The tale of Luigi actually starts in Chapter III and the previous chapters I and II build up further mythology behind the name Morgenstern and the backstory of Gondolierian history.

It has been suggested that behind the vague outlines of this tale lurks an older myth having to do with Herakles ' encounter with the river deity Achelous, who had chthonic associations and whose name was the subject of speculative theological etymology among the Greeks, in this case involving acherōïs, another Greek word for " poplar.

Arguments also have been made that matrilineality lay behind various fairy tale plots which may contain the vestiges of folk traditions not recorded.

Author James Fenimore Cooper's earlier 1849 novel The Sea Lions, is a tale that begins with the death of a sailor who has left behind " two old, dirty and ragged charts " which lead to a seal-hunting paradise in the Antarctic as well as a location in the West Indies where pirates have buried treasure, a plot similar to Stevenson's tale.

The Andrews identify her as their lost daughter, but have a twist to add to the tale: when Fanny was an infant, she was indeed stolen from her parents, but the thieves left behind a sickly infant Joseph in return, who was raised as their own.

According to several medical opinions, there seems to be little truth behind the tale.

Another tale says it was named by Roderigo Lopez, the first mate of José Gaspar ( Gasparilla ), after his beautiful lover Sanibel whom he had left behind in Spain.

It is a fairy tale constructed to cover the essential emptiness behind most traditions.

This story, a frank account of Peter Wiggin's life, is later published as a single volume with Ender's The Hive Queen, a small novel about the Formics, or buggers, telling the truth behind the tale.

* In his novel We, The Drowned Marstal native Carsten Jensen describes the maritime history of the town where the men were expected to go to sea and the women to be left behind, an epic tale spanning four generations, nearly one hundred years, and two world wars.

Books by scholars such as Carl Christian Rafn early in the 19th century revealed hints of reality behind this tale.

This tense tale of highly skilled martial artists hidden in an inn in part resembles Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and was said to be the inspiration behind it ; Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers was also said to be dedicated to this film.

This tale recounts how the magic spindle, flying out of the girl's hand, flew away, unravelling behind it a thread, which the prince followed, as Theseus followed the thread of Ariadne, to find what he was seeking: a bride " who is the poorest, and at the same time the richest ".

The earliest use of this device as a twist ending in a murder mystery was in " The Three Apples ", a medieval Arabian Nights tale, where the protagonist Ja ' far ibn Yahya discovers by chance a key item towards the end of the story that reveals the culprit behind the murder to be his own slave all along.

Her first novel, The Camera Never Lies, a tale of love behind the scenes, was published by Coronet, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton in 2011.

* Looking for Mr. Smith by Linda Willis ( 2010 ), a research tale into the story behind The Long Walk.

At the end of Irving's tale, the main character kills his double with his sword, only to see his own face behind the mask.

Eliduc, the shortest tale in the book, is a translation of an old Breton folk tale in which a hero goes into exile in England, leaving his wife behind.

Actually bassist Dave Pegg inspired this one with a tale, imagined or real, who knows, of an awkward teenage mutual fumble behind the gasworks somewhere on the fringes of his home town of Birmingham in the Midlands of the UK.

: It is in this unlikely tale that we first encounter the implants ( behind the ears, as in Invasion of the Martians ) and other abductionist staples such as the paralyzing rods and the doorway amnesia.

An alternate retelling of the tale behind the unique corps-badge, as given by Sherman in his Memoirs:

In the American publishing field, Windling is one of the primary creative forces behind the mythic fiction resurgence that began in the early 1980s — first through her work as an innovative editor for the Ace and Tor Books fantasy lines ; secondly as the creator of the ' Fairy Tales ' series of novels ( featuring reinterpretations of classic fairy tale themes by Jane Yolen, Steven Brust, Pamela Dean, Patricia C. Wrede, Charles de Lint, and others ); and thirdly as the editor of over thirty anthologies of magical fiction.

