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Fairy tale parody


Fairy tale parody is a genre of fiction which parodies traditional fairy tales. The genre was popularized on television by the "Fractured Fairy Tales" segments on "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show". The 2001 computer-animated film "Shrek" brought great popularity to the genre. Parodies soon eclipsed traditional fairy tales. The genre garnered some praise for its more modern views but was also criticized for supplanting the traditional stories. Children's books that have been classified as fairy tale parodies: "Politically Correct Fairy Tales" and "
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The Guardian of Education


as Grenby writes, "contributed to the establishment of children's literature as a secure, permanent and respectable literary genre". By excluding novels, chapbooks, tracts, ballads, and fairy tales, it effectively decided what counted as children's literature and what did not. Furthermore, in one of her early essays, "Observations on the Changes which have taken place in Books for Children and Young Persons", Trimmer wrote the first history of children's literature. Its landmark books, such as Sarah Fielding's "The
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Folklore of the Low Countries


Middle Ages. Original Dutch works of the genre are: The following tales collected by the Grimm brothers : Efteling has the nickname 'Guardian of fairy tales'. There are many international fairy tales depicted in the Park. But the park has also collected Dutch folktales and fairy tales and exhibited them. This is a small collection of the Dutch fairytales in Efteling: The following fairy tales retold in English in 1918 were based on Dutch legends and collected in the book, "Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks", 1918,
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Annette Abigael Hamilton


when the dramatic society was active. As a fairy-tale author she is counted as one of the Norwegian pioneers of this literary genre. Her pen name was Abigail and a pseudonym for A. A. Hamilton. The fairy-tale collection was called "Abigaels Eventyr og Sagn. Gave for Børn" (Abigaels Fairy Tales and Legends. Gift for Children.). It is one of the first fairy-tale collections in Norway. The book was sold by J. W. Cappelen. Several of the fairy-tales are Norwegian
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Fairy tale


and Chaudri identify "transformation" as the key feature of the genre. From a psychological point of view, Jean Chiriac argued for the necessity of the fantastic in these narratives. In terms of aesthetic values, Italo Calvino cited the fairy tale as a prime example of "quickness" in literature, because of the economy and concision of the tales. Originally, stories that would contemporarily be considered fairy tales were not marked out as a separate genre. The German term "Märchen" stems from the old German word "Mär
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Russian fairy tale


. The new tales included a focus on innovations and inventions that could help characters in place of magic which was often used as a device in past stories. In Russia, the fairy tale is one sub-genre of folklore and is usually told in the form of a short story. They are used to express different aspects of the Russian culture. In Russia, fairy tales were propagated almost exclusively orally, until the 17th century, as written literature was reserved for religious purposes. In their oral form, fairy tales allowed
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Revolting Rhymes


Revolting Rhymes is a collection of Roald Dahl poems published in 1982. A parody of traditional folk tales in verse, Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales, featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after finishes. The poems are illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is the shortest children's book Dahl ever wrote. There are a total of six poems in the book, each of the featured fairy tales done in such a way that they tell what actually happened. In
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Fairy tale


continued the tradition of literary fairy tales. Andersen's work sometimes drew on old folktales, but more often deployed fairytale motifs and plots in new tales. MacDonald incorporated fairytale motifs both in new literary fairy tales, such as "The Light Princess", and in works of the genre that would become fantasy, as in "The Princess and the Goblin" or "Lilith". Two theories of origins, have attempted to explain the common elements in fairy tales found spread over continents. One is that a single point of
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Fairy Tales (Jones book)


Fairy Tales is a 1981 book of children's stories written by Monty Python's Terry Jones and illustrated by Michael Foreman with both ink drawings and watercolor paintings. The book tells an assortment of short fantasy tales, such as "Simple Peter", about a boy with a mirror that shows you as others see you, and the tale of a little girl who is offered the chance to take a magical trip to Goblin City, but spends so long fretting about the trip that eventually the friendly goblin who made the offer takes
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The Adventures of Pinocchio


who turn into donkeys, and other fairy tale devices. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary marriage of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name. In the 1850s, Collodi began to have a variety of both fiction and non-fiction books published. Once, he translated some French fairy-tales so well that he was asked whether he would like to write some of his own
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Tales (video game)


stages are based on myths, legends and fairy-tale books. Each stage takes place within a different book. The player can move from one book to another in a non-linear way. The goal is to progress the main quest by solving puzzles, riddles and mini-games in each of the specific books. Central to "Tales" is the magic bell item. This is a magical item that allows you to travel from book to book and is available in all stories. When the player travels into a
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Early history of fantasy


