Wisdom stories, drawn as vertical-scroll comics.
Greek myth
He plays well enough to make stone weep, so they let him walk into the land of the dead to bargain for her. The way out has one condition.
Don Quixote
He has read every book of chivalry ever printed and concluded that the age of knights is not over, merely under-staffed. He is wrong about almost everything, and he goes anyway.
Albanian mythology: Ora (folk belief)
Every person is born with one. She keeps the hours of your life and she does not explain them.
Albanian mythology: Shtojzovalle (folk belief)
Dancing spirits in the meadow at night. Do not join them, and do not name them.