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⌈ Secret Post #2925 ⌋

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Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

Or Folk Tale. What's yours?

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[kaijinscendre]

The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Mainly because of a book I had as child that had the best illustrations.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

Any chance the illustrations were by Kinuko Y. Craft?

http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Dancing-Princesses-Marianna-Mayer/dp/0688080510/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420589594&sr=1-6&keywords=kinuko+y+craft

(I just rediscovered her this year and bought my 2015 calendar with her art.)

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

Mossy coat.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

The Little Mermaid, original version. Makes me cry.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[herpymcderp]

Probably The Swan Princess or Vasilisa The Beautiful.

Oh man I just loved fairy tales when I was a child, though. I used to have giant collections full of them, from every region of the earth. I like Russian and Germanic ones the best.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[lb_lee]

Beauty and the Beast. As a wee freakchild, I always found reassurance that no matter what kind of weirdo you were, you could still find a love.

That said, even when I was a tiny, I always felt the ending was a total cop-out. Even now, I read adaptations of Beauty and the Beast with the intent of finding one where the Beast doesn't change back and he and his lady live happily ever after.

(Anons, now is the time for you to make your recs, if you got any! I've already hit Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter, Susan Miller's Beauty, and Mercedes Lackey's The Fire Rose, which so far is my favorite. BUT I HUNGER FOR MOAR.)

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[ginainthekingsroad]

I've always liked "impossible task" courtship stories.

Which is probably why one of my favorite scenes in the entire Vorkosigan Saga is when Simon Illyan tells Ekaterin, "You know those Barrayaran folktales about a princess who tells a suitor to do a bunch of impossible tasks? Don't do that with Miles, he'll find a way." I die.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

I like the tales of the tricksters. Cunning and good humoured fuckers. Anansi and the like.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[iceyred]

The King In the Mountain. I'm currently writing a short story based on that myth, only it's the Queen In the Mountain.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[mekkio]

The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

There has never been a live action version of the tale that has done it justice though. Something about a guy stealing a town's children seems to make movie producers shy away from the material. Go fig.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[kallanda_lee]

It's actually a story called Certuv Svagr, a.k.a the devil's brother-in-law. It's funny because I haven't read it for over a decade, but I really liked it as a child.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[silverr]

The - Seven Swans? I think it's called. About the sister who has to remain silent until she's woven shirts of nettles to dispel a curse that was placed on her brothers. ~ She can't even speak up to say no to a marriage to a king, to motherhood, or even to defend herself from false charges that she's murdered her own children... until the very very last moment, when she's about to be burnt as a witch and the swans come to fan the flames away from her til she throws the shirts over them and can finally speak and tell the truth about everything.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

Anything having to do with Selkies

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

Sleeping Beauty. Mostly I am obsessed with coming up with alternate scenarios for it. (What was the last fairy originally going to give her? What kind of gifts do you get when you're on the old and dangerous fairy's good side?)

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[feotakahari]

When I was a kid, I remember really liking The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy.

(I really should have figured some things out sooner . . .)

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[caerbannog]

As with anon I love selkies.

I like Chanticleer and the fox. I wanted chanticleer as my username but it was taken :(

Related, I like most if Aesops fables.

My favourite childhood 'folk tale' is 'how birds got their colours'.

The Boy Who Drew Cats

[(Anonymous)]

Because the thing he's always getting in trouble for, the thing everyone tells him he can't do, turns out to be what saves his life. And he becomes a famous artist, which I liked better as a happily-ever-after ending than marrying the princess and inheriting half the kingdom.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[darkmanifest]

East of the Sun, West of the Moon. I first discovered it in an absolutely beautiful storybook drawn by PJ Lynch when I was a little, loved it ever since. My favorite part of it is that the heroine is the active character who has to go out on an adventure and rescue the prince.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[lunabee34]

My 12 year old is reading through Grimm's fairy tales right now and loving them.

This is not my favorite, but there's one little creepy one page one about a mom who loses her little boy and keeps seeing his ghost everywhere and can't go on with her life and has to let the ghost go because it's destroying her. *sniff* It gets to me.

The Wise Woman / The Obstinate Princess

[(Anonymous)]

By George Macdonald. Gorgeous evocative story y that always touched me, more than about any fairy tale. He is a brilliant short story writer.

I also love almost every version of Beauty and the Beast, particularly the ones by Robin McKinley and the 80s TV show.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[tabaqui]

The Little Goose Girl.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

The Master Thief (It's a fairly unknown Grimm tale and it has two versions - one with romance and one without. The one without is way cooler.)

The Blue Light is another one of my favourites. It's about a soldier who gets discharges due to his injuries, finds a blue light that summons a wishes-granting dwarf(in a version by Andersen, it's wild dogs who grant the wishes) and makes it kidnap the princess to clean his room for him at night. He gets found out, is supposed to get hanged but gets his last wish granted to light a last pipe before he dies. The dwarf/dogs appear, beat up/kill the guards and make the king beg for mercy and in the end the soldier marries the princess and becomes king.

Snow-White and Rose-Red was cool as well.

And the fairy tale with the seven swans/ravens someone mentioned further up is a great one, too.

As for myths, I always loved anything creepy. I was a sucker for spooky stories and traditional monsters. And I really loved the Rübezahl myths - he's a grumpy mountain spirit from the Riesengebirge and my grandmother who came from Silesia told me the stories.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

Peter Pan and Aladdin.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[(Anonymous)]

I'm good with both.