Farmer Giles of Ham (1949, medieval fable)

He felt like something from a medieval fable as painted by Bosch: a glutton presented with the fullest of feasts, only to have it turn to ashes in his mouth.

They seem like enlarged versions of figures from a book of medieval fables, or an illuminated manuscript.

Reynard, a character derived from medieval European fable, is part fox.

The work the actors will perform was adapted from a medieval Japanese fable and involves a man-eating horse and a journey into the underworld.

For a while he threatens to lead the way into James Patterson country, since there is a storybook connection: reynard means fox, and that means the fox of a French medieval fable.

CHANTICLEER Name for a rooster, first found in medieval fables.

Holten takes an Ibsenesque view of this medieval fable, and presents the hero as a radically minded artist at odds with the restraints of Victorian high society.

This collection of four stories and a translation of a medieval French fable is steeped in the author's continuing fascination with the power of art to redefine the terms of human freedom.

The atmospheric "Doruntine" retells a medieval Albanian fable, rich in vengeance and blood oaths.