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tales noun, plural—故事 n (almost always used) ()传说 pl ()Examples:Tom Thumb (small person in folk tales)—Effendi, wily and fearless hero of Uighur folk tales—Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights—Weaving girl of folk tales—the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales—stock figure in folk tales, as wise adviser or as charlatan—tales (esp. about historical figure)—Palace in the Moon (in folk tales)—strange tales and absurd arguments [idiom.]—Arirang 아리랑, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty—startle sb with scary tale—Murasaki Shikibu (born c. 973), Japanese writer, author of "The Tale of Genji"— |