Like the tale in the introduction to the fourth day, Panfilo's tale seems to derive from the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.

It was a fantasy tale, but the moral of the story was that a better life comes from hard work.

It comes originally from the Pantschatantra and later forms part of other tale collections in Sanskrit, Arabic, French, and Persian.

This tale ( and the next one ) comes from a thirteen century French fabliau by Eustache d ' Amiens.

In this tale, Harun al-Rashid, comes to possess a chest, which, when opened, contains the body of a young woman.

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.

The oft-repeated tale of Messalina's all-night sex competition with a prostitute comes from Book X of Pliny the Elder's Natural History.

Thus Roland's sad tale comes to a close.

The tale of how the variations came to be composed comes from an early biography of Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel:

The tale is called " Aschenputtel " (" Cinderella " in English translations ) and the help comes not from a fairy-godmother but the wishing tree that grows on her mother's grave.

Like his father before him, Tomar-Tu recently took the position of archivist superior, filing every tale as it comes in.

" The most extensive discussion of ALP comes in chapter I. 8, in which hundreds of names of rivers are woven into the tale of ALP's life.

In Rigveda there comes a reference for Vishnu-Who has measured the three lokas in three steps. The two legs can be seen but the third can not. This probably grew up into independent tale in later vedic period.

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

Groundhog Day has been considered a tale of self-improvement which emphasizes the need to look inside oneself and realize that the only satisfaction in life comes from turning outward and concerning oneself with others rather than concentrating solely on one's own wants and desires.

Yet the tale is never heavy-handed, thanks to Brutha ’ s sincerity and some deftly comical plot twists, as well as all the levity that comes from picturing an angry God trapped in the body of a tortoise.

* Dit de l ' Alérion aka Dit des quatre oiseaux (" Story of the 4 Birds ") ( before 1349 ) – A symbolic tale of love: the narrator raises four different birds, but each one flees him ; one day the second ( and preferred ) bird comes back to him.

A more elaborate instance is seen in some storytelling traditions, where the humor comes from the storyteller's insistence that the story is the absolute truth, despite all evidence to the contrary ( i. e., tall tale ).

Despite this tale, it is assumed by most that the name Jolly Roger comes from the French words joli rouge, meaning " pretty red " and referring to a plain red flag which was flown to indicate that the ship would fight to the death, with no quarter given or expected.

*** " جبنا سيرة القط ، جاء ينط " ( Gibna sirt al -' uṭṭ, ga yanuṭṭ ), which translates to " We brought up the tale of the cat, and now here he comes jumping.

He told the tale of a black priest who comes to Johannesburg to find his son, which became an international best-seller.

The meaning of a Sufi tale comes through contemplation, and may take years.

The term comes from a folk tale, illustrating the unpredictability of the weather at this time of year in Ireland.

According to Malory's tale Gareth comes to Camelot in disguise as a kitchen boy and is set to work by Kay, who always gives him difficult work, teases him as a lowly kitchen boy and nicknames him " Beaumains " or " Good Hands " ( alternatively " Beautiful Hands " or " Fair Hands ").

The name comes from an Ojibwa tale about an invading Iroquois war party who were sent over the falls by their Ojibwa captives.

To the average American, this must sound like an incredible tale from a Saturday night TV movie.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

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

Wells's 1899 tale " When the Sleeper Wakes " describes a rudimentary version of pre-Soleri arcology, having developed from the evolution of transportation.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

Many artists, including Martin Schongauer, Hieronymus Bosch, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí, have depicted these incidents from the life of Anthony ; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert in The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

In " Moumoku Monogatari " Junichiro Tanizaki retells the well-known tale of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi from the perspective of a blind servant.

However, although this approach — the " shift ... from the quasi-historical or legendary materials ... to the folktale line of inquiry ," was seen as a step in the right direction, " The Bear's Son " tale was seen as too universal.

The 11th century date is due to scholars who argue that, rather than transcription of the tale from the oral tradition by a literate monk, Beowulf reflects an original interpretation of the story by the poet.

Cervantes was a gambler, and the main characters of his tale Rinconete y Cortadillo, from Novelas Ejemplares, are a couple of cheats working in Seville.

Michael Giltz of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a " C -", feeling that " only hardcore fans will be satisfied by this tale " and saying that Jeter's " habit of echoing dialogue and scenes from the film is annoying and begs comparisons he would do well to avoid.

Another tale from the conflict is of the dog of Marathon.

Laura begins her tale by relating her childhood in a " picturesque and solitary " castle in the midst of an extensive forest in Styria where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower, retired from the Austrian Service.

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 interpolated story in chapter 33 of Part four of the First Part is a retelling of a tale from Canto 43 of Orlando, regarding a man who tests the fidelity of his wife.

Likewise an almost identical Swedish tale from the 18th century about a golden cross on blue appearing in 1157 during a Swedish battle in Finland.

After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.

In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) tells a dystopic tale of a society in which women have been systematically stripped of all liberty, and was motivated by fear of potential retrogressive effects on women's rights stemming from the anti-feminist backlash of the 1980s.

Strong's 3454. μύθος muthos moo ’- thos ; perhaps from the same as 3453 ( through the idea of tuition ); a tale, i. e. < U > fiction </ U > (" myth "):— fable.

Carlotta amuses everyone with a tale of how her dramatic solo was cut from the Follies because the audience found it humorous, but somehow the number works when she sings it today (" I'm Still Here ").

Some versions of the tale state that the Golem was stolen from the genizah and entombed in a graveyard in Prague's Žižkov district, where the Žižkov Television Tower now stands.