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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.
200 BCE ), author of Sanskrit ( Hindu ) and Pali ( Buddhist ) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.
Some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date from earlier than this work ; in these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn.
Soap opera storylines sometimes weave intricate, convoluted, and sometimes confusing tales of characters who have affairs, meet mysterious strangers and fall in love, and who commit adultery, all of which keeps audiences hooked on the unfolding story twists.
Associated with stories of the supposed burning of Shaolin by the Qing government and with the tales of the Five Elders, this temple, sometimes known by the name Changlin, is often claimed to have been either the target of Qing forces or a place of refuge for monks displaced by attacks on the Shaolin Monastery in Henan.
Ancient folk tales and myths sometimes involved something akin to travelling forward in time ; for example, in Hindu mythology, the Mahabharata mentions the story of the King Revaita, who travels to heaven to meet the creator Brahma and is shocked to learn that many ages have passed when he returns to Earth.
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.
Andersen's work sometimes drew on old folktales, but more often deployed fairytale motifs and plots in new tales.
Fairy tales such as Jack the Giant Killer have formed our modern perception of giants as stupid and violent monsters, sometimes said to eat humans, especially children ( though this is actually a confusion with ogres, which are distinctly cannibalistic ).
In The Cats in Our Lives, he recounted humorous and sometimes touching tales of the cats ( as well as a few dogs ) he had known and loved.
Folklorists sometimes divide oral tales into two main groups: Märchen and Sagen.
In Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra, an inter-woven series of colorful animal tales are told with one narrative opening within another, sometimes three or four layers deep, and then unexpectedly snapping shut in irregular rhythms to sustain attention.
The county's name is said to be a Native American word meaning " delight of life ", but it is a neologism made up by Indian agent and ethnographer Henry Schoolcraft, who sometimes gave the name " Leelinau " to Native American women in his tales.
It can be argued that the first toponymists were the storytellers and poets who explained the origin of specific place names as part of their tales ; sometimes place-names served as the basis for the etiological legends.
When older children are abandoned in fairy tales, while poverty may be cited as a cause, as in Hop o ' My Thumb, the most common effect is when poverty is combined with a stepmother's malice, as in Hansel and Gretel ( or sometimes, a mother's malice ).
In folk tales, these fans sometimes have the ability to grow or shrink a person's nose, but usually they are attributed the power to stir up great winds.
The antagonist is not always a wolf, but sometimes an ogre or a ' bzou ' ( werewolf ), making these tales relevant to the werewolf-trials ( similar to witch trials ) of the time ( e. g. the trial of Peter Stumpp ).
The texts are tales in prose which share some similarities with the epic, often with stanzas or whole poems in alliterative verse embedded in the text, of heroic deeds of days long gone, " tales of worthy men ," who were often Vikings, sometimes Pagan, sometimes Christian.
Verse tales of Fionn and the Fianna, sometimes known as Ossianic poetry, were extremely common in Ireland and Scotland throughout this period.
The comic strip Non Sequitur sometimes features tall tales told by the character Captain Eddie ; it is left up to the reader to decide if he is telling the truth, exaggerating a real event, or just telling a whopper.

tales and recounted
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 ).
Besides such collections and individual tales, in China, Taoist philosophers such as Liezi and Zhuangzi recounted fairy tales in their philosophical works.
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.
He recounted, and joked to the audience about, the tales of his childhood, his career, the influence of his mother, Sadie, his time as a Bevin Boy, about Diana Dors, who had recently died, and Tommy Cooper, who had died of a heart attack live on stage six weeks earlier while appearing on television.
His name is recounted from Javanese folk tales rather than from written inscriptions.
On a memorable occasion in March 1832 at Bahia, Brazil, Darwin was horrified at tales of the treatment of slaves, but FitzRoy, while not endorsing brutality, recounted how an estancia owner once asked his slaves if they wished to be free and was told they didn't.
Yasār's three sons, Mūsā, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and Isḥāq, were all known as transmitters of akhbār, who collected and recounted tales of the past.
The tales told in the Cycle are recounted by other ancient sources, notably Virgil's Aeneid ( book 2 ) which recounts the sack of Troy from a Trojan perspective ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( books 13 – 14 ), which describes the Greeks ' landing at Troy ( from the Cypria ) and the judgment of Achilles ' arms ( Little Iliad ); Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, which narrates the events after Achilles ' death up until the end of the war ; and the death of Agamemnon and the vengeance taken by his son Orestes ( the Nostoi ) are the subject of later Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus's Oresteian trilogy.
Almost every beast or creature recounted in tales and myths can draw their origin from Darklore sightings.
In the 40-plus years of his life after enlightenment, the Buddha Shakayamuni is said to have recounted almost 554 past life stories, ( called Jataka tales ) of his prior existences.
Those priests who survived their missions recounted tales of harsh weather, inadequate supplies, attacks from bandits, and even encounters with horrible monsters.
The pair ’ s exploits are recounted through postcards sent to their wives, telling tales of the horrors of battle.
Martineau also recounted other tales of LaLaurie's cruelty that were current among New Orleans residents in about 1836.

