Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

Or, the tale of Madai's original inheritance in Phrygia might preserve an older tradition of identifying Madai with Midas and the Phrygians.

While Punch and Judy, as with the tale of Robin Hood, might follow no one fixed storyline, there are nevertheless episodes common to many recorded versions.

Folklorists have attempted to determine the origin by internal evidence, which can not always be clear ; Joseph Jacobs, comparing the Scottish tale The Ridere of Riddles with the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, The Riddle, noted that in The Ridere of Riddles one hero ends up polygamously married, which might point to an ancient custom, but in The Riddle, the simpler riddle might argue greater antiquity.

The tale of his involvement in the conspiracy might be seen as at least partial justification for the murder of Aurelian himself under circumstances that seem remarkably similar to those in this story.

Finally, the group might applaud the tale and move onto another subject or activity.

For example, one legend tells the tale of a peasant born with a dragon birthmark who eventually overthrows the existing dynasty and founds a new one ; another legend might tell of the prince in hiding from his enemies who is identified by his dragon birthmark.

Ready to return to France in early May 1536, Cartier decided to take Chief Donnacona to France, so that he might personally tell the tale of a country further north, called the " Kingdom of Saguenay ", said to be full of gold, rubies and other treasures.

Each of the seven hundred members of staff at the time received a synopsis of the Goethe tale, and were encouraged to complete a twenty-question form that requested their ideas on what action might take place.

They suggested that such descriptions of Moloch might be simply taken from accounts of the sacrifice to Cronus and from the tale of the Minotaur ; They found no evidence of a bull-headed Phoenician god.

All these coincidences add up to the assumption that Geoffrey duplicated the story of the invitation of the Saxons, and that the tale of Guithelinus the archbishop might possibly give us some insight into the background of Vortigern before his rise to power.

It has to be said that this speculation depends on a knowledge of China that the teller of a folk tale ( as opposed to a geographic expert ) might well not possess, and that a deliberately exotic setting is in any case a common storytelling device.

The reasons an author might choose the roman à clef format include satire ; writing about controversial topics and / or reporting inside information on scandals without giving rise to charges of libel ; the opportunity to turn the tale the way the author would like it to have gone ; the opportunity to portray personal, autobiographical experiences without having to expose the author as the subject ; avoiding self-incrimination or incrimination of others that could be used as evidence in civil, criminal, or disciplinary proceedings ; and the settling of scores.

According to Rebecca Langlands, Cordus's story "... is a tale which vividly demonstrates the possibility that a text might be received in a way which the author had not intended or anticipated, and be received in a way which might have dire consequences for author and text.

This is a wild but beautiful spot, among rough boulders and soft pines, about which the most weird and fantastic tale might be woven.

Myths aside, the historian James McClymont believes that another family tale might hold clues to the true origin of Cabral's family.

There is the Children of Húrin, the tragic tale of Túrin Turambar and his sister Níniel – of which Túrin is the hero: a figure that might be said ( by people who like that sort of thing, though it is not very useful ) to be derived from elements in Sigurd the Volsung, Oedipus, and the Finnish Kullervo.

But with these songs, I think we really wanted to paint a picture lyrically that might be seen as a cautionary tale.

Some modern critics have inferred from this, that a few of the Julii might have settled in Rome in the reign of the first king ; but considering the entirely fabulous nature of the tale, and the circumstance that the celebrity of the Julia gens in later times would easily lead to its connection with the earliest times of Roman story, no historical argument can be drawn from the mere name occurring in this legend.

To show how Indo-European might have looked he created a short tale, Schleicher's fable, to exemplify the reconstructed vocabulary and aspects of Indo-European society inferred from it.

This sentiment was echoed in The Queen: The Lady's Newspaper, with the reviewer pronouncing that " this is a tale in the hands of a writer not so able as Mr. Haggard might easily have become absurd ; but he has treated it with so much vividness and picturesque power as to invest it with unflagging interest, and given to the mystery a port of philosophic possibility that makes us quite willing to submit to the illusion.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

Many artists, including Martin Schongauer, Hieronymus Bosch, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí, have depicted these incidents from the life of Anthony ; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert in The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

As they themselves have no sight, they wish to deprive the traveler of his own eyes in this allegorical tale of stagnation.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

Some scholars have doubted the accuracy of this tale, saying among other things that the method would have required precise measurements that would have been difficult to make at the time.

In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".

Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) tells a dystopic tale of a society in which women have been systematically stripped of all liberty, and was motivated by fear of potential retrogressive effects on women's rights stemming from the anti-feminist backlash of the 1980s.

Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow ( 1877 ), which has " let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine " ( cited after OED ).

At times it may have romance that unfolds in the setting of a horror tale, usually suspenseful.

Ulysses must have been thought a liar for his tale of the Laestrygonians or the Cyclopes.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

This sarpasattra material was often considered an independent tale added to a version of the Mahabharata by " thematic attraction " ( Minkowski 1991 ), and considered to have a particularly close connection to Vedic ( Brahmana ) literature.

Cinthio's tale may have been based on an actual incident occurring in Venice about 1508.

The widespread recourse to the auctioneer tale appears to have favored an interpretation of perfect competition as meaning price taking always, i. e. also at non-equilibrium prices ; but this is rejected e. g. by Arrow ( 1959 ) or Mas-Colell et al.

While the Victorian version of the show drew on the morality of its day, the Punch & Judy College of Professors considers that the 20th-and 21st-century versions of the tale have evolved into something more akin to a primitive version of The Simpsons, in which a bizarre family is used as vehicle for grotesque visual comedy and a sideways look at contemporary society.

The legend of Pope Joan was " effectively demolished " by David Blondel, a mid-17th century Protestant historian, who suggested that Pope Joan's tale may have originated in a satire against Pope John XI, who died in his early 20s.

Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by Zadig when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which Poe called a " tale of ratiocination " and which established the modern detective fiction genre.