An Ethiopian tale holds that when a goat farmer discovered coffee, monks tried to destroy the drug by burning it.
An old tale holds that the paintings were seized in the mid-Atlantic from a Spanish ship by English pirates, but with no evidence on that account.
Offstage, one horrific tale holds that some combination of members of the band and their road crew whiled away an evening in a Seattle hotel inserting fish of disputed species into a woman's vagina.
Both Hood and Wood agree that, now that this story is known from Siberia, the next thing to do is to see if the tale holds true at other sites around the world.
A North Carolinian tale holds that Teach's skull was used as the basis for a silver drinking chalice; a local judge even claimed to have drunk from it one night in the 1930s.
Grossman, who reviewed "The Buried Giant" for Time, is a former book critic and tech writer; he is also working on a retelling of the Arthurian tale in part because he wants to see how what may be the best-known fantasy tale holds up as the genre has changed in its struggle to survive.
Marguerite's collection of tales held together in a narrative frame is one of the major landmarks in the creation of the modern French realist novel.
NANOOK OF THE NORTH, produced by Robert J. Flaherty, F. R. G. S., for Revillon Freres; "My Country," one of Robert C. Brace's "Wilderness Tales," held for a second week.
So he did the food book, a series of highly coloured, moralistic folk tales held together by the common theme of human ingestion.
Subseries 3, Hengwrt Chaucer Facsimile, contains positive photostats of the Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript, a late 14th-century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales held in the National Library of Wales.
Librarians from the start took a proprietary interest in the classic fairy tales, holding them up as touchstones of child-appropriate narrative art; since 1938, nearly one-third of all Caldecott Medals have gone to the illustrators of books based on these traditional tales.
