A Folk Tale, an 1854 ballet by Danish choreographer August Bournonville
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The storyline is loosely based on the famous plot about the Goat and her kids, published as "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids" in Grimm's Fairy Tales and known to Romanian audience as Ion Creangă's "Capra cu trei iezi" ("The Goat and her three kids") and to Russian audience as a folk tale "Волк и семеро козлят" ("The Wolf and the Seven Kids").
In 1963, Perry published My Head’s High for Proudness, a folk tale set in the North Carolina mountains and inspired by summers spent in Sparta, North Carolina.
The Spirit Ring is loosely based on Agricola's De re metallica, as well as on a folk tale, and the life of Benvenuto Cellini, as is explained in the Author's Notes that follow the last chapter.