A talltale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some talltales are exaggerations of actual events, for example...
season 4 of America's Next Top Model in 2005 as a lingerie model in the episode "The Girl Who Pushes Tyra Over the Edge". Returning to the United States...
critters were talltale animals jokingly said to inhabit the wilderness in or around logging camps, especially in the Great Lakes region. Today, the term may...
primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim. He is publicly censured...
southwestern Wyoming and was well known as a teller oftalltales. Fort Bridger later figured in the history ofthe Donner Party. Francis Buzzacott (1861-1947)...
Adventure (1952) and The Sabre and the Arrow (1953). Bridges returned to leads in TheTall Texan (1953) for Lippert Pictures. Bridges was in "The Long Way Home"...
folklore. His talltales revolve around his superhuman labors, and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, his pet and working animal. The character...
folk tales, suggesting that something real may have triggered the scares and became woven with existing folklore. He also records anecdotal talesof Mothman...
adaptations, as a tall, lanky individual. He is the local schoolmaster, and strongly believes in all things supernatural, including the legend ofthe Headless...
The following is a list of episodes ofthe family television anthology Faerie Tale Theatre, also known as Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre which ran...
Storm-a-long! Thetalltales about Stormalong first appeared in the 1911 book Here's Audacity! by Frank Shay. More tales appeared in the 1933 pamphlet...
World as Christy Mahon, Redgrave Theatre, Farnham (1994) TallTales for Small People (TallTales For Cold, Dark Nights), Communicado (Scotland) (1995) Eddie...
back to the Pre-Columbian era. Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, talltales, and...
made the leap to film in the 1948 Walt Disney animated feature Melody Time. He was portrayed by Steve Guttenberg in a 1985 episode ofTallTales & Legends...
or flatboat Annie is a character in the folklore and talltalesof Louisiana, described as a 7 feet (2.1 m) tall, supernaturally strong African-American...
company to JimBridger, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Milton Sublette (the brother of William), Henry Freab, and Baptiste Gervais. 1831: Cache Valley; the support...
since the turn of the twentieth century. These fabulous beasts appear in talltales featuring hodags, giant snakes, fur-bearing trout, and many others. Some...
inhabit the frontier wilderness of North America, and is an example of a 'talltale', a story with unbelievable elements related as if it were factual...
done with imaginative descriptions of the snipe, similar to talltales. For instance, the snipe is said to resemble a cross between a jackrabbit and a...
The first mention ofthe hugag to refer to an imaginary animal, while also establishing it as a myth among loggers, is found in the 1900 book In the Limestone...
Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, My Wife and Kids and The Wire. Clemons published Big Man: Real Life & TallTales (2009) with his friend Don Reo. The book...
in Tales#6) Hunger Pains by Jim Campbell (published in Tales#20) Tales from Mos Eisley by Bruce Jones Shadow Stalker by Ryder Windham Shadows ofthe Empire...
An Unnatural History ofthe Americas. New York: Doubleday. Randolph, Vance (1951). We Always Lie to Strangers: TallTales from the Ozarks. New York: Columbia...
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