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Some Kind of Fairy Tale


Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a 2012 novel by the British author Graham Joyce. A work of speculative fiction, it won the British Fantasy Society's Fantasy Novel of the Year award (the Robert Holdstock Award) in 2013. Film rights to the novel have been sold and a potential movie is in the development stage. Tara Martin, a teenage girl who disappears for 20 years and subsequently returns to her family; Hiero, a stranger, supposedly from an alternative reality populated by fairies; Peter Martin, Tara's older
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Charnwood Forest


of the woodland had disappeared leaving large areas of moorland and pasture. The area was the inspiration for "Charnwood Poems", a collection of poems by the author, playwright and poet Albert Francis Cross (1863–1940). It is also the setting for the speculative fiction novel "Some Kind of Fairy Tale" by Graham Joyce (2012), in which it is depicted as a possible portal to the realm of fairies. Charnwood Forest covers approx of Leicestershire, split over three local government districts: Charnwood Borough, North West
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The Peasant's Wise Daughter


"The Peasant's Wise Daughter" or "The Peasant's Clever Daughter" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in "Grimm's Fairy Tales" as tale number 94. It is Aarne-Thompson type 875. This type of tale is the commonest European tale dealing with witty exchanges. A peasant begged some land from the king. When he and his daughter dug the field, they found a mortar made of gold. The daughter warned that if they gave it to the king for his kindness,
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The Facetious Nights of Straparola


the nights end with a riddle or enigma. The tales include folk and fairy-tales (about 15); Boccaccio-like novellas with themes of trickery and intrigue; and tragic and heroic stories. The 15 fairy tales were influential with later authors, some were the first recorded instances of now-famous stories, like "Puss in Boots". Many of the tales were later collected or retold in Giambattista Basile’s "The Tale of Tales" (1634–36) and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's "Grimm's Fairy
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Donor (fairy tale)


In fairy tales, a donor is a character that tests the hero (and sometimes other characters as well) and provides magical assistance to the hero when he or she succeeds. The fairy godmother is a well-known form of this character. Many other supernatural patrons feature in fairy tales; these include various kinds of animals and the spirit of a dead mother. In his analysis of fairy tales, Vladimir Propp identified this role as the "donor" and listed it as one of the seven roles found in fairy tales
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authors seek to recreate a sense of the fantastic in a contemporary discourse. Some writers use fairy tale forms for modern issues; this can include using the psychological dramas implicit in the story, as when Robin McKinley retold "Donkeyskin" as the novel "Deerskin", with emphasis on the abusive treatment the father of the tale dealt to his daughter. Sometimes, especially in children's literature, fairy tales are retold with a twist simply for comic effect, such as "The Stinky Cheese Man" by Jon Scieszka and "
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Some Kind of Fairy Tale


the novel's conclusion Tara once again disappears, leaving a note indicating that her departure was voluntary, and done in an effort to protect Richie from Hiero's revenge. Tara's claims reference key elements found in Irish folkloric tales of fairy abduction. These include a disconnect in the passage of time in the two worlds, the dangers of eating and drinking in the other world (i.e. the inability to return to the human world until released), and the vengeful nature of fairies despite their glamorous appearance. All of these appear
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Aurore and Aimée


Aurore and Aimée is a French literary fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Like her better known tale "Beauty and the Beast", it is among the first fairy tales deliberately written for children. It draws on traditional fairy tale motifs from the Aarne-Thompson tale type 480, the kind and the unkind girls; as is common in those tales, the abused daughter finds herself in a new place, where, after a test, a kindly woman rewards her. Folk tales of this type
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children continues. Walt Disney's influential "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was largely (although certainly not solely) intended for the children's market. The anime "Magical Princess Minky Momo" draws on the fairy tale "Momotarō". Jack Zipes has spent many years working to make the older traditional stories accessible to modern readers and their children. In contemporary literature, many authors have used the form of fairy tales for various reasons, such as examining the human condition from the simple framework a fairytale provides. Some
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Russian fairy tale


a Polish-American author and Nobel Prize winner, claims that, “You don't ask questions about a tale, and this is true for the folktales of all nations. They were not told as fact or history but as a means to entertain the listener, whether he was a child or an adult. Some contain a moral, others seem amoral or even antimoral, Some constitute fables on man's follies and mistakes, others appear pointless." They were created to entertain the reader. Russian fairy tales are extremely
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Simon the Sorcerer


deciding which fairy tales to include in the game, Simon Woodroffe said that he "read a whole bunch of that kind of stuff", including the "Grimms' Fairy Tales", and that he also owned Ladybird Books when he was growing up. He said that there were some he "really wanted" to include, such as "The Magic Porridge Pot". but could not. Alan Brigman was the technical director and co-producer. He and Mike Woodroffe developed a game creation system, Adventure Graphic Operating
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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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List of fairy tales


