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Some tall tales are <a href="/wiki/Exaggeration" title="Exaggeration">exaggerations</a> of actual events, for example <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fish_story" class="extiw" title="wikt:fish story">fish stories</a> ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!" Other tall tales are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a> <a href="/wiki/Countryside" class="mw-redirect" title="Countryside">countryside</a>, the <a href="/wiki/American_frontier" title="American frontier">American frontier</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Frontier" title="Frontier">Canadian Northwest</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Outback" title="Outback">Australian outback</a>, or the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a>. </p><p>Events are often told in a way that makes the narrator seem to have been a part of the story; the tone is generally good-natured. <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">Legends</a> are differentiated from tall tales primarily by age; many legends exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of dominating the story. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States">United States</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The tall tale has become a fundamental element of <a href="/wiki/Folklore_of_the_United_States" title="Folklore of the United States"> American folk literature</a>. The tall tale's origins are seen in the <a href="/wiki/Bragging" class="mw-redirect" title="Bragging">bragging</a> contests that often occurred when the rough men of the <a href="/wiki/American_frontier" title="American frontier">American frontier</a> gathered. The tales of legendary figures of the <a href="/wiki/Old_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Old West">Old West</a>, some listed below, owe much to the style of tall tales. </p><p>The semi-annual speech-contests held by <a href="/wiki/Toastmasters_International" title="Toastmasters International">Toastmasters International</a> public-speaking clubs may include a tall-tales contest. Each and every participating speaker is given three to five minutes to give a short speech of a tall-tale nature, and is then judged according to several factors. The winner proceeds to the next level of competition. The contest does not proceed beyond any participating district in the organization to the international level. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a> <a href="/wiki/Non_Sequitur_(comic_strip)" title="Non Sequitur (comic strip)"> <i>Non Sequitur</i></a> (1992–present) sometimes features tall tales told by the character Captain Eddie; it is left up to the reader to decide if he is telling the truth, exaggerating a real event, or fabricating a story entirely. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="About_real_people">About real people</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: About real people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some stories are told about exaggerated versions of real people: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed" title="Johnny Appleseed">Johnny Appleseed</a> – a friendly folk-hero who traveled the <a href="/wiki/West" title="West">West</a> planting apple trees because he felt his guardian angel told him to</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McNally_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="John McNally (American football)">Johnny Blood</a> – an American football player whose reputation for wild behavior was as well known as his on-field play</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Bowie" title="James Bowie">Jim Bowie</a> – A Kentuckian frontiersman, <a href="/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division" title="Texas Ranger Division">Texas Ranger</a>, and land speculator who fought for the Texan cause in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo" title="Battle of the Alamo">Battle of the Alamo</a>. He is known for the <a href="/wiki/Bowie_knife" title="Bowie knife">Bowie knife</a> which he used to disembowel opponents.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Boone" title="Daniel Boone">Daniel Boone</a> – blazed a trail across <a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Gap" title="Cumberland Gap">Cumberland Gap</a> to found the first English-speaking colonies west of the <a href="/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains" title="Appalachian Mountains">Appalachian Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Strap_Buckner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Strap Buckner (page does not exist)">Aylett C. "Strap" Buckner</a> – an <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Indian</a> fighter of <a href="/wiki/History_of_Texas#Republic_of_Texas_(1836–1845)" title="History of Texas">colonial Texas</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Christmas" title="Annie Christmas">Annie Christmas</a> – a Louisiana <a href="/wiki/Keelboat" title="Keelboat">keelboat</a> captain, who in real life was white, but in folklore and tall tales was turned into an <a href="/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American">African-American</a> supernaturally strong woman who defied the gender norms of the time.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davy_Crockett" title="Davy Crockett">Davy Crockett</a> – a <a href="/wiki/American_pioneer" title="American pioneer"> pioneer</a> and U.S. Congressman from Tennessee who later died at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo" title="Battle of the Alamo">Battle of the Alamo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Fink" title="Mike Fink">Mike Fink</a> – the toughest boatman on the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi</a> rivers, and a rival of Davy Crockett. Also known as the King of the Mississippi River <a href="/wiki/Keelboat" title="Keelboat">Keelboatmen</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Francisco" title="Peter Francisco">Peter Francisco</a> – American Revolutionary War hero</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)" title="John Henry (folklore)">John Henry</a> – a mighty steel-driving <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calamity_Jane" title="Calamity Jane">Calamity Jane</a> – a tough