Misinformation from the Crusader accounts and the works of anti-Ismaili historians have contributed to the tales of fida ' is being fed with hashish as part of their training.

Misinformation from the Crusader accounts and the works of anti-Ismaili historians have contributed to the tales of fida ’ is being fed with hashish as part of their training.

The tales of the fida ’ is ’ training collected from anti-Ismaili historians and orientalists writers were confounded and compiled in Marco Polo ’ s account, in which he described a “ secret garden of paradise ”.

It appears that the dominant tendency of Mann's early tales, however pictorial or even picturesque the surface, is already toward the symbolic, the emblematic, the expressionistic.

With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

In a series of fairy tales and fantasies, Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story, with beginning, middle and end, complications, resolutions, climaxes, and conclusions.

Kabyle music is based on a rich repertoire that is poetry and old tales passed through generations.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

Many of these tales have morals or some form of belief that is being taught.

The founding of the United States is often surrounded by legends and tall tales.

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.

* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

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

The common view is that the court tales represent a stratum of older, traditional stories, while the visions and final redaction of the work date to the second century BCE.

In some tales, the figure who first appears to be a " banshee " is later revealed to be the Irish battle goddess, the Morrígan.

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.

This is a specific epoch in a fictional timeline created by Howard for many of the low fantasy tales of his artificial legendary.

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.

This collection contains five tales, one of which is " Carmilla ".

The emphasis is on various moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men ; reports about food and drink, different styles in dress or lovers, local habits in giving gifts or entertainments, or in religious beliefs and death customs ; and comments on Greek painting.

This is taken as evidence of the tales ' popularity during the century after Chaucer's death.

This is taken as evidence of the tales ' popularity during the century after Chaucer's death.

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

Though not named as Caledfwlch, Arthur's sword is described vividly in The Dream of Rhonabwy one of the tales associated with the Mabinogion:

The elf makes many appearances in ballads of English and Scottish origin, as well as folk tales, many involving trips to Elphame or Elfland ( the Álfheim of Norse mythology ), a mystical realm which is sometimes an eerie and unpleasant place.

His name is mentioned in several tales and historical documents about El Cid, including The Lay of El Cid.

She helped older sister Elizabeth with the Sunday school which was held in Maer Hall laundry, writing simple moral tales to aid instruction and giving 60 village children their only formal training in reading, writing and religion.

He spent several months of his imprisonment dictating a detailed account of his travels to a fellow inmate, Rustichello da Pisa, who incorporated tales of his own as well as other collected anecdotes and current affairs from China.

* The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, collected and retold by Ron Suresha

Contemporary critics were divided in their view of the work's authenticity, but most now believe that Macpherson framed the poems himself, based old folk tales he had collected.

One by one he discovered the authors that would influence his later work: Jack London and his stories of reincarnation and past lives, most notably The Star Rover ( 1915 ); Rudyard Kipling's tales of subcontinent adventure and his chanting, shamanic verse ; the classic mythological tales collected by Thomas Bulfinch.

They rejected many tales they collected because of their similarity to tales by Charles Perrault, which they thought proved they were not truly German tales ; Sleeping Beauty survived in their collection because the tale of Brynhildr convinced them that the figure of the sleeping princess was authentically German.

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

The popularity of the Grimms ' collected folk tales endured well beyond their lifetimes.

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

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

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.

Sometimes influence, especially within a limited area and time, is clearer, as when considering the influence of Perrault's tales on those collected by the Brothers Grimm.

The heroic exploits of Wallace were passed on to posterity mainly in the form of tales collected and recounted by the poet Blind Harry, the Minstrel (?- 1492 ) whose original, probably oral sources were never specified.

Zschokke's tales, on which his literary reputation rests, are collected in several series, Bilder aus der Schweiz ( Pictures from Switzerland, 5 vols., 1824 – 25 ), Ausgewählte Novellen und Dichtungen ( 16 vols., 1838 – 39 ).

This is one of the most melodious Czech lullabies, first collected by Karel Jaromír Erben ( 1811 – 1870 ), Czech romantic writer, poet and collector of Czech folk songs and fairy tales.

Later, several comedies in verse were produced at the Théâtre Français and on other stages ; and from 1853 onwards a stream of prose flowed from his industrious pen, including studies of Parisian manners, sketches of well-known persons, and a series of tales, most of which were republished in his collected works ( 1875 – 1878 ).

The oral tradition of story telling and folklore has survived and the early missionaries collected folk tales.