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Fairest. (comics) Cover for Fairest #1 (May 2012), art by Adam Hughes. Fairest is an American monthly comic series created by Bill Willingham, published by DC 's Vertigo. A spin-off of Fables, Fairest detailed the adventures and stories of Fabletown's female citizens and heroines. Fairest was described by Willingham as a series of miniseries ...
Snow White. Snow White is a major character in Fables. She is based on two stories recorded by the Brothers Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red and the more famous Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. [1] Snow White was born in a small cottage and lived there with her younger twin sister Rose Red.
The Miser and his Gold (or Treasure) is one of Aesop's Fables that deals directly with human weaknesses, in this case the wrong use of possessions. Since this is a story dealing only with humans, it allows the point to be made directly through the medium of speech rather than be surmised from the situation. It is numbered 225 in the Perry Index.
Fables is an American comic book series created and written by Bill Willingham, published by DC Comics ' Vertigo imprint. Willingham served as sole writer for its entirety, with Mark Buckingham penciling more than 110 issues. The series featured various other pencillers over the years, most notably Lan Medina and Steve Leialoha.
Aesop (/ ˈiːsɒp / EE-sop or / ˈeɪsɒp / AY-sop; Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; formerly rendered as Æsop) is an almost certainly legendary Greek fabulist and storyteller, said to have lived c. 620–564 BCE, and credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
The Trumpeter Taken Captive. Walter Crane's 1887 illustration of the fable. The Trumpeter Taken Captive is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 370 in the Perry Index. [ 1] One of the rare tales in which only human beings figure, it teaches that association with wrongdoers makes one equally culpable.
The story was introduced to western readers in La Fontaine's Fables (VIII.10). [2] Though L'Ours et l'amateur des jardins is sometimes translated as "The bear and the amateur gardener", the true meaning is 'the garden lover'. It relates how a solitary gardener encounters a lonely bear and they decide to become companions.
In folklore and fantasy, an enchanted forest is a forest under, or containing, enchantments. Such forests are described in the oldest folklore from regions where forests are common, and occur throughout the centuries to modern works of fantasy. They represent places unknown to the characters, and situations of liminality and transformation.