Fairy Tales and Folklore Discussions

Exploration of Love and Society

feeds@yuku.com (NoveltyGreenJello) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:37:50 GMT

Okay so this post isn't directly about fairy tales. But, I am doing a rewrite of Beauty and the Beast as a meditation and exploration on all the different beliefs, attitudes and interactions that society (men, women, little girls, bitter divorcees, anyone and everyone) has about and with love, be they positive, negative or anything else. And I was wondering if you guys could help me develop my list further. This is what I have so far:
1. People who don't believe it will last....

Masculinity - Bluebeard

feeds@yuku.com (lloydruz) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:17 GMT

hey. i am doing a study of representations of masculinity and feminity in blubebeard and my analysis would benifit greatly from some academics who have conducted studies into representations of masculinities in fairy tales (i have already found some good sources for feminity). this is an URGENT request, i have very little time remaining!! I'm looking at charles perrault's 'original' (subverting folk tales' representation of feminity) and at the bloody chamber by angela...

The significance of fairy tales today

feeds@yuku.com (liquidmoon) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:11:31 GMT

What does everyone think of the significance of fairy tales today? Including advertising, anything you might over hear, names of restaurants and products. Let me know! I'm curious to see what people think about it all! Thanks in advance! I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts and commenting.

Question re: Pullman's The Scarecrow and His Servant

feeds@yuku.com (Ariadne) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:12:04 GMT

Hi,

I'm researching a paper on The Scarecrow and His Servant (one of Pullman's books he refers to as fairy tales), and wonder if anyone knows of a traditional tale that features either a human simulacrum that comes to life (like the Scarecrow) or a stupid master/clever servant combination (other than Puss-in-Boots). I'm also using Jack Pumpkinhead and Tip, from The Marvelous Land of Oz, in my paper.

Thank you!

Ariadne

Fairy Tales Today

feeds@yuku.com (liquidmoon) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:57:55 GMT

I was looking at posts from a few years ago that focused on fairy tale advertisements and where fairy tales are today but I couldn't find anything recent. I'm taking a fairy tale class at my college and we've been discussing where fairy tales fit into our society and culture today and I wanted to get some new opinions. Has anyone seen any recent advertisements based on fairy tales? Thanks a lot! I really appreciate it and am looking forward to talking with you all!

ID original fairy tales (mirror that shows truth, dress of flowers, princess and a maze)

feeds@yuku.com (bookfan) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:13:14 GMT

I'm trying to identify the author and title of a short collection of original fairy tales that I owned as a child. I had the book in the US around 1974 or 1975, but my copy was battered by the time I got it -- someone had given it to me used as a gift -- and it may have been published long before then, and in just about any English-speaking country.

The book was a slim hardback with a red cover. It had at least three stories in it, and maybe more. The quality of the...

Talismans for Girls

feeds@yuku.com (valeriefrankel) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:09:23 GMT

Still writing my book on heroines: boys generally get swords. Girls get more household objects and accessories. There are plenty of really obvious talismans in YA fantasy (Dorothy's slippers, Lucy's healing elixir, A Wrinkle in Time's magic spectacles. The

Sleeping Beauty story to ID

feeds@yuku.com (Heidi Anne Heiner) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:34:58 GMT

Got this in an email, but I don't recognize it. Does anyone else? Thanks on behalf of the sender! Also, I am traveling and seem to be able to read my surlalunefairytales.com email, but not reply on my decrepit notebook. So please don't expect replies to emails for a few more days.

I recently came across your website, and was impressed by the detailed
information assembled there. I was looking for a story which I believe
to have been based on

Grad School Help

feeds@yuku.com (loladear) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:13:13 GMT

I know this has already been asked before in other threads and I've read a few of them and while they've helped slightly, my particular search is a little different then the others. You see I want to study fantasy literature but I really think that understanding the folklore and fairytale roots (and allusions) it comes from. So I'm looking for a program that will let me explore this whether it be comparative literature, folklore, or english. I just need somewhere that's open...

Representation of women in animation

feeds@yuku.com (monicaA2media) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:23:40 GMT

Hello everyone!
I'm a A2 media student and was wondering if you could help me in my topic. My hypothesis is the extent to which orignal and contempory animation reflect changing attitudes in audiences in the representation of women.
The extent to which original and contempory animation reflect changing attitudes in audiences in the representation of women....

