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A pourquoi story [a] (French pronunciation: ⓘ; "pourquoi" meaning "why" in French) is a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is, for example why snakes have no legs or why tigers have striped coats. Many legends, origin myths and folk tales are pourquoi stories.
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale is a 1975 children's picture book by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Published in hardcover by Dial Books for Young Readers it is told in the form of a cumulative tale written for young children , which tells an African legend.
Others claim he may have been a teacher of Pythagoras, a student of Pittacus, or a well-traveled autodidact who had studied secret Phoenician books. Pherecydes wrote a book on cosmogony, known as the "Pentemychos" [a] or "Heptamychos" [b]. He was considered the first writer to communicate philosophical ideas in prose as opposed to verse ...
"A Report to an Academy" (German: "Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917.In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation.
Just-so story – Unverifiable narrative explanation; List of national founders – List of people credited with creating the state; Mythomoteur – Constitutive myth of an ethnic group; National myth – Inspiring narrative about a nation's past; Origin story – Plot device; Pourquoi story – Narrative that explains why something is the way ...
In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an untestable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative [ 1 ] nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the listener of the fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation.
Eglė the Queen of Serpents, statue in Glebe Park, Canberra. Eglė the Queen of Serpents, alternatively Eglė the Queen of Grass Snakes (Lithuanian: Eglė žalčių karalienė), is a Lithuanian folk tale, first published by M. Jasewicz in 1837.
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories such as, "That fish was so big, why, I tell ya, it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in