in cases where we know that breaking the rule could produce better results ).

One tradition tells of snakes coiling around their legs then turning into stone ; another that Hades feigned hospitality and prepared a feast inviting them to sit.

One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.

One of the men produces a double-edged butcher knife, and as the two men pass it back and forth between them, the narrator tells us that " K. knew then precisely, that it would have been his duty to take the knife ... and thrust it into himself.

One myth tells of the birth of Kim Alji, founder of the Kim family of Gyeongju being announced by the cry of a white chicken.

One of the guards is not under Luthor's command and leaves a note in Clark's room which tells him Lois is in danger.

One day while they are out and about doing their destructive work, an angel comes to them and tells them to no longer seek to destroy the church.

One example offered by O ' Dea concerns a scene where Barbra tells Ben about Johnny's death:

Fiammetta tells this story, which originates from The Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

One night, Sally tearfully tells Harry over the phone that her ex, Joe ( Steven Ford ), is getting married to his legal assistant, and he rushes to her apartment to comfort her.

Each of the six chapters in Part One tells a different story about a different person or group of people.

One chain letter distributed on MSN Hotmail began, " Hey it's Tara and John the directors of MSN "... and tells you that your account will be deleted if you don't send that message to everyone.

One version of the story tells of Heraclianus bringing Claudius into the plot while the account given by Historia Augusta exculpates the would-be emperor and adds the prominent general Marcianus into the plot.

One legend tells that, prior to the arrival of Henry's commissioners, the monks covertly removed Cuthbert's body from the cathedral, reburying it in a secret location within the grounds of Crayke Abbey.

One of the steles tells us, in Latin, that he took charge over all the public affairs in the Civitas Riedonum.

One late explanation, which is first related by the 1st century BC writer, Diodorus Siculus, tells of a goat herder named Coretas, who noticed one day that one of his goats, who fell into a crack in the earth, was behaving strangely.

One Thursday before Christmas, the elderly physician Dr. Emlyn McCarron tells a story about an episode that took place early in his long and varied career: that of a patient who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, no matter what, despite financial problems and social disapproval.

One story tells of the wrestler saving the philosopher's life when a roof was about to collapse upon him and another that Milo may have married the philosopher's daughter Myia.

One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified " I " ( first person singular ) narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work.

One story tells that Van Dyck himself discovered Dobson when he noticed one of the young artist's pictures in a London shop window.

Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad.