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The man transferred the webbing around a tree stump, which was dragged into the falls instead of him. [1] After that, people of the village dared not venture close to the falls anymore. Then one day, a visiting woodcutter who was a stranger to this all tried to cut a tree and mistakenly dropped his favorite axe into the basin.
There are several stories regarding how the Furutsubaki-no-rei was born. One story tells of a great tree that looked past over a village well hidden inside the forest. The tree grew beautiful flowers alongside those around it for many decades. One day, a young man found the tree and plucked one of its flowers, due to its magnificent beauty.
The UK and US versions of her semi-autobiographical narrative were published posthumously in 1933 under the title Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. [9] [10] A film inspired by her life, The Danish Girl, was released in 2015. An opera based on her life, Lili Elbe, composed by Tobias Picker, premiered in 2023. [11] [12] [13]
Diarmuid reassured her and told her she could sleep all night and that he would protect her. Towards dawn, he became aware that she had become a beautiful young woman. The next day, the Loathly Lady rewarded Diarmuid's kindness by offering him his greatest wish—a house overlooking the sea. Overjoyed, Diarmuid asked the woman to live with him.
Have no fear: People in this world are still capable of performing selfless acts, and a Florida man named Cesar Larios did just that when he turned himself into a human chair. 'The 23-year-old ...
In some versions, after the death of Procris, Cephalus asked an oracle whether he would have offspring. The oracle told him that in order to get children, he should mate with the first female being he saw. Right after Cephalus encountered a she-bear and mated with her. The she-bear then turned into a human woman, who bore him a son, Arcesius.
Book cover of A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India "A Flowering Tree" is a short story written by A. K. Ramanujan in his 1997 book A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. In actuality, it is a Karnataka folklore told by women which was translated by A. K. Ramanujan from Kannada to English. The story was collected in ...
A race of magical creatures called Veela appear in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, and are extraordinarily beautiful women who become frightening bird-like creatures when angered. Vergere in The New Jedi Order book series, part of the Star Wars expanded universe, is of the Fosh species, whose tears can be used as poison or healing.