See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story; the word is See also:

• COMMON

common to many See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. See also:

• TAAL

taal, speech, See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language)  , a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• TERM

term, in the usual See also:

• ACCEPTANCE (Lat. acceptare, frequentative form of accipere, to receive)

acceptance of the word, for fictitious narratives, See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long or See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short, See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient or See also:

• MODERN

modern (see NovEL) . In this See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article " See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale " is used in a stricter sense, as See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German " Volks-marchen " or the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French " See also:

• CONTE

conte populaire." Thus understood, popular tales mean the stories handed down by oral tradition from an unknown antiquity, among See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

savage and civilized peoples . So understood, popular tales are a subject in See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, and indeed in the general study of the development of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, of which the full See also:

• INTEREST

interest and importance was long unrecognized . Popular tales won their way into literature, it is true, at a very distant See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . The Homeric epics, especially the Odyssey, contain adventures (those, for example, of the Cyclops and the See also:

• HUSBAND

husband who returns in disguise) which are manifestly parts of the general human stock of popular narrative . Other examples are found in the Rigveda, and in the myths which were handled by the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek dramatists . Collections of popular tales, more or less subjected to conscious See also:

• LITERARY

literary treatment, are found in See also:

• SANSKRIT

Sanskrit, as in the See also:

• WORK

work of Somadeva, whose See also:

• KATHA

Katha Sarit Sagara, or " Ocean of the Streams of See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

Story," has been translated by Mr Tawney (See also:

• CALCUTTA

Calcutta, 188o) .