Fairy tales are stories that range from those originating in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monologue in German, is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale", written by "a single identifiable author", which can be characterised as "simple and anonymous", and exists in a mutable and difficult to define
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brother; Richie Franklin, Tara's former lover; Dr. Underwood, Tara's psychiatrist; and Mrs. Larwood, an elderly woman who counsels Tara. Certain characters' names have significance to the plot. Tara's name acknowledges the story's linkage with Irish folkloric tales of fairy abduction; The Hill of Tara is the traditional seat of the High Kings of Ireland. Hiero's name is pronounced "yarrow," which is a flowering plant with healing properties and also the name of certain rural locations in England and Scotland, signifying
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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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, and heterosexual characters. Cleis Press has released several fairy tale themed erotic anthologies, including "Fairy Tale Lust", "Lustfully Ever After", and "A Princess Bound". It may be hard to lay down the rule between fairy tales and fantasies that use fairy tale motifs, or even whole plots, but the distinction is commonly made, even within the works of a single author: George MacDonald's "Lilith" and "Phantastes" are regarded as fantasies, while his "The Light Princess",
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The Three Heads of the Well


The Three Heads in the Well is a fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in "English Fairy Tales". 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 Men in the Wood", "The Enchanted Wreath", "The Old Witch", and "The Two Caskets". Literary variants include "The Three Fairies
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Moment 4 Life


" premiered on January 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM ET on "MTV" alongside an interview with Minaj. The video takes part in a type of Minaj-assisted fairy tale from a book. The video begins with Minaj sitting by a boudoir as Martha Zolanski appears as Minaj's fairy godmother. After discussing how Roman and Slim Shady have been sent to boarding school, Martha informs Nicki that this kind of fairy tale is different from ones she's seen, stating "These kinds of nights are fleeting and usually end by
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Fairy tale


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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Michael Scott (Irish author)


, folklore, and romance. His first book (inspired by his fascination with Irish mythology), "Irish Folk and Fairy Tales, volume 1", was published in 1983 and became part of a trilogy documenting a large number of Irish folk tales that had, in some cases, only been told verbally prior to his collection. The Irish Folk and Fairy Tales volumes were the culmination of Scott's extensive travels across Ireland whilst working as a book dealer, documenting the tales he found along the way. When reviewing Scott
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Fairy godmother


d'Aulnoy and other précieuses, and Charles Perrault. Many other supernatural patrons feature in fairy tales; these include various kinds of animals and the spirit of a dead mother. The fairy godmother has her roots in the figures of the Fates; this is especially clear in "Sleeping Beauty", where they decree her fate, and are associated with spinning. In the tales of précieuses and later successors, the fairy godmother acts in a manner atypical of fairies in actual folklore belief; they are preoccupied with the character and fortunes of
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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 Nightingale (fairy tale)


"The Nightingale" (Danish: "Nattergalen") is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health. Well received upon its publication in Copenhagen in 1843 in "New Fairy Tales", the tale is believed to have been inspired by the author's unrequited love for opera singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish nightingale".
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some 6000 years ago. However, the choice of the corpus of folktales and the method used by this study both make the results very suspicious. On the other hand, various studies converge to show that some fairy tales, for example the swan maiden, could go back to the Upper Palaeolithic. Originally, adults were the audience of a fairy tale just as often as children. Literary fairy tales appeared in works intended for adults, but in the 19th and 20th centuries the fairy tale became associated with children's literature.
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Fairy tale


impact on the evolution of the fairy tale film. Some of the earliest short silent films from the Disney studio were based on fairy tales, and some fairy tales were adapted into shorts in the musical comedy series "Silly Symphony", such as "Three Little Pigs". Walt Disney's first feature-length film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", released in 1937, was a ground-breaking film for fairy tales and, indeed, fantasy in general. Disney and his creative successors have returned to traditional
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Fairy godmother


Women. The popularity of these versions of these tales led to this being widely regarded as a common fairy-tale motif, although they are less common in other tales. Indeed, the fairy godmothers were added to "The Sleeping Beauty" by Perrault; no such figures appeared in his source, "Sole, Luna, e Talia" by Giambattista Basile. A great variety of other figures may also take this place. She is portrayed as kind, gentle and loving. In the works of the précieuses, French literary
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Malé Svatoňovice


and exposed Permian-Mesozoic rocks. In 1890, Malé Svatoňovice became the birthplace of Karel Čapek, one of the most famous Czech writers. There is a Čapek Brothers Museum in the village. Karel Čapek's brother Josef was the first Czech Cubist, and some of his work is displayed in the museum. Some locations in the village and surrounding areas were used by Karel Čapek in his book "Nine Fairy Tales" (also known as "Fairy Tales"), published in the United Kingdom in 1933. Another author
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Virginia Haviland


