Other uses of the term gnome remain obscure until the early 19th century, when it is taken up by authors of Romanticist collections of fairy tales and becomes mostly synonymous with the older word goblin.

What they do show is that the fairy tale has ancient roots, older than the Arabian Nights collection of magical tales ( compiled circa 1500 AD ), such as Vikram and the Vampire, and Bel and the Dragon.

When asked about her findings regarding the tooth fairy's appearance, Wells explained-" You've got your basic Tinkerbell-type tooth fairy with the wings, wand, a little older and whatnot.

When older children are abandoned in fairy tales, while poverty may be cited as a cause, as in Hop o ' My Thumb, the most common effect is when poverty is combined with a stepmother's malice, as in Hansel and Gretel ( or sometimes, a mother's malice ).

Another fairy tale occurs with older children.

At the time it was fashionable for children ’ s stories to be realistic: fantasy and fairy tales were seen as indulgent, appropriate only for very young readers, and potentially harmful to older children, even hindering their ability to relate to everyday life.

In any event, this novel marks a clear maturation of Ozma's character, now said to appear significantly older than Dorothy ( in Ozma of Oz they appeared the same age ) and a fairy working her own innate magic.

Other versions of the Olentzeroren kondaira, or " history of Olentzero ", tell that as a new born he was abandoned in the woods and was found by a fairy who gave him the name Olentzero, bestowed gifts of strength and kindness on him and handed him to an older childless couple living alone in the woods.

As explained above, winking in Western culture can be used as a way of letting someone else know that the winker or some other person is joking or lying ( e. g., a mother tells her child a story about a fairy princess, and she then winks at the child's older sibling, the sibling thus knows the mother is lying to the younger child ).

That, of course, sounds as a fairy tale, however Christianity as a religion while still being challenged by people that followed the older traditions used this misinterpretation to outcast the followers of Slavic paganism.

Many of her children's books are re-tellings of fairy tales, including The Magic Circle, Crazy Jack, Spinners, Zel, Breath, Bound, Beast, and The Wager for older children, and The Prince of the Pond, Ugly, and Mogo the Third Warthog for younger children.

He leaves, but runs into Giovanni several times and is upset by the " fairy " mannerisms which he is developing and his new relationship with Jacques, who is an older and richer man.

It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.

The older tales mentioned two dragons who were perhaps intentionally conflated.

The common view is that the court tales represent a stratum of older, traditional stories, while the visions and final redaction of the work date to the second century BCE.

However, while the creators of the literary character of Morgan may have been somewhat inspired by the much older tales of the goddess, the relationship ends there.

To some extent the nature of children's fiction, and the divide between older children's and adult fiction became blurred as time went by and tales appealing to both adult and child had substantial commercial success.

Many beings who are described as deities in older tales are described as " fairies " in more recent writings.

Karl Kerenyi points out that the older tales mentioned two dragons, who were perhaps intentionally conflated ; the other was a female dragon ( drakaina ) named Delphyne in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, with whom dwelt a male serpent named Typhon: " The narrators seem to have confused the dragon of Delphi, Python, with Typhon or Typhoeus, the adversary of Zeus ".

In many of his tales, characters seem to exemplify alternate futures and possibilities, as most markedly in " The Jolly Corner ", in which the protagonist and a ghost-doppelganger live alternate American and European lives ; and in others, like The Ambassadors, an older James seems fondly to regard his own younger self facing a crucial moment.

Since many characters in these tales are thought to be Christianized reflections of older deities ( see: Welsh mythology ), it has been suggested that Elen reflects ( along with Rhiannon, etc.

While some details may hark back to older Iron Age traditions, each of these tales is the product of a highly developed medieval Welsh narrative tradition, both oral and written.

Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing manuscripts, but disagree over just how much older.

The tales Culhwch and Olwen and The Dream of Rhonabwy have interested scholars because they preserve older traditions of King Arthur.

Though it is arguable that the surviving Romances might derive, directly or indirectly, from Chrétien, it is probable he in turn based his tales on older, Celtic sources.

Fan letters on the pages of following issues were wildly enthusiastic about the revival of the original Flash, both from older fans who remembered the old JSA tales, and younger fans desperate to learn more of these new heroes.

Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing manuscripts, but disagree over just how much older.

She may also make use of some subduing weapon such as sleeping gas, a modern analog of magical powers in older tales.

According to the Opies, Jack's magical accessories – the cap of knowledge, the cloak of invisibility, the magic sword, and the shoes of swiftness – could have been borrowed from the tale of Tom Thumb or from Norse mythology, however older analogues in British Celtic lore such as Y Mabinogi and the tales of Gwyn Ap Nudd, cognate with the Irish Fionn Mac Cumhaill, suggest that these represent attributes of the earlier Celtic gods such as the shoes associated with triple-headed Lugus ; Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes of the Fourth Branch, Arthur's invincible sword Caledfwlch and his Mantle of Invisibility Gwenn one of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain mentioned in two of the branches ; or the similar cloak of Caswallawn in the Second Branch.

They continued to worship the Sumerian gods, and the older Sumerian myths and epic tales were piously copied, translated, or adapted, generally with only minor alterations.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

The older scales were based on theoretical estimates of the conversion efficiency of kinetic energy into light.

Admiralty law, the law merchant, and the host of problems which arise in private litigation because of some contact with a foreign country were all severed from the older Law of Nations and made dependent on the several national laws.

Later the cleaning and restoration were ordered, first of the older part of the frieze, finally of the canopy.

As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

The form of Christianity to which they were exposed was for some the Protestantism of the older stock, for others the Protestantism of the nineteenth-century immigration ; ;

The ideals of the country were deeply indebted to the Protestantism of the older stock.

I wish I were older or younger, Julia Bentley thought.

In a study of older adults, those who volunteered were significantly higher on life satisfaction and will to live, and significantly lower in depression, anxiety, and somatization.

Though the prokaryotic cyanobacteria ( commonly referred to as blue-green algae ) were traditionally included as " algae " in older textbooks, many modern sources regard this as outdated as they are now considered to be bacteria.

Johnny Cash recorded it on his 1975 album Sings Precious Memories, dedicating it to his older brother Jack, who had been killed in a mill accident when they were boys in Dyess, Arkansas.

Alcaeus and his older brothers were passionately involved in the struggle but experienced little success.

The age limit, the same as that for office holders but ten years older than that required for participation in the assembly, gave the courts a certain standing in relation to the assembly ; for the Athenians of the court were not only older, but were wiser, too.

Over 2 / 3 of prescriptions were for the newer more expensive atypicals, each costing on average $ 164 compared to $ 40 for the older types.

There has also been controversy about the role of pharmaceutical companies in marketing and promoting antipsychotics, including allegations of downplaying or covering up adverse effects, expanding the number of conditions or illegally promoting off-label usage ; influencing drug trials ( or their publication ) to try to show that the expensive and profitable newer atypicals were superior to the older cheaper typicals that were out of patent.

28. 9 % of all households were made up of individuals and 13. 1 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

In the city the population was spread out with 27. 8 % under the age of 18, 8. 9 % from 18 to 24, 28. 0 % from 25 to 44, 19. 5 % from 45 to 64, and 15. 9 % who were 65 years of age or older.

26. 6 % of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 5 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.