As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

Both Brothers were attracted from the beginning by all national poetry, whether in the form of epics, ballads or popular tales.

* Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt ( This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms ' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition.

Baum's avowed intentions with the Oz books, and other fairy tales, was to tell such tales as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen told, bringing them up to date by making the characters not stereotypical dwarfs or genies, and by removing both the violence and the moral to which the violence was to point.

The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring them to collect tales and leading them to similarly believe that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representative of it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence.

The Brothers Grimm, inspired by Herder's writings, put together an idealized collection of tales, which they labeled as authentically German.

The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring them to collect tales and leading them to similarly believe that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representative of it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence.

The Brothers Grimm published their first volume of collected fairy tales in 1812.

* June 26 – According to legend, the Pied Piper of Hamelin visits the German town of Hamelin and leads 130 children to their deaths, as told in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and many others.

* Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt ( This site is the only one to feature all of the Grimms ' notes translated in English along with the tales from Hunt's original edition.

In the early 19th century, the Brothers Grimm lived in Kassel and collected and wrote most of their fairy tales there.

The older fairy tales were intended for an audience of adults, as well as children, but they were associated with children as early as the writings of the précieuses ; the Brothers Grimm titled their collection Children's and Household Tales, and the link with children has only grown stronger with time.

The Brothers Grimm were among the first to try to preserve the features of oral tales.

The first collectors to attempt to preserve not only the plot and characters of the tale, but also the style in which they were told, were the Brothers Grimm, collecting German fairy tales ; ironically, this meant although their first edition ( 1812 & 1815 ) remains a treasure for folklorists, they rewrote the tales in later editions to make them more acceptable, which ensured their sales and the later popularity of their work.

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring them to collect tales and leading them to similarly believe, in a spirit of romantic nationalism, that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representative of it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence.

The mysteriousness of the land, and its otherworldly powers are a source of scepticism and distrust in many tales.

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

There are tales that are simply warnings ; they warn against doing something that may harm in some way.

Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

The caves include paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art ( which depict the Jataka tales ) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the Sigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka .< ref >

Below are some of these controversial tales.

Some of the previous lives of the Buddha as a bodhisattva are featured in the Jātaka tales.

# Part II: Chapter 2: 4-7 are the Court tales of Daniel and his companions living amongst the Babylonians.

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.

As with most lurid tales of native cannibalism, these stories are treated with a great deal of scrutiny, as accusations of cannibalism were often used as justifications for the subjugation or destruction of " savages ".

These are not fairy tales my dear Cowper but actual gruesome reality in the heart of this poor, benighted savage land.

Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.

Amongst Smith's science fiction tales are stories set on Mars and the invented planet of Xiccarph.

In the tales no human is ever described as stronger than Conan, although several are mentioned as taller ( such as the strangler Baal-pteor ) or of larger bulk.

Indeed, his straightforward nature and barbarism are constants in all the tales.

The tales ( mostly written in verse although some are in prose ) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

" The tales that comprise a fragment are closely related and contain internal indications of their order of presentation, usually with one character speaking to and then stepping aside for another character.

The anecdotes are literary, and late ; however, in the founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela, founded in the 680s on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani.

They depict the Jataka tales that are stories of the Buddha's life in former existences as Bodhisattva.

Folklore ( or lore ) consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

The book is made up of six court tales and four apocalyptic visions set in the time of the Babylonian captivity.

" The Queen of Port Orchard, WA " Illustration, by Alex SchattnerMany authors have set out to create the new folklore of their time ; weaving magical tales designed to carry moral messages.

* New tales set in the Fenian cycle

Only the reprints from the 1960s state the tales are set in the distant past.

Weird tales of horror set on Mars.

Ronald Hutton criticizes this conclusion as unfounded ; he argues that the assembly of royalty and warriors on Samhain may simply present an ideal setting for the exposition of such tales in the same way that many tales of Arthurian Romance are set at courtly gatherings of Christmas or Pentecost.

It is still the custom in some areas to set a place for the dead at the Samhain feast, and to tell tales of the ancestors on that night.

A diverse set of folk songs, poems and tales illustrate her as an ideal ruler, a holy woman onto whom certain attributes of pagan deities and Christian saints were sometimes projected.

Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieu.

The story of the " shining prince " Genji is set in the late 9th to early 10th centuries, and Murasaki eliminated from it the elements of fairy tales and fantasy frequently found in earlier monogatari.

An early example of the frame story, or framing device, is employed in the One Thousand and One Nights, in which the character Scheherazade narrates a set of tales ( most often fairy tales ) to the Sultan Shahriyar over many nights.

Nevertheless, to select works for his analysis, Propp used all Russian folktales classified as a folk lore Aarne-Thompson 300-749 – in a cataloguing system that made such a distinction – to gain a clear set of tales.

Although many debate the finer points, the consensus characterizes it by a strong bias toward fast-paced, action-rich tales set within a quasi-mythical or fantastical framework.

Many of his stories have been re-released in posthumous volumes ( Best of Beaumont ( Bantam, 1982 ) and The Howling Man ( Tom Doherty, 1992 )), and a set of previously unpublished tales, A Touch of the Creature ( Subterranean Press, 1999 ), is now available.

In such tales as The Three May Peaches, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, or The Griffin, kings set dangerous tasks in an attempt to prevent the marriage.

" Inspired by such writers and artists as Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Rice Burroughs, J. R. R Tolkien and Jack Kirby, Byron set out to create his own dark fantasy universe, with tales told through epic lyrics and music.

* The Chronicles of the Forest-King of Darkenhold-Many tales are set within or indirectly involve the great Darkenhold forest and its mystical sylvan liege, the Forest King.

In commonplace usage, it signifies a certain set of well-known classic tales, with a vague distinction of whether they fit the rigorous definition of folktale or not.

Thomas Henry Kendall ( 18 April 18411 August 1882 ) was a nineteenth century Australian author and bush poet, who was particulary known for his poems and tales set in a natural environment setting.

So consistently did knights quest that Miguel de Cervantes set his Don Quixote on mock quests in a parody of chivalric tales.

By 1897, Maundy recipients were being urged to sell the small pieces at a premium ; there are tales of Americans paying high prices for a set that year, wishing a souvenir of Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.