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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Wikipedia

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    The tale was added to the story collection One Thousand and One Nights by one of its European translators, Antoine Galland, who called his volumes Les Mille et Une Nuits (1704–1717). Galland was an 18th-century French Orientalist who heard it in oral form from a Syrian Maronite story-teller called Hanna Diyab , who came from Aleppo in modern ...

  7. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...

  8. Never Bet the Devil Your Head - Wikipedia

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    "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Moral Tale" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1841. The satirical tale pokes fun at the notion that all literature should have a moral [ 1 ] and spoofs transcendentalism .

  9. 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)