1. The Groundhog
"The Metamorphosis", "The Thousand and One Nights", and "Decameron" all tell stories within stories which demonstrate a woman's love, deception, and virtue. In "The Metamorphosis" and "Decameron", Ovid and Boccaccio devised stories within stories to demonstrate that women will transform themselves to protect their innocence and love when her faithfulness is cruelly tested by her spouse. ... In "The Metamorphosis", the frame narrative allows Ovid to include many different stories to make his point. ... It is a story within the story of book ten of Metamorphosis. ...
In the beginning the only being that existed in the world was a bear named Onyx and there was no earth, no sky, no trees, no other animals or mortals, just Onyx and an abyss of darkness. Onyx floated hopelessly about the darkness in search of a companion or a lover to fill that void in his heart. ...