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tale and disappearance
Jimmy Janes became the regular artist in a lengthy tale by Conway ( and later Roy Thomas ) involving Ultra Boy's disappearance during a mission, and his long odyssey to rejoin the team.
He said Fofana was a griot in Juffure, who, during Haley's visit there, confirmed the tale of the disappearance of Kunta Kinte.
# Heart's Desire — A tale explaining the disappearance of Merlin and Nimue's role in it.
The first is a somber tale of a 16th century French peasant's disappearance and return upon which he is suspected to be an impostor ; the music is marked by dissonance which emphasizes the tension in the story, particularly in the final courtroom scene.

tale and is
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.

tale and strongly
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.
What happened there has been described in Peder Svart's chronicle, which can be described as a strongly biased heroic tale about Gustav Eriksson.
Skuse was strongly inspired by the tale of Hansel and Gretel and there are many nods to it throughout the book.
A Times review of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold strongly criticised John le Carré for failing to provide a happy ending, and gave unequivocal reasons why in the reviewer's opinion ( shared by many others ) such an ending is needed: " The hero must triumph over his enemies, as surely as Jack must kill the giant in the nursery tale.
Momotarō is strongly associated with Okayama, and his tale may have its origins there.
The tale strongly parallels Bowie's relationships with Reed and Pop in the 1970s and 1980s.
* List of works which retell or strongly allude to the Faust tale
" The Three Linden Trees " ( German: " Drei Linden ") is a 1912 fairy tale by Herman Hesse strongly influenced by the Greek legend of Damon and Pythias.

tale and anecdotal
Other styles are also used in news writing, including the " anecdotal lead ," which begins the story with an eye-catching tale or anecdote rather than the central facts ; and the Q & A, or question-and-answer format.
Therefore, the tale of Francis Grimaldi and his faction — who conquered the castle of Monaco under the disguise of friars in 1297 — is largely anecdotal.
As Biruni also does for the other festival days he mentions, he reiterates a local anecdotal association for his description of Mehrgan ( ha al-mirjan in the author's Arabic parlance ) with a fragment of a tale from Iranian folklore: On this day, Fereydun vanquished the evil Dahak and confined him to Mount Damavand.

tale and recounted
One tale recounted a man caught by the fairies, who found that whenever he looked steadily at one, the fairy was a dead neighbor of his.
Parthenius ' tale, based on the Hellenistic historian Phylarchus, was known to Pausanias, who recounted it in his Description of Greece ( 2nd century AD ).
Cumhall was killed in the Battle of Cnucha, as recounted in the Middle Irish tale Cath Cnucha, by Goll mac Morna, who took over leadership of the fian, but Muirne was already pregnant with his son, Fionn.
A tale recounted by Meyrick recalls how Twm was asked by a poor man to steal a pitcher for him.
In some cases, it is the anirniq of a human or animal who became a figure of respect or influence over animals things through some action, recounted in a traditional tale.
A similar tale is recounted by Aulus Gellius in Attic Nights.
Another more specific tale, recounted in John Churchill Chase's Frenchmen, Desire Good, Children is that the name was the specific outcome of an 1871 meeting of a railroad board of directors in New York, where planning was undertaken to use the site as an eastern terminus ("... west we go from there ").
In the story, a Sinologist discovers a manuscript by a Chinese writer where the same tale is recounted in several ways, often contradictory, and then explains to his visitor ( the writer's grandson ) that his relative conceived time as a " garden of forking paths ", where things happen in parallel in infinitely branching ways.
Multiple versions of this tale are recorded, and the story was further popularised after one of these was recounted by John Lloyd Stephens in his influential 1841 book, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
In a tale recounted in The Odyssey, he played host to Odysseus, but when Odysseus requested from Ilus poison for his arrows, he declined, from fear of divine vengeance.
The tale of the Bhaalspawn is recounted in the Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II video games ; in the novelizations of these games, the protagonist is named as Abdel Adrian.
The British attitudes were affected by reports from their new Political Agent in the frontier districts, Major George Broadfoot, who stressed the disorder in the Punjab and recounted every tale of corrupt behaviour at the court.
In " Private History of the ‘ Jumping Frog ’ Story ," he recounted some background to the tale — in particular, his surprise to find that the story bore a striking resemblance to an ancient Greek tale.
While editor of The Broadway Journal, Poe printed a letter from a New York physician named Dr. A. Sidney Doane which recounted a surgical operation performed while a patient was " in a magnetic sleep "; the letter served as inspiration for Poe's tale.
An ancient tale, the legend of Brutus, recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth, makes explicit reference to a distinct origin of the Cornish people.
One of the survivors, PFC Eugene Nielsen, recounted his tale to U. S. Army Intelligence on January 7, 1945.
The legendary tale of how King Abgarus V of Edessa and Jesus had corresponded was first recounted in the 4th century by the church historian Eusebius of Caesarea In the origin of the legend, Eusebius had been shown documents purporting to contain the official correspondence that passed between Abgar and Jesus, and he was well enough convinced by their authenticity to quote them extensively in his Ecclesiastical History.
Gully had pestered Darwin to subject himself to clairvoyance, and when he saw the clairvoyant, he tried to test her by asking her to read the number on a banknote he had in an envelope, but she scornfully said this was something her maidservant did and proceeded to diagnose horrors in Darwin's insides, a tale he recounted for years afterwards.
This popular work recounted the famous story of the eponymous dog ; most of the modern versions of the story seem to stem from her form of the tale.
One famous tale recounted by Steadman Upham, president of Chapman University, in his address Wooden Leg or Table: The Changing Landscape of American Education ( 1999 ) is how he lost a verbal duel with rock musician Frank Zappa.
The tale of Elidor is also recounted.
Although some believe and others doubt the authenticity of the tale he's told, the narrator says he recounted the story so that his listeners, taking heed, may be " afraid to carol in a church or churchyard, especially against the priest's will ," as " jangling is a form of sacrilege.

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