Wild-West woman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jigger_Johnson" title="Jigger Johnson">Jigger Johnson</a> (1871–1935), a <a href="/wiki/Lumberjack" title="Lumberjack">lumberjack</a> and <a href="/wiki/Log_driving" title="Log driving">log driver</a> from <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a> who is known for his numerous off-the-job exploits, such as catching <a href="/wiki/Bobcat" title="Bobcat">bobcats</a> alive with his bare hands, and drunken brawls<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casey_Jones" title="Casey Jones">Casey Jones</a> – a brave and gritty <a href="/wiki/Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Railroad">railroad</a> engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nat_Love" title="Nat Love">Nat Love</a>, also known as "Deadwood Dick", was born a slave in Tennessee in 1854. Tales of his adventures after emancipation, as a cowboy and as a Pullman porter, gained such fantastical elements as to be considered tall tales</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Patch" title="Sam Patch">Sam Patch</a> – an early 19th-century daredevil who died during a jump on Friday the 13th</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molly_Pitcher" title="Molly Pitcher">Molly Pitcher</a> – a heroine of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackbeard" title="Blackbeard">Blackbeard</a> spawned various tall tales surrounding his involvement with piracy from 1717–1718</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="About_imaginary_people">About imaginary people</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: About imaginary people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Klamath-CA-Babe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Klamath-CA-Babe.jpg/160px-Klamath-CA-Babe.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Klamath-CA-Babe.jpg/240px-Klamath-CA-Babe.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Klamath-CA-Babe.jpg/320px-Klamath-CA-Babe.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="2283" /></a><figcaption>Paul Bunyan's <a href="/wiki/Sidekick" title="Sidekick">sidekick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Bunyan_and_Babe_the_Blue_Ox" title="Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox">Babe the blue ox</a>, sculpted as a ten-meter tall roadside tourist-attraction</figcaption></figure> <p>Subjects of some American tall tales include legendary figures: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Bunyan" title="Paul Bunyan">Paul Bunyan</a> – huge lumberjack who eats 50 pancakes in one minute, dug the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon" title="Grand Canyon">Grand Canyon</a> with his axe, made <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>'s <a href="/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Minnesota" title="List of lakes of Minnesota">ten thousand lakes</a> with his footprints, and also has a blue ox named Babe who made the Mississippi River</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Beaver" title="Tony Beaver">Tony Beaver</a> – a <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a> lumberjack and cousin of Paul Bunyan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pecos_Bill" title="Pecos Bill">Pecos Bill</a> – legendary cowboy who "tamed the wild west"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cordwood_Pete" class="mw-redirect" title="Cordwood Pete">Cordwood Pete</a> – younger brother to lumberjack Paul Bunyan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Febold_Feboldson" title="Febold Feboldson">Febold Feboldson</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Nebraska" title="Nebraska">Nebraska</a> farmer who could fight a drought</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Kaw" title="Johnny Kaw">Johnny Kaw</a>, a fictional <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansan</a> whose mythological status itself was in one sense a figment, in that it was created recently, in 1955. Adherents of this assessment deem such stories <a href="/wiki/Fakelore" class="mw-redirect" title="Fakelore">fakelore</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Magarac" title="Joe Magarac">Joe Magarac</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania">Pittsburgh</a> steelworker made of steel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Bulltop_Stormalong" title="Alfred Bulltop Stormalong">Alfred Bulltop Stormalong</a> – an immense sailor whose ship was so big that it scraped <a href="/wiki/The_Moon" class="mw-redirect" title="The Moon">the Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mose_Humphreys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mose Humphreys (page does not exist)">Mose Humphreys</a>; a brave NYC firefighter</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Honeydipper_Dan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Honeydipper Dan (page does not exist)">Honeydipper Dan</a>; a 20 foot tall outhouse cleaner.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Australia">Australia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Australian frontier (known as the bush or the outback) similarly inspired the types of tall tales that are found in American folklore. The Australian versions typically concern a mythical <a href="/wiki/Station_(Australian_agriculture)" title="Station (Australian agriculture)">station</a> called <a href="/wiki/The_Speewah" title="The Speewah">The Speewah</a>. The heroes of the Speewah include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rodney_Ansell" class="mw-redirect" title="Rodney Ansell">Rodney Ansell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Bill" title="Big Bill">Big Bill</a> – The dumbest man on the Speewah who made his living cutting up <a href="/wiki/Mining" title="Mining">mining</a> shafts and selling them for post holes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crooked_Mick" class="mw-redirect" title="Crooked Mick">Crooked Mick</a> – A champion <a href="/wiki/Sheep_shearer" title="Sheep shearer">shearer</a> who had colossal strength and quick wit.</li></ul> <p>Another folk hero is <a href="/wiki/Charlie_McKeahnie" title="Charlie McKeahnie">Charlie McKeahnie</a>, the hero of <a href="/wiki/Banjo_Paterson" title="Banjo Paterson">Banjo Paterson</a>'s poem "<a href="/wiki/The_Man_from_Snowy_River_(poem)" title="The Man from Snowy River (poem)">The Man from Snowy River</a>", whose bravery, adaptability, and risk-taking could epitomise the new Australian spirit. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Canada">Canada</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Canadian frontier has also inspired the types of tall tales that are found in American folklore, such as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="French Canadian">French Canadian</a> tales of <a href="/wiki/Big_Joe_Mufferaw" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Joe Mufferaw">Big Joe Mufferaw</a>, a giant of a lumberjack and woodsman from the <a href="/wiki/Ottawa_Valley" title="Ottawa Valley">Ottawa Valley</a>, loosely based on real-life lumberjack <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Montferrand" title="Joseph Montferrand">Joseph Montferrand</a></li> <li>Johnny Chinook, a <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9tis_people_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Métis people (Canada)">Métis</a> cowboy and rancher in <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>.</li> <li>Sam McGee, the hero of Robert Service's poem, "<a href="/wiki/The_Cremation_of_Sam_McGee" title="The Cremation of Sam McGee">The Cremation of Sam McGee</a>" (1907)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Europe">Europe</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Giant%27s_Causeway_(13).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Giant%27s_Causeway_%2813%29.JPG/180px-Giant%27s_Causeway_%2813%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Giant%27s_Causeway_%2813%29.JPG/270px-Giant%27s_Causeway_%2813%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Giant%27s_Causeway_%2813%29.JPG/360px-Giant%27s_Causeway_%2813%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Columnar_basalt" class="mw-redirect" title="Columnar basalt">Columnar basalt</a> that makes up the Giant's Causeway; in legend, a fine set of <a href="/wiki/Hexagonal" class="mw-redirect" title="Hexagonal">hexagonal</a> stepping stones to Scotland, made by Fionn mac Cumhaill</figcaption></figure> <p>Some European tall tales include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Toell_the_Great" title="Toell the Great">Toell the Great</a> was one of the great tall tales of Estonia.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Babin_Republic" title="Babin Republic">Babin Republic</a>, in Renaissance Poland (1568), was a satirical society dedicated entirely to mocking people and telling tall tales.</li> <li>Juho Nätti (1890–1964), known as Nätti-Jussi, was a Finnish lumberjack known for telling tall tales; his stories have also circulated as folk tales and been collected in books.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_of_Gargantua_and_of_Pantagruel" class="mw-redirect" title="The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel">The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel</a></i> (16th century) by the French writer <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais" title="François Rabelais">François Rabelais</a> told the tale of two giants; father and son.</li> <li>The many farfetched adventures of the fictional German nobleman <a href="/wiki/Baron_Munchausen" title="Baron Munchausen">Baron Munchausen</a>, most prominently in the novel <i><a href="/wiki/Baron_Munchausen%27s_Narrative_of_his_Marvellous_Travels_and_Campaigns_in_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia">Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia</a></i> (1785) by <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Erich_Raspe" title="Rudolf Erich Raspe">Rudolf Erich Raspe</a> and the following German supplemented adaptation by <a href="/wiki/Gottfried_August_B%C3%BCrger" title="Gottfried August Bürger">Gottfried August Bürger</a>, are loosely based on <a href="/wiki/Hieronymus_Karl_Friedrich,_Freiherr_von_M%C3%BCnchhausen" class="mw-redirect" title="Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen">Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen</a> (1720−1797).</li> <li>Legends of the Irish mythological hunter-warrior <a href="/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill" title="Fionn mac Cumhaill">Fionn mac Cumhaill</a>, also known as Finn MacCool, have it that he built the <a href="/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway" title="Giant's Causeway">Giant's Causeway</a> as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet, and that he also once scooped up part of Ireland to fling it at a rival, but it missed and landed in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a>; the clump became the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Man" title="Isle of Man">Isle of Man</a>, the pebble became <a href="/wiki/Rockall" title="Rockall">Rockall</a>, and the void became <a href="/wiki/Lough_Neagh" title="Lough Neagh">Lough Neagh</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Laughter_and_Grief_by_the_White_Sea" title="Laughter and Grief by the White Sea">Laughter and Grief by the White Sea</a></i>, a Soviet film, depicts tall tales of the <a href="/wiki/Pomors" title="Pomors">Pomors</a>. A Pomor elder describes several stories, including a <a href="/wiki/Brown_bear" title="Brown bear">brown bear</a> coating himself in baking soda to be acceptable to humans as a <a href="/wiki/Polar_bear" title="Polar bear">polar bear</a>.</li> <li>The Cumbrian Liars, a United Kingdom association who follow in the <a href="/wiki/Seven-league_boots" title="Seven-league boots">seven-league footsteps</a> of Will Ritson.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Irish_Rover" title="The Irish Rover">The Irish Rover</a>" is a well-known Irish folk song about an implausibly large sailing ship with a fanciful cargo.</li> <li>Oskar, later known as "<a href="/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam" title="Unsinkable Sam">Unsinkable Sam</a>," was a <a href="/wiki/Ship%27s_cat" title="Ship's cat">ship's cat</a> that was supposed to have survived the sinking of three ships during WWII: the German <a href="/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck" title="German battleship Bismarck"><i>Bismarck</i></a> on 27th May, 1941, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Cossack_(F03)" title="HMS Cossack (F03)">HMS <i>Cossack</i></a> on 27th October, 1941, and finally <a href="/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(91)" title="HMS Ark Royal (91)">HMS <i>Ark Royal</i></a> on 14th November, 1941. While photographs exist of a ship's cat purported to be Oskar on HMS <i>Ark Royal</i>, the historicity of this legend is debated.