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2. Feathertop - Wikipedia

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   1852. " Feathertop " is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1852. The moral tale uses a metaphoric scarecrow named Feathertop and its adventure to offer the reader a conclusive lesson about human character. It has since been used and adapted in several other media forms, such as opera and theatre.

3. Vanishing hitchhiker - Wikipedia

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   There is a similar story which is about two travellers sitting next to each other on a train (normally a man and a woman). One of them is reading a book and the other person asks what the book is about, and the first person says that it's about ghosts. They then have a conversation about ghosts, and the second person asks the first if the ...

4. Children of Lir - Wikipedia

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   The Children of Lir (1914) by John Duncan. The Children of Lir (Irish: Oidheadh chloinne Lir) is a legend from Irish mythology.It is a tale from the post-Christianisation period that mixes magical elements such as druidic wands and spells with a Christian message of Christian faith bringing freedom from suffering.

5. Folklore of the United States - Wikipedia

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   American folklore encompasses the folklore that has evolved in the present-day United States mostly since the European colonization of the Americas. It also contains folklore that dates back to the Pre-Columbian era. Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and ...

6. Legends (anthology) - Wikipedia

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   Legends II. Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy is a 1998 anthology of 11 novellas (short novels) by a number of English-language fantasy authors, edited by Robert Silverberg. [1] All the stories were original to the collection, and set in the authors' established fictional worlds. [2][3] The anthology won a Locus Award for ...

7. Egg of Columbus - Wikipedia

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   Egg of Columbus. An egg of Columbus or Columbus's egg (Italian: uovo di Colombo [ˈwɔːvo di koˈlombo]) refers to a seemingly impossible task that becomes easy once understood. The expression refers to an apocryphal story, dating from at least the 16th century, in which it is said that Christopher Columbus, having been told that finding a new ...