The stories of Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, and John Henry.
It would generally not be considered a fairy tale.
"The Tale of Melibee" and "The Parson's Tale" were the two stories in the Canterbury Tales that were written in prose instead of verse.
The legend of Zorro is really a series of stories written by Johnston McCully in 1918. From these spawned a host of retellings and sequels from movies to television series.
IMBd lists 268 titles of Edgar Allen Poe's that have been made into movies. A few of them are: The Mask of the Red Death, A Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, Morella, The Tomb, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
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because he came up with all these crazy stories yes from parts of history but he twisted them into a strange or crazy tale. Also when he would get bored with words used daily he would come up with a new one (Crocodile, eyeball, ect.)
A Vietnamese folk tale would be a story that Vietnamese people entertained adults and children with for hundreds of years. An example would be Thich Nhat Hanh's book, The Dragon Prince: Stories and Legends From Vietnam.
The cast of A Tale of Twenty Stories - 1915 includes: Ben Corbett May Emory Hank Mann as Hank Vin Moore
Stories from My Childhood - 1998 Beauty and the Beast - A Tale of the Crimson Flower - 1.10 was released on: USA: 1998
The translation of "The Tale of Genji" by Edward Seidensticker is considered the best by many scholars and readers.
One of the oldest written stories is the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem dating back to around 2100 BC. It is considered one of the earliest surviving works of literature and tells the tale of King Gilgamesh's quest for immortality.
Uncle Septimus Beard is often considered a tall tale due to the exaggerated and fantastical nature of the stories surrounding him, such as his ability to wrestle bears or tame wild mustangs with a single glance. These stories often stretch believability and are passed down as folklore rather than true accounts.