Sentence examples for tale collected from inspiring English sources

Rumpelstiltskin, German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm for their Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812 22).

Veneration of Njörðr survived into 18th or 19th century Norwegian folk practice, as recorded in a tale collected by Halldar O. Opedal from an informant in Odda, Hordaland, Norway.

On a typical day, Page Four offers about two dozen tales, collected from newspapers all over China.

Their book includes a timeline of Hurston's life and a bibliography of the children's folk tales collected by Hurston that have been adapted by various authors.

"It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware.

The tales collected under this title come from different cultural areas; their nucleus is of Indian origin, first translated into Persian as Hazār afsānak ("Thousand Tales") and then into Arabic.

Her words, including Southern folk tales collected by Hurston and read faithfully in dialect the way she had copied them down from her sources, complete with unsparing racial stereotypes of the day, drew occasional groans but mostly easy laughter.

Urban folklorists collect stories that have much in common with the tales collected by the Grimm brothers, except that in the modern narratives the lone traveler is likely to be threatened, not by a werewolf, but by a phantom hitchhiker, and the location of his danger may be a freeway rather than a forest.

When the tales collected by Giambattista Basile during his travels in Naples, Crete and Venice were published by his sister, with the title Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenimiento de peccerille ("the story of stories or the entertainment of little people") in 1634, two years after his death, they were found in Neapolitan dialect.

Tengu appear frequently in the orally-transmitted tales collected by Japanese folklorists.

Traditional tales collected by Gregorson Campbell were first published in the inaugural edition of the quarterly periodical the Scottish Celtic Review in March 1881.