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  2. Cautionary tale - Wikipedia

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    A cautionary tale or moral tale [1] is a tale told in folklore to warn its listener of a danger. There are three essential parts to a cautionary tale, though they can be introduced in a large variety of ways. First, a taboo or prohibition is stated: some act, location, or thing is said to be dangerous.

  3. List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights

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    Larry Niven, a Science Fiction & Fantasy author, wrote The Tale of the Jenni and the Sisters. It supposedly told another tale by Scheherazade, and appeared in his short story collection N-Space (short story collection) (1990). Craig Shaw Gardner wrote a trilogy: The Other Sinbad (1990), A Bad Day for Ali Baba (1991) and Scheherazade's Night Out ...

  4. The Pardoner's Tale - Wikipedia

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    The Pardoner initiates his Prologue—briefly accounting his methods of swindling people—and then proceeds to tell a moral tale. The tale itself is an extended exemplum . Setting out to kill Death, three young men encounter an Old Man who says they will find him under a nearby tree.

  5. The Twelve Dancing Princesses - Wikipedia

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    The Brothers Grimm learned the tale from their friends, the Haxthausens, who had heard the tale in Münster.Other versions were known in Hesse and Paderborn.In the Hesse version, only one princess is believed to be responsible for wearing out a dozen shoes every night until a young shoemaker's apprentice discovers that she is joined by eleven other princesses in the revels.

  6. List of 19th-century British children's literature titles ...

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    This is a list of 19th-century British children's literature titles, arranged by year of publication. Moral Tales for Young People (1801) by Maria Edgeworth " The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of A Family During a Tour Through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe ", Priscilla Wakefield (1801)

  7. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - Wikipedia

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    Based on the popular fairy tale of the same name, this parody includes as its main themes mocking the idea of anti-"speciesism" and the more radical branches and concepts of feminism (such as using the spelling "womyn" instead of "women" throughout, a pattern that is repeated in other stories in the book), and is one of the several stories in which the ending is completely altered from the ...

  8. The Red Shoes (fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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    The tale was republished 18 December 1849 as a part of Fairy Tales. 1850. (Eventyr. 1850.) and again on 30 March 1863 as a part of Fairy Tales and Stories. Second Volume. 1863. (Eventyr og Historier. Andet Bind. 1863.). [2] The story is about a girl forced to dance continually in her red shoes.

  9. Moral - Wikipedia

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    A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. [1] The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. [2] A moral is a lesson in a story or real life. [3]