tales and woman
This use of unu plays the role of " there was " in the introduction of fairy tales ( There was an old woman who ...) and in introducing new participants ( A man came up to me and said ...).
Unicorns were also said to be able to determine whether or not a woman was a virgin ; in some tales, they could only be mounted by virgins.
When Mademoiselle Henriette Deluzy-Desportes ( Bette Davis ), a French woman, starts teaching at an American girls school, she is confronted with tales and gossip about her, which have become common knowledge among her pupils.
There are also Mediaeval tales such as The Mice in Council ( 195 ) and stories created to support popular proverbs such as ' Still Waters Run Deep ' ( 5 ) and ' A woman, an ass and a walnut tree ' ( 65 ), where the latter refers back to Aesop's fable of The Walnut Tree.
The majority of the hundred fables there are Aesop's but there are also humorous tales such as The drowned woman and her husband ( 41 ) and The miller, his son and the donkey ( 100 ).
In other tales, the woman appealed to other gods to protect her from rape, and was transformed ( Daphne into laurel, Cornix into a crow ).
While other tales include Kelpies who emerge from lochs and rivers to ensnare and kill unweary travellers in the disguise of a horse or woman.
* A brown bear coating himself in baking soda to be acceptable to humans as a polar bear, a young boy selling frozen words, and a woman whose voice cuts through a giant tree to release oranges that light the Polar night are all tales told by a Pomor elder in the Soviet animation film Laughter and Grief by the White Sea.
In some tales, she looks like an average woman with her hair down.
In tales where he is Pellinore's son his brothers are Sir Aglovale, Sir Lamorak and Sir Dornar, and by his father's affair with a peasant woman he also has a half-brother named Sir Tor.
To hide the truth from Gabrielle, Lestat told her tales of going to the Bahamas, marrying a rich woman and coming into vast wealth.
Hari Seldon has learned of the existence of Mother Rittah, an elderly woman who tells tales of the planet known as Earth.
It depicts the adventures of a young woman and her father after they are transported from Manhattan, New York, through a magical mirror into a parallel world of fairy tales, magical beings, evil stepmothers and self-discovery.
This event, based upon children's stories told by a local woman to her children in the 1930s and ' 40s, has grown into a local tradition, with hundreds of families migrating up the mountain to see actors re-enact tales of witches and warlocks.
" He continued, " It is filled with wondrous tales from an exotic land, none more amazing than that of Giri Bala, ' a woman yogi who never eats.
He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring certain parts of Poe's " The Raven ".
A very traditional woman of the 15th c. Moscovy style aristocracy: a pious follower of Orthodox Christianity, woven with folk tales and falsehoods.
) Anodos then meets a woman and her daughter who believe in fairy tales and the magic of Fairy Land, despite the unbelief of the woman's husband.
Early persecuted heroines were often driven from their husbands ' homes by the persecutations of their mothers-in-law, whose motives are seldom delineated, and whose accusations are of the heroines ' having borne monstrous children, or committed infanticide, or practicing witchcraft — all of which appear in such fairy tales as The Girl Without Hands and many others ; but, as time progresses, a new persecutor appeared: a courtier who was rejected by the woman or whose ambition requires her removal, and who accuses her of adultery or high treason, motifs not duplicated in fairy tales, and while he never eliminates the mother-in-law, many romances such as Valentine and Orson have later variants that change from the mother-in-law to the courtier, whereas a more recent version never goes back.
In Irish Immrama (" voyage ") tales, a beautiful young woman often approaches the hero and sings to him of this happy land.
There are other tales about noppera-bō, from a young woman rescued from bandits by a samurai on horseback whose face disappears ; to stories of nobles heading out for a tryst with another, only to discover the courtesan is being impersonated by a noppera-bō.

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