After searching mountains, forests, oceans, and deserts to find his smile, Augustus the tiger finds it when he looks in a puddle, and realizes that "happiness is everywhere around him."
In Aesop's the lion and the mouse, Lion spares the life of little Mouse, never thinking for a moment that the mouse might return the favor. In the Malaysian fable the hare's revenge, Hare finds a way to outsmart Lion and his bullying ways.
An Egyptian legend in which twin sisters who lived 2000 years ago were changed forever when they participated in a temple ritual reenacting the lives of Isis and Osiris.