Straparola", a collection of stories, many of which are literary fairy tales Giambattista Basile wrote and published the Pentamerone, a collection of literary fairy tales, the first collection of stories to contain solely the stories later to be known as fairy tales. Both of these works includes the oldest recorded form of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. This was the beginning of a tradition that would both influence the fantasy genre and be incorporated in it, as many works of fairytale fantasy appear to this
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and literary fairy tales numerous times with films such as "Cinderella" (1950), "Sleeping Beauty" (1959), "The Little Mermaid" (1989) and "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). Disney's influence helped establish the fairy tale genre as a genre for children, and has been accused by some of bowdlerizing the gritty naturalism – and sometimes unhappy endings – of many folk fairy tales. However, others note that the softening of fairy tales occurred long before Disney, some of which
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Fairy tale


late 17th century. Before the definition of the genre of fantasy, many works that would now be classified as fantasy were termed "fairy tales", including Tolkien's "The Hobbit", George Orwell's "Animal Farm", and L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Indeed, Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" includes discussions of world-building and is considered a vital part of fantasy criticism. Although fantasy, particularly the subgenre of fairytale fantasy, draws heavily on fairy tale motifs
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Carl Offterdinger


Carl Offterdinger (January 8, 1829 in Stuttgart – January 12, 1889 in Stuttgart) was a German figure and genre painter and illustrator. Offterdinger was a student of Heinrich von Rustige. In the second half of the 19th century, Offterdinger illustrated numerous children's books, fairy tales, adventure stories, and broadsheets. Offterdinger is particularly known for his paintings with scenes from fairy tales and illustrations of literary works such as The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Till Eulenspiegel, Robinson Crusoe, fairy tales from the
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Joseph Jacobs


More English Fairy Tales", "More Celtic Fairy Tales" (all 1890 to 1895) and "Europa's Fairy Book" (also issued as "European Folk and Fairy Tales") in 1916. He was inspired in this by the Brothers Grimm and the romantic nationalism common in folklorists of his age; he wished English children to have access to English fairy tales, whereas they were chiefly reading French and German tales; in his own words, "What Perrault began, the Grimms completed." Although he collected
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Marie-Louise von Franz


talks and books, she connects fairy tale interpretation with everyday life. Alfred Ribi says, that von Franz might well be understood as the first to discover and demonstrate the psychological wisdom of fairy tales. Von Franz's interpretation of fairy tales bases on Jung‘s view of fairy tales as a spontaneous and naive product of soul, which can only express what soul is. That means, she looks at fairy tales as images of different phases of experiencing the reality of the soul. They are the “purest and simplest expression of collective
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Alexander Zorich


of Starborned", "Love and Rule", "You Win", "The Combat Vehicle of Love", "The Light of Nighttime"), one cyberpunk novel ("The Season of Weapon"), the book in the genre of alternate history and its sequel ("Charles the Duke", "The First Sword of Burgundy"), four "classic" science fiction novels ("The Consul of Commonwealth" and the "Tomorrow War" trilogy), two fairy tales ("Denis Kotik
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Peter Pohl


a lot of attention and prizes. The final book in the series is Klara papper är ett måste, which starts in 1966. Additionally, the book De Stora Penslarnas lek, which Pohl describes as a starting point for his writing, contains fairy tales, based on the fairy tales from the grandfather in "Regnbågen har bara åtta färger". Other books, such as I miss you, I miss you! and Sekten are based on true stories that came to him directly or indirectly. Some of his books were originally
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Todd Klick


" is a minute-by-minute analysis of successful movies and what their stories share in common each minute. It reached #1 on Amazon for Screenwriting and Writing Skills in December 2011 after its October 2011 release, and has been a consistent best-seller in that genre. The book was inspired by Blake Snyder's book on screenwriting, "Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need". The nonfiction ebook "The Screenwriter's Fairy Tale: The Universal Story Within All Movie Stories (
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Guardians (2017 film)


not a charity. So why torture yourself like that? And what is it .. Well, today there would still be an opportunity to do it, you probably would be looking for something inherent in literature or in fairy tales. Well, that is, they would try to do it, but still something that is what the heart is pouring. When you, for example, do not have to re-understand it because, for example, Americans have seen Superman fifteen years ago and Batman and in the early nineties
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Fairy painting


during the Victorian era. The illustrated fairy-tale books of Arthur Rackham are considered its "final flowering". The interest in fantasy art and literature since the 1970s has seen a revival in the topics and styles of Victorian fairy painting, often in novel contexts. While artists such as Stephanie Pui-Mun Law have produced genre illustrations for book covers and role-playing games, the works of Brian Froud, also known for a series of illustrated fairy books, have been adapted into several successful motion pictures including "The
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Marvel Fairy Tales


Marvel Fairy Tales is a term for three volumes of comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics and written by C. B. Cebulski with art by different artists each issue. Each of these series adapts fairytales and folk tales from around the world, using analogues of famous Marvel superheroes in place of the major characters. The series were published from 2006–2008 and were, in order, "X-Men Fairy Tales", "Spider-Man Fairy Tales", and "Avengers Fairy Tales". A potential fourth series, "
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Lucy Barfield


too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say but I shall still be, your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis." In 1923 Owen Barfield, who had been
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New Fairy Tales (1844)


New Fairy Tales () is a collection of four fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark on 10 November 1843. As was customary at the time however, the title page is dated 1844. The tales are completely Andersen's invention, owe no debt to folk or fairy lore, and are the most autobiographical of his several fairy tale collections. The collection was received enthusiastically by the Danish critics and public and became Andersen's break-through in the fairy tale genre.
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Book talk


