the knight's tale took place in sir thomas colville's time.
the knight's tale took place in sir thomas colville's time.
when does the knight's tale take place?
sir thomas colville
another variation of the self-fulfilling prophecy can be seen in "the tale of attaf", where harun al-rashid consults his library (the house of wisdom), reads a random book, "falls to laughing and weeping and dismisses the faithful "vizier" ja'far ibn yahya from sight. ja'afar, "disturbed and upset flees baghdad and plunges into a series of adventures in damascus, involving attaf and the woman whom attaf eventually marries." after returning to baghdad, ja'afar reads the same book that caused harun to laugh and weep, and discovers that it describes his own adventures with attaf. in other words, it was harun's reading of the book that provoked the adventures described in the book to take place. this is an early example of reverse causation. near the end of the tale, attaf is given a death sentence for a crime he didn't commit but harun, knowing the truth from what he has read in the book, prevents this and has attaf released from prison. in the 12th century, this tale was translated into latin by petrus alphonsi and included in his "disciplina clericalis", alongside the "sindibad" story cycle. in the 14th century, a version of "the tale of attaf" also appears in the "gesta romanorum" and giovanni boccaccio's "the decameron".
one thousand and one nights
bullet::::- "chicken little," an animated high school, sci-fi take on the "henny penny" fable (2005)









































bullet::::- "hoodwinked!," an animated mystery-thriller take on "the little red riding hood" (2006)









































bullet::::- the ugly duckling and me!, an animated fairy tale take on the ugly duckling (2006)









































bullet::::- "happily n'ever after," an animated film poking fun at cinderella and other fairy tales (2006)









































bullet::::- "enchanted," a live-action/animated disney film poking fun at disney fairy tale films (2007)









































bullet::::- "shrek the third," the third installment in the shrek series (2007)









































bullet::::- "shrek forever after," the final installment in the shrek series (2010)
fairy tale parody