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Phantom, Zorro's white horse in the Disney series Zorro; Pokey, the pony from The Gumby Show; Polka-Dotted Horse, Ludicrous Lion's horse from H.R. Pufnstuf; Ringo, the black horse with the white star ridden by Josh Randall in all but the first few episodes of the TV series Wanted Dead or Alive; Saddle Club horses from The Saddle Club; Scout ...
Stock characters of fairy tales, whether culturally specific names often used for heroes and heroines, or more general roles found in fairy tales. Subcategories This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total.
Blóðughófi, Freyr's horse [2] Falhófnir, a horse of the gods [3] Glað, a horse of the gods [4] Glær, a horse listed in both the Grímnismál and Gylfaginning [5] Grani, the horse of Sigurð [6] Gulltoppr, the horse of Heimdallr [7] Gyllir, a horse whose name translates to "the golden coloured one" [8] Hamskerpir and Garðrofa, the parents ...
English Fairy Tales is a book containing a collection of 41 fairy tales retold by Flora Annie Steel and published in 1918 by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London. It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham and entails a variety of fairy tales featuring mythical creatures , heroic figures, and moral lessons .
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 ...
In a third variant by Svend Grundtvig, Den sorte Hest ("The black horse"), Kristjan, the youngest brother, herds his sheep to a meadow in the forest and discovers a cave with a (white, red and black) horse, a (white, red and black) armor and (white, red and black) sword. Kristjan then uses the horses to reach the princess atop a Glass Mountain.
The tale is a version of the Golden-Maned Steed fairy-tale motif, about a horse with wondrous abilities. [4] The plot of this story uses a combination of several motifs used in a number of folktales, such as Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf (a tale classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 550, "Bird, Horse and ...
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's Snow White, Blood Red (1993), Black Thorn, White Rose (1994), and Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995) Berlie Doherty's The Vinegar Jar (1994) draws on several tales from Grimm; Cornelia Funke's Reckless (2010) draws on several of Grimm's Fairy Tales; Katie Farris's boysgirls (2011), short stories which include ...