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'alder-king'; German: [ˈɛʁlkøːnɪç, ˈɛʁlkøːnɪk]) is a name used in German Romanticism for the figure of a spirit or "king of the fairies". It is usually assumed that the name is a derivation from the ellekonge (older elverkonge , i.e. " Elf -king") in Danish folklore . [ 1 ]
The King of England and his Three Sons; King of Ooo; King of Swords; The King of the Cats; King of the Fairy Beavers; The King of the Golden River; King of Wands; King Rience; King Shark; King Smurf; King Triton; King Ubu; King Vitaman; The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter; The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate; The King Who Would Have ...
Fairy Tale is a dark fantasy novel by American author Stephen King, published on September 6, 2022, by Scribner. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The novel follows Charlie Reade, a 17-year-old who inherits keys to a hidden, otherworldly realm, and finds himself leading the battle between forces of good and evil.
Works based on fairy tales, short stories that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic , enchantments , and mythical or fanciful beings. Subcategories
Oberon is a main character in Michael Drayton's narrative poem Nimphidia (1627) about the fairy Pigwiggin's love for Queen Mab and the jealousy of King Oberon. In the anonymous book Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests (1628) Oberon is known as "Obreon" and is the father of the half-fairy Robin Goodfellow by a human woman.
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 ...
Chantal Gadoury wrote a retelling of the fairy tale, titled under the same name "Allerleirauh", where at the end the Princess faces her father and the sexual abuse she endured by him. Folklorist and poet Margaret Yocom wrote a full-length book of erasure poetry, ''All Kinds of fur'', published by Deerbrook Editions in 2018. [26]
The Enchanted Snake or The Snake (Neapolitan: Lo serpe) [1] is an Italian fairy tale written by author Giambattista Basile in the Pentamerone, as the fifth story of the second day. [2] The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The Search for the Lost Husband , wherein a human maiden marries a prince cursed to ...