History, Wonder Tales, Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends How to Write A Good Fairy Tale | Page 37

In the days when animals talked like people...
In the days when animals talked like people. Those were the good old days! Sigh!
In the high and far-off times...
In the old days, as is known...
In the old, old, half-forgotten times, before the gardens of Tartary were overrun with weeds,
there lived...(Tartar)
In the olden times when wishing still helped... (The Frog Prince)
In the time before remembrance there was...
In the years behind our years...
In times long past, in a house near the woods, there lived an old man called... (Bashkir)
It all happened long ago, and believe it or not, it is all absolutely
true.(Traditional Irish opening)
It happened, it did not happen, it perhaps could have happened in the tents
of our neighbors.
It is said, that...
It is told that long ago...
It sometimes happened in the long ago...
It was still the time of ancient things...
It was long ago
Just tell it, straight up, let the reader decide what's at the heart of it.
Let's talk about one time...
Long ago and far away, across the western sea...
Long ago, as only the very old remember...
Long ago, in the time of mysteries... ("White Wave" by Diane Wolkstein)
Long ago, so long ago, I wasn't there or I wouldn't be here now to tell you the tale...
Long ago when the earth was new...
Long before you and I were born, there lived... (Tartar)
Long, long ago, before our grandfathers' and great-grandfathers' time...