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Fairytale Forest
The Fairytale Forest (''Sprookjesbos'' in Dutch) is a wooded section of the amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands, where a number of well-known fairy tales and fairy tale figures are depicted by animatronics and buildings. Most of the figures are inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault. History Concept and building The Fairytale Forest was founded on the work of R.J.Th. van der Heijden, Peter Reijnders and Anton Pieck. Van der Heijden conceived of the idea in the 1950s to boost tourism. He asked his brother-in-law Peter Reijnders, a filmmaker and amateur inventor from Eindhoven, to recreate a fairy tale theme park Reijnders built. Reijnders chose artist Anton Pieck, whose visual style had been inspired by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, to add the artistic elements. The first scenes It took roughly two years to develop and build the first ten fairy tales: The Chinese Nightingale, The Naughty Princess, Sleeping Beauty, The Gnom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nightingale (fairy Tale)
"The Nightingale" (Danish: "Nattergalen") is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Gallery File:Edmund Dulac - The Nightingale 2.jpg, How common it looks, said the chamberlainAndersen, Hans Christian. The Nightingale. ''Stories from Hans Christian Andersen''. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1910. File:Edmund Dulac - The Nightingale 3.jpg, The ladies took some water into their mouths to try and make the same gurgling, thinking so to equal the nightingale. File:Edmund Dulac - The Nightingale 4.jpg, The music-master wrote five-and-twenty volumes about the artificial bird. File:Edmund Dulac - The Nightingale 5.jpg, Even Death himself listened to the song and said, 'Go on, little nightingale, go on!' Notes References * * * * * * * * * * * Burton, Marianne (2013) ''She Inserts the Key''. Seren is the book imprint of Poetry Wales Press Ltd, Bridgend. www.serenbooks.com External links "Nattergalen" Original Danish text English translat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. ''The History of Tom Thumb'' was published in 1621 and was the first fairy tale printed in English. Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favourite of King Arthur. The earliest allusions to Tom occur in various 16th-century works such as Reginald Scot's ''Discovery of Witchcraft'' (1584), where Tom is cited as one of the supernatural folk employed by servant maids to frighten children. Tattershall in Lincolnshire, England, reputedly has the home and grave of Tom Thumb. Aside from his own tales, Tom figures in Henry Fielding's 1730 play ''Tom Thumb'', a companion piece to his ''The Author's Farce''. It was expanded into a single 1731 piece titled '' The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great''. In the mid-18th century, books began to be published specifically for children (some with their authorship attributed to "Tommy Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wishing-Table
''The Wishing-Table'' (german: Tischlein, deck dich) is a 1956 West German family film directed by Fritz Genschow and starring Werner Stock, Wolfgang Draeger and Harald Dietl.Nelmes & Selbo It is based on the '' story of the same name'' by the Brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the .... Cast References Bibliography * Jill Nelmes & Jule Selbo. ''Women Screenwriters: An International Guide''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. External links * 1956 films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Fritz Genschow Films based on Grimms' Fairy Tales German children's films Films based on fairy tales 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapunzel
"Rapunzel" ( , ) is a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 as part of ''Children's and Household Tales'' (KHM 12). The Brothers Grimm's story developed from the French literary fairy tale of ''Persinette'' by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1698). The tale is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 310 ("The Maiden in The Tower"). Its plot has been used and parodied in various media. Its best known line is, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair". Plot A lonely couple, who long for a child, live next to a large, extensive, high-walled subsistence garden, belonging to a sorceress.), despite the common modern impression. The wife, experiencing pregnancy cravings, longs for the ''rapunzel'' that she sees growing in the garden (''rapunzel'' is either the salad green and root vegetable ''Campanula rapunculus'', or the salad green ''Valerianella locusta''). She refuses to eat anything else and begins to waste away. Her husband fears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Six Servants
The Six Servants (German: ''Die sechs Diener'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 134). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 513A ("Six Go through the Whole World"). Synopsis An evil Queen is a sorceress who has a beautiful princess daughter. She offers her hand in marriage, but all suitors have to fulfill impossible tasks. None of them ever managed to bring those to a good end, so she has all who failed beheaded. One day, a prince hears about the princess and wants to compete to win her hand. At first his father forbids him to do so, but the son falls ill for seven years without a physician being able to help him. Only when the father allows him to go does his health improve. During his voyage the prince meets six men with amazing talents and powers, whom he all takes along to be his servants. The first one is a man with a belly as huge as a small mountain who is able to stretch himself out to even bigger obesity. The sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumpelstilskin
"Rumpelstiltskin" ( ; german: Rumpelstilzchen) is a German fairy tale. It was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of ''Children's and Household Tales''. The story is about a little imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a girl's firstborn child. Plot In order to appear superior, a miller brags to the king and people of the kingdom he lives in by claiming his daughter can spin straw into gold.Some versions make the miller's daughter blonde and describe the "straw-into-gold" claim as a careless boast the miller makes about the way his daughter's straw-like blond hair takes on a gold-like lustre when sunshine strikes it. The king calls for the girl, locks her up in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will have her killed.Other versions have the king threatening to lock her up in a dungeon forever, or to punish her father for lying. When she has given up all hope, a little imp-like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansel And Gretel
"Hansel and Gretel" (; german: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister. Hansel and Gretel are a brother and sister abandoned in a forest, where they fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread, cake, and candy. The cannibalistic witch intends to fatten Hansel before eventually eating him, but Gretel pushes the witch into her own oven and kills her. The two children then escape with their lives and return home with the witch's treasure. "Hansel and Gretel" is a tale of Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 327A. It also includes an episode of type 1121 ('Burning the Witch in Her Own Oven'). The story is set in medieval Germany. The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera (1893) by Engelbert Humperdinck. Origin Sources Although Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm credited "vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolf And The Seven Young Kids
"The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats" (german: Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein) is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 5). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 123. The tale has obvious resemblance to "The Three Little Pigs" and other type 124 folktales. The rescue of the kids from the wolf's belly and his punishment by filling him with stones can also been compared to the rescue and revenge of Little Red Cap against the wolf (Aarne-Thompson type 333). Origin The story was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' in 1812. Their source was the Hassenpflug family from Hanau. A similar tale, ''The wolf and the kids'', has been told in the Middle East and parts of Europe, and probably originated in the first century. Synopsis A mother goat leaves her seven children at home while she ventures into the forest to find food. Before she leaves, she warns her young about the wolf who will try ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow White
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' and numbered as Tale 53. The original German title was ''Sneewittchen'', a Low German form, but the first version gave the High German translation ''Schneeweißchen'', and the tale has become known in German by the mixed form ''Schneewittchen''. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854, which can be found in the in 1957 version of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales''. The fairy tale features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the characters of the Evil Queen and the seven Dwarfs. The seven dwarfs were first given individual names in the 1912 Broadway play ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and then given different names in Walt Disney's 1937 film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. The Grimm story, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Hulda
"Frau Holle" ( ; also known as "Mother Holle", "Mother Hulda" or "Old Mother Frost") is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Children's and Household Tales'' in 1812 (KHM 24). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 480. Frau Holle (also known in various regions as Holla, Holda, Perchta, Berchta, Berta, or Bertha) was initially a pre-Christian female legendary figure who survived in popular belief well into the 19th century. The name may be cognate of the Scandinavian creature known as the ''Hulder''. Jacob Grimm made an attempt to establish her as a Germanic goddess. The legendary creature Etymology The name is thought to originate from German ''huld'' ("gracious, friendly, sympathetic, grateful" found in ''hold sein'', ''huldigen''), Middle High German ''hulde'', Old High German ''huldī'' ("friendliness"). Cognate with Danish and Swedish ''huld'' ("fair, kindly, gracious") or 'hyld' ("secret, hidden"), Icelandic ''hollur'' ("faithful, dedicated, loyal"), Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
