In a cumulative tale, sometimes also called a chain tale, action or dialogue repeats and builds up in some way as the tale progresses. With only the sparest...
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This Is the House That Jack Built (category Jack tales)
the House That Jack Built" is a popular English nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20854. It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther...
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The Gingerbread Man (redirect from Gingerbread Man (fairy tale))
print in America in the May 1875 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine in a cumulative tale which, like "The Little Red Hen", depends on repetitious scenes featuring...
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (redirect from Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale)
hardcover by Dial Books for Young Readers it is told in the form of a cumulative tale written for young children, which tells an African legend. In this...
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Henny Penny (category Jataka tales)
sometimes as "Chicken Licken", is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming...
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A cumulative song is a song with a simple verse structure modified by progressive addition so that each verse is longer than the verse before. Cumulative...
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Built", originally based on the popular British nursery rhyme and cumulative tale "This Is the House That Jack Built", is a song written by Bobby Lance...
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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (category Cumulative songs)
Georgia and Ohio) in its December 1947 edition. The editor calls it a "cumulative tale", and asks readers for information on its origins. All three versions...
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nursery rhyme is classified as follows: 2000-2399: Formula Tales 2000-2100: Cumulative Tales 2030: The old woman and her pig Under Stith Thompson's Motif-Index...
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Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie (category Grimms' Fairy Tales)
volume. It is Aarne-Thompson type 2019, one of a number of chain tales, or cumulative tales. Pif-Paf-Poltrie asks Fair Katrinelje's father for leave to marry...
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The Louse and the Flea (category Grimms' Fairy Tales)
the Death of a Spouse, and takes the form of a chain tale, sometimes known as a cumulative tale. Wilhelm Grimm probably heard the story from Dorothea...
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The Husband of the Rat's Daughter (category Animal tales)
Japanese fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book. It is Aarne-Thompson type 2031C, a chain tale or cumulative tale. Another story...
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the book's illustrations. Written by Barbara Emberley, it tells a cumulative tale of seven soldiers who build a cannon named "Sultan", and Drummer Hoff...
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as "The Heart of a Monkey;" "Mwalimu Goso," "Goso the Teacher," a cumulative tale; and "Sungura na Simba," "The Hare and the Lion," a story about the...
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The Frightened Hares (category Indian fairy tales)
fable involving a stampede started by a hare appears in the form of a cumulative tale known in the Buddhist scriptures as the Duddubha Jataka (332). On hearing...
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The Stonecutter (category Japanese fairy tales)
example of cyclical thinking in Eastern philosophy. While the similar cumulative tale The Fisherman and His Wife is explicitly moralist in tone, The Stonecutter's...
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The Tortoise and the Birds (category Jataka tales)
combines Aesop's fable of the discontented tortoise with an African cumulative tale. Brer Terrapin grumbles so much about being earth-bound that the animals...
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Chain story may refer to: Chain novel Cumulative tale This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chain story. If an internal link...
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Welsh mythology (section Native tales)
lists several of the oldest birds. Including cumulative tales and stories without end. Includes White Lie Tales, which are obviously and intentionally untrue...
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The Mouse Turned into a Maid (category Fairy tales about shapeshifting)
the Far East. The story is Aarne-Thompson type 2031C in his list of cumulative tales, another example of which is The Husband of the Rat's Daughter. It...
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The Gigantic Turnip (category Fairy tales collected by Alexander Afanasyev)
lit. 'small turnip'; ATU 2044, ‘Pulling up the turnip') is a cumulative Russian fairy tale, collected in Arkhangelsk Governorate and published in 1863...
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successful song, "The Wild Man of Poplar (A Very Pop'lar Ditty)", was a cumulative tale starting with "The Wild Man of Poplar has just come to town" and continuing...
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VHS and DVD releases of the animated children's television series VeggieTales. Lessons From The Sock Drawer (May 6, 2008): Includes various "Veggie Vault"...
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weekend, the film ranked third, drawing 65,568 viewers and achieving a cumulative total of 101,770 viewers. As of January 27, 2025[update], the film has...
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MeloMance (redirect from The Fairy Tale)
Archived from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved October 22, 2020. Cumulative sales of "Deepen" "2017년 10월 Download Chart". Archived from the original...
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The Twelve Days of Christmas (song) (category Cumulative songs)
an English Christmas carol and nursery rhyme. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given...
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Abigail Disney (redirect from The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales)
screened in 60 countries around the world on all seven continents. It had a cumulative gross worldwide of $90,066.[citation needed] In 2007, she and Gini Reticker...
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Vera Southgate (section Ladybird's Well Loved Tales)
old fables and cumulative tales whose repetitive nature helped early grade 1 readers to learn before moving onto more complex fairy tales for grade 2 and...
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networks, cable news channels and BBC America. The ceremony was watched cumulatively by 10.9 million viewers according to Nielsen, with ABC's coverage leading...
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reports for minor infractions, leading to a cumulative stay of 34 years in prison. DeFriest has cumulatively spent 27 years in solitary confinement. Following...
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