MetaFilter posts tagged with Fairytales

Ivana, the "Croatian Tolkien"

stbalbach — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:12:59 -0800

Fairy-tale author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938) has been called the "Croatian Anderson", or more recently the "Croatian Tolkien", and twice nominated for a Nobel, in the 1930s, before she committed suicide. Her most famous fairy-tale collection, Croatian Tales of Long Ago (1916), was recently adapted as a flash animation, some of which can be viewed online (flash, pop-ups) in an award-winning site. The original book in English translation (1923) at Internet Archive includes some cool artwork.

My prince has come - and gone

divabat — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:18:56 -0800

Fallen Princesses : Dina Goldstein explores what life might have been like for Rapunzel, Snow White, and others after happily-ever-after. (via)

The Path Less Travelled

empath — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:52:40 -0800

The Path is a new independent horror-game inspired by the original Little Red Riding Hood stories, being developed by Tale of Tales (previously). The website is fun to explore, and the blog has many links to (and interviews with) their inspirations. They've also interviewed some other game designers. [via]

Flash snowday! Tip: combine objects.

melissa may — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:15:05 -0800

Have a Minoto game to make a snow day bright. And have a few thousand more, because they are as sweet and brief as bubblegum: A Couple of Milky Way Cupid of the Mouse Rabbit and a Tortoise Bon Dance Travel of Racoon and Travel of Racoon 2 Go and Go Athletic Meet Medal Gets Small Samurai The Bride of the Fox Frog Prince Insect Diary Sakura -- Flowers from Harupeko Volume of a Certain Crab Pleasant Festival Cinderella and Prince Bear Catcher Elephant's Artist Rabbit's Rocket The Moon Princess Sleeping Princess Fireworks of Summer Break a Watermelon The Four Seasons of Castle Three Attendants Box of Sparrow Magic and Cat Escape Game of RPG Turtle Help Jack and the Beanstalk Katydid and Ant Rice Ball Which Rolls Treasure of Ogre Hyokori from the Pitch -- Peach Boy And look, there is a new Warbears just for Christmas. Stay warm and have fun!

Read me a story.

nickyskye — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:04:51 -0800

Something for a kid you know, or your own inner child. Speakaboos offers online stories with the written word below the illustrations, as if read from a book: fables, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, folk tales, lullabies. You can watch the stories without registering. You will have to sign-up (for free) for the future function of recording your own "that will allow kids and parents to record their own voices reading (or singing!) their favorite story, song, or nursery rhyme." Christmas stories. About the creators of the site. The readers of the stories.

Capucine tells a captivating tale

madamjujujive — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:04:32 -0800

Once Upon a Time - a filmed fairy tale starring baby monkeys lost in frightening trees, a witch, crocodiles, a tiger, a "popotamus" and a lion, and even a "tremendously very bad mammoth." (In French, English subtitles)

picturing childhood

nickyskye — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:29:33 -0800

FairyTaleFilter: SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations, 1,600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 full-text eBooks. Fairy Tale timeline. l Women Children's Book Illustrators l The Evolution of the Illustrated Children's Book l Some really beautiful free graphics and clipart from Grandma's Graphics. Rare 1923 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. Three More Early Tenggren Books Samples of images: exotic, dream-like, odd, fun, charming, cool, avatars. Previously

Classic Tales and Fables

Kattullus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:41:39 -0800

Over 2000 classic tales and fables including Aesop's Fables, Bulfinch's Mythology, Indian "Why" Stories, tales by Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, Rudyard Kipling, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum and Harriet Beecher Stowe and stories about Abraham Lincoln, Robin Hood and Baron Munchausen. And more! The folk and fairytale collection is particularly rich, with hundreds of stories from all over the world.

Dragon's Feathers

homunculus — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:31:20 -0800

Les plumes du dragon. A storybook in French by Andrej and Olga Dugin. [Via MONSTER BRAINS.]

Hans Christian Andersen

Kattullus — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:11:34 -0800

The Hans Christian Andersen Digital Collections of the Odense City Museums includes his drawings, papercuts, picture books and collage screens as well as portraits of him and people he knew, manuscripts, pictures of his study and more. If you wish to read his fairytales might I suggest the illustrated Oxford Complete Edition Fairy Tales And Other Stories from 1914.

Faerie Tale Theatre

Iridic — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:13:34 -0800

Yes, that is indeed Mick Jagger playing a Chinese emperor. And those are, in fact, Edward James Olmos, Bud Cort, and Barbara Hershey heading up the supporting cast of "The Nightingale," a particularly odd episode of Shelley Duvall's ludicrously star-studded Faerie Tale Theatre. Throughout its early '80s run, the show used dozens of prominent actors to perform the fairy tale standards, including Klaus Kinski and Susan Sarandon in a virtual remake of the Cocteau "Beauty and the Beast;" Paul Reubens, James Coburn, Carl Reiner, and Vincent Schiavelli in "Pinnochio;" Helen Mirren and Brian Dennehy in "The Little Mermaid;" and James Earl Jones and Leonard Nimoy in a Tim Burton-directed "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp." The list goes on and on.