, with an excited feeling, a non-monotonous tone of voice, and eye contact. Genre booktalks and first-person booktalks are fairly popular. Genres to consider for a booktalk may include classics, sports, historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, romance, fairy tales, short stories, mystery, adventure, non-fiction, short or thin books, horror, realistic contemporary fiction, humor, adult books, graphic novels, and poetry. A genre booktalk should consist of multiple books within one chosen genre.
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Traditional story


. Still, the evidence of literary works at least indicates that fairy tales have existed for thousands of years, although not perhaps recognized as a genre; the name "fairy tale" was first ascribed to them by Madame d'Aulnoy in the late 17th century. Many of today's fairy tales have evolved from centuries-old stories that have appeared, with variations, in multiple cultures around the world. Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written today. The older fairy tales were intended for an audience
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Children's literature


author and poet Hans Christian Andersen traveled through Europe and gathered many well-known fairy tales and created new stories in the fairy tale genre. In Switzerland, Johann David Wyss published "The Swiss Family Robinson" in 1812, with the aim of teaching children about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance. The book became popular across Europe after it was translated into French by Isabelle de Montolieu. E. T. A. Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" was published
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Fairy tale


A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is an instance of a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. Such stories typically feature entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be
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Fantasy literature


to be known as fairy tales. Both of these works includes the oldest recorded form of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. This was the beginning of a tradition that would both influence the fantasy genre and be incorporated in it, as many works of fairytale fantasy appear to this day. William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1594/5), the Weird Sisters in "Macbeth" and Prospero in "The Tempest" (or Doctor Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's play) would
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Jesper Who Herded the Hares


Jesper Who Herded the Hares is a Scandinavian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Violet Fairy Book". The motif of herding hares is a common fairy tale theme. Another tale featuring it is "The Three May Peaches". This tale, and "The Griffin", also feature the test of truthfully telling what the character is carrying. A king of a kingdom so small he could see every border from the towers on his castle, still was proud of it. Having a single daughter, he
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The Witch (fairy tale)


"The Witch" is a Russian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Yellow Fairy Book". A version of the tale, under the title "The Twins and the Snarling Witch", appears in "A Book of Witches" by Ruth Manning-Sanders. A poor widower with twin children, a girl and a boy, remarried. The stepmother had several more children and mistreated the twins. Finally, she told them she was sending them to her grandmother in the woods; she said they would
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Fairy tale


and marry princesses." The characters and motifs of fairy tales are simple and archetypal: princesses and goose-girls; youngest sons and gallant princes; ogres, giants, dragons, and trolls; wicked stepmothers and false heroes; fairy godmothers and other magical helpers, often talking horses, or foxes, or birds; glass mountains; and prohibitions and breaking of prohibitions. Although the fairy tale is a distinct genre within the larger category of folktale, the definition that marks a work as a fairy tale is a source of
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Fairy Tales Told for Children (1838)


, she tells her story and the king marries her. Andersen became an international celebrity with the publication of his novel "The Improvisatore" (1835) and "Fairy Tales Told for Children", his first collection of fairy tales published in three booklets between 1835 and 1837. The collection consists of nine tales that includes "The Tinderbox", "The Princess and the Pea", "Thumbelina", "The Little Mermaid", and "The Emperor's New Clothes". Andersen returned to the fairy tale genre
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Fairy tale


, the genres are now regarded as distinct. The fairy tale, told orally, is a sub-class of the folktale. Many writers have written in the form of the fairy tale. These are the literary fairy tales, or "Kunstmärchen". The oldest forms, from "Panchatantra" to the "Pentamerone", show considerable reworking from the oral form. The Grimm brothers were among the first to try to preserve the features of oral tales. Yet the stories printed under the Grimm name have been considerably reworked
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Fairy tale


in China, Taoist philosophers such as Liezi and Zhuangzi recounted fairy tales in their philosophical works. In the broader definition of the genre, the first famous Western fairy tales are those of Aesop (6th century BC) in ancient Greece. Jack Zipes writes in "When Dreams Came True", "There are fairy tale elements in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", and ... in many of William Shakespeare plays." "King Lear" can be considered a literary variant
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories


Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody. The bulk of the book consists of fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs and Snow White, rewritten so that they supposedly represent what a "politically correct" adult would consider a good and moral tale for children. The revisions include extensive usage
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Mama Spent Money When She Had None


Dave guy that scares me." Edie asks Dave what the biggest difference is between being married to her and to his first wife. "Honestly, our marriage is more real," he tells her. Reassured, she asks him how, and he relates that his first marriage was "like a fairy-tale," one he thought would last forever. "Love is just temporary. The way the fairy tale ends is death," he says, making her wish she hadn't asked. At the book
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History of fantasy


staples, and influenced latter fantasy as such. Indeed, when Madame d'Aulnoy termed her works "contes de fée" (fairy tales), she invented the term that is now generally used for the genre, thus distinguishing such tales from those involving no marvels. This would influence later writers, who took up the folk fairy tales in the same manner, in the Romantic era. Several fantasies aimed at an adult readership were also published in 18th century France, including Voltaire's "contes philosophique" "The Princess of Babylon
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Sarah Trimmer


Moreover, in one of her early essays, "Observations on the Changes which have taken place in Books for Children and Young Persons", Trimmer wrote the first history of children's literature, setting out the first canon of children's literature. Its landmark books are still cited today by scholars as important in the development of the genre. Trimmer is perhaps most famous now for her condemnation of fairy tales, such as the various translations of Charles Perrault's "Histoires ou contes du temps passé" (originally published in 1697
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Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection.


Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. (Danish: "Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Første Samling.") is a collection of nine fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The tales were published in a series of three installments by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark between May 1835 and April 1837, and represent Andersen's first venture into the fairy tale genre. The first installment of sixty-one unbound pages was published 8 May 1835 and contained "The Tinderbox", "Little Claus and Big Claus
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The Angel (fairy tale)


volume that included "The Nightingale", "The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball", and "The Ugly Duckling". The tale was republished 18 December 1849 in "Fairy Tales" and again on 15 December 1862 in "Fairy Tales and Stories". Wullschlager describes "The Angel" as a "sentimental genre picture [...] that suited the taste of the times." A print made from an illustration of the tale by the German artist Wilhelm von Kaulbach was widely popular and sold briskly
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Urusei Yatsura: Only You


"Only You" borrows heavily from the Japanese fairy tale of Urashima Tarō. The fairy tale would later inspire the film's sequel, "". In an interview featured in in 2000, Oshii expressed disappointment with the film, claiming "It's no film. It failed to be a film." "Only You" was released theatrically in Japan on 11 February 1983 where it was distributed by Toho. The film was never released theatrically in the United States, and was initially released to home video as "Uruseu
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Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales


of the Strong Room" in book collection, "A Bunch of Keys, Where They Were Found and What They Might Have Unlocked". Tom Hood's Christmas Book, 1865. (retitled "Johnny Pounce" for this collection). Little Mim — First published in "Graphic", Christmas Number, 1876 The Triumph of Vice — First published in book collection "Savage Club Papers", 1867. A parody of fairy tales, with a penniless baron who works as a scrivener, his beautiful (but vain)
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Lang's Fairy Books


the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources. "The Red Fairy Book" appeared at Christmas 1890 in a first printing of 10,000 copies. Sources include French, Russian, Danish, and Romanian tales as well as Norse mythology. Contains 153 poems by great British and American poets. In his Preface to this volume, Lang expressed the view that it would be "probably the last" of the collection. Their continuing popularity, however, demanded subsequent collections. In The Green Fairy Book, the third in
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Axel Braun


was the best-selling and best-renting title of 2010. Due to the success of "Batman XXX", Vivid Entertainment created a new line to capitalize on the superhero and sci-fi genres called Vivid Superhero and Braun was named leading director for the initiative. In 2013, Braun left Vivid and signed an exclusive directing contract with Wicked Pictures to launch Wicked Fairy Tales and Wicked Comix, two imprints dedicated exclusively to fairy tale and comic book parodies. Braun filed a federal lawsuit against 7,098 individuals who he alleged illegally
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The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan


The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan is a South Slavic fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Violet Fairy Book". It was translated from a German version of Vuk Karadžić's "Serbian Fairy Tales" The incident appears as part of the legends of Midas in classical times, but not all of the legend appears in the fairy tale. The emperor Trojan had goat's ears, but kept this fact a secret from the populace. Every day, he had a new barber whom he would ask if
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Traditional story


tales. A fairy tale with a tragic rather a happy ending is called anti-fairy tale. "Folklore" (or "lore") consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics. The word 'folklore' was first used by
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The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball


sold out by December 18, and Reitzel planned the publication of another 850. "The Sweethearts" was republished 18 December 1849 in "Fairy Tales" and again on 15 December 1862 in "Fairy Tales and Stories". Wullschlager observes that "New Fairy Tales" was a break-through for Andersen who, until its publication, had generally received vigorous condemnation from the Danish critics for his venture into the fairy tale genre. Reviews for the collection however were ecstatic, she notes. "Ny Portefeuille" wrote, "
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List of Disney animated films based on fairy tales


, his first full-length feature. After a hiatus from the fairy tale genre, the modern Disney company once more looked to classic fairy tales during the late 80s and 90s, resulting in popular films such as "Beauty and the Beast", "The Little Mermaid" and "". The following list is of such fairy tale films produced by the Disney company, along with their sources of inspiration (some stories, including "Cinderella" and "The Ugly Duckling", have been subject to multiple treatments)
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Plumed Serpent (Grimm)


princess storyline was an obvious one in light of the fairy tale genre, but even in a universe that accepted any and all types of creature, dragons are a tough one to weave in. As "Grimm" went to commercial with about fifteen minutes left, I predicted that Nick would set off for Juliette with Eddie in tow, and that Eddie would bring up just how classical the setup had become, and lo and behold, that’s exactly what happened. Eddie has a few nice quips about Nick being the Prince
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Folk and Fairy Tales


Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1978 anthology of 25 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies. Stories are pulled from "A Book of Dragons", "A Book of Mermaids", "A Book of Witches", "A Book of Dwarfs", "A Book of Devils and Demons", "A Book of Kings and Queens", "A Book
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Fairy tale


fact that the French "contes" often included fairies. Roots of the genre come from different oral stories passed down in European cultures. The genre was first marked out by writers of the Renaissance, such as Giovanni Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, and stabilized through the works of later collectors such as Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. In this evolution, the name was coined when the "précieuses" took up writing literary stories; Madame d'Aulnoy invented the term "Conte de fée", or fairy tale, in the
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The Fairy-Tale Detectives


The Fairy-Tale Detectives is the first book in The Sisters Grimm series written by Michael Buckley. Be careful who you trust. Twelve-year-old Sabrina and eight-year-old Daphne are orphans who go to live with their grandmother (who they thought was dead) in the small town of Ferryport Landing, New York. After the kidnapping of their parents and going through countless abusive foster homes, they soon find out that their grandmother is a very strange person who says that the town is filled with fairy
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Socialism in One Country


R.C.P.(B.) which met on 6 March 1918, Lenin said: Yes, we shall see the world revolution, but for the time being it is a very good fairy-tale, a very beautiful fairy-tale—I quite understand children liking beautiful fairy-tales. But I ask, is it proper for a serious revolutionary to believe in fairy-tales? There is an element of reality in every fairy-tale. If you told children fairy-tales in which the cock and the cat did not converse in
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Fairy tale


Revolutionary Girl Utena", "Princess Tutu", "Fables" and "MÄR" all make use of standard fairy tale elements to various extents but are more accurately categorised as fairytale fantasy due to the definite locations and characters which a longer narrative requires. A more modern cinematic fairy tale would be Luchino Visconti's "Le Notti Bianche", starring Marcello Mastroianni before he became a superstar. It involves many of the romantic conventions of fairy tales, yet it takes place in post-World War II Italy, and it
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil


Photoshop. The explosions featured in the film were created using Maya and Houdini. Director Mike Disa explained that in designing the locations for the film they considered "the idea of a modern fairy tale in modern times" asking themselves, "what would a fairy tale city look like having evolved for hundreds of years? What would their buildings look like, how would they get around" and saying, "We sat down and worked out the technology and mythology of the world of Hoodwinked that they hadn't really established in the
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Jaroslav Šerých


, many of which are decorated by the vitreous enamel technology. High quality of his illustrated book should be mentioned, too, for which he received several "Book of the year" awards from various publishers. Šerých notably illustrated a number of fairy tales books, including "Fairy Tales from Japan", "Persian Fairy Tales", "Indonesian Fairy Tales" and "Tales of the Uncanny". In the 1960s he took part in numerous exhibitions with the "M 57" group and the Hollar Society. He was
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John D. Batten


Tales", "More English Fairy Tales", and "More Celtic Fairy Tales" from 1890 to 1895 and "Europa's Fairy Book" (1916). (The latter has also been issued as "European Folk and Fairy Tales".) He also illustrated English versions of "Tales from the Arabian Nights" and "Dante's Inferno". Batten also wrote two books of poetry and a book on animal and human flight. At the end of the 1890s he turned to the painting technique of egg tempera
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Fairy tale


unconscious. [...] Every archetype is in its essence only one aspect of the collective unconscious as well as always representing also the whole collective unconscious. Other famous people commented on the importance of fairy tales, especially for children. For example, Albert Einstein once showed how important he believed fairy tales were for children’s intelligence in the quote “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairytales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairytales." The adaptation of fairy tales for
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Fantasy literature


and Madame d'Aulnoy ((c.1650 - 1705)), became very popular, early in the Age of Enlightenment. Many of Perrault's tales became fairy tale staples, and influenced latter fantasy as such. Indeed, when Madame d'Aulnoy termed her works "contes de fée" (fairy tales), she invented the term that is now generally used for the genre, thus distinguishing such tales from those involving no marvels. This influenced later writers, who took up the folk fairy tales in the same manner, in the Romantic
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Russian fairy tale


the freedom to explore the different methods of narration. The separation from written forms led Russians to develop techniques that were effective at creating dramatic and interesting stories. Such techniques have developed into consistent elements now found in popular literary works; They distinguish the genre of Russian fairy tales. Fairy tales were not confined to a particular socio-economic class and appealed to mass audiences, which resulted in them becoming a trademark of Russian culture. Cultural influences on Russian Fairy tales have been unique and based on imagination. Isaac Bashevis Singer,
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Louise de Bossigny


Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil, (? – 10 January 1700) was a French salonnière and author of fairy tales. She married the Comte d'Auneuil and established her standing in Paris and at court with a salon that was "open to all the beaux esprits and to all the women who wrote." Her fairy tale collection, "La Tiranie des fées détruite" ("The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed"), playfully alludes to the pre-existing genre of fairy tales popular in her time. Her final
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On Fairy-Stories


but did not have the close linkage to history or contemporary times that his precursors had. The essay "On Fairy-Stories" is an attempt to explain and defend the genre of fairy tales or "Märchen". It distinguishes "Märchen" from "traveller's tales" (such as "Gulliver's Travels"), science fiction (such as H. G. Wells's "The Time Machine"), beast tales (such as Aesop's Fables and "Peter Rabbit"), and dream stories (such as
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The Thing You Love Most


