When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.

Thus it happened that, with Hermes as their guide, the three candidates bathed in the spring of Ida, then confronted Paris on Mount Ida in the climactic moment that is the crux of the tale.

After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: He was born in Crete, had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt ; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca.

Gellar then lent her voice to two animated films: the animated fairy tale Happily N ' Ever After, and TMNT, in which she played April O ' Neil.

According to this tale, the phrase was shortened over time to BBCue, then BBQ.

Al-Nadim then writes about the Persian Hazār Afsān, explaining the frame story it employs: a bloodthirsty king kills off a succession of wives after their wedding night ; finally one concubine had the intelligence to save herself by telling him a story every evening, leaving each tale unfinished until the next night so that the king would delay her execution.

The doctor then dumps his body down a chimney, and this leads to yet another tale in the cycle, which continues with twelve tales in total, leading to all the people involved in this incident finding themselves in a courtroom, all making different claims over how the hunchback had died.

One is that a single point of origin generated any given tale, which then spread over the centuries ; the other is that such fairy tales stem from common human experience and therefore can appear separately in many different origins.

According to one version of the tale, the oil had then passed to Henry's maternal grandfather, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster.

Wagner's plans for the cycle grew backwards from the tale of the death of the hero Siegfried, to include his youth and then the story of the events around his conception and of how the Valkyrie Brünnhilde was punished for trying to save his parents against Wotan's instructions.

Wagner worked backwards from planning an opera about Siegfried's death, then deciding he needed another opera to tell of Siegfried's youth, then deciding he needed to tell the tale of Siegfried's conception and of Brünnhilde's attempts to save Siegfried's parents, and finally deciding he also needed a prelude that told of the original theft of the Rheingold and creation of the ring.

" In the reverse situation, in the tale of " Beauty and the Beast ," a transformed prince then told the girl that he had been bewitched by a wicked fairy, and could not be recreated into a man unless a maid fell in love with him and kissed him, despite his ugliness.

Bacchylides then tells of the greatness of these men ’ s sons, Achilles and Ajax, alluding to a second myth, the tale of Ajax repelling Hector on the beaches of Troy, keeping the Trojans from burning the Greek ships.

The idea of ending a tale at a point where the audience is left in suspense as to its conclusion ( which, in most cases, is then given at another time ) may have been a staple part of storytelling for almost as long as the idea of stories has existed.

She appears in the Irish tale Serglige Con Culainn ( The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn ), first as a sea bird, and then as an avenging goddess.

These stories set the stage for " Crisis on Earth-One " ( Justice League of America # 21, August 1963 ) and " Crisis on Earth-Two " ( Justice League of America # 22, September 1963 ), a 2-part tale where the Golden Age Justice Society teamed up with the Silver Age Justice League to combat a team of villains from both worlds who had gained a way of travelling between the worlds quickly using vibratory devices made by the Fiddler, and were planning on committing crimes, then spending the money in the other world where nobody knew them, after capturing both Flashes.

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.

Mystery Lodge recreates a quiet summer night in the village of Alert Bay, British Columbia then guests " move inside " the longhouse and listen to the storyteller weave a tale of the importance of family from the smoke of the bonfire.

This began with the heroine married and the mother of two children, as in the second part of Perrault's tale, and her mother-in-law attempted to eat first the children and then the heroine.

In its original vinyl release, the album cover folds out, revealing A Fable, a short tale written by Morrison's then wife, Janet Planet.

" And then, in an inspirational tale for journalists, Ida Tarbell went to work.

However, they then remember the tale of Sir Swamphole McDuck, who sealed the dungeons ( due to the costly price of running a dungeon ) and find a secret passageway into the dungeons and castle through his fake grave site ( while his skeleton was located inside of his armor ), which had been made in case there was a need of emergency evacuation of the castle.

The song relates the tale of a young man who instructs the listener to tell his former love to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back.

From dusk on into the night, the passage of time and the darkening sky that proceeds Marlow's narrative serves as a preamble to the atmosphere and tone for the events described within his upcomming tale.

We do not always notice its method, because the cottages, castles, woodcutters and petty kings with which a fairy tale opens have become for us as remote as the witches and ogres to which it proceeds.