Historically, the predecessor to Constantine was Gratian on whom Geoffrey's tale was probably based.

*" Hold Me ", a John Constantine tale with art by frequent Gaiman collaborator Dave McKean, originally published as Hellblazer # 27 ;

Pampinea's clever tale originates in either the Panchatantra, a Sanskrit story from the 4th century AD, or The Histories of Herodotus.

Fiammetta's tale most likely originates from a French fabliau or a possibly Provençal romance, both of which were recorded not too long before the Decameron was written.

Pampinea narrates this version of a common medieval tale which originates from the Hitopadesha of India.

Emilia's tale originates from the fabliau " Le Prestre et Alison " by Guillaume Le Normand.

An alternative, more legendary explanation originates from the tale of a priest who had to hold a funeral on Ash Wednesday.

The skvader originates from a tall tale hunting story told by a man named Håkan Dahlmark during a dinner at a restaurant in Sundsvall in the beginning of the 20th century.

The foundation myth of Cornwall originates with the early Brythonic chronicler Nennius in the Historia Brittonum and made its way, via Geoffrey of Monmouth into Early Modern English cannon where it was absorbed by the Elizabethans as the tale of King Leir alongside that of Cymbeline and King Arthur, other mythical British kings.

Published in 1997, it recounts the tale of the October 1991 " perfect storm " ( in fact, the general use of the term originates from this book ), focusing on the loss of the Gloucester fishing boat Andrea Gail off the coast of Nova Scotia and its six crew members, Billy Tyne, Bobby Shatford, Alfred Pierre, David Sullivan, Bugsy Moran, and Dale Murphy.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Hrothgar's court bard sings of the encounters at Finnsburg ( lines 1068 - 1159 ), and improvises the tale of Beowulf's exploits in a complimentary comparison of the Geatish visitor with Sigemund ( lines 871 - 892 ) ; ;

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

The tale is treated with scepticism by Walter Goffart, who observes that it conflicts with the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, where she was captured only after the death of her father.

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.

I shall tell you — it will be a tale of truth — he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.

" It rolls in like a storm, drums galloping over the horizon into ear shot, guitar riffs slicing with terse dexterity while a tale about a pair of vagabonds unfolds ," writes Kot.

Laura begins her tale by relating her childhood in a " picturesque and solitary " castle in the midst of an extensive forest in Styria where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower, retired from the Austrian Service.

The tale Culhwch and Olwen, associated with the Mabinogion and perhaps written in the 11th century, draws a dramatic picture of Arthur's hall and his many powerful warriors who go from there on great adventures, placing it in Celliwig, an uncertain locale in Cornwall.

" Film critics sometimes use the term " pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters ( often including a central female character ) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences.

Dramas also took a turn with existentialist thrillers such as Fight Club ( 1999 ) and the tale of suburban angst American Beauty ( 1999 ).

In a well-known but probably apocryphal tale, Archimedes was given the task of determining whether King Hiero's goldsmith was embezzling gold during the manufacture of a golden wreath dedicated to the gods and replacing it with another, cheaper alloy.

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.

After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.

An example is Andrew Lang's fairy tale Princess Nobody ( 1884 ), illustrated by Richard Doyle, where fairies are tiny people with butterfly wings, whereas elves are tiny people with red stocking caps.

The subsequent tale, with similarities to the Biblical story of the forbidden fruit, repeats the story of how fresh water brings life to a barren land.

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

Carlotta amuses everyone with a tale of how her dramatic solo was cut from the Follies because the audience found it humorous, but somehow the number works when she sings it today (" I'm Still Here ").

Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was planning on working on other projects at this point in time such as a new version of a fairy tale film script called Kaguyahime ( Princess Kaguya ), but he postponed those to work on this project with Toho instead since he was such a huge fan of King Kong.

Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow ( 1877 ), which has " let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine " ( cited after OED ).