posted by
tadorna at 09:33pm on 15/11/2005 under fairy tales
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Do you have a favourite fairy tale? If you do, what do it be, pray? And what do you like about it?
Gentle readers....
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If it doesn't count, I love Peter Pan (before Disney got hold of it).
If that doesn't count, I'd say the Brer Rabbit stories (again, before Disney got hold of them)
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I'll just go away now and stop rambling, okay?
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Does "The Little Prince" count as a fairytale? I fell in love with that one - because it is so strange, yet sweet. Somehow, sadly maybe, I can only think of movies connected with "fairytale". "Legend" is one of my very favorites, such a beautiful, visually rich film. "Sleepy Hollow", with Mr. Depp. Hmmm - which is not really a "fairy" tale. I think I've always liked things with a darker theme.
What I did love reading as a child were all the Greek/Roman myths. I loved the one about the seasons - how Persephone (I think?) was taken by Hades to the underworld, he wanted to marry her, and if she ate anything there she would be his - so she ends up eating six pomegranate seeds, and therefore she must spend 6 months of the year with him - during those six months, her mother doesn't let anything grow on earth (fall/winter), and when Persephone is able to be with her, it becomes spring/summer. It has been a long time, but I think I got that one right.
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I guess Sleepy Hollow counts as a legend, rather than a fairy tale. I wonder what the actual definition of a fairy tale is--is some form of spirit or magic required? A moral of some kind? Hmmm...*ponders*
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Hi, Duckie!!!
Por quoi are you asking?
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I think it's the absurdity of it; the idea that only someone very special can feel that much. The images the story conjures are interesting as well: the way the princess ends up black and blue from the pea under all those mattresses! I have a feeling that Angela Carter or Jack Zipes or someone talks about the sexual imagery in this tale. I should look at work tomorrow. I have the Angela Carter fairy tales here and we have loads of interesting stuff at work. Fascinating!
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Well, possibly for an actual reason, possible just to get my brain moving, because it's so very sluggish lately. But these answers are brilliant, and my brain is moving, so it's working. Yay!
Unfortunately it appears to be bedtime. Bloody time, moving onward like that...
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No Rest For The Wicked
http://www.icarusfalls.com/wicked/
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Cinderella...
*G* Is anyone surprised? And it's not just the beautiful dress and the shiny shoes and the handsome prince (though that's nice, too), but it's that she was always kind and good and even though she went through hardships and got treated poorly, she was rewarded for her goodness eventually. And got to rub her stepsisters' noses in it...lol!
I did like Drew Barrymore's modern take on it, with Cinderella being fiesty and the prince adoring her for it...the stepmother having a deep emotional scar that led to her evilness, and one stepsister not being so very bad after all.
It's just one of those things that is a classic fantasy ideal for kids, and hell, adults, too.
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When I was a child, I was totally in love with the Disney storybook of the film, the color of her ball gown, that pumpkins could turn into coaches.
And that kindness and love always wins. :)
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And Cinderella, pre-disney. The sisters getting their eyes pecked out....
And Sleepy Hollow. I watched the disney version so often as a kid and it still scares the shit out of me.
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But as for tales with a happier ending, I think I like the tale of the shoemaker and the elves best of all. Both sides benefit from the work done in the end, and it's a good tale about how kindness is best repaid with kindness.
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because a good pair of boots can take you far.
because it was said of the Marquis of Carabas that The King caressed him after a very extraordinary manner.
because
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And it's not a fairy tale, but I love The Tortoise and the Hare, because slow and steady wins the race.
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It is the longest fairy tale I have read. It has two brothers and omg, only now as I type this do I realise that it expresses my tender childhood proto-slasher's heart!!! Because what did I care about the princesses and wives and whatnot: it was the scene with the SWORD and how they were JEALOUS of each other, and why am I factoring out the women altogether in my memory of this? And the dragon slaying and the cutting out of the tongue and oh, the KNIFE that turns dull and rusty when the other brother is in trouble and the ANIMALS.
fary tails
Hansel and Gretel because of the gingerbread house.
Jack and the Beanstalk beecause you could imagine planting something and then waking up to see it bigger...just like the apple pips you put down the sink.
King Midas; as to have wishes and to be able to touch things seemed so real and immediate and possible for a 4yo. Now, strangely, I adore roses and cross a road to smell them. My first present as a child that I remember receiving.
The Three Bears....for the repetition. I hated Goldilocks and couldnt understand why she was so rude and bad mannered. Hated her. Dreadful.
Hans C.A....the emperor's new clothes....as the idea of a kid being right was very appealing when aged 6yo, but also confusing; couldnt understand why the adults would be fooled. Incomprehensible but also vaguely self-satisfying.
thanks for the post; veryinteresting to revisit a past-life!
poule x
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Which. Is probably why I'm single.