Stories have been told about the very young Chet who, when a friend or relative would come to visit, and if that person played a guitar, would crowd in and put his ear so very close to the instrument that it became difficult for that person to play.

A number of Wiccan, pagan and even some " Traditionalist " or " Tribalist " groups have a history of " Grandmother Stories " – typically involving initiation by a Grandmother, Grandfather, or other elderly relative who is said to have instructed them in the secret, millennia-old traditions of their ancestors.

Some stories have been written with a proverb overtly as an opening, such as " A stitch in time saves nine " at the beginning of " Kitty's Class Day ", one of Louisa May Alcott's Proverb Stories.

If, as is widely thought, he is the author of the frescoes Stories of the Virgin and Story of Saint Stephen in the Cappella dell ' Assunta, Florence, then he would have visited nearby Prato sometime between 1435 and 1440.

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Television shows such as Urban Legends, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and later Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed feature re-enactments of urban legends detailing the accounts of the tales and ( typically ) later in the show, these programs reveal any factual basis they may have.

Stories about historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, George Washington's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebellum period, have also created potent myths of state history, and have served as rationales for Virginia's ideology.

Stories of hippos like Huberta who became a celebrity in South Africa in the 1930s for trekking across the country ; or the tale of Owen and Mzee, a hippo and tortoise who developed an intimate bond ; have amused people who have bought hippo books, merchandise, and many a stuffed hippo toy.

Stories from the One Thousand and One Nights have been popular subjects for films, beginning with Georges Méliès's Le Palais des Mille et une nuits in 1905.

Stories have persisted that Crawford further supplemented her income by appearing in one or more stag, or soft-core pornographic, films, although this has been disputed.

Stories about him being a barber by trade or that he published a scandal sheet called The Cricket have been repeated in print despite being debunked decades earlier.

It was anthologised by Groff Conklin in The Best of Science Fiction, the first of Asimov's stories to have been reprinted, and was later included in The Early Asimov ( in 1972, along with a very brief history of its origins ), The Asimov Chronicles in 1989 and in volume 2 of The Complete Stories in 1992.

Stories of " mystery big cats " on the island of Maui have been circulating since the late 1980s.

Stories about the " Lost Colony " have circulated for more than 400 years.

Their introduction and first appearance was in Terror of the Beagle Boys, in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 134, although in this story they only appear in the last frame and have no lines.

Clarabelle also has a young cousin, Bertie the Jinx, a niece, Itsy-Betsy, and a socialite aunt named Miss Bovina, who have appeared in several issues of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and to instill moral values.

Stories have been carved, scratched, painted, printed or inked onto wood or bamboo, ivory and other bones, pottery, clay tablets, stone, palm-leaf books, skins ( parchment ), bark cloth, paper, silk, canvas and other textiles, recorded on film, and stored electronically in digital form.

Stories of the drowned lands of Gwyddno appear to have arisen from the identification of natural submarinal ridges as the remains of sea walls.

Talking Heads was to have appeared, but David Byrne was currently busy with his film True Stories at the time of the concert.

* Lost Stories ( Vince Emery Productions, 2005 ; collects 21 stories that have not been collected previously in hardcover or, in several cases, ever.

In Serling's original first-draft script ( and in his short-story adaptation that appeared in the 1960 anthology, " Stories From ' The Twilight Zone '"), the team was supposed to have been the Brooklyn Dodgers stadium in the original story: " Tebbet's Field ", who, like the fictitious " Hoboken Zephyrs ", moved West in 1958 to become the Los Angeles Dodgers.

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

Stories of banshees were also prevalent in the West Highlands of Scotland.

Stories of banshees can also be found in America in the late 18th century.

He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).

She also filled a large number of magazine pages, particularly the long-running Sunny Stories which were immensely popular among younger children.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

Stories of the anti-hero also play a major role in Greek mythology.

Merril later popularized this fiction in the United States through her edited anthology England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction ( Doubleday 1968 ), although an earlier anthology ( Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions 1967 ) has also come to be referred to as a key work of New Wave science fiction.

Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures ( which featured the hit singles " And She Was " and " Road to Nowhere "), 1986's True Stories ( Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared ), and 1988's Naked.

He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation of his drawings, sketches and other artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009.

Tolkien wrote in his essay " On Fairy Stories " that the terms " fantasy " and " enchantment " are connected to not only "... the satisfaction of certain primordial human desires ..." but also "... the origin of language and of the mind.

She is also an important figure in The Saxon Stories of Bernard Cornwell, especially from Sword Song on.

He has also written numerous works for children, including Fantastic Stories, The Beast with a Thousand Teeth, and a collection of Comic Verse called The Curse of the Vampire's Socks.

Jones was invited by the Teatro São Luiz to write and direct the play, after a very successful run of Contos Fantásticos, a short play based on Jones ' Fantastic Stories, also with music by Luis Tinoco.

He also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, disc jockey, usher and dishwasher before selling his first story to Amazing Stories in 1950.

Included are also rough sketches, a timeline and three short stories published earlier as Gunnm: Another Stories.

* Tales from Firozsha Baag ( 1987 ), also published as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag ( 1989 )

" Guardian Angel " has also appeared in two short story collections: The Sentinel ( 1983 ), and The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001 ).

Stories, metaphors, etc., can also be termed heuristic in that sense.

The company also acquired the trademarks and copyrights of SPI and Amazing Stories magazine.

She also features prominently in the book The Captive Queen of Scots by Jean Plaidy, in the short story " Antickes and Frets " by Susanna Clarke, in her 2006 collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare by Arliss Ryan, and is the main character in the Jan Westcott historical / biographical fiction novel The Tower and The Dream.