, Virginia Haviland traveled around the world meeting with librarians, authors, and authorities in fairy tales. The collection includes: In 1985, Little, Brown and Company also published a single-volume sampling of her series called "Favorite Fairy Tales Told Around the World". From the 1994 Beechtree paperback reprint: "In recent decades, folk tales and fairy tales from all corners of the earth have been made available in a variety of handsome collections and in lavishly illustrated picture books. But in the 1950s, such a rich
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The Uses of Enchantment


The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales is a 1976 book by Austrian-born American author Bruno Bettelheim, in which the author analyzes fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychoanalysis. A 1991 article in the "Journal of American Folklore" presented a case that Bettelheim had engaged in plagiarism primarily from Julius Heuscher's "A Psychiatric Study of Myths and Fairy Tales: Their Origin, Meaning, and Usefulness" (1963). The book is divided into two main sections. The first, "A Pocketful
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Diamonds and Toads


Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in "The Blue Fairy Book". It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in "Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite". In his source, as in "Mother Hulda", the kind girl was the stepdaughter, not the other daughter. The change was apparently to decrease the similarity to "Cinderella". It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480
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Father Frost (fairy tale)


Morozko (, Morozko) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in "Narodnye russkie skazki" (1855-63). Andrew Lang included it, as "The Story of King Frost", in "The Yellow Fairy Book" (1894). It is Aarne–Thompson type 480, The Kind and the Unkind Girls. Others of this type include "Shita-kiri Suzume", "Diamonds and Toads", "Mother Hulda", "The Three Heads in the Well", "The
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The Three Fairies


"The Three Fairies" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the "Pentamerone". It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls, and appears to stem from an oral source. Others of this type include "Diamonds and Toads", "Shita-kiri Suzume", "Mother Hulda", "The Three Heads in the Well", "Father Frost", "The Three Little Men in the Wood", "The Enchanted Wreath
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Fairy tale


The ASBO Fairy Tales" by Chris Pilbeam. A common comic motif is a world where all the fairy tales take place, and the characters are aware of their role in the story, such as in the film series Shrek. Other authors may have specific motives, such as multicultural or feminist reevaluations of predominantly Eurocentric masculine-dominated fairy tales, implying critique of older narratives. The figure of the damsel in distress has been particularly attacked by many feminist critics. Examples of narrative reversal rejecting this figure include "The Paperbag Princess
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The House of Fairy Tales


The House of Fairy Tales is a children's arts charity based in London, England. The charity is committed to delivering creative learning experiences for 5-12’s in partnership with institutions, events and local authorities as well as promoting active engagement with issues relating to sustainability and the environment. The House of Fairy Tales brings together hundreds of artists, performers, actors, writers and philosophers to deliver theatrical events, guides and exhibitions. The House of Fairy Tales is a registered charity and holds the registration number 1140334 in England and
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Hans Christian Andersen


travelogues combines documentary and descriptive accounts of the sights he saw with more philosophical passages on topics such as being an author, immortality, and the nature of fiction in the literary travel report. Some of the travelogues, such as "In Sweden", even contain fairy-tales. In the 1840s, Andersen's attention returned to the stage, but with little success. He had better fortune with the publication of the "Picture-Book without Pictures" (1840). A second series of fairy tales began in 1838
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The Facetious Nights of Straparola


The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1550-1555; Italian: Le piacevoli notti), also known as The Nights of Straparola, is a two-volume collection of 75 stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's "Decameron", it is significant as often being called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales; it would influence later fairy-tale authors like Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. "The Facetious Nights of Straparola" was first published in Italy
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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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Oliver Twist


an early grave. From this unpromising industrial/institutional setting, however, a fairy tale also emerges. In the midst of corruption and degradation, the essentially passive Oliver remains pure-hearted; he steers away from evil when those around him give in to it, and in proper fairy-tale fashion, he eventually receives his reward – leaving for a peaceful life in the country, surrounded by kind friends. On the way to this happy ending, Dickens explores the kind of life an outcast, orphan boy could expect
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Joseph Jacobs


tales. According to his own analysis of "English Fairy Tales", "Of the eighty-seven tales contained in my two volumes, thirty-eight are Märchen proper, ten sagas or legends, nineteen drolls, four cumulative stories, six beast tales, and ten nonsense stories." During his lifetime, Jacobs came to be regarded as "one of the leading English authorities" on folklore, and "the leading authority on fairy tales and the migration of fables". Writing in 1954, O. Somech Philips noted
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Fairy Tale about Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya


Fairy Tale about Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya (Czech: Pohádka o Mrazíkovi, Ivanovi a Nastěnce) is a 2000 Czech adventure game developed by Bohemia Interactive and Centauri Production. It was published by Bohemia Interactive. The game is heavily inspired by the 1964 Soviet Union fairy-tale movie "Jack Frost" ("Морозко"). The authors of the game read over 1,000 original Russian and Czech fairy tales and legends to gain inspiration. The design style is hand-drawn animation, which were then modeled into the
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Graham Joyce


released in 2012, produced by James Laws of Pretzel Films, scripted by Joyce and Laws. Currently, there are no feature-length films based on Joyce's novels or shorts. However, the film rights to "Dreamside", "The Tooth Fairy", and "Dark Sister" have all been optioned. "Dreamside", "Do the Creepy Thing" (Joyce scripting) "The Silent Land" and "Some Kind Of Fairy Tale" are all in development. Joyce co-wrote song lyrics for
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Fairy tale


be used to address children’s fears …. and give them some role training in an approach that honors the children’s window of tolerance”. These fairy tales teach children how to deal with certain social situations and helps them to find their place in society. Fairy tales teach children other important lessons too. For example, Tsitsani et al. carried out a study on children to determine the benefits of fairy tales. Parents of the children who took part in the study found that fairy tales, especially the color in them
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The Red Shoes (fairy tale)


"The Red Shoes" (Danish: "De røde sko") is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen 7 April 1845 in "New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Third Collection. 1845." ("Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Tredie Samling. 1845."). Other tales in the volume include "The Elf Mound" ("Elverhøi"), "The Jumpers" ("Springfyrene"), "The Shepherdess and the Chimney
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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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Sarah Trimmer


as a censor of fairy tales, therefore, Nicholas Tucker has argued, "by considering fairy tales as fair game for criticism rather than unthinking worship, Mrs Trimmer is at one with scholars today who have also written critically about the ideologies found in some individual stories". One of the reasons Trimmer believed fairy tales were dangerous was because they led child readers into a fantasy world where adults could not follow and control their exposure to harmful experiences. She was just as horrified by the graphic illustrations included with some fairy tale collections
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Golden Hair (fairy tale)


" in "Zolotye Zyorna" (, lit. "golden grains") children's almanac in 1939. It was later released as a part of "The Malachite Casket" collection on 28 January 1939. This is one of the few stories that are based on the Bashkirs folklore (another example being "The Demidov Caftans"). Bazhov was very interested in the Bashkirs' tales, and had some more material of that kind, but decided not to publish it. He wrote: "I, for instance,
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Simonas Daukantas


but for some unknown reason was not published. Daukantas was the first to collect examples of all genres (songs, proverbs, fairy-tales, etc.) of Lithuanian folklore. He added Lithuanian proverbs to several of his works, but earlier works used proverbs already published by other authors. In total, he had prepared 932 proverbs for publication. Around 1834–1835, Daukantas started one of the first collections of Lithuanian fairy tales, fables, humorous stories. The handwritten collection was discovered by Jonas Jablonskis and published in full in
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Russian fairy tale


Your Holiness!” Between 1855 and 1863, Afanasyev edited "Popular Russian Tales[Narodnye russkie skazki]," which had been modeled after the Grimm's Tales. This publication had a vast cultural impact over Russian scholars by establishing a desire for folklore studies in Russia. The rediscovery of Russian folklore through written text led to a generation of great Russian authors to come forth. Some of these authors include Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Folktales were quickly produced in written text and adapted. Since the production of this collection, Russian tales
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The Tears of Princess Prunella


ability to only hear sounds that are beautiful. The Minstrel does not understand why his son wants to hear the Princess cry as he does not considered this sound to be beautiful to him. The Wymps The Wymps are fairy-like creatures living in the forest. They have magical powers and like to laugh and joke around. Common Fairytale Elements found in this story include: The story evokes the ever-popular themes found in most fairy tales of proving oneself brave, kind, foolish and wise. As with many fairy tales
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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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We Were Liars


the writing software Scrivener which made it easy to rearrange segments of text. She changed the structure of the ending shortly before the advance reader copy, based on suggestions from young adult author John Green. As a child, Lockhart was "captivated" by fairy tale collections her mother had and incorporated a fairy tale feel to "We Were Liars"; she stated, "Fairy tales have been a preoccupation of mine for a very long time, and for a long time I wanted to write a contemporary story with a fairy
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The Tinderbox


. Andersen was offered no encouragement from the critics. One literary journal never mentioned the tales at all while another advised Andersen not to waste his time writing fairy tales. He was told he "lacked the usual form of that kind of poetry [...]and would not study models." Andersen felt he was working against their preconceived notions about fairy tales and returned to novel-writing, believing it was his true calling. Charles Boner was the first to translate "The Tinderbox" into English, working from a German
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forms can survive. Still, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon, such stories may date back thousands of years, some to the Bronze Age more than 6,500 years ago. Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written today. Folklorists have classified fairy tales in various ways. The Aarne-Thompson classification system and the morphological analysis of Vladimir Propp are among the most notable. Other folklorists have interpreted the tales' significance, but no school has been definitively established for the meaning of the
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Happily Ever Aftermath


of the most ubiquitous fairy tales in popular consciousness. I figured at least Sgt. Wu would make some kind of offhand comment about it, or that literally any character one the show would make a passing mention to how a great many of their cases resemble popular folk tales. Many of Nick's encounters with Wesen happen away from the police or don't draw direct attention to their equivalent Brothers Grimm tales, but like the Three Little Bears episode all the way back in the fall, this particular hour had too many similarities
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Cyril W. Beaumont


world until his death in 1976. Beaumont was a prolific author. He wrote and published numerous books on ballet and other kinds of dance, many as sole author and a few with friends as coauthor. He also wrote fairy tales and other books for children, as well as articles published in newspapers, popular magazines, and scholarly journals. His translations of classic works on dance from French and Italian are still valued today. His "magnum opus" was "The Complete Book of Ballets" (1937) and its three
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The Twelve Months (fairy tale)


"The Twelve Months" is a Russian fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas in "Folktales of Greece". It is Aarne-Thompson type 480, the kind and the unkind girls. Others of this type include "Diamonds and Toads", "The Enchanted Wreath", "Mother Hulda", "Maiden Bright-eye", "The Old Witch", "The Three Heads in the Well", "The Months", and "The Two Caskets". A young and beautiful girl called Maria
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Märchenbrunnen


The Märchenbrunnen (simply the "fountain of fairy tales") is located in the Volkspark Friedrichshain in Berlin. In 1893 the authorities of Berlin issued the artistic entrance to the National Park Friedrichshain. The "fountain of fairy tales" was commissioned by the National Park and later designed by Ludwig Hoffmann. Hoffmann put forward the idea of a fountain in the park to depict fairy tales. Hoffmann describes this in his memoirs. The overall designs for the fountain complex came from architect and longtime Berlin city councilor, Ludwig Hoffmann. The
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Fairytale Express Graz


presenting the fairy tale contents just by animated dolls as in earlier years. The fairy tale world was carefully staged, whereby the figures and fairy tale contents are not explicitly represented. The collage of light and darkness, drive and standstill as well as the stimulating comments and fairy tale quotes allow a variety of associations in the coolness of the dark tunnel, leaving as much freedom as possible to the passengers' imagination. The train ride runs through some very dark tunnels, in which both young children and claustrophobic grown-ups could
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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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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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Holland (album)


studio in a garage next to a cow pasture. Yeah, it was rough. We didn’t even have the correct electricity [...] so that kind of affected the sound of our equipment. It was a mixed blessing." The cover of the album depicts (upside down) a tugboat in the Kromme Waal, a canal in central Amsterdam. "Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale)" is a 12-minute musical fairy tale that was included as an EP with "Holland". It was primarily composed
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The Two Caskets


The Two Caskets is a Scandinavian fairy tale included by Benjamin Thorpe in his "Yule-Tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions". Andrew Lang included it in "The Orange Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 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 Men in the Wood", "The
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The Heart of Princess Joan


"The Heart of Princess Joan" is a 19th-century fairy tale published in 1880 as part of the collection "The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and other Stories". This was the second of three published collections of fairy tales by popular children's author, Mary De Morgan. Illustrations for the stories were provided by Walter Crane. Mary De Morgan was born in 1850 into an intellectual and creative British family. She perfected her literary style by telling uniquely crafted fairy tales to the children of family and friends, who included
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Evald Tang Kristensen


a wealth of songs and ballads, some dating back to the Middle Ages, which he recorded and, thanks to financial support from fellow collector Svend Grundtvig, published as "Jyske Folkeminder I-II" (1871–76). He went on to gather folk tales and legends, published as "Jyske Folkeminder III-IV" (1876–80), and fairy tales, "Jyske Folkeminder V" (1881). For the rest of his life, he continued to collect, record and publish all kinds of folklore. His
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Aldar kose


Aldar kose, (native name ) is a Kazakh folk fairy tale and name of main character. He is collective image of the sly but very kind man. In fairy tales it is a swindler, cheating the greedy rich, evil Khans and helping the poor and weak people. The "Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan" refers to him as a "creative liar". A play "Aldar-Kose", a folk-comedy by Shakhmet Khusainov, was published in the early 1940s. In 1964 a Soviet film simply
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Leonora Blanche Alleyne


Leonora Blanche "Nora" Lang ("née" Alleyne; 8 March 1851 – 10 July 1933) was an English author, editor, and translator. She is best known as variously the translator, collaborator and writer of "The Fairy Books", a series of 25 collections of folk and fairy tales for children she published with her husband, Andrew Lang, between 1889 and 1913. The best known of these are the "Rainbow Fairy Books", a series of twelve collections of fairy tales each assigned a different
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Nightmares & Fairy Tales


however she escapes with an enchanted acorn given to her by the Fairy King Oberon who gives her the nickname of "Bunny Princess". Later, she, Annabelle, and Aunt Bea take a vacation to San Francisco where Gwen meets a kind ghost of a young girl. It is hinted that Gwen has some supernatural powers and can actually understand Annabelle. Aunt Bea also mentions that many strange creatures will want her attention since she can see them and Gwen is able to see ghosts on several occasions. Gwen's legal guardian and
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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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The Enchanted Wreath


The Enchanted Wreath is a Scandinavian fairy tale, collected in Benjamin Thorpe in his "Yule-Tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions". Andrew Lang adapted a variant of it for "The Orange Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 403B, the black and the white bride, and includes an episode of type 480, the kind and the unkind girls. A man had a wife, and both of them had a daughter from an earlier marriage. One day,
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Wicked fairy godmother


The Wicked fairy godmother or the Wicked Fairy, a rare figure in fairy tales, is nevertheless among the best-known figures from such tales because of her appearance in one of the most widely known tales, "Sleeping Beauty", and in the ballet derived from it. Anonymous in her first appearance, she was later named in some variants Carabosse, and is called Maleficent in Walt Disney media. The oldest version of "Sleeping Beauty" that has been preserved is "Sun, Moon, and Talia" from Giambattista
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Clifton Johnson (author)


Lang, he created a series named for trees: "The Oak Tree Fairy" (1905), "The Birch Tree Fairy Book" (1906), "The Elm Tree Fairy Book" (1908), and "The Fir Tree Fairy Book" (1912). He followed these with a fifteen volume series of "Bedtime Wonder Tales". Despite their appeal as well written stories, Johnson’s moralistic tales tend to reflect his own Puritan values and prevailing educational standards although he highlights the progressive system which sought
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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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Tiana (Disney)


novel, and the princess who appears in the Grimm fairy tale. Clements described Baker's "The Frog Princess" as "a kind of fairy tale with a twist" because in it "the princess kissed the frog and instead of him turning into a prince she turned into a frog." Clements and Musker pitched the idea for the film to Walt Disney Animation Studios CEO John Lasseter "as a hand-drawn film with an African American heroine", conceiving Tiana "as someone who would never have been a big
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Badlands (film)


; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time." Malick, at a news conference coinciding with the film's festival debut, called Kit "so desensitized that [he] can regard the gun with which he shoots people as a kind of magic wand that eliminates small nuisances." Malick also pointed out that "Kit and Holly even think of themselves as "living" in a fairy tale", and he felt that was very appropriate as "children
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Upamanyu Chatterjee


"Weight Loss", a dark comedy, was published in 2006. His fifth was "Way To Go", a sequel to "The Last Burden", published in 2010. His most recent work is "Fairy Tales at Fifty", published in 2014, another kind of dark comedy that combines the fantasy of fairy tales and reality. Anjana Sharma equates Upamanyu's vision of humanity with W.B. Yeats. She writes, "Eighty years apart, cultures, civilisations, even craft and temperament apart, Yeats and Chatterjee
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Orcus


through modern times. Indeed, much of what is known about the celebrations associated with Orcus come from medieval sources. From Orcus' association with death and the underworld, his name came to be used for demons and other underworld monsters, particularly in Italian where "orco" refers to a kind of monster found in fairy-tales that feeds on human flesh. The French word "ogre" (appearing first in Charles Perrault's fairy-tales) may have come from variant forms of this word, "orgo" or
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Ogulin


