In the story Inanna and Shukaletuda, Shukaletuda, the gardener, set by Enki to care for the date palm he had created, finds Inanna sleeping under the palm tree and rapes the goddess in her sleep.

The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

Guy ultimately finds his courage when Fred suggests that he think of himself as " the plucky comic relief ", and at the end of the story he is given a permanent role in the Galaxy Quest cast as the starship's Security Chief " Roc " Ingersol ( a reference to his earlier lament that characters without full names are always killed ).

* In one 6-episode story arc of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Bullwinkle finds the " Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam " in the town of Frostbite Falls ( on the shores of Veronica Lake, no less ).

The film tells the story of a young woman suffering from severe depression who rediscovers the joy in life when she finds out that she only has days to live following a suicide attempt.

Its story finds Andrew in a human colony on the colony planet Lusitania, believed to be the only remaining planet in Card's universe with an intelligent alien race after the xenocide of the " Buggers " in Ender's Game.

Twain, encouraged by his friends who've already heard the story, finally finds the man in his cups to the proper degree, and Blaine, an old silver miner, sets out to tell Twain and his friends the tale.

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has a story, ' The Tale of Buluqiya ', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees.

In this story, the narrator is waiting under a tree to be picked up by a coach which will take him out of Newcastle, when he suddenly finds himself transported back over a thousand years.

In issues 187 – 188 of the comic book Hellblazer, in a story titled " Bred in the Bone ", the protagonist's niece finds herself on Gruinard surrounded by flesh-eating children.

The story is illustrative of the role of the augur: he does not predict what course of action should be taken, but through his augury he finds signs on whether or not a course already decided upon meets with divine sanction and should proceed.

Digory has its wood made into a wardrobe, thus linking the story to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in which Digory has become the old professor in whose country house Lucy Pevensie finds the wardrobe and the way into Narnia.

Maxime Rodinson finds that it may reasonably be accepted as true " because the makers of Muslim tradition would never have invented a story with such damaging implications for the revelation as a whole.

* Author Neil Gaiman wrote a short story called " One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock '" about a troubled boy who loves the stories about Elric, and finds escape from the everyday world in them.

Early on in the story, Daisuke Ido, a bounty-hunting cybernetic doctor who finds and revives Alita plays a major role as well, but midway through the manga he becomes marginalized as focus begins to increasingly shift to Desty Nova, an eccentric nanotechnology scientist who has fled from Tiphares.

The end of the story finds them at the auction, tired from their hard trails but still rivaling each other, while an exhausted Donald has fallen asleep.

It tells the story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

Bobby tells the unbelieving Helen and Tom what has transpired, but not until Tom finds a diamond on the floor of Klaatu's room do they begin to accept his story.

As in the story of Gelert, the hunter returns home from an expedition, and finds his daughter gone and the bear covered in blood.

The film tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there, and stars Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick.

Variants to the story are found in later poets: for example, in a tragedy by Sophocles, Odysseus Acanthoplex ( which also does not survive ), Odysseus finds out from an oracle that he is doomed to be killed by his son.

The story is of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who " affronts her destiny " and finds it overwhelming.

House of Leaves, the tale of a man who finds a manuscript telling the story of a documentary that may or may not have ever existed, contains multiple layers of plot.

Roald Dahl's story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is about a rich bachelor who finds an essay written by someone who learnt to " see " playing cards from the reverse side.

The story concerns a 12 year old girl who finds a kitten ..."

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

They are heard of in the time of Alexander, when some of the king's biographers make mention of Amazon Queen Thalestris visiting him and becoming a mother by him ( the story is known from the Alexander Romance ).

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

One would imagine, though, that if this story were true, some kind of record ought to exist of the event, and presumably Danish historians would not have failed to mention it in some way.

Rabbi Yaakov Emden ( d. 1776 ) elaborated on the story in a book published in 1748: " As an aside, I ’ ll mention here what I heard from my father ’ s holy mouth regarding the Golem created by his ancestor, the Gaon R. Eliyahu Ba ’ al Shem of blessed memory.

The influence of Ann Radcliffe is also detectable in Poe's " The Oval Portrait " ( 1842 ), including an honorary mention of her name in the text of the story.

Joshua Tree park guides are given the option to tell the story of Parsons ' cremation during tours, but there is no mention of the act in official maps or brochures.

Castles mentioned within the story include Ashby de la Zouch Castle ( now a ruin in the care of English Heritage ), York ( though the mention of Clifford's Tower, likewise a still standing English Heritage property, is anachronistic, it not having been called that until later after various rebuilds ) and ' Coningsburgh ', which is based upon Conisbrough Castle, in the ancient town of Conisbrough near Doncaster ( the castle also being a popular English Heritage site ).

It is celebrated by reading or acting out the story of Esther, and by making disparaging noises at every mention of Haman's name.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

says that " Sergius indulged in no resurrection-man tactics himself " and Schaff, Milman, Gregorovius, von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon of Naples, Flodoard, and others make no mention of this story.

Verne even has a character mention Poe's story in From the Earth to the Moon.

The Judeo-Christian story of creation describes God creating birds, and commanding them to multiply, but makes no direct mention of eggs.

Some see an internal contradiction between the mention already in Genesis 10: 5 that " From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with his own language " and the subsequent Babel story, which begins " Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words " ( Genesis 11: 1 ).

* In the Jeremy Brett – Edward Hardwicke The Return of Sherlock Holmes series episode " The Priory School ", mention is made that ancestors of the Duke of Holdernesse, apart from being cattle thieves, may have provided a member of the Hellfire Club ; however, no such reference is set forth in the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

But neither expression is commonly used: for ordinary French people, the more genuine terms rumeur or canular, not to mention more colloquial and expressive words, describe this phenomenon of " viral spread tall story " properly enough.

Bede is the first English writer ( 673 – 735 ) to mention the story repeatedly ( Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, I, V ; V, 24, De temporum ratione, ad an.

His contributions to the city are mentioned by Mark Twain in his travelogue Innocents Abroad: " I mention this statue and this stairway because they have their story.

", his third robot story, makes the first mention of the First Law but not the other two.

The next Lovecraft story to mention Shub-Niggurath is scarcely more informative.