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The Three Princes And Their Beasts
The Three Princes and their Beasts is a Lithuanian fairy tale included by Andrew Lang in '' The Violet Fairy Book''. The actual source was ''Von den drei Brüdern und ihren Thieren'' from August Leskien und K. Brugman, in ''Litauische Volkslieder und Märchen'' (1882). Synopsis Three princes had a stepsister. The four went hunting one day and were about to shoot a wolf when it offered to give each prince a cub if they did not. The same thing happened with a lioness, a fox, a hare, a boar and a bear. Then they came to a crossroads. The oldest told his brothers to each mark a birch there: if they returned and saw blood flowing, they would know that that brother was dead, but if milk flowed, he was alive. Then they asked their stepsister which one she wanted to go with; she went with the oldest. The oldest prince found a den of robbers. With the aid of his beasts, he killed all but one, who feigned death. He and his stepsister spent the night there. The next day, he went hunting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy-tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy-tale romance". Colloquially, the term "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true. Legends are perceived as real within their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gold-Children
The Gold-Children is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 85. It is Aarne-Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife, followed by type 303, blood brothers. Summary A fisherman caught a golden fish, who gave him and his wife a rich castle on the condition that he will not tell anyone how he had gotten it. His wife badgered the knowledge from him, but he caught the fish again and regained the castle, and when she badgered the truth out of him again, he caught the fish a third time. The fish saw it was fated to fall into the fisherman's hand and told him to take it home and cut it into six pieces, giving two to his wife and two to his horse. He had to bury the last two pieces in the ground. When he did, his wife gave birth to twins of gold, the horse gave birth to two foals of gold, and two golden lilies sprouted from the earth. When they were grown, the gold children left home, telling their father that the lilies would wither if they were ill a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Princesses
This is a list of fictional princesses that have appeared in various works of fiction. This list is organized by medium and limited to well-referenced, notable examples of fictional princesses. Literature ''This section contains examples of both classic and more modern writing.'' }). Collected by Dr. Friedrich Kreutzwald in ''Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed jutud''. , , - , Princess Daisy Valenski , rowspan="2", ''Princess Daisy'' , , rowspan="2", , - , Dani Valenski , Daisy's twin sister, not accepted by their father because she was born brain-damaged. , - , Signy , '' Asmund and Signy'' , Icelandic fairy tale collected in ''Islandische Märchen''. Included by Andrew Lang in ''The Brown Fairy Book''. , rowspan="3", Collected by Andrew Lang , - , The Enchanted Princess , ' , , - , Princess Hadvor , '' Hermod and Hadvor'' , , - , Seserakh , '' Earthsea'' , The princess of the Kargad lands and the daughter of King Thol. , , - , Vera , ''Princess Ligovskaya'' , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Princes
This is a list of fictional princes that have appeared in various works of fiction. It is organized by medium and limited to well-referenced, notable examples of the fictional princes. Literature ''This section contains examples of both classic and more modern writing.'' Comics Theatre Film Live action }) and ''The Two Tigers'' ( it, Le due tigri), both released in 1941. *Steve Reeves in '' Sandokan the Great'' ( it, Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem) (1963) and ''Pirates of Malaysia'' ( it, I pirati della Malesia) (1964) *Ray Danton in ''Sandokan to the Rescue'' ( it, Sandokan alla riscossa) and ''Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak'' ( it, Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak), released in 1964. * Mimmo Palmara in ''Temple of the White Elephant'' (aka ''Sandok, il Maciste della giungla'') (1964) *Ivan Rassimov in ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' (1970) , - , Prince Ali , '' Secret of Stamboul'' , Portrayed by Cecil Ramage. , - , Prince Edmnond/Inmate 34 , rowspan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bold Knight, The Apples Of Youth, And The Water Of Life
"The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life" (russian: Сказка о молодце-удальце, молодильных яблоках и живой воде) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in '' Narodnye russkie skazki''. The tale and is variants are numbered 171-178 in the first volume of the three-volume collection. Synopsis An old king whose sight was failing heard of a garden with apples that would make a man grow young, and water that would restore his sight. His oldest son set out and came to a pillar with different directions: on one road, his horse would be full and its rider be hungry; on the second, the youth would lose his life, and on the third, he would be full and his horse hungry. He took the third road and came to a house where a widow made him welcome. The old dame also offered to let him spend the night with her daughter Dunia. The prince accepted, but Dunia made him fall into the cellar. The king’s second son s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Dogs
The Three Dogs is a German fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Green Fairy Book'', listing his source as the Brothers Grimm. A version of this tale appears in '' A Book of Dragons'' by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson type 562, The Spirit in the Blue Light. Other tales of this type include '' The Blue Light'' and '' The Tinderbox''.D.L. Ashliman, The Blue Light: Folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther Type 562' Synopsis A dying peasant told his son and daughter that he had only his house and three sheep to leave them; they could divide them as they wished, but must not quarrel. The brother asked his sister which she wished to have. She chose the house. He told her he would take the sheep and seek his fortune. He met a stranger who offered to trade three dogs for his sheep: Salt, which would bring him food; Pepper, who would tear attackers to pieces; Mustard, which could break iron or steel with its teeth. The brother agreed and once the trade was done, asked S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess And Dragon
