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Ernst Bloch notes that fairy tales produce their own temporalities: “The fairy tale narrates a wish-fulfillment that is not bound by its own time & the apparel of its contents.” Case in point: Sleeping Beauty's kingdom sleeping for 100 years
@FairyTale_Tues #FairyTaleTuesday
For #FairyTaleTuesday, in the Grimms' story "The Seven Ravens," a girl rescues her seven brothers who had been transformed into ravens by their father's accidental curse (he wished his sons would turn into ravens when they were acting out) @EnchantedEzine
In HC Andersen’s “Snow Queen” a devil invents "a mirror which had the strange power of being able to make anything good or beautiful that it reflected appear horrid and all that was evil and worthless seem attractive & worthwhile.”
#FairytaleTuesday @FairytaleTuesday
‘My son, why cover your face in such fear?’
‘You see the elf-king, father?
'He's near! The king of the elves with crown and train!’ ‘My son, the mist is on the plain.’”
--Goethe, "Erlkönig"
#WyrdWednesday @WyrdWednesday
Why does the Baba Yaga's hut usually stand on chicken legs? #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash #Fairytales