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The Water Of Life (Spanish Fairy Tale)
The Water of Life (''L'aigua de vida'') is a Catalan fairy tale collected by D. Francisco de S. Maspons y Labros (1840–1901), in ''Cuentos Populars Catalans'' (1885). Andrew Lang included it in ''The Pink Fairy Book'' (1897). Synopsis Three brothers and a sister worked very hard, became rich, and built a palace. It was much admired, but an old woman told them it needed a church. They built a church. It was even more admired, but an old man told them it needed a pitcher of the water of life, a branch where the smell of the flowers gave eternal beauty, and the talking bird. The oldest brother decided to set out after it. They asked the old man how they could know he was safe, and the man gave them a knife: as long as it was bright, he was well, but when it was bloody, evil had happened to him. He met with a giant who told him he had to walk past stones that would mock him; if he did not turn, he could gain what he was after, but if he did, he would turn to stone as well. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas – Demographia, April 2018 Current day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Little Birds
"The Three Little Birds" (German: ''De drei Vügelkens'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 96. The story is originally written in Low German. It is Aarne-Thompson type 707, the dancing water, the singing apple, and the speaking bird. The story resembles ''Ancilotto, King of Provino'', by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, and ''The Sisters Envious of Their Cadette'', the story of the 756th night of the ''Arabian Nights''. Synopsis Three sisters were tending cows when a king and his company went by. The oldest pointed at the king and said she would marry him or no one; her sisters pointed at the ministers and said the same. The king summoned them before him, and then, because they were very beautiful, he married the oldest and his ministers married the youngest. The King had to go on a journey, and had her sisters attend the queen. She gave birth to a son with a red star on his forehead. Her sisters threw the baby boy into the water, and a bird sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Fairy Tales
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The Water Of Life (German Fairy Tale)
"The Water of Life" (german: Das Wasser des Lebens) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 97. It is Aarne-Thompson type 551.D.L. Ashliman,The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"/ref> John Francis Campbell noted it as a parallel of the Scottish fairy tale, ''The Brown Bear of the Green Glen''. Synopsis A king was dying. An old man told his sons that the water of life would save him. Each one set out in turn. The two older ones, setting out in hopes of being the heir, were rude to a dwarf on the way and became trapped in ravines. When the youngest son went the dwarf asked where he was going, and he told him. The dwarf told him it was in a castle, and gave him an iron wand to open the gates and two loaves to feed to the lions inside. Then he had to get the water before the clock struck 12 when the gates would shut again. He opened the gate with the wand and fed the lions the bread. Then he came to a hall where ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Spicer Eells
Elsie Spicer Eells (September 21, 1880 – May 24, 1963) was an American researcher of folklore with Iberian roots and a writer who traveled in the early years of the twentieth century across the Atlantic basin. She is noted for the publication of several collections of short stories and legends based on the oral tradition of various regions she visited, including Brazil and the Azores.. Biography Born Eusebia Spicer in West Winfield, New York. She married Burr Gould Eells, a superintendent of schools established by the Presbyterian Board of Missions in Brazil, where she lived for three years. Having traveled in the 1920s and 1930s to various countries as a researcher at The Hispanic Society of America in New York, something unusual at the time, Elsie Spicer Eells was the author of numerous works, including ''Fairy Tales from Brazil'' (1917), ''Tales of Giants from Brazil'' (1918), ''The Islands of Magic Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores'' (1922), ''South America's St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930
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Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (ATU Index) is a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies. The ATU Index is the product of a series of revisions and expansions by an international group of scholars: originally composed in German by Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne (1910), the index was translated into English, revised, and expanded by American folklorist Stith Thompson (1928, 1961), and later further revised and expanded by German folklorist Hans-Jörg Uther (2004). The ATU Index, along with Thompson's ''Motif-Index of Folk-Literature'' (1932) - with which it is used in tandem -, is an essential tool for folklorists. Definition of ''tale type'' In ''The Folktale'', Thompson defines a ''tale type'' as follows: :A type is a traditional tale that has an independent existence. It may be told as a complete narrative and does not depend for its meaning on any other tale. It may indeed happen to be told with another tale, but the fact that it may be told alone attests its in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bird Of Truth
The Bird of Truth (Spanish: ''El Pájaro de la Verdad'') is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Cecilia Böhl de Faber in her ''Cuentos de encantamiento''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Orange Fairy Book''. Synopsis A fisherman found two beautiful children in a crystal cradle, a girl and a boy, floating in the river and brought them to his wife to raise as their own. As the babies grew up, their older brothers were cruel to them and the boy and the girl often ran away to the riverbank, where they would feed breadcrumbs to the birds. In gratitude, the birds taught them to speak their language. One day the oldest boy taunted them with having no parents, and so the boy and girl went out into the world to seek their fortunes. When they stopped to rest along their journey, they heard birds gossiping, and one bird said that the king had married the youngest daughter of a tailor, over the opposition of the nobles. He was obliged to go to war, and when he returned, he was told that his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Belle-Etoile
''Princess Belle-Etoile'' is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Her source for the tale was '' Ancilotto, King of Provino'', by Giovanni Francesco Straparola. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 707 ''The dancing water, the singing apple, and the speaking bird''. Synopsis A queen was reduced to poverty, and to selling sauces to support herself and her three daughters. One day, an old woman came to them and begged that they feed her a fine meal. They did so, and the woman, being a fairy, promised that the next time they wished something without thinking of her, it would come true. For a long time, they could not make a wish without thinking of her, but one day, the king came by. The oldest daughter, Roussette, said that if she married the king's admiral, she would make sails for all his ships; the second, Brunette, that if she married the king's brother, she would make him lace enough to fill a castle; the third, Blondine, that if she married the ... [...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 (paranormal), magic, incantation, 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 (love), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dancing Water, The Singing Apple, And The Speaking Bird
The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird is a Sicilian fairy tale collected by Giuseppe Pitrè, and translated by Thomas Frederick Crane for his ''Italian Popular Tales''. Joseph Jacobs included a reconstruction of the story in his ''European Folk and Fairy Tales''. The original title is "", for which Crane gives a literal translation of "The Herb-gatherer's Daughters." The story is the prototypical example of Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type 707, to which it gives its name. Alternate names for the tale type are ''The Three Golden Sons'', ''The Three Golden Children'', ''The Bird of Truth'', pt, Os meninos com uma estrelinha na testa, lit=The boys with little stars on their foreheads, russian: Чудесные дети, translit=Chudesnyye deti, lit=The Wonderful or Miraculous Children, or hu, Az aranyhajú ikrek, lit=The Golden-Haired Twins. According to folklorist Stith Thompson, the tale is "one of the eight or ten best known plots in the world". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrifaction In Mythology And Fiction
Petrifaction, or petrification, defined as turning people to stone, is a common theme in folklore and mythology, as well as in some works of modern literature. Amos Brown noted that "Fossils are to be found all over the world, a clear evidence to human beings from earliest times that living beings can indeed turn into stone (...) Previous to the modern scientific accounts of how fossils are formed, the idea of magicians or gods turning living creatures into stone seemed completely plausible in terms of these cultures". Historical Petrification is associated with the legends of Medusa, the basilisk, the Svartálfar and the cockatrice, among others. In fairy tales, characters who fail in a quest may be turned to stone until they are rescued by the successful hero, as in the tales such as The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, The Water of Life and The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, as well as many troll tales. In Cornish folklore, petrifaction stories a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
