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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.
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 ...
Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1979) (stories) Robin McKinley's The Door in the Hedge (1981) Tanith Lee's Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) a collection of short stories, all fairytale fantasies, many of them revisionist; Francesca Lia Block's The Rose and the Beast (1993) (stories) Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch ...
The European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in a painting by Carl Larsson in 1881. A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, [1] magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. [2] Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful ...
The elder daughter speaks rudely to the fairy and insults her. The fairy decrees that, as punishment for her despicable attitude, either a toad or a snake would fall from the rude girl's mouth whenever she speaks. When the girl arrives home, she tells her story to her mother and toads and vipers fall from her mouth with each word. The widow, in ...
Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, in the chapter about animal husbands and the human women who marry them, scholar Maria Tatar concludes that the heroine of these tales is part of a complex set of actions and emotions. For instance, Tatar interprets the episode of Psyche's betrayal of Cupid identity (and, by extension, all other ...
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public".
A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") , with the title A víz tündére ("The Water Fairy"). A multimedia, episodic opera based on the tale entitled "The Siren" was created by British composer Sandy Clark in 2018. [5]