complication vs tale

complication

noun
  • A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper. 

  • The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity. 

  • The act or process of complicating. 

  • A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece. 

  • A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. 

tale

noun
  • A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. 

  • The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim. 

  • A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. 

  • An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. 

verb
  • To reckon; consider (someone) to have something. 

How often have the words complication and tale occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )