In some tales, the figure who first appears to be a " banshee " is later revealed to be the Irish battle goddess, the Morrígan.

His first literary efforts, at the age of 11, took the form of fairy tales and imitations of the Arabian Nights.

* Miller / Clark chronology — A Probable Outline of Conan's Career ( 1936 ) was the first effort to put the tales in chronological order.

For future editions of the book, in 1917 Conrad wrote an " Author's Note " where he discusses each of the three stories, and makes light commentary on the character Marlow-the narrator of the tales within the first two stories.

Indeed, the first modernization of Malory's great compilation of Arthur's tales was published shortly after Idylls appeared, in 1862, and there were six further editions and five competitors before the century ended.

A storyteller from a very young age, the first stories Margaret Mitchell wrote were about her animals, and then she progressed to fairy tales and adventure stories.

Discussing these views in their third editions, they particularly singled out Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone as the first national collection of fairy tales, and as capturing Neapolitan voice.

The first allusion to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales occurs in William Langland's Piers Plowman ( c. 1362 – c.

With the rise of the realistic novel, the short story evolved in a parallel tradition, with some of its first distinctive examples in the tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann.

The first short stories in the United Kingdom were gothic tales like Richard Cumberland's " remarkable narrative " " The Poisoner of Montremos " ( 1791 ).

The Brothers Grimm published their first volume of collected fairy tales in 1812.

Twain wrote her first songs at the age of ten, Is Love a Rose and Just Like the Storybooks which were fairy tales in rhyme.

Although there is no assigned theme of the tales this first day, six deal with one person censuring another and four are satires of the Catholic Church.

Brunvand used his collection of legends, The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings ( 1981 ) to make two points: first, that legends and folklore do not occur exclusively in so-called primitive or traditional societies, and second, that one could learn much about urban and modern culture by studying such tales.

The Persians were one of the first civilizations to have tales of blood-drinking demons: creatures attempting to drink blood from men were depicted on excavated pottery shards.

* December 1 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.

It is situated at the same place where Astrid Lindgren first heard fairy tales.

:" In 1710, while writing the first biography of Genghis Khan, the French scholar François Pétis de La Croix published a book of tales and fables combining various Asian literary themes.

Harrison wrote his autobiography, not once but twice ; his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, was a well-known writer of children's books and fairy tales in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales ( Kinder-und Hausmärchen ), was published in 1812.

In 1812, they published their first volume of 86 folk tales, Kinder-und Hausmärchen, followed quickly by two volumes of German legends and a volume of early literary history.

Still, the evidence of literary works at least indicates that fairy tales have existed for thousands of years, although not perhaps recognized as a genre ; the name " fairy tale " was first ascribed to them by Madame d ' Aulnoy in the late 17th century.

The Brothers Grimm were among the first to try to preserve the features of oral tales.

In the broader definition of the genre, the first famous Western fairy tales are those of Aesop ( 6th century BC ) in ancient Greece.

The first collectors to attempt to preserve not only the plot and characters of the tale, but also the style in which they were told, were the Brothers Grimm, collecting German fairy tales ; ironically, this meant although their first edition ( 1812 & 1815 ) remains a treasure for folklorists, they rewrote the tales in later editions to make them more acceptable, which ensured their sales and the later popularity of their work.

Deemed too static when it was first heard in `` Lady Be Good '' in Philadelphia in 1924, it was dropped from the score.

Rogers ' A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope was published in 1712 and included an account of Selkirk's ordeal.

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

The first voice heard on Channel 4's opening day of Tuesday 2 November 1982 was that of continuity announcer Paul Coia, who intoned, " Good afternoon.

* Earliest day on which Good Neighborliness Day can fall, while December 7 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Sunday in December.

It was also the first real breakthrough for sampling, as the bassline of Chic's " Good Times " laid the foundation for the song.

* 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

The first recorded email warnings about the Good Times virus showed up on 15 November 1994.

Comparison of the ' To be, or not to be ' soliloquy in the first three editions of Hamlet, showing the varying quality of the text in the Bad Quarto, the Good Quarto and the First Folio

Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales.

In 1497, Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to sail to India and later the Far East.

Specifically, the process was first used by the English " Good Parliament " against Baron Latimer in the second half of the 14th century.

The first recorded impeachment is that of William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer during the Good Parliament of 1376.

It was not until 1924 that Ira and George Gershwin teamed up to write the music for their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good !.

Her first song recorded on tape, at the home of a fellow student in December 1962, was " What Good Can Drinkin ' Do ".

* The Good and Faithful Servant ( first performance 1967 )

Zukor first filmed Pickford in a silent version of A Good Little Devil.

* 1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.

The May Day bank holiday, on the first Monday in May, was traditionally the only one to affect the state school calendar, although new arrangements in some areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fall during term time.

* 1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

* 1639 – Simon van der Stel the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa ( d. 1712 )

Although Magellan himself died in the Philippines in 1521, Spanish navigator Juan Sebastian Elcano led the expedition back to Spain across the Indian Ocean and round the Cape of Good Hope, completing the first world circumnavigation in 1522.

In 1991, he wrote the popular Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP ) program, and made it available ( together with its source code ) through public FTP for download, the first widely available program implementing public-key cryptography.