Caledfwlch appears in several early Welsh works, including the poem Preiddeu Annwfn and the prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, a work associated with the Mabinogion and written perhaps around 1100.

Culhwch entering Arthur's Court in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, 1881

The Welsh prose tale Culhwch and Olwen ( c. 1100 ), included in the modern Mabinogion collection, has a much longer list of more than 200 of Arthur's men, though Cei and Bedwyr again take a central place.

Huail's enmity with Arthur was apparently a popular subject: he is mentioned as an enemy of Arthur's in the Welsh prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, written around 1100.

The principal reference to Amaethon appears in the medieval Welsh prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, where he was the only man who could till a certain field, one of the impossible tasks Culhwch had been set before he could win Olwen's hand.

In Culhwch and Olwen, an early Welsh Arthurian tale, it is said God gave Gwyn ap Nudd control over the demons lest " this world be destroyed.

Gwyn plays a prominent role in the early Arthurian tale Culhwch and Olwen in which he abducts his sister Creiddylad from her betrothed, Gwythyr ap Greidawl.

In the Middle Welsh prose tale Culhwch ac Olwen, he is named as a member of Arthur's retinue and takes part in the quest to win the hand of Olwen for Arthur's cousin, Culhwch.

Creiddylad ( also known as Creirddylad, Creurdilad, Creudylad or Kreiddylat ), daughter of King Lludd, is a minor character in the early medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Culhwch ac Olwen.

He is the eponymous hero of Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed, the first branch of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, and also appears briefly as a member of Arthur's court in the medieval tale Culhwch ac Olwen.

She appears in both the first and third branches of the Mabinogi and is further mentioned in the early Arthurian prose tale Culhwch and Olwen.

He appears most prominently in Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed, the first branch of the Mabinogi, but also features briefly in the early Arthurian tale, Culhwch ac Olwen as a knight of King Arthur's.

The idea that he was a bard at the court of King Arthur dates back at least to the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, perhaps a product of the 11th century.

First, it occurs in the corrupt form Cubert m. Daere in the Middle Welsh tale Culhwch ac Olwen, along with the names of other characters of the Ulster Cycle – Conchobor, Fergus, Conall Cernach and Lóegaire Búadach.

In this tale the etymology of Culhwch is explained as " sow run " ( cul " narrow, a narrow thing "; hwch " sow, pig "), but this is likely to be folk etymology.

The tale was collected at the turn of the 20th century but is certainly related to Culhwch and Olwen.

Mabon apparently features in the tale of a newborn child taken from his mother at the age of three nights, and is explicitly named in the story of Culhwch ac Olwen.

The earliest mention of Guinevere is in the Welsh tale Culhwch ac Olwen, where she appears as Arthur's queen, but little more is said about her.

* The tale of Culhwch and Olwen was adapted by Derek Webb in Welsh and English as a dramatic recreation for the reopening of Narberth Castle in Pembrokeshire in 2005.

Culhwch and Olwen is a Welsh tale about a hero connected with Arthur and his warriors, and is the longest of the surviving Welsh prose tales.

The early Welsh tale How Culhwch won Olwen ( tentatively dated to c. 1100 ), set in Arthurian Britain places Arthur as chief among the kings of Britain.

Culhwch entering Arthur's Court in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, 1881

Bedwyr is a prominent character in the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, in which he appears at the head of Arthur's court list with his friend Cei and is described as the handsomest man in the world ( save for Arthur and Drych fab Cibddar ), and the wielder of a magic lance.

The tale ends with the completion of the tasks, the humiliation and murder of Ysbaddaden, and the marriage of Culhwch and Olwen.

It is crucial, however, not to underestimate the creative and transforming power of subsequent tradition: for instance, Achilles, the most important character of the Iliad, is strongly associated with southern Thessaly, but his legendary figure is interwoven into a tale of war whose kings were from the Peloponnese.

Universal Studios drew on a Balkan tale of a plant associated with lycanthropy as there was no literary work to draw upon, unlike the case with vampires.

" there is no historicity in this tale ", also according to Eunice Burr Stebbins, and Arion and the dolphins is given as an example of " a folkloristic motif especially associated with Apollo " by Irad Malkin > Yet there are many more or less reliable historical accounts from many periods of people being saved by dolphins.

A traditional rhyme associated with this tale is:

Whittington may have become associated with a thirteenth-century Persian folktale about an orphan who gained a fortune through his cat, but the tale was common throughout Europe at that time.

A winter's tale is something associated with parents telling children stories of legends around a fireside: by using this title, it implies to the audience that these details should not be taken too seriously.

In the old Irish tale from the Book of Lismore, " The Siege of Druim Damhgaire or Knocklong " ( Forbhais Droma Dámhgháire ), Crom is associated with Moloch.

Although the hero of the dike-plugging tale remains nameless in the book, Hans Brinker's name has sometimes erroneously been associated with the character.

A tale associated with the temple goes thus: A helper boy called Bala was once falsely accused of being a thief.

There are several theories about the origin of the name " Iwate ", but the most well known is the tale Oni no tegata, which is associated with the Mitsuishi or " Three Rocks " Shrine in Morioka.

Another tale is associated with the temple dedicated to Kauri-bai — an aspect of Matangi — who appeared in low caste area of Varanasi.

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.

The record suggests that it was nothing more than lack of interest in property he never wanted that led to his name becoming associated with one of the most enduring terms of the Old West and a natural subject for every manner of speculation and inventive tale.

Manley Pope, author of an early English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd, associated the Coritani of the Roman writers with the magical race called the Coraniaid in the medieval Welsh tale Lludd and Llevelys.

Momotarō is strongly associated with Okayama, and his tale may have its origins there.

The history of Urien, Owein and Kentigern refers to events among the Men of the North that took place up to a century after the timeframe generally associated with a historical Arthur, but the romance, influenced by Geoffrey as well as the saint's tale, has ended up with both a King Lot and an eponymous princess ' father.

S. T. Joshi describes several subdivisions of the weird tale: supernatural horror ( or fantastique ), the ghost story, quasi science fiction, fantasy, and ambiguous horror fiction and argues that " the weird tale " is primarily the result of the philosophical and aesthetic predispositions of the authors associated with this type of fiction.

This tale is also sometimes associated with the phrase " toeing the hockey ".

Numerous folktales are associated with the stones, including the tale reported in a rhyming version by William Camden in 1610, that a king was riding across the county with his army when he was accosted by a local witch called Mother Shipton, who said to him:

Although somewhat of a stretch, due to the detail of " magical birthgiving " in the folklore, an example of TTTS might have been noted ages before Schatz classified it or the painting " De Wikkellkinderen " illustrated, as an old Norse fairy tale, " Tatterhood ", seemed to explain it, with one of the two girls being lovely but weak ( pale skin and delicacy of anemia has often associated with how girls were most expected to be at the time ) and the other one, the title heroine, was considered hideous and too strong ( polycythemia has a higher blood cell count and often includes unsightly blemishes ).

In The Dream of Rhonabwy, a prose tale associated with the Mabinogion, King Arthur and Owain mab Urien play the game with golden men on a silver board.

Over time, people have associated Lohri to the tale of Dulla Bhatti.