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_visual_media">In visual media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In visual media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Exaggeration_Postcards" class="mw-redirect" title="Exaggeration Postcards">Exaggeration Postcards</a></div> <p>Early 20th-century <a href="/wiki/Postcard" title="Postcard">postcards</a> became a vehicle for tall tale telling in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MIstory_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MIstory-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Creators of these cards, such as the prolific Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/William_H._%22Dad%22_Martin" title="William H. "Dad" Martin">William H. "Dad" Martin</a>, usually employed <a href="/wiki/Trick_photography" class="mw-redirect" title="Trick photography">trick photography</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Forced_perspective" title="Forced perspective">forced perspective</a>, while others painted their unlikely <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tableau" class="extiw" title="wikt:tableau">tableaus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-MIstory_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MIstory-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or used a combination of painting and photography in early examples of <a href="/wiki/Photo_manipulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Photo manipulation">photo retouching</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The common theme was <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigantism" class="extiw" title="wikt:gigantism">gigantism</a>: fishing for <a href="/wiki/Leviathan" title="Leviathan">leviathans</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-MIstory_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MIstory-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> hunting for<sup id="cite_ref-MIstory_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MIstory-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or riding<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> oversized animals, and bringing in the impossibly huge <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheaf" class="extiw" title="wikt:sheaf">sheaves</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MIstory_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MIstory-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An homage to the genre can be found on the cover of the <i><a href="/wiki/Eat_a_Peach" title="Eat a Peach">Eat a Peach</a></i> (1972) album by <a href="/wiki/The_Allman_Brothers_Band" title="The Allman Brothers Band">The Allman Brothers Band</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Big_Fish" title="Big Fish">Big Fish</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Tim_Burton" title="Tim Burton">Tim Burton</a> movie relating the story of a dying man exaggerating the details of his life to his son</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Brasky" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Brasky">Bill Brasky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campfire_story" title="Campfire story">Campfire story</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts" title="Chuck Norris facts">Chuck Norris facts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">Fairy tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythomania" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythomania">Mythomania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snipe_hunt" title="Snipe hunt">Snipe hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the_World" title="The Most Interesting Man in the World">The Most Interesting Man in the World</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unreliable_narrator" title="Unreliable narrator">Unreliable narrator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_legend" title="Urban legend">Urban legend</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tall_tale&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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Wisconsin Historical Society.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Wisconsin+historical+images%2C+Keywords%3A+%22tall+tale%22%2C+Alfred+Stanley+Johnson%2C+Jr.&rft.pub=Wisconsin+Historical+Society&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsearch_type%3Dadvanced%26search_field1%3Dcreator%26keyword1%3Djohnson%252C%2Balfred%26boolean_type1%3Dand%26search_field2%3D%26keyword2%3Dtall-tale&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATall+tale" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=44509&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsearch_type%3Dbasic%26keyword1%3DMammoth%2BStrawberries%26submit%3DSEARCH">"Tall-tale Postcard: Mammoth Strawberries"</a>. 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Wisconsin Historical Society.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Wisconsin+historical+images%2C+Keywords%3A+%22tall+tale%22%2C+%22fishing%22&rft.pub=Wisconsin+Historical+Society&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsearch_type%3Dadvanced%26search_field1%3D%26keyword1%3Dexaggerated%2Bpostcards%26boolean_type1%3Dand%26search_field2%3D%26keyword2%3DFishing%26boolean_type2%3Dand%26search_field3%3D%26keyword3%3D%26subject_broad_id%3D%26subject_broad%3D%26decade%3D%26genre%3D%26genre_text%3D%26wi_county_code%3D%26wi_county_text%3D%26added_within%3D%26sort_by%3Ddate%26submit_form%3DSearch&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATall+tale" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?search_type=advanced&search_field1=&keyword1=exaggerated+postcards&boolean_type1=and&search_field2=&keyword2=hunting&boolean_type2=and&search_field3=&keyword3=&subject_broad_id=&subject_broad=&decade=&genre=&genre_text=&wi_county_code=&wi_county_text=&added_within=&sort_by=date&submit_form=Search">"Wisconsin historical images, Keyword "hunting"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. 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