The traditional tale type involves a young girl in a white dress picked up alongside of the road by a passerby.

A tale from Pritchard's book involves an occasion when Twm is staying in an inn overnight and realises other people are planning to rob him the following day after he sets off.

The following tale, by the Miller, also involves the conflict between two men over a woman.

It involves dressing up, usually to impersonate someone or something, like an animal or character in a fairy tale.

Now begins a portion of the tale which involves intense industrial competition.

Kien An's tale involves various personal tragedies and how poetry can triumph and provide respite for the human soul.

As an example, one tale involves rescuing a princess held captive in a land East of the Sun and West of the Moon.

According to Grewell, whose definition of science fiction focuses on the struggle between supposedly superior and inferior life forms, " part of the tale that qualifies it as science fiction, rather than as fantasy or imaginative fiction, involves Lucian and his seamen in a battle for territorial and colonization rights:

Another tale reveals that Halloween in Bizarro World involves trick-or-treaters giving fruit to the houses they visit.

* Urashima Tarō, an early Japanese tale, involves traveling forward in time to a distant future, and was first described in the Nihongi ( 720 ).

The story is narrated by Laura, one of the two main protagonists of the tale.

All these theories centre on two battles in Estonia, Fellin ( 1208 ) or Lyndanisse ( 1219 ), and thus try to explain the origin in relation to the tale brought forth over 300 years after the event.

After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.

In the first story of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Die Wichtelmänner, the title protagonists are two naked mannequins, which help a shoemaker in his work.

Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.

High further states that Njörðr's wife is Skaði, that she is the daughter of the jötunn Þjazi, and recounts a tale involving the two.

The first is an otherwise obscure incident of the Trojan War, the " Quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles "; the second is the amusing tale of a love affair between two Olympian gods, Ares and Aphrodite.

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.

In one tale, Asmodeus brought a man with two heads from under the earth to show Solomon ; the man, unable to return, married a woman from Jerusalem and had seven sons, six of whom resembled the mother, while one resembled the father in having two heads.

Much of the prior history of Milan was the tale of the struggle between two political factions — the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.

* Hume, Andrew A tale of two greps, Software — Practice and Experience 18, ( 11 ), 1063 – 1072 ( 1988 ).

Although the Mabinogion tale The Dream of Macsen Wledig is written in later manuscripts than Geoffrey's version, the two accounts are so different that scholars agree the Dream cannot be based purely on Geoffrey's version.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

* War and reconciliation: a tale of two countries

The source of the subplot involving Gloucester, Edgar, and Edmund is a tale in Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, with a blind Paphlagonian king and his two sons, Leonatus and Plexitrus.

Opinions vary on the artistic value of the resulting production: some see Welles's mercilessly pared-down script ( the running time was around 100 minutes without an interval, several characters were eliminated, dialogue was moved around and borrowed from other plays, and the final two acts were reduced to a single scene ) as a radical and innovative way of cutting away peripheral elements of Shakespeare's tale ; others thought Welles's version was a mangled and lobotomised version of Shakespeare's tragedy which lacked the psychological depth of the original.

According to Gregory of Tours ( 538 – 594 ), Chilperic II was slain by his brother Gundobad in 493, and his wife drowned with a stone hung around her neck, while of his two daughters, Chrona took the veil and Clotilde was exiled-it is, however, assumed that this tale is apocryphal.

Some noted appearances of the animal in literature include the short story Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler is a tale of bureaucratic incompetence ; two guinea pigs held at a train station breed unchecked while humans argue as to whether they are " pigs " for the purpose of determining freight charges.

Because of the Egyptian location wherein the scene is staged, it is not impossible to scope in this biblical tale also a more recent echo of the very old Egyptian fable of the two brothers Bata and Anpu.

In addition, Heimskringla reports a tale involving king Sveigðir's visit to Vanaheimr, where he meets a woman by the name of Vana and the two produce a child named Vanlandi ( whose name means " Man from the Land of the Vanir ").

In chapter 23 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High details that Njörðr's wife is Skaði, that she is the daughter of the jötunn Þjazi, and recounts a tale involving the two.

Dickens both loved and demonised his father, and it was this psychological conflict that was responsible for the two radically different Scrooges in the tale – one Scrooge, a cold, stingy, and greedy semi-recluse, and the other Scrooge, a benevolent, sociable man whose generosity and goodwill toward all men earn for him a near-saintly reputation.

The narrator ( s ) rely on relics and interviews gathered in the two decades after the suicide to construct the tale.

The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm in 1812.

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 urban legend that Coca-Cola developed the drink Fanta to sell in Nazi Germany without public backlash originated as the actual tale of German Max Keith, who invented the drink and ran Coca-Cola's operations in Germany during World War II.

They went on to publish works about Danish and Irish folk tales and Norse mythology, while continuing to edit the German folk tale collection.

Some folklorists prefer to use the German term Märchen or " wonder tale " to refer to the genre over fairy tale, a practice given weight by the definition of Thompson in his 1977 edition of The Folktale: " a tale of some length involving a succession of motifs or episodes.

The German term " Märchen " stems from the old German word " Mär ", which means story or tale.

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.

Little Briar-Rose appears to stem from Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, as the Grimms ' tale appears to be the only independent German variant.

Translated from the original German, this vampire tale appeared in the English magazine Odds and Ends in ( 1860 ).

Liet here means lay, tale or epic rather than simply song, as it would in Modern German.

In the German tale Diu Crône, Guinevere's brother Gotegrim kidnaps her and intends to kill her for refusing to marry Gasozein, who claims to be her rightful husband.

In the German tale, Wizalois, the mother of his son is known as Florie, who is likely another version of the Lorie of Rigomer.

Among a dozen major scores for the theater are operatic settings of Shakespeare ( Der Sturm, in August Wilhelm Schlegel's German version-1955 ) and Molière ( Monsieur de Pourceaugnac-1962 ), and the satirical fairy tale La Nique à Satan ( Thumbing Your Nose at Satan-1931 ).

It is possible that originally Lancelot's tale did not include an affair with Guinevere, as the German Lanzelet knows nothing of it.

" Snow White " is a German fairy tale known in many countries in Europe.

The Grimm story, which is commonly referred to as " Snow White ", should not be confused with the story of " Snow White and Rose Red ", another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm ( in German " Schneeweißchen ", rather than " Schneewittchen ").

Andersen did not know the Spanish original but read the tale in a German translation titled " So ist der Lauf der Welt ".

The brothers considered rejecting the story on the grounds that it was derived from Perrault's version, but the presence of the Brynhild tale convinced them to include it as an authentically German tale.