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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 ...
The princess falls in love with the ship captain, and the pair throws the prince into the sea and drown him. A servant rows after the prince's body, and he revives him using the snake leaves. The prince and the servant return to the kingdom and report the murder attempt, for which the princess and the captain are executed.
The Light Princess: Scottish fairy tale. George MacDonald: Princess Makemnoit Princess Irene The Princess and the Goblin: Princess Irene also appears, a few years older, in the book's sequel, The Princess and Curdie. Myrcella Baratheon: A Song of Ice and Fire: Princess of the House Baratheon of King's Landing.
The princess gets hired as a kitchen maid, taking home the leftovers in jars she hides in her apron pockets and sharing the food with her husband. One day, the princess hears that King Thrushbeard is getting married. As she watches the guests having a good time in the ballroom, the princess regrets her haughtiness.
A proud princess set a riddle to her wooers and sent them away when they could not answer. Three tailors came. Two were known for their cleverness and skill, and the third for his uselessness. The princess asked them what two colors were her hairs. The first said black and white; the second brown and red; the third gold and silver, and he was ...
It tells the story of a princess who summons into her room a prince named Sobur (Arabic: صَبْر, romanized: ṣabr, lit. 'Patience'), or variations thereof, by the use of a magical fan. [ 1 ] The story contains similarities to the European (French) fairy tale The Blue Bird , and variants have been collected from South Asia (India and ...
Maiden & Princess is a 2019 picture book written in rhyming verse by Daniel Haack and Isabel Galupo and illustrated by Becca Human. The story, described in some press outlets as a lesbian fairy tale, concerns a maiden attending a ball centered on finding a wife for the prince; at the ball, the maiden instead falls in love with his sister, the princess.
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic Fairy Tales. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White . Others of this type include Bella Venezia , Nourie Hadig , La petite Toute-Belle and Myrsina .