Sentence examples for local tales from inspiring English sources

"She was a natural storyteller, enjoying gossip among friends, listening carefully to local tales.

Bands play; a wild boar is hunted; villagers recount local tales of drunken mayhem.

Not only that, but he regales me with endless local tales.

The local tales coming from its community of boutiques are as important as the products by the latest undiscovered designer.

The stories Curtis has collected are a carefully threaded remix of local tales recorded during incursions into the wood.

The Chinese took Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf and the Kids and blended it with local tales, he argued.

Jahanzaib Khan Khichi dismissed as "mere rumor" the local tale that his grandfather Yar Khan Khichi, who was also a politician, died of poisoning.

The old local tale of whimpering children was given some substance in the 1960s when archaeologists excavating the Roman fort found a number of babies' skeletons.

But this 67th edition might be remembered for a very local tale and one of the unlikeliest documentaries that's ever hooked me.

The structure was apparently inspired by a local tale of a woman whose wedding was cancelled after her legs had to be amputated following a disease, to then live out her days in a church.

"Dylan Thomas's Fern Hill" provides just the text of that poem, pictures of the Welsh farmhouse in question and a nearby creek, and a brief recounting of a local tale about the farm.