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Katharine Mary Briggs's Kate Crackernuts (1963) based on the Scottish fairy tale Kate Crackernuts; James Reeves's The Cold Flame (1967), a retelling of the Grimm tale The Blue Light; Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen (1980) using elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale; Kara Dalkey's The Nightingale (1988), based on "The Emperor and the ...
French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Included by Andrew Lang by in The Blue Fairy Book. Madame d'Aulnoy: Abricotine Le Prince Lutin: She serves as a fairy princess of the Island of Quiet Pleasures. Princess Belle-Etoile Princess Belle-Etoile: French fairy tale inspired by Giovanni Francesco Straparola's Ancilotto, King of Provino.
Among Gnomes and Trolls (Swedish: Bland tomtar och troll), is a popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual and children's fairy tale anthology published since 1907. One of the most noted of the early illustrators is artist John Bauer .
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The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 400, "The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife". [3] In this tale type, the hero finds a maiden of supernatural origin (e.g., the swan maiden) or rescues a princess from an enchantment; either way, he marries her, but she sets him a prohibition.
Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...
The Bear (fairy tale) Bella Venezia; The Bird of Truth; The Bird that Spoke the Truth (New Mexican folktale) Black Bull of Norroway; The Blue Light (fairy tale) The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life; The Bronze Ring; Brother and Sister; The Brown Bear of Norway; Buttercup (fairy tale)
The Light Princess is a Scottish fairy tale by George MacDonald.It was published in 1864 as a story within the larger story Adela Cathcart. Drawing on inspiration from "Sleeping Beauty", it tells the story of a princess afflicted by a constant weightlessness, unable to get her feet on the ground, both literally and metaphorically, until she finds a love that brings her down to earth.