"The Thing You Love Most" is the second episode of the first season of the American fairy tale/drama television series "Once Upon a Time". The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales that were transported to the "real world" town by a powerful curse. This episode centers on Regina's (Lana Parrilla) efforts to run Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) out of Storybrooke and reveals how the Evil Queen (
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The Golden Key (Grimm's Fairy Tales)


Tales" in 1815, "The Golden Key" was always in the last place; since the edition before the last one, in 1850, it was in place 200. According to their notes, the Brothers Grimm got it from Hessen (probably from Marie Hassenpflug). They mention a "similar fairy tale in the "Deutsches Sprachbuch von Adolf Gutbier"" (German Language Book by Adolf Gutbier), about two chickens who find a little key and a little box in the dung. The box contains a short
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Early history of fantasy


tale developed so smoothly into fantasy that many later works (such as Max Beerbohm's "The Happy Hypocrite" and George MacDonald's "Phantastes") that would now be called fantasies were called fairy tales at the time they written. J. R. R. Tolkien's seminal essay on fantasy writing was titled "On Fairy Stories." "Ossian" and the ballads also provided an influence to fantasy indirectly, through their influence on Sir Walter Scott, who began the genre of historical fiction. Very few of his works contain fantastic
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ALF Tales


ALF Tales is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series that aired on NBC from September 10, 1988 to December 9, 1989. The show is a spin-off of "" which featured characters from that series play various characters from fairy tales. The fairy tale was usually altered for comedic effect in a manner akin to Fractured Fairy Tales. Each story typically spoofs a film genre, such as the "Cinderella" episode done as an Elvis movie. Some episodes featured a "fourth wall" effect where ALF is backstage preparing
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Queen Zixi of Ix


. In a letter to his eldest son, Frank Joslyn Baum, he said it was "nearer to the "old-fashioned" fairy tale than anything I have yet accomplished," and in many respects, it adheres more closely to the fairy tale structure than the Oz books. The book was made into the 1914 film "The Magic Cloak of Oz". Although no part of the book's story takes place in the Land of Oz, by the time the movie was made, it had become clear that
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Fairytale fantasy


setting. The precise dividing line is not well defined, but it is applied, even to the works of a single author: George MacDonald's "Lilith" and "Phantastes" are regarded as fantasies, while his "The Light Princess", "The Golden Key", and "" are commonly called fairy tales. This genre may include modern fairy tales, which use fairy tale motifs in original plots, such as "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "The Hobbit", as well as erotic,
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The Little Bookroom


particular there was a spate of original stories in the folk-tale manner. Eleanor Farjeon was above all a poet, but from the 1920s onward she effectively used poetic language and fancy in creating literary but homely fairy tales for children, as did her fellow poet, Walter de la Mare. The "literary fairy tale" recreates traditional fairy tales and folktales in several respects, such as clear distinctions between good and evil, and their inevitable reward and punishment. Writing in this genre, Farjeon was one of the foremost 20th
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Debi Gliori


" On the Booktrust website, "What's the Time Mr Wolf?" is described as "a delightful story, inspired by traditional fairy tales as well as the familiar playground game, 'What's the Time Mr Wolf?'" The reviewer found the book to contain much "lively detail" and "beautiful illustrations" and suggested that it would make a perfect and soothing bedtime story. At "SchoolZone", schools librarian Joy Court found "What's the Time Mr Wolf?" to be "an enchantingly
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Fairy painting


Fairy painting is a genre of painting and illustration featuring fairies and fairy tale settings, often with extreme attention to detail. The genre is most closely associated with Victorian painting in Great Britain, but has experienced a contemporary revival. Moreover, fairy painting was also seen as escapism for Victorians. Despite its whimsical appearance, fairy painting is strongly rooted in the literary and theatrical influences of Romanticism, as well as in the cultural issues facing the Victorian era. Among the most significant of these influences were the fantasy themes of Shakespeare's
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Nightmares & Fairy Tales


time, a bratty princess named Serena heard wondrous tales, then placed them on her be-spelled loom and wove the darkest to spin them, and twist and entwine them into dangerous NEW shapes that thrill and enchant those who read them. Was she a witch princess? or was she influenced by the strange little rag doll that slumped on a stool beside her loom, staring and staring? The doll's name is Annabelle, and you shall soon fall under her spell within the pages of this book. I have heard
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Life Is Not a Fairy Tale


in God. Both women struggled with the same issues as Fantasia at a young age which made Fantasia realize that she would only be headed down the same dead end path if she didn't make a change for the better Life Is Not A Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story is a 2006 American biographical film directed by Debbie Allen, loosely based on the life of American singer Fantasia Barrino. The film was adapted from the book "Life Is Not A Fairy Tale" written by Fantasia. In this Lifetime original movie,
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Lang's Fairy Books


