enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: old fairy tales

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fairy_tales

    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 ...

  3. Grimms' Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms'_Fairy_Tales

    Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.

  4. Fairy tale - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale

    Fairy tales occur both in oral and in literary form (literary fairy tale); the name "fairy tale" ("conte de fées" in French) was first ascribed to them by Madame d'Aulnoy in the late 17th century. Many of today's fairy tales have evolved from centuries-old stories that have appeared, with variations, in multiple cultures around the world. [7]

  5. Of course, the Grimms' versions of the universal tales aren't the only age-old fables in existence today. Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood.

  6. The Elves and the Shoemaker - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elves_and_the_Shoemaker

    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]

  7. Old Rinkrank - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Rinkrank

    Old Rinkrank (similar to Aarne–Thompson type 311) is a German fairy tale collected by the Grimm Brothers and published in Children's and Household Tales, 6th Ed. (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen). A princess falls into the glass mountain and is entrapped by Old Rinkrank. She becomes his slave until she frees herself.

  8. Brothers Grimm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm

    In The Land of Stories, the Grimm Brothers' female descendants are a self-described coven determined to track down and document creatures from the fairy-tale world that cross over to the real world. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were, in fact, chosen by Mother Goose and others to tell fairy tales so that they might give hope to the human race. [64]

  9. Old Hildebrand - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hildebrand

    "Old Hildebrand" (German: Der alte Hildebrand) is an Austrian fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 95) and written in an Austrian dialect. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1360C. [1]

  1. Ad

    related to: old fairy tales