A young Cambridge University professor, Horace Holly, is visited by a colleague, Vincey, who reveals that he will soon die and proceeds to tell Holly a fantastical tale of his family heritage.

Seymour wades into the ocean and, placing the girl on a rubber raft, proceeds to tell her the whimsical tale – “ the very tragic life ” – of the bananafish: in their gluttony, they gorge themselves on bananas, and swollen too large to escape their feeding holes, die.

A more widespread variant, found in Europe, Asia, and Africa, opens with the prince for some reason being the servant of an evil being, where he gains the same gifts, and the tale proceeds as in this variant ; one such tale is The Magician's Horse.

Lady Nijo is a thirteenth century Japanese concubine who enters the play near the beginning of act one and proceeds to tell her tale.

Instead the Franklin breaks into the very beginning of the third section with elaborate praise of the Squire's gentility — the Franklin being somewhat of a social climber — and proceeds to his own tale.

The tale is set before Paul of Tarsus ' conversion, and so proceeds to describe how Paul persecutes Stephen by having him crucified.

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.

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.

" Both during his life and for a long time after, efforts were made by many to reclaim Sterne as an arch-sentimentalist ; parts of Tristram Shandy, such as the tale of Le Fever, were excerpted and published separately to wide acclaim from the moralists of the day.

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.

In a Ndebele tale, the hippo originally had long, beautiful hair but was set on fire by a jealous hare and had to jump into a nearby pool.

At the opening of the tale, Salieri is an old man, having long outlived his fame, and is convinced he used poison to assassinate Mozart.

Together with the common beginning " once upon a time " it means a fairy tale or a märchen was originally a little story from long time ago, when the world was still magic.

The oral tradition of the fairy tale came long before the written page.

The version of history in the Duan Albanach was long accepted, although it is preceded by the purely legendary tale of Albanus and Brutus conquering Britain.

After a long period of hardship and exile, he confronts and defeats the source of evil in his tale.

Folklorists have long studied variants on this tale across cultures.

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.

As aforestated, non-genuine folktales are those already committed to writing long ago, the earliest being the tale of Princess Kaguya ( or The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ), an example of monogatari type of romance dated to as early as the 10th century, though extant manuscripts are much later.

The on-screen title is " The Saga of Noggin the Nog ", since the stories were based on the principle of a Norse saga, and episodes began with the words, " Listen to me and I will tell you the story of Noggin the Nog, as it was told in the days of old ", or " In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale ... and those tales they tell are the stories of a kind and wise king and his people ; they are the Sagas of Noggin the Nog.

Mitford invited his readers to construe his story of the Forty-seven Ronin as historically accurate ; and while his version of the tale has long been considered a standard work, some of its precise details are now questioned.

Almost 8 minutes long, the song is an epic tale of a young boy raised to die young by an eccentric stepfather.

** Some minor lines are omitted from various scenes, such as Lavinia's " Ay, for these slips have made him noted long " ( 2. 3. 87 ), Titus ' " Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands ,/ To bid Aeneas tell the tale twice o ’ er ,/ How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?

Each tale is followed by a long series of notes explaining inconsistencies and obscure points.

According to Peter Popham of The Independent: " Everybody here has long believed that Prodi's Ouija board tale was no more than an ill-advised and bizarre way to conceal the identity of his true source, probably a person from Bologna's seething far-left underground whom he was pledged to protect.

Hoffmann's tale contains a long flashback story within its main plot entitled The Tale of the Hard Nut, which explains how the Prince was turned into the Nutcracker.

The Goodees had a hit in early 1969 with " Condition Red ", a " Leader of the Pack " inspired tale about a girl who wants to be with her long haired, bearded boyfriend despite her parents ' objections.

Some Islamic scholars, however, assert that the 300 or 309 years mentioned in the Qur ' an refers to periods of time alleged by those telling the tale, rather than a definitive statement by Allah as to how long they were actually there or this difference can be of solar & Lunar year.

A tale from the Akamba people of Kenya that explains why the ostrich has such a long neck.

Established as a recurring theme in important literature, the tale lived on among the literature faculty long after it had been dropped by the anthropology department.