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For #FairyTaleTuesday's theme of love in fairy tales, I always return to Tam Lin: holding on to the one you love, through all the challenges and changes, fiercely using your independence to do your part to build a strong bond with your chosen one. Legendary! (🖼️by Erica Leveque)
"Most artistic of all continental weird tales is Undine (1814). In this story.. there is a delicate fineness of craftsmanship.. makes it notable in any department of literature & an easy naturalness which places it close to genuine folk-myth." -H.P. Lovecraft
Speaking of scary Inuit monsters, there is a wonderful, slightly scary, kids book, called The Shadows That Rush Past -A Collection fo Frightening Inuit Folktales" by Rachel A. Qitsualik, which folks might enjoy. It includes the giant NANURLUK (polar bear). #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/hxwHWlvIko
"You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one." (Portrait of PL Travers 1924, author of Mary Poppins) https://t.co/owufLQO6LK
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl
(Art: Julia Gukova)
Danish stop motion puppet film (1989) "Skønheden og Dyret" aka "The Beauty and the Animal" #BatB is lovely and features a warthog beast. It was written, animated, photographed, edited & directed by a woman, Romana Burianová. She also designed and built the puppets and sets.
Stumbled on this moving interview with puppeteer & puppet-creator Han - mythic & responsive storytelling via objects found & made, the liberation of expression, raw little fairy tales... @terriwindling @tilsamka @JaneNativity will likely appreciate this. https://t.co/XGCGREZUEM
Red As Blood, White As Snow, Black As Ebony... Discussing The Big Three Colors in Fairy Tales (older post; focus on Euro tales - would like to expand...). Bonus: lots of lovely @Himmapaan art showcased! https://t.co/J3XPoRTYwQ #FolkloreThursday
🌟interview w/@ShvetaThakrar (email fr @Faeriemagazine) re new book Star Daughter! On fave scenes: "the enchanted Night Market... opens its peacock-beak doors after dark in Iselin, NJ’s Little India... buy things like soothsaying spiders & bubble worlds in jars..." #FairyTales
Can't find the text but there is a version in which Rapunzel is taught all the arts (& given fine quality EVERYTHING - including a talking parrot) when tower-ified. In many versions she's either fairy-gifted with singing or naturally sings unnaturally-well too! #FolkloreThursday