Barlaam and Josaphat or Joasaph is a Christianized version of the story of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".

Like the tale in the introduction to the fourth day, Panfilo's tale seems to derive from the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.

* An account of Buddha's life, translated earlier into Greek by St John of Damascus and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat, became so popular Buddha ( under the name Josaphat ) was made a Catholic saint.

* An account of Buddha's life is translated into Greek by Saint John of Damascus, and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.

An account of Buddha's life is translated into Greek by John of Damascus and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.

By the 14th century, this story of Josaphat becomes so popular that he is made a Catholic saint.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat occupies a great part of book xv.

There was the end of his front-page feature story, with byline.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.

But what was the story??

The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.

It was the story of the rhinoceros fight all over again.

In another record by Petrus Olai called " Danmarks Tolv Herligheder " ( Twelve Splendours of Denmark ), in splendour number nine, the same story is re-told almost to the word ; however, a paragraph has been inserted correcting the year to 1219.

The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written.

John Lemprière, in Bibliotheca Classica, notes that as the story was re-told in later versions it accumulated details from the stories of Noah and Moses: " Thus Apollodorus gives Deucalion a great chest as a means of safety ; Plutarch speaks of the pigeons by which he sought to find out whether the waters had retired ; and Lucian of the animals of every kind which he had taken with him & c ."

In 2002 the story of Richard III was re-told in a movie about gang culture called The Street King.

The original story was re-told in verse by F. L. Lucas in his poem ' The Destined Hour ' in From Many Times and Lands ( 1953 ).

An exemplar post-colonial novel is Wide Sargasso Sea ( 1966 ), by Jean Rhys, a predecessor story to Jane Eyre ( 1847 ), by Charlotte Brontë, a literary variety wherein a familiar story is re-told from the perspective of a subaltern protagonist, Antoinette Cosway, who, within the story and the plot, is a socially oppressed minor character who is renamed and variously exploited.

* Tales from the Neverending Story was a live-action series that aired on the Hallmark Channel that re-told the story as an ongoing series lasting 13 episodes.

The interpreted answer is usually a historical Chinese story re-told in modern sense.

When Yugi and his friends witnessed these past events re-told as an interactive RPG-style Shadow Game, the thief's body was shown to turn to sand, but this was a metaphorical representation of Yami Bakura removing his " playing piece " from the " board " after it had served its purpose in the story, and not what truly happened to him.

The story, best re-told by Ethel Rudkin, goes that there was a witch called Old Meg, an evil crone who plagued the local villagers from her cave or hut in a spinney near the turning to Sleaford on Ermine Street, here called High Dike.

The story was later re-told in fictionalized form in a made for television movie called Into Thin Air.

In 2003, Thai director Suthep Tannirat attempted to release a film entitled Ongkulimal ( the Thai pronunciation of Angulimala ) that re-told the story of the famous monk.

According to the Lofficiers, their story in Secret Origins that re-told the origins of the Homo magi was revised heavily prior to publication ; this is their reason for using a pseudonym.