other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories. Lang's urge to gather and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the Anglo-Scottish border. British fairy tale collections were rare at the time; Dinah Craik's "The Fairy Book" (1869) was a lonely precedent. According to Roger Lancelyn Green, Lang "was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day" who judged the traditional tales' "
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Fairy tale


have retold familiar fairy tales in a darker, more horrific or psychological variant aimed primarily at adults. Notable examples are Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Company of Wolves", based on Angela Carter's retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood". Likewise, "Princess Mononoke", "Pan's Labyrinth", "Suspiria", and "Spike" create new stories in this genre from fairy tale and folklore motifs. In comics and animated TV series, "The Sandman", "
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Going a Traveling


"Going a Traveling" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in "Grimm's Fairy Tales", tale number 143. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1696, What Should I Have Said?. A long long time ago there lived a mother and her son. The son told the mother that he wanted to go out a traveling. The mother was very worried about it since they were very poor. The son told her that he would be fine, and he would always say "not much
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Diane Arbus


to go where I've never been." "Our whole guise is like giving a sign to the world to think of us in a certain way, but there's a point between what you want people to know about you and what you can't help people knowing about you. And that has to do with what I've always called the gap between intention and effect." "Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot...There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale
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The Beautifull Cassandra


[out] [...] to make her fortune". All three of the listed characteristics, and the result, have precedents in the literature of Austen’s period, and each would evoke a series of associations in the mind of the reader; but Austen restructures the associations by the fashion in which she gives each of these particular items the same effect on the outcome. This readjustment creates a new perspective of accepted motifs and allows Austen to place herself outside of the framework of a single genre, raising fairy tale,
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Thumbelina


mentioned the tales at all while another advised Andersen not to waste his time writing fairy tales. One critic stated that Andersen "lacked the usual form of that kind of poetry [...] and would not study models". Andersen felt he was working against their preconceived notions of what a fairy tale should be, and returned to novel-writing, believing it was his true calling. The critical reaction to the 1835 tales was so harsh that he waited an entire year before publishing "The Little Mermaid" and "The
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Katie Farris


lines the author grabs you by the throat.” (Louisville Courier-Journal ). She is the recipient of 2018 Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review, 2018 Flash Fairy Tale Prize from the Fairy Tale Review, and 2017 Orison Anthology Award in Fiction (judged by Justin Torres). She is also the co-translator of Polina Barskova's "This Lamentable City" (Tupelo Press, 2010) and Guy Jean's "If I Were Born in Prague" (Argos Books, 2011). Farris won
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Guillermo del Toro


1973 Spanish film "The Spirit of the Beehive", widely considered to be the finest Spanish film of the 1970s. Del Toro views the horror genre as inherently political, explaining, "Much like fairy tales, there are two facets of horror. One is pro-institution, which is the most reprehensible type of fairy tale: Don't wander into the woods, and always obey your parents. The other type of fairy tale is completely anarchic and antiestablishment." He is close friends with two other prominent and critically
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Groac'h


Become in body what you are in heart!". The "groac'h" changes into a hideous creature, the queen of mushrooms, and is thrown into a well. The metamorphosed men and the "korandon" are saved, and Bellah and Houarn take the treasures of the fairy, marry and live happily ever after. For the scholar Joseph Rio this tale is important documentary evidence on the character of the "groac'h". Souvestre explained why he chose to place it on the island of Lok by the multiplicity of versions
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The Old Witch


The Old Witch is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his 1894 book, "More English Fairy Tales". It is also included within "A Book of Witches" by Ruth Manning-Sanders and "A Book of British Fairy Tales" by Alan Garner. It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls. Others of this type include "Shita-kiri Suzume", "Diamonds and Toads", "Mother Hulda", "Father Frost", "The Three Little
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The Heart of Princess Joan


the Burne-Jones, the Morrises, and the Kiplings. In fact, “The Heart of Princess Joan” is dedicated, with the other stories in the collection, to her nephews and nieces. James Fowler remarks that “she seems to represent a full flowering of the Victorian fairy-tale genre[…].” The fairy tale opens with a wealthy King and Queen who lived happily. The Queen was prideful and disdained the fairies, and so when she had a baby girl named Joan, the vengeful fairies
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Doctor Know-all


"Doctor Know-all" () is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 98 in "Grimms' Fairy Tales". It is Aarne-Thompson type 1641 about being in the right place at the right time. Another tale of this type is "Almondseed and Almondella". A peasant named Crabbe saw how well a doctor ate and asked him how to become one. The doctor told him to buy an ABC book with a rooster up front, sell his oxen and cart to buy
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Fantasy literature


interest in "fantasy" as a genre of writing, and also to argue that it was a genre worthy of serious consideration. Herbert Read devoted a chapter of his book "English Prose Style" (1928) to discussing "Fantasy" as an aspect of literature, arguing it was unjustly considered suitable only for children: "The Western World does not seem to have conceived the necessity of Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups". In 1938, with the publication of "The Sword in the Stone", T. H.
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The Golden Pot


