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...der and Bonpland, Aime (Translated and Edited by Ross, Thomasina) Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Years 1799-1804

...inal Wars'' using stock footage from ''Varan the Unbelievable'' during the narrative at the beginning, claiming that Varan was one of many monsters that arose d

According to the narrative from the ''Devi Mahatmya'' of the ''Markandeya Purana'', the form of Durga *[http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/durga Durga - Narrative Art of an 'Independent' Warrior Goddess]

...ry (Oct., 1885). ''A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883''. The American Naturalist

...mester if your roommate kills himself. While such "facts" may not have the narrative elements of traditional legend, they are passed from person to person and g ...a friend of somebody else. This apparent accountability adds force to the narrative and personalizes it. Since people, unconsciously or otherwise, often exagg

...to Egypt two-hundred fifty years before Napoleon’s expedition published a narrative of his travels in 1553.

...of a live blue tiger. Another account of the same hunt is contained in "A Narrative Of Exploration, Adventure, And Sport In Little-Known China" written by his *Chapman Andrews, Roy (1925). Camps & Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China. Appleton. HTML

Livingstone, D. and C.,- ''Narrative of an Expedition to the

...day life. Folklore frequently ties the practical and the esoteric into one narrative package. It has often been conflated with mythology, and vice versa, becaus ...performance]]. Folklorists generally resist universal interpretations of [[narrative]]s and, wherever possible, analyze [[oral]] versions of tellings in specifi

..."The Franklyn Paragraphs", which effectively uses Lovecraft's documentary narrative technique without slipping into parody of his writing style. Other tales, s ...fe Place'' (1995), use well-drawn characters and a highly charged thriller narrative to examine social problems such as the deprivation and abuse of children.

A '''legend''' (Latin, ''legenda'', "things to be read") is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take pl ...st blurred extended (and essentially Protestant) sense of a non-historical narrative or myth was first recorded in 1613. By emphasizing the ''un''realistic char

...account of Keshi's death which parallels the Bhagavata Purana account. The narrative of Arishta's death, Narada's disclosure to Kamsa and the subsequent orderin

...ements of myth, folklore, and popular traditions fused with epic, Crusader narrative, knightly romance, and Christian doctrine, all to glorify and uphold the pr

...iller written and directed by Courtney Solomon. It is closely based on the narrative presented by author Brent Monahan in his novel, The Bell Witch: An American

...ery fond. He was very vain and concerned with fashion, and would pause mid-narrative to remind the reader what he was wearing. Sexually ambiguous, he was attrac

...thology, the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, the Hittite "Kingship in Heaven" narrative, and the obscure generational conflict in Ugaritic fragments.

===The classic narrative=== The most famous golem narrative involves Rabbi [[Judah Low ben Bezalel|Judah Loew the Maharal]] of Prague,

...William Veeder, suggest that "Carmilla", notably in its outlandish use of narrative frames, was an important influence on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.

*Huntington, Rania. ''Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative.''

...and the reader's own disbelief is actively solicited by a highly intrusive narrative voice which constantly reminds us (e.g. by referring to Creed as "our hero"

...rasier either heard "Lanzelet" or some daughter of the parent snake-maiden narrative. Up until the mid 19th century scholars believed that the "Laidly Worm" was

...fashioned by means of another stone."</blockquote> "Magellan's Voyage : A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation"

...himself, and invites him onto his boat. The narrative of Walton is a frame narrative that allows for the story of Victor to be related. At the same time, Walto

...s then had to herd the cattle back to Eurystheus. In Roman versions of the narrative, on the Aventine hill in Italy, Cacus stole some of the cattle as Heracles

The Morrígan's earliest narrative appearances, in which she is depicted as an individual, are in stories of t

...eya Skanda in considerable detail. The ''Skanda Purana'' is devoted to the narrative of Kartikeya.

*1977 – The narrative song "Nosferatu" closes the album Spectres by Blue Öyster Cult.

...uch themes as the human experience; artistic endeavour; myths, stories and narrative; and also as reference to Nietzsche with his contrast of the eternal Dionys *[http://www.empirecontact.com/narrative/dionysus.html "Dionysus"], a narrative poem by Michael J. Farrand.

...ry of English Folklore| year=2000| pages= 254}}</ref>. Not every religious narrative is a myth however; unless it is deeply rooted in tradition, it may also be ...t Graves said of Greek myth: "True myth may be defined as the reduction to narrative shorthand of ritual mime performed on public festivals, and in many cases r

...Egypt in Cyrenaica. To the unit of soldiers, according to the hagiographic narrative, was assigned the name numerus Marmaritarum or ''Unit of the Marmaritae'',

...ociations with the Nemaean lion may derive from recreating the surrounding narrative to suit an order in which the tale of the Hydra follows that of the lion.

...to talk on the subject and only after much "higgling and persuasion" was a narrative forthcoming.

...correlation between the draugr and the monster Grendel in the Old English narrative poem Beowulf.

...ics have questioned the accuracy (and even the reality) of Rawicz's escape narrative.

...legend Asmodai changed place for some years with King Solomon. An aggadic narrative describes him as the king of all the shades (Pesachim 109b-112a). Another p

...tinctly. Rather, he paraphrased them and rewrote them into one continuous narrative that covered five volumes, followed by two volumes of footnotes that give s

In this novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a w

...Anson states: "There is simply too much independent corroboration of their narrative to support the speculation that [the Lutzes] either imagined or fabricated

...modern Wiccan Rede specifically forbids its practitioners to do. The whole narrative of Saul's visit to the witch of En Dor (I Samuel 28) implies belief in the

* [[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket|An Animal]] Imagined by Poe - A small, fl

...cal traditions and is best understood not as a principle of evil, but as a narrative character in the context of "the Combat Myth". Forsyth tells the Devil's st

...the Biblical commentators in classical Judaism is that the serpent of the narrative in Genesis was literally a serpent. They differ regarding what it represent

'''Science fiction''' is a genre of fiction in which at least part of the narrative depends on the impact of science, either real or imagined, to generate sett

Note: The Russian narrative, normally very favorable to Vlad, indicates that even in captivity he could

...acula also adopted Catholicism. It is interesting to note that the Russian narrative, normally very favorable to Dracula, indicates that even in captivity he co

* This, in turn, leads to the Law of Narrative Causality - things happen for the good of the story. Dragons breathe fire b

...tion of fabricated newspaper clippings, trial transcripts and documents as narrative devices. King's invented trio of afflicted New England towns Jerusalem's Lo

...k, ''Barlowe's Inferno'', containing paintings of Hell and an accompanying narrative, is partially inspired by Dante's ''Inferno''.