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DINNERLADY @lazydaizee (6732) • United Kingdom 18 Nov 19

I managed to read this book during the course of the weekend because it was not a very long story, and I found it hard to put down because I wanted to find out what happened in the end. It is sort of like a modern day folk story...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Parsons Tale And Chaucers Retraction

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 31 May 18

The last, and longest story in the collection, and disgracefully, the second Canterbury tale which Penguin classics translator Nevill Coghill refused to include in his collection, as he did with The Tale of Melibee. As a result, I...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Canons Yeomans Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 25 May 18

Prologue - The Canon and his Yeoman were not with the rest of the Canterbury pilgrims when they first set off on their journey, but dramatically catch up with the party at this point in the narrative. The Yeoman boasts that the...

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Tales around the camp fire

Inlemay @Inlemay (17712) • South Africa 26 Jan 18

"It was this tradition of telling stories around the campfire that gave birth to oral traditions, where information is passed on through the spoken word to the younger generations, so that events are captured and...

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Tell Tale

shaloo walia @swalia (1385) • India 4 Jan 18

I am on the verge of finishing my first book for the year- Tell Tale by Jeffery Archer. It is a collection of short stories. However I find the book quite average and some of the stories failed to generate any interest. Have you...

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Is It True?

Morley Hunt @Morleyhunt (21741) • Canada 11 Dec 17

My husband likes to tease our five year old grand daughter Sandra. Last week the clippers were at the back door waiting to be taken out to the garden shed. My husband picked them up and started to trim his fingernails. He then...

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 8 Apr 17

Day 212 Proverbs 20:19 Proverbs 20:19 He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips. Can you be trusted? If someone tells you something in confidence, can you...

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Barefoot, both ways, across the snow.

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 27 Jan 17

I am not sure if this fabled tale would be something other areas of the world would have heard from their own grandparents. I do know, atleast as it relates to the Southern States, that many of us would have heard this told to us...

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Local nonsense

Claire Raymond @Clairelouiser (683) • United Kingdom 9 Jan 17

I live in a place very rich in mythology and legend which I love, it is historically significant and culturally fascinating. But it is also a little bit silly at times, for example, word has it that a beast roams on the moors...

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Barbie and charms school

Aditya sharma @spaceseed (2843) • India 5 Dec 16

My daughters were watching this animated movie on youtube. then my wife joined them, and after ten minutes I realized..All four of us are enjoying this movie. Rightly said everyone has some kind of qualities and charm to be...

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The Buckley Heinous Crime!

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 10 May 16

I was perusing facebook just a few minutes ago when I came across something which gives me pause. I am still not sure what to think about it . It was a photograph with a caption underneath recounting the crime committed by two...

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He was struck by lightning and then burst into flames!

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 1 Mar 16

But not before beheading his daughter. Barbara was a beautiful woman with many men lusting after her. Her father did not like the men lusting after her, but furthermore did not want her converting to Christianity. Locking her in...

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Creiddylad in Welsh Mythology

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 17 Feb 16

Creiddylad is the Welsh Goddess of love and flowers. Her story is sort of a sad one. She was promised to one man but stolen by another. The man she was promised to was also the man she truly loved. He set off to rescue her and...

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Mythology and Tales (two books I need to read)

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 16 Feb 16

Pictured are two books that I have and need to start reading. I have read a bit out of "The Mabinogion" which is a book full of Welsh Tales. The other, smaller book, I've only skimmed through a bit. According to the Publisher's...

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Writing For A Living

Anna @LadyDuck (502569) • Italy 12 Dec 15

Yesterday I watched for the second time the movie "The Raven", it's about the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Watching the "Bonus" on the DVD, I learned that Edgar Allan Poe has been the first well-known American writer, to write for a...

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ghost tours

Lenore Plassman @sallypup (69183) • Centralia, Washington 8 Oct 15

When we visit a city like Victoria, British Columbia or New Orleans in the states, we like to sign up for ghost tours. Its a fun way to interact with the locals and get in some history while taking a walk. I really liked...

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pride and vanity

winterose @winterose (39887) • Canada 14 Jul 12

pride or vanity is portrayed as a negative thing in many cultures. The Greeks have a myth about Narcissus. He thought he was so beautiful that he would gaze into the river to see his reflection. Well one day he bent down a little...

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What kind of short stories do you write?

leafygreens08 @leafygreens08 (754) • United States 29 Jun 12

Writers have their favorite genres. Mine is mostly medieval fantasy romances. I am fascinated by the medieval and renaissance periods. Even though I am writing books now for the time being, I still enjoy writing short stories and...

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Pregnant and curious!

cjfoust @cjfoust (614) • United States 19 Feb 12

I am 15 weeks pregnant and cannot wait to find out the gender of the baby. I have done several of those gender tests online just for fun but am curious if any mylotters have any insight on the subject? I know in the end I will...

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What was your favourite traditional fairy tale as a child?

hvedra @hvedra (1619) 22 Nov 11

I really loved Beauty and the Beast. I had an old Ladybird book that had some beautiful illustrations - proper paintings, not the cartoons and line drawings you get nowadays. I think what I really loved about it was that Beauty...

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