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What are some lesser known fairy tales that you like?

Personally fond of Vasilisa The Beautiful. It's not a lesser known fairy tale in Russia, of course, but most people over here have never heard of it.

http://www.oldrussia.net/vas.html

It's short, if anyone is interested in reading it.

Nayrt

I have that story in a book of different folk tales. I liked that on a lot.

Another tale I liked there is "The war of the birds" from Scotland. Or the Polish tale about a soldier who got a backpack from Jesus, trapped Death and beat up the Devil so bad he wasn't allowed into Hell.

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herpymcderp - 2016-01-16 21:42 (UTC) - Expand

Do 20th-century urban legends count? Because I always loved the legend of the Two Hitchhikers. http://www.snopes.com/autos/pigeons/twohitch.asp

Ha, I like the twist ending to that one!

That could make for a good, creepy "Twilight Zone" style episode or something.

I don't know if this counts as a fairy tale in the strictest sense, but my grandmother gave me the book Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady when I was a child.

It was one of my favourite stories growing up.

Sir Gawain tales are also some of my favorites. There's something about them that really makes them stand out.

I really like Godfather Death, one of the lesser known Brothers Grimm ones. And there's one I found in an Andrew Lang collection called The Snow-Daughter and the Fire-Son. Oh and The Troll's Daughter.

Wow @ the Elemental Children one.

Maria Morevna.

http://russian-crafts.com/tales/maria_morevna.html

Proving that it's not only women who can't stop themselves from nosing around where they aren't supposed to go...

I also love that one, although depending on the version Maria Morevna either has more or less autonomy... I prefer the translations that make it clear she is an agent of her own fate.

The Devil's Brother In Law was my favourite as a child.

This is the only version I found in English, no idea if it's any good. From what I can see from glancing over it, I can see it's a bit different than the version I knew., but here you go.

http://www.fairytales24.ru/catalog/czechoslovak-folktale/the-devils-little-brother-in-law-the-story-of-a-youth-who-couldnt-find-work-1493/

The Glass Coffin (Brothers Grimm):
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/grimm/g86h/chapter164.html

It's not your average Grimm tale that has the count's daughter whip out a pistol and attempt to shoot the villain. I mean, it doesn't work, but all credit to the lady for trying.

A Norwegian tale called Prince Lindworm:

http://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/Norwegian_folktale_3.html

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(Anonymous) - 2016-01-16 23:16 (UTC) - Expand

Clever Gretel, about a rather devious cook:

http://www.authorama.com/grimms-fairy-tales-26.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Girl_Sold_with_the_Pears

I just tried to find the title of a fairy tale I read once about a princess who becomes a prince and marries another princess. I googled the relevant curse: "If you are a man, may you become a woman, and if you are a woman, may you become a man." I got so many self-righteous MRA sites.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-01-17 00:39 (UTC) - Expand

A Native American story about the moon having a fabulous necklace of pearls, but a raven stole them, broke the necklace, and the pearls scattered across the sky and became the stars.

Also the NA story about the opossum stealing fire from the sun using his beautiful tail that was covered in fine silky fur, singeing the hair off his tail forever in the process.

The Goose Girl was always my favorite. I love horses, so i'm not sure why, but it was!
(The book i had had an image of The Goose Girl talking to Falada's head....)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_Girl

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tabaqui - 2016-01-17 15:46 (UTC) - Expand

The Almond Tree. Partly because of that creepy song the bird-boy sings. I first read the story when I was like 9 years old and that fucking song embedded itself into my brain. It's so disturbing and evocative and 9-yr-old me absolutely LOVED it.

It was my mother who murdered me
It was my father who ate of me
It was my sister Marjory
Who all my bones in pieces found
Them in a handkerchief she bound
And laid them under the almond tree
Kywitt kywitt kywitt I cry
Oh what a beautiful bird am I!

Brrrrr.

I'm honestly not sure how much these count, but I love the various versions of Cinderella. When I was a kid, the library copies of The Egyptian Cinderella, The Persian Cinderella, and a video of the Chinese Cinderella. On top of that, at home I had a copy of the Perrault Cinderella with utterly gorgeous art, (not the best quality pic, but the same artist also did The Wild Swans, which I also adore), and a book that included the Indian Cinderella.

I'd love to have my own copies of all those books, someday. I love the art on all of them, and I love the variations between cultures. :o

One of my favourites is The Master Thief (the Grimm version, not the Norwegian original).

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/grimm/g86h/chapter193.html

Also, The Lay of the Were-Wolf
http://www.gradesaver.com/the-lais-of-marie-de-france/e-text/viii-the-lay-of-the-were-wolf

I totaly shipped the knight and his king,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allerleirauh

An episode of "The Storyteller" was based on it, with shades of Cinderella as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSA6Fro7MSE

I love the Blue Light. It's like a petty stupid revenge-fanfic written in the 1800s.

A soldier is discharged from the army and the cheapskate king refuses to pay his pension. The soldier is forced to go wandering and finds himself hired by a witch, who tries to work him to death. She tells him to go down into the well to fetch her blue light, but he senses she's about to try to kill him, so he stays at the bottom of the well and lights his pipe with the blue light. A magical dwarf appears when the light is lit, and the dwarf obeys his commands.

First, the soldier orders him to take him out of the well and kill the witch, and then the soldier goes to town.

He commands the dwarf to kidnap and hypnotize the princess and make her do menial labor until she's exhausted at dawn. The princess tells the king (the same cheapskate king from earlier) that she's exhausted and had a weird dream about doing menial labor, and the king tells her to put peas in her shoe so that they'll spill out all around town and leave a trail, but the dwarf tattles to the soldier to tell him about this plan.

Eventually, though, the soldier is captured, and the king has him set for execution. The soldier asks for one last light of his pipe and summons the dwarf, who appears with a stick and beats the shit out of the king.

EVERYONE LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER

THE END

Have always liked "The Master-Maid," "The Clever Peasant Girl," "The Boy Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was," and "The Tinderbox." Also "The Little Soldier," although that's more of a kunstmaerchen.

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