Other uses of the term gnome remain obscure until the early 19th century, when it is taken up by authors of Romanticist collections of fairy tales and becomes mostly synonymous with the older word goblin.

Baum had shrewdly transferred most of his property, except for his clothing, his library ( mostly of children's books, such as the fairy tales of Andrew Lang, whose portrait he kept in his study ), and his typewriter ( all of which he successfully argued were essential to his occupation ), into Maud's name, as she handled the finances, anyway, and thus lost much less than he could have.

While Nasreddin is mostly known as a character from short tales, whole novels and stories have later been written and an animated feature film was almost made.

From the age of nine he began writing stories, mostly tales of historical fiction centering on Vikings, Arabs, battles, and bloodshed.

The genre has been defined, strongly, by the work of Robert E. Howard, particularly his tales of Conan the Barbarian and Kull of Atlantis, mostly in Weird Tales from 1932 and 1929 respectively.

There are many writers who write in English now, mostly short stories and collection of folk tales of Bhutan ; a popular author is Kunzang Choeden.

The Golden Ass and Satyricon were particularly revived and widely read in renaissance Europe, and are rare surviving samples of a mostly lost genre, which was highly popular in the classical world, known as " Milesian tales.

Other inhabitants of Neverland are suggested by Barrie in his original novel, such as a " small old lady with a hooked nose ", " gnomes who are mostly tailors ", and princes " with six elder brothers " reminiscent of European fairy tales.

The folkloric tales mostly depict encounters between human beings and the supernatural.

This book is a reconstruction of the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai from extensive research of both historical documents ( collected mostly by G. C. Tambe, grandson of the Queen ) and folk tales, poetry and oral tradition ; the original in Bengali was published in 1956 ; the English translation by Seagull Books, Calcutta, 2000, ISBN 8170461758.

* Prince Charming, a stock character in fairy tales, due to Andrew Lang ( 1889 ), mostly used ironically ( after Oscar Wilde, 1890 )

Danish folklore is made up of folk tales, legends, songs, music, dancing, popular beliefs and traditions, mostly comuminicated by the inhabitants of towns and villages across the country.

Among the tales is the belief that since the town did not have a local meat market people had to travel long distances in order to buy some meat and therefore mostly ate soup.

Pilgrimage shows Pinto as sharply critical of Portuguese colonialism in the Far East The vivid tales of his wanderings over twenty years – he wrote, for example, that he was " thirteen times made captive and seventeen times sold " – were so unusual that they were mostly not believed.

* Tales Similar to Beauty and the Beast ( Texts of Cupid and Psyche and similar monster or beast as bridegroom tales, mostly of AT-425C form, with hyperlinked commentary ).

Sigur Rós has gained international fame performing mostly in Icelandic. The earliest indigenous Icelandic music was the rímur, epic tales from the Viking era that were often performed a cappella.

The themes for these works are frequently drawn from Christ's consciousness, deep Cosmic spirituality like the eternal, infinite body and consciousness of the universe or God, Icelandic Mythology ( Understanding of the so called Norse mythology or North-East, North-West and even Central-European War-Godhs mythology is just a part of Icelandic Mythology and understanding or description of these is mostly derived from the Icelandic one ) and Icelandic folk tales.

Peniarth MS 4 contains the Welsh tales now collectively known as the Mabinogion, and Peniarth MS 5 ( the first part of the original manuscript ) contains Christian religious texts in Welsh, mostly translated from Latin.

The religious tales deal mostly with the Mary Legends, and have been handed down to us in three collections:

However, the ancient vocative declensions have survived ( mostly in conserved, archaic words or language, e. g. in fairy tales, folklore, or in an ironic sense ) in some words, some examples: syn ( son )-V: synku, brat ( brother )-V: bratu, bratku ), chlapec ( boy, knave )-V: chlapče ), švagor ( brother-in-law )-V: švagre or N, kmotor ( godparent )-V: kmotre or N ), chlap ( man, male )-V: chlape, priateľ ( friend ) V: priateľu or N, pán ( mister, lord )-V: pane or N ), majster ( master artist )-V: majstre or N ), boh ( god )-V: bože, mama ( mum, mother )-V: mamo, mami ) and was retrofitted ( with the help of Czech influence ) to some more words, like šéf ( chief, boss )-V: šéfe.

There are also large collections of Batak tales collected by European scholars since the mid-19th century and recorded in European languages, mostly Dutch.

Many of these fairy tales, in the précieuse style, were written, mostly notably by Madame d ' Aulnoy.

These characters make positive appearances in fairy tales and reside mostly in the woods.

The program evolved into " Kuwentong Kutsero ", consisting of satirical tales dealing mostly with life in Manila.

Numerous tales of the bunyip in written literature appeared in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Although written literature is only slowly evolving ( due to the predominance of French as the " language of the educated "), there exists a wealth of oral literature, which is often tales of kings and heroes.

The rhyming songs, poems and tales written in the form of ballads often relate to the itinerant and rebellious spirit of Australia in The Bush, and the authors and performers are often referred to as bush bards.

Price, however, believed that Lovecraft's writings could at least be divided into categories and identified three distinct themes: the " Dunsanian " ( written in the vein of Lord Dunsany ), " Arkham " ( occurring in Lovecraft's fictionalized New England setting ), and " Cthulhu " ( the cosmic tales ) cycles.

Not only was an abnormally engorged clitoris thought to create lusts in some women that led them to masturbate, but pamphlets warning women about masturbation leading to such oversized organs were written as cautionary tales.

From at least the Yuan dynasty, plays that recounted the subversive tales of China's Robin Hoods to the Ming dynasty novels such as Water Margin, on down to the Qing dynasty novel Dream of the Red Chamber and beyond, there developed a literature in written vernacular Chinese ( 白話 / 白话 ; báihuà ).

* In the second book of the Danger Boy series of time travel tales, written by Mark London Williams, Dragon Sword, Peenemünde becomes a key setting in this and in the further novels.

Many of the traditional tales about David are found in the Buchedd Dewi, a hagiography written by Rhygyfarch in the late 11th century.

*" The Black Cat " was adapted and performed with " The Cask of Amontillado " as Poe, Times Two: Twin tales of mystery, murder ... and mortar -- a double-bill of short, one-man plays written and performed by Greg Oliver Bodine.

The book contained many implausible tales about her encounters with incarnate demons, one of whom was supposed to have written prophecies on her back with its tail, and another who played the piano in the shape of a crocodile.

* The Panchatantra, a Sanskrit collection of fables and fairy tales, is written in India.

Texts of the Egyptian tradition emerge later and contain many more tales of much more varied content ; a much larger number of originally independent tales have been incorporated into the collection over the centuries, most of them after the Galland manuscript was written,

Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written today.

A picture by Gustave Doré of Mother Goose reading written ( literary ) fairy tales

and fairy tales appear, now and again, in written literature throughout literate cultures, as in The Golden Ass, which includes Cupid and Psyche ( Roman, 100 – 200 AD ), or the Panchatantra ( India 3rd century BCE ), but it is unknown to what extent these reflect the actual folk tales even of their own time.

Ethnographers collected fairy tales over the world, finding similar tales in Africa, the Americas, and Australia ; Andrew Lang was able to draw on not only the written tales of Europe and Asia, but those collected by ethnographers, to fill his " coloured " fairy books series.

A mother reads to her children, depicted by Jessie Willcox Smith in a cover illustration of a volume of fairy tales written in the mid to late 19th century.

Early on during Asimov's original world-building of the Foundation universe, he established within the first published stories a chronology placing the tales approximately 50, 000 years into the future from the time they were written ( c. 1940 ).