Princess and dragon is a archetypical premise common to many legends, fairy tales, and chivalric romances. Northrop Frye identified it as a central form of the quest romance. The story involves an upper-class woman, generally a princess or similar high-ranking nobility, saved from a dragon, either a literal dragon or a similar danger, by the virtuous hero (see Damsel in distress). She may be the first woman endangered by the peril, or may be the end of a long succession of women who were not of as high birth as she is, nor as fortunate. Normally the princess ends up married to the dragon-slayer. The motifs of the hero who finds the princess about to be sacrificed to the dragon and saves her, the false hero who takes his place, and the final revelation of the true hero, are the identifying marks of the Aarne–Thompson folktale type 300, the Dragon-Slayer. They also appear in type 303, the Two Brothers. These two tales have been found, in different variants, in countries all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Knights Of The Fish
The Knights of the Fish (Spanish: "''Los Caballeros del Pez''") is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Fernán Caballero in ''Cuentos. Oraciones y Adivinas''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Brown Fairy Book''. A translation was published in ''Golden Rod Fairy Book''. Another version of the tale appears in '' A Book of Enchantments and Curses'' by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as type 303 ("The Twins or Blood Brothers"). Most tales of the sort begin with the father catching a talking fish thrice and, in the third time, the animal asks to be sacrificed and fed to the fisherman's wife and horses, and for his remains to be buried underneath a tree. By doing so, twins are born to him and his wife, as well as two foals and two trees. It is also classified as ATU 300 ("The Dragon-Slayer"), a widespread tale. Synopsis An industrious but poor cobbler tried to fish until he was so hungry that he thought he would hang himself if he caught noth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Brothers
The Two Brothers is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 60. It is Aarne-Thompson type 303, "The Blood Brothers", with an initial episode of type 567, "The Magic Bird Heart". A similar story, of Sicilian origin, was also collected by author and folklorist Andrew Lang in ''The Pink Fairy Book''. Synopsis A rich goldsmith and a poor broommaker were brothers. The broommaker had two identical twin sons. One day, the broommaker saw a golden bird in the woods, knocked off a feather, and sold it to his brother for a great sum. He pursued the bird again and found a golden lamp. A third time, he brought back the bird itself, and his brother, who knew its powers—that whoever ate its heart and liver would find a gold coin beneath his pillow every night—had his wife cook it. But his nephews came to the kitchen to beg, and when two bits fell from the bird, they ate them, and the gold coins appeared beneath their pillows. The goldsmith told his brother t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Biography Lang was born in 1844 in Selkirk, Scottish Borders. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first Duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of '' Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books'' which he edited. He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto School, and the Edinburgh Academy, as well as the University of St Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Enchanted Doe
"The Enchanted Doe" is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ''Pentamerone''. Synopsis A king wished for a child; to incline the gods toward him, he was charitable to beggars. When he had spent all his money this way without having a child, he shut himself up in a tower and shot at anyone who came near with a crossbow. A pilgrim came and told him that if the queen ate the heart of the sea-dragon, she would have a child. The king had this done, and the queen gave birth to identical twin boys. One day she grew jealous of the younger, Canneloro, because the older, Fonzo, loved his brother better than her and found a place where Fonzo had been making bullets to go hunting but had left them to get something. She took one hot bullet-mold and threw it at Canneloro, making an ugly wound, and would have thrown another, but Fonzo returned. Canneloro told him he had to leave but, at Fonzo's persuasion, stuck a dagger in the ground, opening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Belt
The Blue Belt (Norwegian: ''Det blå båndet'') is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ''Norske Folkeeventyr''. It is Aarne-Thompson type 590. Plot summary A beggar woman and her son were returning home when he saw a blue belt. She forbade him to pick it up, but after a time, he snuck away from her and got it, and it made him feel as strong as a giant. When she had to rest, he climbed a crag and saw light. He came down to his mother to suggest they seek shelter there. When she could go no further, he carried her, but she saw that the house was that of trolls. He insisted, and she fainted. A old man was within. The boy called him "grandfather" and he said he had been sitting there three hundred years without anyone calling him grandfather. They talked, and the old man prepared supper for them by killing an oxen with one hand. At night, the boy got the cradle, and the old man gave his mother the bed. The old man told the mother th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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