tales

There are even tales of villagers calling on priests to talk to the spirits of glaciers and get them to move up the mountain.

Later, she gave Goodall books about animals and adventure — especially the Doctor Dolittle tales and Tarzan.

Tadpoles become toads, and, in tales such as this one, metaphorical toads can be — whether through will, chance, or wishes — transformed into something else.

Her romance fizzles, but a passion is born: She’ll now explore cemeteries around the globe, musing on the tales they tell, the cultures they mirror.

So “Megadoc” is not an autopsy of disaster along the lines of “Hearts of Darkness” or “Burden of Dreams” or “American Movie” or “Jodorowsky’s Dune,” all tales of filmmakers tipping over into tragedy.