11 sentences with “tales”

He was passionate about tales of chivalry and honor.

He was a great storyteller and all his tales were very interesting. He often sat at the kitchen table and told us stories of fairies, goblins, and elves.

There are also tales of ghosts visiting their families.

The Brothers Grimm collected dozens of folk ("fairy") tales and published them in the first definitive collection in German.

In these stories he created curious Chinese parables, a seemingly police narrative that turned into a nightmare, and some tales of pathetic realism.

Also, women were not generally isolated from men in normal social discourse, with several Greek tales including moments of casual interaction between men and women.

Likewise, both Greek myths and epic tales are full of hostility and suspicion of assertive and intelligent women, celebrating instead women who dutifully served their husbands or fathers.

These folk traditions, from folk songs to fairy tales to the remnants of pre-Christian pagan practices, were the "true" expression of a national spirit that had supposedly lain dormant for centuries.

Many of these tales, from Sleeping Beauty to Cinderella, are better known in American culture thanks to their adaptation as animated films by Walt Disney in the 20th century, but they were already famous in the mid-19th century.

Sailors' tales of fabulous monsters and fantastic literature about exotic worlds filled with gold, silver and jewels captured the minds of men who wished to explore these lands and return with untold wealth and the glory of adventure and discovery.

It also terrified Europeans, who heard travellers' tales of non-Christian "Tartars" in the east who had crushed all opposition, and in Russia it created a complex political situation in which the native Slavic peoples were forced to pay tribute to the Mongol overlords.