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Wunschpunsch (French: Wounchpounch, German: Der Wunschpunsch lit. "Wish Punch") is a children's animated series, co-produced by Saban International Paris, CinéGroupe and TF1, with the participation of Ventura Film Distributors B.V. and ARD/Degeto, and with the collaboration from Radio-Canada.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Giambattista Basile includes an Italian literary fairy tale, "The Seven Little Pork Rinds", in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [6] Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales includes a variant, And Seven!. [7] The first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales contained a much shorter variant, "Hateful Flax Spinning", but it is "The Three Spinners" that became ...
"Clever Elsie" is a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. In the original 1812 edition, story #32 was called Hanses Trine . It was removed after the first edition and replaced by Die Kluge Elise in the 2nd edition.