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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.
In 1786, Goethe observed that The Chymical Wedding contains "a pretty fairy story" for which he had no time at the moment. [2] Rudolf Steiner, in his 1918 book Goethe's Standard of the Soul, speaks of it as follows: "On the river stands the Temple in which the marriage of the Young Man with the Lily takes place. The 'marriage' with the ...
Accounts of the stories have pre-colonial origins, but the name of the hero was Hispanized during the Spanish colonization. The original name of the hero has been lost in time. All versions of the story agree that Bernardo Carpio had a strength that was similar to that of many strong men-heroes in Asian epics, such as Lam-ang.
Why the Sea Is Salt (Norwegian: Kvernen som maler på havsens bunn; the mill that grinds at the bottom of the sea) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book (1889). [2]
A notable example is the myth of the foundation of Rome—the tale of Romulus and Remus, which Virgil in turn broadens in his Aeneid with the odyssey of Aeneas and his razing of Lavinium, and his son Iulus's later relocation and rule of the famous twins' birthplace Alba Longa, and their descent from his royal line, thus fitting perfectly into ...
The tale was translated into German language as Egle, die Schlangenkönigin by German professor Carl Cappeller in his book of Lithuanian folktales, [11] and as Das Weib des Schlangenmannes ("The Wife of the Snake-Man"), which was published in Mitteilungen der Litauischen literarischen Gesellschaft.
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.