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Today's Connections Game Answers for Sunday, January 12, 2025: 1. FABRICATION: FAIRY TALE, FANTASY, FICTION, INVENTION 2. WOO: CHARM, COURT, PURSUE, ROMANCE 3 ...
This section deals with notable cat characters that appear in literature works of fiction including books, comics, legends, myths, folklore, and fairy tales. Any character that appears in several pieces of literature will be listed only once, under the earliest work. Cheshire Cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Nevertheless, "fairy" has come to be used as a kind of umbrella term in folklore studies, grouping comparable types of supernatural creatures since at least the 1970s. [1] The following list is a collection of individual traditions which have been grouped under the "fairy" moniker in the citation given.
In the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, the tale is classified - and gives its name - to tale type ATU 511, "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes". [1] Folklorist Stith Thompson noted the proximity of the tale type with ATU 510A, "Cinderella", and ATU 510B, "Cap O' Rushes" - also stories of heroines persecuted by their families.
"Jorinde and Joringel" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 69). [1] It is Aarne–Thompson 405. [1] The tale is found virtually exclusively in Germany, [2] barring a Swedish variant, [3] although Marie Campbell found a variant in Kentucky, "The Flower of Dew". [4] The story is known in many English translations as ...
Mice feature in some of Beatrix Potter's small books, including The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904), The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse (1910), The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918), and The Tailor of Gloucester (1903), which last was described by J. R. R. Tolkien as perhaps the nearest to his idea of a fairy story, the rest being "beast-fables". [3]
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), authored fairy tales, including The Little Mermaid; Poul Anderson (1926–2001), author of The Broken Sword; Ilona Andrews, husband and wife writing team, author of the Kate Daniels series and The Edge series; F. Anstey (1856–1934), author of Vice Versa; Piers Anthony (born 1934), author of Xanth
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