I'm a little late here but is there a list of Christmas Fairy Tales anywhere? Are there any that spring to mind? I'm drawing a complete blank!
How about New Years ones?
How about New Years ones?
Christmas Fairy Tales?
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 InkGypsy |
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MaryCatelli |
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In The Elves and the Shoemaker, the discovery is made, and the gifts to the elves, around Christmas.
Tatterhood meets up with the trolls and witches on Christmas and her sister suffers the enchantement that starts the story. The Cat on the Dovrefell also features a Christmas invasion. In Why the Sea Is Salt, the poor brother goes begging on Christmas Eve. Hans Christian Andersen also has a number that feature Christmas. |
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L. Frank Baum wrote "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus".
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"Nutcracker" count? How about "Snow Queen" (even if it doesn't technically take place at Christmas?)
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Many of Andersen's are Christmas based -- The Fir Tree -- but I find they are often those least like folk fairy tales.
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Posts: 3 (01/18/08 21:43:48) |
Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring is a twelfth night tale, using twelfth night archetypes, so I'd class it as a Christmas fairy tale. You can
find it on Project Gutenberg and Bibliomania, I think; there's a Jack Zipes collection with it as well.
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Posts: 85 (12/07/08 15:49:05) |
THE ROSE AND THE RING is in "The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)"
The collection book is by Michael Patrick Hearn and it is in print. |
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Posts: 1 (01/30/09 06:54:24) |
um......this stor is kinda dark but there is a thing sayin dat on during the 1 days of christmas demons from the beginning of time go around posing as santa
clause to little kids the eat their parents mostly the fathers there is a particular ritual that they do ps.post 12345 if u wanna see the ritual
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The Nutcracker is a fairytale. WIth a broad definition, Terry Pratchett's HOgfather works well. And Gift of the Magi. There's also Politically Correct
Holiday Stories, for some spoofs.
Valerie Frankel
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