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Donkey Skin (French: Peau d'âne; also known in English as Once Upon a Time and The Magic Donkey) is a 1970 French musical fantasy romance comedy film directed by Jacques Demy, based on Donkeyskin, a 1695 fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a king who wishes to marry his own daughter.
The Donkey's Hide (1982), a Soviet film adaptation. Sapsorrow (1988), an episode of Jim Henson's TV series The Storyteller; Deerskin (1993), a novel by Robin McKinley; Donkeyskin (1995), a short story by Terri Windling; Donkeyskin (1995), a poem by Midori Snyder [26] The Tale of the Skin (1997), a short story by Emma Donoghue
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Donkey-hide gelatin or ass-hide glue (Latin: colla corii asini) is gelatin obtained from the skin of the donkey (Equus asinus) by soaking and stewing. It is used as an ingredient in the traditional medicine of China , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] where it is called ejiao ( simplified Chinese : 阿胶 ; traditional Chinese : 阿膠 ; pinyin : ējiāo ), meaning ...
An adult male donkey is a jack or jackass, an adult female is a jenny or jennet, [4] [5] [6] and an immature donkey of either sex is a foal. [6] Jacks are often mated with female horses (mares) to produce mules ; the less common hybrid of a male horse (stallion) and jenny is a hinny .
In a fourth Sweden version, archived in manuscript form at Uppsala, Kråk-Pelsen ("The Crow-Cloak"), the princess asks her father for three dresses (sun, moon and stars), and her faithful servants kill and skin crows to fashion a cloak for her. An old hag directs the princess to a castle where she can find work as a lamb-girl.
Goat skin bottles used to transport water were typically found all throughout the Near East, including the Arabian Peninsula, where, in Yemen, it was common in the 18th century to see a slave carrying a waterskin on his back, or else 3 or 4 waterskins carried by donkey or by camel from the water source. [1]
The Donkey's Hide (Russian: Ослиная шкура) is a 1982 Soviet fantasy film based on Charles Perrault's Donkeyskin. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Participant of the KinderFilmFest program at the 1985 Berlin International Film Festival .