Sleeping Fairy Tales

feeds@yuku.com (arborvitae) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:57:13 GMT

Hi. I'm new here, and I'm working on a book concerned with fairy tales, specifically, putting people to sleep and waking them up. I already have a short list of the obvious ones, snow white and sleeping beauty, and I wondering if anyone knows of any other sleep-related fairy tales to share with me. Thanks!

AT of Tam Lin and The Lion’s Whisker?

feeds@yuku.com (valeriefrankel) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:55:49 GMT

Hello out there. I'm writing a book (aren't we all?) comparing heroines across epic myth. But I can't figure out Tam Lin's AT category. Is it 425A Cupid and Psyche? 313 The Master Maid? Or something else entirely? Likewise, the Lion's Whisker is giving me trouble categorizing.

Please help...

Looking for a lost book of giants

feeds@yuku.com (Dantes Heart) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:50:06 GMT

I'm afraid the details I'll be able to give are so vague as to be of very little help, but I long to find again an illustrated storybook that my speech pathologist read to me when I was a child (this would have been the mid 80s, though the book may be older than that). The book included lavishly colored illustrations of giants, and I have vague memories of one giant either walking over a hill or walking over a house set in a hill. The illustrations were very colorful. I think I had...

Origins of the Gingerbread Man

feeds@yuku.com (AliceCEB) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:20:27 GMT

I read an interesting blog post from yesterday about the Gingerbread Man story which dates its origin to the beginning of the 19th century. The version on SurLaLune comes from an 1875 edition of St....

Merpeople rules

feeds@yuku.com (writer1900) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:14:59 GMT

are there any pasific rules about merpeople? (can they grow legs,cry,can they speak the launguages of man?,ablilties powers, etc.)!
this for a book i'm working on. any help is apreceated!
this place is a gold mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks!!!!!!!!! God bless!

A Novice Needs help

feeds@yuku.com (gocubs1060) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:58:49 GMT

My wife and I wrote a childern's story. I mentioned it to a Doctor friend of mine (from NYC and I'm in Dallas) and he said I should send it to a friend of his and she'll illustrate it and then he'd help us get a publisher. He's currently has no connections in the publishing business but he is very tenacious and did make a few deals with Donald Trump's people for some artwork...unrelated but it sounded promising.

Well now I haven't heard anything from...

Help with two fairy-tales for my booK

feeds@yuku.com (writer1900) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:37:01 GMT

hi, um i'm a new writer and reciently became inspired to write a fantasy/fairy tale that brings more than one tale together and tells it a little different. the first of the tw o would be Grimm's the brothers(aka: the two brothers, the twin brothers etc) I'm trying to collect as many versions of this tale as possible, so i can pick and choose. unfortuently i can only find...

DISNEY WOMEN IN FILM - QUESTIONS NEED ANSWERING

feeds@yuku.com (mediastudentA2) — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:59:01 GMT

Hi i'm new to this forum but i'm certain you guys can help me!

Alike to a few people on this forum, I am doing my Media A2 exam: Women in film. Looking primarily at Disney's representation of lead female roles.
the films i have decided to look closely at are
Snow White (1937)
Little Mermaid (1989)
Beauty and...

help finding this story

feeds@yuku.com (ingridcstl) — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:52:38 GMT

I remember it's from a fairy tale book collection and it had a lot of nice illustrations in it. I can't remember the name of the story but I do recall that it was about aprox. 3 girls with really long hair and they were hanged by their hairs in what appears to be a dungeon. i read this about 10 years ago and i'm interested in that book again. People say that it could be another day another dungeon but i read this off a fairy tale collection it had lil red riding hood,puss in...

Witch's Garden

feeds@yuku.com (tlchang37) — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:13:05 GMT

I'm working on an illustration concept based on the idea of the archetypal, fairytale witch's garden. It seems like there should be a number of tales that refer to such a thing directly, but after Rapunzel and maybe tangentially, Hansel and Gretel, I'm coming up blank.

Maybe it's more of an inference rather than talked about outright? (Snow White's queen had to get that apple from *somewhere*, for instance).

Can anyone think of other witch's garden...