History: Tall Tale Postcards

Similar traditions in other cultures
Similar storytelling traditions are present elsewhere.
- The Cumbrian Liars, a United Kingdom association who follow in the seven-league footsteps of Will Ritson.
- A brown bear coating himself in baking soda to be acceptable to humans as a polar bear, a young boy selling frozen words, and a woman whose voice cuts through a giant tree to release oranges that light the Polar night are all tales told by a Pomor elder in the Soviet animation film Laughter and Grief by the White Sea.