Fairy Tales For Grown-Ups

grapefruitmoon — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:13:59 -0800

Pan's Labyrinth the new movie by director Guillermo del Toro (Devil's Backbone) is a fairy tale for grownups. Certainly not a new idea, stories like Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia have elements that appeal to adults, but Pan's Labyrinth is perhaps unique in that it's not at all suitable for children.

Journal of Mythic Arts

Wolfdog — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:05:17 -0800

Journal of Mythic Arts - an online journal for the exploration of myth, folklore, and fairy tales, and their use in contemporary art. A smattering from the archives: Shape-Shifters; Old Wives' Tales; Wolf's Heart.

The Toymaker: "Make toys! Play more!"

taz — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:23:46 -0800

The Toymaker offers over 40 free paper toys and pretties you can print out (PDFs) and make yourself, as well as "Stories to be Told by Firelight" - online versions of author/illustrator Marilyn Scott Waters' children's stories and lots of other fun goodies. For people who have kids, people who know kids, people who are kids, and people who love papercraft, illustration, toys, and tales. [more...]

Traditional Russian fairytales

gregb1007 — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:57:22 -0800

Traditional Russian fairytales with beautiful illustrations depicting scenes from the stories.

The mystery of Stefan Mart

taz — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 02:54:02 -0800

The mystery of Stefan Mart and the 'Tales of the Nations'. "The Tales of Nations" was not an ordinary book that you could buy in a book store, and it's mysterious narrator/illustrator disappeared into the darkness of Hitler's Germany, seemingly without a trace. Learn the background, read the stories, and view all 150 fabulous colour illustrations — "small in size, but strong in expression, each a microcosm packed with action, each a feast for the eyes like a beautifully set jewel".

Enjoying Japanese Tale

Wolfdog — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:24:45 -0800

Japanese fairy tales. In English, illustrated.

What big eyes you have!

feelinglistless — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 07:22:50 -0800

Little Red Riding Hood's wayward past revealed: "Once upon a time, (the story) was a seduction tale. An engraving accompanying the first published version of the story, in Paris in 1697, shows a girl in her déshabille, lying in bed beneath a wolf. According to the plot, she has just stripped out of her clothes, and a moment later the tale will end with her death in the beast’s jaws — no salvation, no redemption. Any reader of the day would have immediately understood the message: In the French slang, when a girl lost her virginity it was said that 'elle avoit vû le loup' — she’d seen the wolf."

Fable - a gothic tale of good and evil

madamjujujive — Sun, 03 Aug 2003 08:42:29 -0800

Fable ...There once was a boy with a mind of his own. Alone in a dangerous world, his destiny, the paths of good and evil... Built like a children's book with tabs that you toggle, choose your path in this gothic tale. The site is a beautifully designed promo for the upcoming xbox game release, but worth a visit for the illustrations and execution alone. (caveats: flash site that opens in a pop-up window, contains sound.)

Modern fairy tales, American magical realism, a trend?

son_of_minya — Wed, 21 May 2003 11:58:35 -0800

Amy Bender writes modern fairy tales. Whether these stories are magical realism, irrealism, or just plain crazy, is this a continuing trend in fiction?

The recalcitrant and oppugnant thrall was, nevertheless, morigerous.

iconomy — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 04:54:57 -0800

"Theriantropic harridan, what elephantine denticles permeate your oral orifice!" Minikin Incarnadine Cowl-Titivated Gamine adduced. From Fairy Tales for the Erudite, for those of you who enjoy a good story where the twain exist evermore in felicity and Elysium.

iconomy — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:42:30 -0800

Rumplestiltskin gets torn in half, Cinderella's stepsisters get their eyes pecked out, and Snow White's stepmother dances in red hot iron shoes until she dies from exhaustion. These are the original endings to the non-sweetened, and sometimes unsavory, fairy tales collected or written by by reclusive librarians Jacob and Wilhelm, better know as The Brothers Grimm. Their first book, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Childrens' and Household Tales) was published in 1812. Several more books, mostly of folk tales collected from willing relatives and friends, followed, some containing bizarre and disturbing stories with less than happy endings. As the National Geographic Grimm site puts it, "Looking for a sweet, soothing tale to waft you toward dreamland? Look somewhere else. The stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early 1800s serve up life as generations of central Europeans knew it—capricious and often cruel." Check out the strange 1960 Mp3s and RealAudio files of some Grimm tales.