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.

Her novella Paradises Lost, published in The Birthday of the World: and Other Stories, has been adapted into an opera by the American composer Stephen Andrew Taylor.

Victor's life has been fictionalized in the 2003 novel, Wild Boy by Jill Dawson, and in the title novella of the 2010 collection Wild Child and Other Stories by T. C. Boyle.

The Talking Heads song can be found on their 1986 album ( and soundtrack to the David Byrne film of the same name ), True Stories ; the Talking Heads song has been covered regularly by Widespread Panic, whose performance of the song can be heard on their live album, Light Fuse, Get Away.

Stories have also been adapted by other dramatists, including John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi ( part 1, story 24 ), Philip Massinger, The Picture ( Massinger play ) ( part 1, story 19 ), the same source as that of Cymbeline, John Marston and Jean Mairet, Sophonisba ( part 1, story 35 ), John Fletcher, The Maid in the Inn ( part 2, story 11 ), and the anonymous 17th century French author of The Cruel Moor ( 1618 ) ( part 3, story 17 ).

Although science fiction had been published before the 1920s, it did not begin to coalesce into a separately marketed genre until the appearance in 1926 of Amazing Stories, a pulp magazine published by Hugo Gernsback.

A copy-editing error garbled a conversation between Jack and Morningstar in chapter 6 ; the correct version appeared in the original magazine appearance and has been reprinted on pages 511 – 512 of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain, NESFA Press, 2009.

All these events and more have been discussed with more details in Muslim tradition, and especially in the Stories of the Prophets and works of universal Islamic theology.

Canibus had never planned for it to be compiled as a separate record, but agreed to release it through the independent Gladiator Music label as part of a contractual agreement ; most of the vocals for Mind Control had been recorded prior to the release of C True Hollywood Stories.

Among the accolades she has received are the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea ( 2000 ) and Let England Shake ( 2011 ) respectively — the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice — eight BRIT Award nominations, six Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations.

Stories that use the setting as merely a backdrop for the story have been criticized for their failure to use it fully.

It appeared in The Collected Stories of Conrad Aiken in 1934, and since then has been widely anthologized.

Several of her short stories have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories.

Meoto zenzai, Roppakukinsei, and Sesō, along with another story, Ki no miyako ( 木の都, 1943 – 44 ), have been translated by Burton Watson and published together as Stories of Osaka Life ( Columbia University Press, 1990 ; Weatherhill, 1994 ).

Stories may feature the wide-ranging struggles national or world-spanning concerns common to high fantasy, but told from the point of view of characters more common to S & S and with the sense of adventure common to the latter.

* Caper stories and the criminal novel: Stories told from the point of view of the criminals.

Stories were told of her in the Rosscarbery school he attended, and they took Sunday trips to Clíodhna's rock.

The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes ( 1855 ).

Stories about his exploits are told in nearly every Polynesian land.

Stories of cannibalism, starvation, torture and abuses by Japanese soldiers, and child labour were told.

Stories are conflicting about his inspiration for this — some say it was introduced by his personal assistant, Chelita Secunda, although Bolan told John Pidgeon in a 1974 interview on Radio 1 that he noticed the glitter on his wife's dressing table prior to a photo session and casually daubed some on his face there and then.

Stories are told of farmers in Aas during World War II, or in La Gomera, who were able to hide evidence of such nefarious activities as milk-watering because they were warned in whistle-speech that the police were approaching.

During his promotional tour for Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Lowe told Australian radio show The Kyle & Jackie O Show that during his five day press visit to Australia in 1990, he was so badly affected by the overuse of pain-killers that the only two things he remembers from the trip was being at the Sydney Zoo and getting a tattoo.

Michael Urie, known for his role on Ugly Betty, told a story about a Ouija board on Celebrity Ghost Stories Season 2, Episode 4.

Stories of the outlaws are told in separate sections in the following chapters.

Stories are told to illustrate a point and each moral is discussed in detail.

Stories about the band's residencies, onstage and offstage antics are legendary ; some stories are true ( John Lennon played a song set with a toilet seat around his neck ), others inflated ( the band urinating in an alley as nuns walked past was told rather differently later ).

Included are traditional stories about creation and other phenomena told by Aboriginal people such as Mi ' kmaq Hereditary Chief Stephen Augustine who recounts the beginning of the world in the Creation Stories Theatre film.

She also wrote Studies for Stories ( 1864 ), Stories told to a Child ( 1865 ), Mopsa the Fairy ( 1869 ), and other stories for children.

Stories told of him are characteristic: Called to a gentleman who had been subjected to the lowering treatment, and finding him in a pitiful state of hysterical upset, he conceived that this was occasioned partly by his long illness, partly by the previous evacuations, and partly by emptiness.

Stories of Fairies or Little People who play evil tricks on inhabitants and stories of ghosts are still told.

* Festival of Stories ( told at night ) for the whole summer

" Stories began to be told to individuate the persons who were now believed to be buried in these old and imposing sites ," observes Robin Lane Fox.

Stories that Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest as told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail and other Elders.

Stories are told of hunters having ventured too far, becoming entangled, and perishing in its intricate labyrinths.

The first appearance of the anecdote is in Vladimir Dahl's " Rasskazy o vremenakh Pavla I " (" Stories of the time of Paul I "), a short piece published in the journal Russkaya Starina in 1870 ; he reported it as told by his father, Jochan Christian von Dahl ( 1764-1821 ).

Stories are, however, told of his attending feasts in human form and flying away in hawk form when all was over.