Tales in a sentence

Literary fairy tales and oral fairy tales freely exchanged plots, motifs, and elements with one another and with the tales of foreign lands.

Zipes, When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition, p. 47. The Brothers Grimm titled their collection Children's and Household Tales and rewrote their tales after complaints that they were not suitable for children.

Some movies were based on one or more fairy tales without being literal adaptations of them, giving new life to these classic tales.

The tales themselves are the actual tales that were told, Joel Chandler Harris just, essentially, transcribed them.

For example, several Irish tales have very strong similarities to Greek tales.

Editions AdA published Godbout's novel as part of its series "Contes interdits" — Forbidden Tales — which recasts classic fairy tales as horror stories.

Lou just released a new book called Sonic Warrior: My Life as a Rock N Roll Reprobate: Tales of Sex, Drugs, and Vomiting at Inopportune Moments, and shares tales of smoking up with Snoop Dogg and going to the arctic circle with Metallica.

Though the new Tales takes themes from the eighth book in the Tales series, 2010's Mary in Autumn, some storylines are changed, new characters are added and others you might expect to be there never show up.

Although Straparola's, Basile's and Perrault's collections contain the oldest known forms of various fairy tales, on the stylistic evidence, all the writers rewrote the tales for literary effect.

A quarter of the tales in The Canterbury Tales parallel a tale in the Decameron, although most of them have closer parallels in other stories.

Chaucer uses the same meter throughout almost all of his tales, with the exception of Sir Thopas and his prose tales.

Concurrently with the first years of Sesame Street, Henson directed Tales from Muppetland, a short series of TV movie specials — in the form of comedic telling of classic fairy tales — aimed at a young audience and hosted by Kermit the Frog.

Despite von Armin's unease, none of the tales were eliminated from the collection, in the brothers' belief that all the tales were of value and reflected inherent cultural qualities.

Each of the tales has its own set of sources that have been suggested by scholars, but a few sources are used frequently over several tales.

Even though most Maya tales are the results of an historical process in which Spanish narrative traditions interacted with native ones, some of the tales reach back well into pre-Spanish times.

Fairy tales and poetry His initial attempts at writing fairy tales were revisions of stories that he heard as a child.

Folk tales During the first few years of the 20th Century, Herminie T. Kavanagh wrote down many Irish folk tales which she published in magazines and in two books.

General themes and points of view arise as the characters tell their tales, which are responded to by other characters in their own tales, sometimes after a long lapse in which the theme has not been addressed.

Hence, Weird Tales may only have owned the rights to at most six of Lovecraft's tales.

He says that the gatherings of royalty and warriors on Samhain may simply have been an ideal setting for such tales, in the same way that many Arthurian tales are set at courtly gatherings at Christmas or Pentecost.