Wells's 1899 tale " When the Sleeper Wakes " describes a rudimentary version of pre-Soleri arcology, having developed from the evolution of transportation.

Swift, who describes Nicks as one of her childhood heroes, introduced her to the audience by saying " It's a fairy tale and an honor to share the stage with Stevie Nicks.

The tale describes how Nephthys was denied a child by Set and disguised herself as the much more attractive Isis to seduce him.

The tale describes both why Anubis is seen as an underworld deity ( he becomes a son of Osiris ), and why he could not inherit Osiris's position ( he was not a legitimate heir in this new birth scenario ), neatly preserving Osiris's position as lord of the underworld.

Finally, in " Out of the Aeons ", a revision tale set in part on the lost continent of Mu, Lovecraft describes the character T ' yog as the " High Priest of Shub-Niggurath and guardian of the copper temple of the Goat with a Thousand Young ".

An engaging tale in which the Fates played an integral part was that of Meleagros and the Brand, which WHD Rouse succinctly describes in Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece.

Themes may be no more than handy prefabricated parts for constructing a tale, or they may represent universal truths – ritual-based, religious truths, as James Frazer saw in The Golden Bough, or archetypal, psychological truths, as Joseph Campbell describes in The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

In Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers in the Soviet Union to justify the re-allocation of their farmland: the tale describes how a child is awarded to a servant-girl rather than its natural mother, an aristocrat, as the woman most likely to care for it well.

In the tale Cath Gabhra, which describes the battle in which the fianna fight and are destroyed by the forces of the High King Cairbre Lifechair, Goll and those loyal to him defect to Cairbre's side and fight against Fionn.

The tale concentrates on Genji's romantic life and describes the customs of the aristocratic society of the time.

Similarly in Persian literature, " The Adventures of Bulukiya ", a tale in the One Thousand and One Nights, describes the protagonist Bulukiya learning of alternative worlds / universes that are similar to but still distinct from his own.

These include a story of a loon which created the world in a Chippewa story ; a Micmac saga describes Kwee-moo, the loon who was a special messenger of Glooscap ( Glu-skap ), the tribal hero ; native tribes of British Columbia believed that an excess of calls from this bird predicted rain, and even brought it ; and the tale of the loon's necklace was handed down in many versions among Pacific Coast peoples.

Letellier describes Meyerbeer's mature life as ' a tale of two cities ... His artistic triumph and legendary status were achieved in Paris ... but he never abandoned Prussia, especially his home city of Berlin '.

A tale from the Altmark, recorded by Anglo-Saxon scholar Benjamin Thorpe in 1852, describes the kobold as " a fiery stripe with a broad head, which he usually shakes from one side to the other.

For example, a 12th-century tale describes a man using a fox's hoshi no tama to secure a favor:

* The Neapolitan tale written by Giambattista Basile: The Deer in The Wood describes the transformation of Princess Desiderata into a doe.

In one tale, a murderer describes how the Chicago police try to beat a confession out of him.

John Nichols describes an interesting tale of a wych-elm called " The Spreading Tree " or " Captain Shenton's tree " ( pg.

* 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.

He describes the beginning of his tale by illustrating details of a disagreement with his subordinates, during which he sustained a head injury from a " crusher " to the head caused by a man named " Hercules " using a crowbar.

Brian Bethune of Maclean's describes Life of Pi as " head-scratching combination of dense religious allegory, zoological lore and enthralling adventure tale, written with warmth and grace ".

At this point, the story switches narrators when it becomes Zenobia telling a tale entitled “ The Silvery Veil .” She describes the Veiled Lady and her background, though it is never revealed whether or not her version of the story is reality or fiction.

Many modern scholars are reluctant to place Ogygia or indeed any of the locations Homer describes in any existing geography, and the literary tale is acknowledged as a work of fictional mythical intent.

A tale from the Cambrian Mountains of Wales, current in the 19th century, describes a mortal's encounter with a fairy ring:

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.

However, the story remained a relatively shallow tale — a celebration of US conquest and personal adventures — until the mid-century, since which time the history has been more thoroughly researched and retold in many forms to a growing and appreciative audience.

In addition, he suggests the mythical elements of the tale were based on the fictional adventures of Sun Wukong from the classical novel Journey to the West.

The protagonists of most wuxia stories usually have beautiful maidens to accompany them on their adventures and the story typically concludes like a fairy tale, in which the protagonist and his lover are married and live happily ever after.

Theseus is skeptical about the veracity of their tale but Hippolyta questions whether they would all have the same story if the night's adventures were indeed imagined.

The two-act concept album consisted of six original songs on side one and a whimsical psychedelic fairy tale on side two relating the adventures of " Happiness Stan " and his need to find out where the moon went when it waned.

: After the dwarf has appeared to all of the heroes the daughters of the Meadow Queen dance and sing and tell the tale of adventures still to come to the Kalevide.

" The " tale ," or narrative, is an allegory that concerns the adventures of three brothers, Peter, Martin, and Jack, as they attempt to make their way in the world.

With the ending of the tale, Sinbad the sailor makes Sinbad the porter a gift of a hundred gold pieces, and bids him return the next day to hear more about his adventures.

For example, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein uses the adventures of a sea captain as a frame story for the famous tale of the scientist and his creation.

At the end of the day when the king calls for his story, the Storyteller confesses he has no story, and instead tells the king the true tale of his adventures under the magic of the beggar that day.

The epic tale follows the title character, Prince Aphai Mani, a Byronic hero, in his romantic adventures throughout ancient Thailand.

The original series tells the tale of the crew of the USS Enterprise in the United Federation of Planets and their adventures " to boldly go where no man has gone before ".

Twain then disparages each of the detectives ( and effectively the authors who created them ) for the way in which the plots in their adventures have been handled, including: introducing crucial characters at the last minute for the traditional " twist in the tale " ( something the assembled detectives had been doing a few minutes earlier ) and withholding clues and information that made it impossible for the reader to find out who had done it.

In addition, he suggests the mythical elements of the tale were based on the fictional adventures of Sun Wukong from the Chinese epic Journey to the West.

By making the hero of the tale a disobedient and rebellious little rabbit, Potter subverted her era's definition of the good child and the literary hero genre which typically followed the adventures of a brave, resourceful, young white male.

The tale follows the life of a young man named Fortunatus from relative obscurity through his adventures towards fame and fortune ; it subsequently follows the careers of his two sons.

Other adventures in the book include Mary telling the story of a king who was outsmarted by a cat, the park statue of Neleus that comes to life for a time during one of their outings, their visit to confectioner Miss Calico and her flying peppermint sticks, an undersea ( High-Tide ) party where Mary Poppins is the guest of honor, and a party between fairy tale rivals in the Crack between the Old Year and the New.

Sapphire and Choppy experience a variety of fairy tale and political adventures, including encounters with ice witches and anti-Royal revolutionaries.

As in the extant copies of Chrétien's tale a long section is devoted to Parzival's friend Gawan and his adventures defending himself from a false murder charge and winning the hand of the maiden Orgeluse.

In the tale, Winterwood arrives in San Juan Romero after his adventures throughout North America.

Amadis of Greece ( Amadís de Grecia ) is a tale of knight-errantry written by Feliciano de Silva, a “ sequel-specialist ” who continued the adventures of Amadis de Gaula in this ninth installment.

Before his death, he undergoes mystical adventures as his tale is interwoven with that of Solomon and Balkis, the Queen of Sheba.

I thought the tale of my evening's adventures might amuse him.