A Modern Fairytale") likely is a reflection of this. With "The Golden Pot", Hoffmann has consciously invented a new literary genre. In contrast to the traditional fairy tale, the “modern fairytale” takes place in a contemporary setting that would be recognizable to any citizen of Dresden in the 19th century. Although the final story was more serious than the one originally planned, "The Golden Pot" still contains a great deal of humor. In a number of scenes, the reader cannot help but laugh
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Fairy tale


tales. Some folklorists prefer to use the German term "Märchen" or "wonder tale" to refer to the genre rather than "fairy tale", a practice given weight by the definition of Thompson in his 1977 [1946] edition of "The Folktale": "a tale of some length involving a succession of motifs or episodes. It moves in an unreal world without definite locality or definite creatures and is filled with the marvellous. In this never-never land, humble heroes kill adversaries, succeed to kingdoms
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Princess Daisy (miniseries)


has all the same, essential mini-series requirements: vulgar opulence, beautiful people, international locations, the lot. But it also has a strong, closely packed story line, with the kind of fairy tale elements—the mirror image twin, the evil step-relation—that can remind you of childhood frissons; and it has characters in place of those perambulating coat hangers we had last week. And if we customers don't take the trouble to distinguish between good and bad rubbish, you know exactly what kind
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The End (Grimm)


stated that everyone is "all just one big, happy family, fighting evil monsters" with Trubel "definitely out there." Greenwalt said, "That's the big question: what did happen to Diana and Kelly? And we also always had the image of the book itself closing, and that being the final image, except for saying 'thank you' to the fans. Then to go not only full circle in terms of a myth/legend/fairy tale but actually go out to the future and have
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What Happened to Frederick


"What Happened to Frederick" is the 13th episode of the American fairy tale/drama television series "Once Upon a Time", which aired in the United States on ABC on February 19, 2012. The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales that were transported to the "real world" town by a powerful curse. In this episode, David (Josh Dallas) finds his love for Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) growing
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Lang's Fairy Books


Tales" (1890) and "More English Fairy Tales" (1894) by Joseph Jacobs. Other followers included the American "The Oak-Tree Fairy Book" (1905), "The Elm-Tree Fairy Book" (1909), and "The Fir-Tree Fairy Book" (1912) series edited by Clifton Johnson, and the collections of Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. Some of Lang's collected stories were included without any attribution at all (e.g., "The Blue Mountains")
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Grimm Fairy Tales (comics)


Grimm Fairy Tales is a dark fantasy comic book series by Zenescope Entertainment that presents classic fairy tales, albeit with modern twists or expanded plots. It began publication in June 2005. Each issue of "Grimm Fairy Tales" has two parts: a frame story and a fairy tale. The frame story revolves around Dr. Sela Mathers, a Doctor/Professor of Literature who has been given the ability to help people by showing them fairy tales with a lesson about their life. She struggles with the fact that people ignore her advice
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Nightmares & Fairy Tales


Nightmares and Fairy Tales (sometimes written Nightmares & Fairy Tales) is an American comic book, written by Serena Valentino and published by Slave Labor Graphics. It chronicles the events that happen, good or bad, as a strange little doll named Annabelle comes into the possession of many people. The stories are often played around familiar fairy tales, such as Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella. The comic book started in 2002. FSc (Foo Swee Chin) was the artist for the first 12 issues until
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The Battle of the Birds


The Battle of the Birds is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in his "Popular Tales of the West Highlands". He recorded it from a fisherman near Inverary, John Mackenzie. Joseph Jacobs took it from there for his "Celtic Fairy Tales" and added some additional elements. Also included in "The Lilac Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang and "A Book of British Fairy Tales" by Alan Garner A king's son set out to see a battle, where every animal fought; he promised to
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Joseph Jacobs


The History of Tom Thumb". He published his English fairy tale collections: "English Fairy Tales" in 1890 and "More English Fairy Tales" in 1893 but also went on after and in between both books to publish fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as Jewish, Celtic and Indian fairytales which made him one of the most popular writers of fairytales for the English language. Jacobs was also an editor for journals and books on the subject of folklore which included editing the Fables of Bidpai and the Fables of Aesop
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Fairy tale


, triggered their child's imagination as the read them.Jungian Analyst and fairy tale scholar, Marie Louise Von Franz interprets fairy tales based on Jung‘s view of fairy tales as a spontaneous and naive product of soul, which can only express what soul is. That means, she looks at fairy tales as images of different phases of experiencing the reality of the soul. They are the “purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes” and “they represent the archetypes in their simplest, barest and most concise form”
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The Ugly Duckling


and Andersen wrote on December 18, 1843: “The book is selling like hot cakes. All the papers are praising it, everyone is reading it! No books of mine are appreciated in the way these fairy tales are!” Andersen promoted the tale by reading it aloud at social gatherings. The tale was republished 18 December 1849 in "Fairy Tales. 1850. (Eventyr. 1850.)" and again 15 December 1862 in "Fairy Tales and Stories. First Volume. 1862. (Eventyr og Historier.
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