Fairy Tale and Folktale Fans Unite!

No map, but Italo Calvino's collection of Italian Folktales lists the city/general area of where he heard each folk tale— Pisa, Venice, Florence, etc etc.

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Yeah. It seems to be pretty rare. That Scottish book was the only country based collection I've seen to say which part of the country it's from besides Yeats.

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And thank you Ello! for knowin' one of the few books to say where the author got the story from. Well, I'm off to torment some poor librarian. They just love it when I make them track down an old book they've never even heard of.

edited 13th Aug '15 1:21:40 AM by Yewleaf

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It's a good book, the one my dad used to read to me from when I was tiny. Two hundred stories and an annotated bibliography!

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A bit late to the party, but I love fairy tales. My personal favorite is The Princess In The Coffin (not the Andrew Lang version; the older one with more specific details). Has anyone else read The Turnip Princess and Other Newly-Discovered Fairy Tales?

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The fairy-tales in the book that was discovered a couple of years ago?

I WANT TO SO BAD.

If I'm not mistaken, fairy tales are generally rooted in half-forgotten and re"written" mythology. For example, that story about Zeus becoming a swan in order to seduce Leda is obviously related to other bird-hunk tales. It seems like they come from the same primordial concept, older than the individual stories we know now.

Since I love mythology so much, all kinds, I consider myself a fan of fairy tales in general. A lot of Eastern European fairy tales are STRONGLY tied to the old shamanistic traditions, for example.

My favorite mythic archetype is the "vengeful she-monster", because I'm kind of a raging feminist

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Yeah, fairy-tales and mythology overlap HEAVILY. I just lump it into folklore in my head.

One of my favorite fairy tales is East of the Sun and West of the Moon, which I've encountered many times in many forms. I don't think I've ever encountered a novelization of the original story, but I've seen many renditions of it. One of my favorites is A Court of Thorns and Roses, which actually has fae as characters.

Correction, East/North Child is close to the original story. I really enjoyed that one too.

edited 7th Apr '16 4:56:44 PM by nekomoon14

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East /North Child is the closest I found, but I liked Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow as well, Jessica Day George.

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I really appreciate how much work went into East/North Child. The cartography bits were great. I also enjoyed that Arctic (I don't know if they were Saami or what) people were featured; that's pretty uncommon.

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yeah, I seem to remember they were Saami. that one's one of the best novel length retelling's i've read. I also loved Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

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Yay, more "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" fans!

I love descent into the underworld stories, too. My favorite is Ishtar's because it features an intersex deity named Asu-shu-namir.

I'm looking for stories like that without deities.

edited 19th Apr '16 8:13:30 PM by nekomoon14

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I have a cool leather-bound book, with golden page edges & everything, of Geman fairy tles that I recused from the bus. Some of the stories are quite racist, though.

I have a really nice old-fashioned hardcover of Grimm's fairy-tales. It crinkles a little when I read it and it's so awesome.

I have the complete unabridged Richard Burton translation of the Arabian Nights on my kindle. The verboseness kinda grows on you.

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Whoohoo, a forum for fairy tale and folklore fans! My kind of forum!

I have a Complete Collection of the Grimms' tales, an illustrated Selected Stories edition of Grimms' tales, and Selected Stories editions of the Arabian Nights, Andersen's tales, and a collection of English fairy tales too. One of my biggest wishes in life is to own the complete works of Andrew Lang! *looks at wallet* Yeah, that's not happening any time soon...

Some of my favorites are: The Singing, Springing Lark (Germany), The Bluebird of Happiness (Belgium), Legend of the White Snake (China), and The Sea King's Daughter (Russia)

We are all destined to make our own choices.

Oh yes, a longtime fan of folklore and mythology here. (even have my own copy of Stith-Thompson!) always loved them for the stories, a way to study the cultures that created them and, most importantly, a source for illustrations. Currently, I've been focusing on the Scots, for a children's book idea about a young glaistig.

THERE'S A BOOK of the Aarne-Thompson classification system???

I've been Googling the list and all its examples for fucking years, man!

The main one I have is the folktexts library.

Ohh I missed this thread. I love mythology and fairytales. I sadly haven't gotten a chance to read a lot though but I research a lot of mythical monsters and fae to try to find new ones I never heard of.

Hello, I'm happy for this forum.

I have been wanting to write a story involving the deconstruction of fairy tales. I have a fair knowledge of Grimm's tales, but I want to know and research more.

What fairy tale do you think would be cool to be deconstructed? I would aprecciatte suggestions.

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Something like Rapunzel? It seems interesting to deconstruct.

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