It owns a several collections showing exhibits of various kinds: archaeology, ethnology, old armaments, the memorial room of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (a renowned Croatian fairy-tale author), mountaineering, and an exhibition of the academic painter Stjepan Galetić born in Ogulin. The monument was erected in 1925, for the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the Croatian kingdom. It stands in the Park of King Tomislav which was planned and arranged in the 18th century. The monument was made according to the design of the Slovenian architect
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Some Kind of Fairy Tale


a stranger, Hiero, in Charnwood Forest. After a long absence, she returns to her parents on Christmas Day. She claims she had been trapped in a parallel reality populated by fairies. Tara believes she was missing for only six months, yet her family knows she has been gone for 20 years. During her absence Tara has barely aged at all, still resembling a 15-year-old girl. But her parents have become elderly and feeble, her brother Peter has become a husband and father, and Richie has led
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Snow White


-Red" (in German ""Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot""), another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. In the Aarne–Thompson folklore classification, tales of this kind are grouped together as type 709, Snow White. Others of this kind include "Bella Venezia", "Myrsina", "Nourie Hadig", "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree", "The Young Slave", and "La petite Toute-Belle". At the beginning of the story, a queen sits
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The Snow Queen


"The Snow Queen" () is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in "New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection. 1845." () The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories. It is regularly included in selected tales and collections of his work and is frequently reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for
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The Malachite Box


the main plot elements and some particularly memorable details. The author even claimed that his "reconstruction" eradicated from the stories any possible value for the folklorists. However this position was disputed by the scholars, such as Lyudmila Skorino, Alexander Barmin and others. Nowadays Bazhov's tales are generally accepted as his own "literary work based on the Urals folklore" or call them "transitional" between folklore and fairy tales. There are several reasons for that. Firstly, although the plots of the folk tales remain unchanged, the
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Animal Fairy Tales


influenced by his interest in theosophy), and differ from the more-naturalistic tales of contemporaries such as Albert Bigelow Paine. In "The Story of Jaglon," for example, an orphaned tiger is raised by "tiger fairies." In 1953, Oz author Jack Snow's expansion of this story (entitled "Jaglon and the Tiger Fairies") was published with illustrations by Dale Ulrey. This was the first in a series of expanded versions of all nine stories planned by Reilly & Lee, but the other eight
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Deepa & Rupa: A Fairy Tale from India


Deepa & Rupa: A Fairy Tale from India is a 1990 Indian-American live-action animated children's film written, directed and produced by Manick Sorcar. It was the first Indian film to combine live action and animation throughout the entire feature length. Two stepsisters, Deepa and Rupa, have different personalities. Deepa is selfish, Rupa is kind. The personified 'wind' steals their cotton, forcing the sisters to go to the old woman in the moon. Along the way they encounter a number of magical creatures
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The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales


The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales is a collection of six short stories, written by Jay Williams, in 1979, and published by Hippo from Scholastic. Each story features nods in some way to classic Fairy tales. The Practical Princess was first published in 1969 by Parents Magazine Press as a standalone picture book, with award-winning illustrations by Friso Henstra, reissued in 2016 by Purple House Press. The newborn Princess Bedelia of Arapathia is blessed by three good fairies with the gifts of beauty, grace (ala Sleeping
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The Prophetess (play)


a kind of a curiously feminized Prospero." In the 1647 folio, "The Prophetess" is called a "Tragical History." At one point in the drama, the Chorus states that the play provides "Historie, / yet mixt...with sweet varietie" (IV,i). The plot certainly does offer historical information (some fairly accurate, some wildly not), intermingled with borrowings from folklore, legend, and fairy tale. The story begins in 284 A.D., with the reputedly historical murder of Numerian
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Joseph Jacobs


many tales under the name of fairy tales, many of them are unusual sorts of tales. Binnorie (in "English Fairy Tales") and Tamlane (in "More English Fairy Tales") are prose versions of ballads, The Old Woman and Her Pig (in "English Fairy Tales") is a nursery rhyme, Henny-Penny (in "English Fairy Tales") is a fable, and The Buried Moon (in "More English Fairy Tales") has mythic overtones to an extent unusual in fairy
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Ludwig Kakumei


of fairy tales, "the princes do nothing, they are not very interesting, and that was exactly something that I wanted to revolutionize." The fairy tales alluded to throughout the series include the versions of "Snow White" and "Rapunzel", as collected by the Grimm Brothers, and Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" and "Cinderella". Yuki also altered some aspects of the fairy tales. Yuki's Snow White, for example, is revealed in a plot twist to be wicked, because Yuki could not
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin


the chant to the mirror in "Snow White". Potter ends her tale, however, in a very non-traditional way: Nutkin is caught and punished rather than being required to complete a series of tasks or to outwit an antagonist. The author further breaks the traditional fairy tale mould by tacitly inviting her "readers" to solve the riddles—a task typically reserved for the fairy tale hero. The squirrels gather nuts for food, and they bring food (dead mice, moles, and minnows among other things
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The Goblin and the Grocer


