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Thumbelina (/ ˌ θ ʌ m b ə ˈ l iː n ə /; Danish: Tommelise) is a literary fairy tale written by the famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children.
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
"The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack" is a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. The original German name is Tischlein deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack. The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 563, "The Table, the Ass, and the Stick", as well as 212, "The Lying Goat". [1]
Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. (Danish: Eventyr, fortalte for Børn.Første Samling.) is a collection of nine fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.The tales were published in a series of three installments by C. A. Reitzel between May 1835 and April 1837, and represent Andersen's first venture into the fairy tale genre.
The story was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812. Their source was the Hassenpflug family from Hanau. [2] A similar tale, "The Wolf and the Kids", has been told in the Middle East and parts of Europe, and probably originated in the first century.
The reason for this targeted pruning, according to The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar, is that the Grimms saw their collection as an opportunity to reframe the stories as children's tales. "The classic fairy tale was appropriated to serve the purpose of socializing children," writes Tatar, and "the Grimms seem to have ...
The original story is the first of three fairy tales contained as entry 39 in the German Grimm's Fairy Tales under the common title "Die Wichtelmänner". In her translation of 1884 Margaret Hunt chose The Elves as title for these three stories. [2]
Another characteristic element of the tale type is the type of the birthmark: they are usually shown as a sun, a moon, or a star. [2] French historian François Delpech noted that strange birthmarks in folktales indicated a supernatural or royal origin of the characters, and mentioned the tale type in that regard. He interpreted the "hidden ...