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Told and retold: Robin McKinley's BEAUTY. Maria Tatar's excellent BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World. #FairyTaleTuesday
Favorite fairy tale? most definitely, Beauty and the Beast. #FairyTaleTuesday
Ever hear the tale of Whitebear Whittington? An Appalachian shapeshifting tale, a complex, magical blend of Beauty & the Beast and the Eros/Psyche myth. A young girl is promised by her father to a young man under a spell - a man by night, but a bear by day. #FairyTaleTuesday
The Phoenix of ancient Greece is common to many cultures - the Egyptian bennu, Russian firebird, Chinese Fèng Huáng, the Native American Thunderbird.
Always it is a symbol of creative destruction, descending into fire and rising renewed from its own ashes. #FairyTaleTuesday
Now at Samhain the Unseelie Court rides forth as the walls between the worlds grow thin. These are the merciless faery folk of Autumn and Winter who, unlike their summer cousins, may cause harm to humans - anything from simple mischief to dark malevolence. #FairyTaleTuesday 1/