"The Goblin and the Grocer" () is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a goblin who must choose between poetry or a Christmas treat from a grocer. The tale was first published November 30, 1852, and republished several times during the author's lifetime. Andrew Lang included it in "The Pink Fairy Book" (1897). The title is sometimes mistakenly translated into English as ""The Goblin and the Huckster"". Once, a student lived in an attic while
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The Stone Flower


craftsman, on the other hand, he is an outsider, who violates social norms, destroys the lives of the loved ones and his own. The author of "The Fairy Tale Encyclopedia" suggests that the Mistress represents the conflict between human kind and nature. She compares the character with Mephistopheles, because a human needs to wager his soul with the Mistress in order to get the ultimate knowledge. Danilo wagers his soul for exceptional craftsmanship skills. However, the Mistress does not force anyone to abandon their moral values, and
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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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Russian fairy tale


31 distinct functions. He observed in his analysis of 100 Russian fairy tales that tales almost always adhere to the order of the functions. The traits of the characters, or dramatis personae, involved in the actions are second to the action actually being carried out. This also follows his finding that while some functions may be missing between different stories, the order is kept the same for all the Russian fairy tales he analyzed. Alexander Nikiforov, like Shklovsky and Propp, was a folklorist in 1920s Soviet Russia. His early work
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Elek Benedek


also wrote poems, dramas, novels and historical fiction books, but the most famous were his "Szekely Fairy-Tails". In 1885 the "Székely Tündérország" ("Szekler Fairy-land"), which contains the first original fairy tales from tha authors, appeared. Six years later, in 1891, the "Székely mesemondó" ("Szekler Storyteller") appeared. Benedek's biggest challenge was the "Magyar mese- és mondavilág" ("World of Hungarian Tales and Legends"), which appeared in
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Golden Hair (fairy tale)


have some Bashkir folklore in reserve, but I don't put it to use because I feel incompetent in the details of their everyday life". The author disliked inventing details and writing about unfamiliar topics. In 1944 the story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams and published by Hutchinson as a part of "The Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals" collection. The story was published in the collection "Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov", published by Penguin Books in 2012. It was translated
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Précieuses


have great effects. Many of these fairy tales, in the "préciosité" style, were written, mostly notably by Madame d'Aulnoy. This fashion for fairy tales, and the writers themselves, were a notable influence later upon Charles Perrault, and many other writers such as Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, the author of the first known variant of "Beauty and the Beast". Authors altered the stories notably from the folk tradition; for example, they made every character at minimum a member of the gentry by birth
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Thumbelina


Thumbelina () is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second instalment of "Fairy Tales Told for Children". Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size. Thumbelina is chiefly Andersen's invention
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Peter and the Piskies


Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1958 anthology of 34 fairy tales from Cornwall that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Raymond Briggs. It was the first in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. In an author's note, Manning-Sanders says of the passing down of the tales: "A widow woman lived in a cottage by the sea. ... It was the piskies who told the old widow woman the stories in this book,
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The Red King and the Witch: Gypsy Folk and Fairy Tales


The Red King and the Witch: Gypsy Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1965 anthology of 25 tales that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1964, by Oxford University Press. In the book, it is stated: "For permission to retell two of the stories in this book, "The Little Bull-Calf" and "The Little Fox", the author
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Fantasy literature


1865). Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875) initiated a new style of fairy tales, original tales told in seriousness. From this origin, John Ruskin wrote "The King of the Golden River" (1851), a fairy tale that uses new levels of characterization, creating in the South-West Wind an irascible but kindly character similar to the Tolkien's later Gandalf. The history of modern fantasy literature begins with George MacDonald (1824 – 1905), author of such novels as "The Princess and the
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Cinderella (1997 film)


Tonight" ranked the film the third greatest adaptation of the fairy tale. Highlighting the performances of Montalbán, Peters and Houston, "Entertainment Weekly" ranked "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" the fourth greatest adaptation of the fairy tale, ahead of both the 1965 (10th) and 1957 (sixth) versions, with author Mary Sollosi calling it one of "the 11 best-known film adaptations of the tale". In 2017, Shondaland.com crowned the film "one of the most inclusive, expensive ... and ultimately beloved
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