Women whose story is generally unbelievable due to certain elements, typically common people whose actions do not impact the entire society in their stories
The favorite wife of the emperor Ming Huang of the Tang dynasty was the celebrated Yang Gui Fe. She so enchanted him by her beauty that he did whatever she wished him to do. But she brought her cousin to the court, a gambler and a drinker, and because of him the people began to murmur against the emperor. Finally a revolt broke out, and the emperor was obliged to flee. He fled with his entire court to the land of the four rivers.
Once upon a time something happened. If it had not happened, it would not be told.
There was once an emperor who had three daughters; the oldest was beautiful, the middle one more beautiful, but the youngest, Ileane, was so fair that even the sun stopped to gaze at her and admire her charms.
There was once a woman named Affiong Any who lived at ‘Nsidung, a small town to the south of Calabar. She was married to a chief of Hensham Town called Etim Ekeng.
The daughter of a Basotho chief, Thákane led a band of warriors on a hunt to kill a nanabolele (water-dwelling dragon).
An arrogant wrestler gets more than he expected when he tries to mess with a young girl.
Hearing the news of her husband’s death, she wept so bitterly that a part of the Great Wall collapsed, revealing his bones.
According to the folk tale, a girl’s stepmother gave the girl a sieve, ordering her to not come back without filling it at the Well of the World’s End.
A folk tale of the Zhuang people, Sanjie was an incarantion of a lark and started speaking eloquently when she was only one.