Another one of the earliest known stories to involve traveling forward in time to a distant future was the Japanese tale of " Urashima Tarō ", first described in the Nihongi ( 720 ).

One of the stories they describe is the tale of Urashima Tarō, which has been identified as the earliest example of a story involving time travel.

Urashima Tarō is often referenced in Hideo Kojima's adventure video game Policenauts, and much of the game's plot elements were also inspired by the tale.

In Clover Studio's action-adventure video game Okami, the protagonist Amaterasu chases away a group of children bullying a fisherman named Urashima, setting up a major sub-plot in the game very similar to the tale of Urashima Tarō.

The oldest known animated adaptation Urashima Tarō of the tale premiered in 1918.

The story is also similar to a 3rd century AD Chinese tale of Ranka, as retold by Lionel Giles in A Gallery of Chinese Immortals, and an 8th-century Japanese tale, " Urashima Tarō ".

The later developed Urashima tale contains the Rip van Winkle motif, so some may consider it an early example of fictional time travel.

The game also pays homage to the ancient Japanese tale of Urashima Taro.

This story bears a striking similarity to many other tales, including the Japanese tale of Urashima Tarō, though any actual connection between any of these tales is doubtful.

* Urashima Tarō, an early Japanese tale, involves traveling forward in time to a distant future, and was first described in the Nihongi ( 720 ).

The tale was about a young fisherman, named Urashima Taro, who visits an undersea palace and stays there for three days.

To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

So Enright's courting of the mettlesome Ellen is impeded considerably, thereby providing the tale which is told.

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.

The tale of Cassius Dio is also somewhat different.

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.

Critias mentions an allegedly historical tale that would make the perfect example, and follows by describing Atlantis as is recorded in the Critias.

The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature.

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

The line between myth and tall tale is distinguished primarily by age ; many myths exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.

Armida is a tale of love and duty in conflict and is saturated in magic.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

The tale is also related by Stephanus of Byzantium, and Eustathius.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

The 11th century date is due to scholars who argue that, rather than transcription of the tale from the oral tradition by a literate monk, Beowulf reflects an original interpretation of the story by the poet.

In the Poetic Edda the tale of Baldr's death is referred to rather than recounted at length.

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

Beside the developed legend of the mandylion or Image of Edessa, was the tale of the Veil of Veronica, whose very name signifies " true icon " or " true image ", the fear of a " false image " remaining strong.

The urban legend that Coca-Cola developed the drink Fanta to sell in Nazi Germany without public backlash originated as the actual tale of German Max Keith, who invented the drink and ran Coca-Cola's operations in Germany during World War II.

Stories of hippos like Huberta who became a celebrity in South Africa in the 1930s for trekking across the country ; or the tale of Owen and Mzee, a hippo and tortoise who developed an intimate bond ; have amused people who have bought hippo books, merchandise, and many a stuffed hippo toy.

Genji follows the traditional format of monogatari — telling a tale — particularly evident in its use of a narrator, but Keene claims Murasaki developed the genre far beyond its bounds, and by doing so created a form that is utterly modern.

This is parallel to a more developed tale, of the origin of the Scandinavian huldra.

* The sacrifice of Pelops, a fully developed story compiled from selected primary sources to highlight the shamanic and Promethean aspects of the tale.

He soon developed Heavy Traffic, a tale of inner-city street life.

A tale, ( see " The Book of the Heavenly Cow "), from the perspective of Lower Egypt, developed around this experience of protracted war.

* Revelations: Persona: A video game developed in Japan for the PlayStation game console has a side quest which revolved around the tale of The Snow Queen.

" Bakshi soon developed Heavy Traffic, a tale of inner-city street life.

It was then-Disney Studio President Jeffrey Katzenberg who insisted the film should be re-written as a modern-day fairy tale with qualities of a love story, as opposed to being the dark drama it was originally developed as.

The story is more complex than Mackay suggests, and the way in which the narratives developed together with thereto undiscovered extant sources by Michael Hunter demonstrate how the tale became a point of conflict between Restoration science and superstition.

McMurtry originally developed the tale in 1972 for a feature film entitled The Streets of Laredo ( a title later used for the sequel ), which would have been directed by Peter Bogdanovich and would have starred James Stewart as Augustus McCrae, John Wayne as W. F.

Bakshi soon developed Heavy Traffic, a tale of inner-city street life.

A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit.

They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale.

Hall's script, developed in conjunction with Curtis, was a wistful tale of gothic romance and supernatural reincarnation, bolstered by credible performances from David Selby, Kate Jackson and Grayson Hall.

While exact circumstances of Kou Si's inspiration remain legend, upon his release he developed his new style of fighting and dubbed it ' Da Sheng Men ' ( Great Sage Style ) in honor of the Monkey King Sun Wukong in the Buddhist tale Journey to the West.

The Japanese have developed a number of complementary strategies for capturing, preserving and disseminating the essential elements of their commonly-accepted national history – chronicles of sovereigns and events, biographies of eminent persons and personalities, and the military tale or gunki monogatari.

Bakshi soon developed Heavy Traffic, a tale of inner-city street life.

Some scholars -- e. g., G. B. Caird, Joachim Jeremias, Marshall, Hugo Gressmann, -- suggest the basic storyline of The Rich Man and Lazarus was derived from Jewish stories that had developed from an Egyptian folk tale about Si-Osiris.

First developed by Antti Aarne ( 1867 – 1925 ) and published as Verzeichnis der Märchentypen in 1910, the tale type index was later translated, revised, and enlarged by Stith Thompson ( 1885 – 1976 ) in 1928 and again in 1961 ( Dundes, 195 ).