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The Little Green Frog
The Little Green Frog (French: ''La Petite Grenouille Verte'') is a French literary fairy tale, from the '' Cabinet des Fées''. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Yellow Fairy Book''. Synopsis Two kings, Peridor and Diamantino, were cousins and neighbors, and the fairies protected them, until Diamantino behave so badly to his wife Aglantino that they would not let him live. His daughter Serpentine was his heiress, but as she was a baby, Aglantino became regent. Peridor loved his wife, but was so thoughtless that for punishment, the fairies let his wife die; his only comfort was his son, Saphir. The fairies put a mirror into Saphir's bedroom, and it showed not his own face, but a beautiful girl. He fell in love. After a year, he saw she had a like mirror, and though he could not see the man reflected in it, he became jealous. His father had grown more grief-stricken with time, until it was feared he would die. A gorgeous bird appeared at his window one day, and he felt we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also substratum, influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic languages, Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's French colonial empire, past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole language, Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Fairy Tales
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laughing Eye And Weeping Eye
Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye or The Lame Fox is a Serbian fairy tale collected by Albert H. Wratislaw in his ''Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources'', number 40. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Grey Fairy Book''. Parker Fillmore included the tale as ''The Little Lame Fox'' in his book ''Jugoslav Fairy Tales''. Synopsis A man once always had one eye weeping and the other smiling. He had three sons, of whom the youngest was rather foolish. One day, out of curiosity, the sons each asked why one eye was weeping and the other smiling. The father went into a rage, which frightened off the older two but not the youngest. So the father told the youngest that his right eye smiled because he was glad to have a son like him, but his left eye wept because he once had a marvelous vine in his garden, and it had been stolen. All three sons set out to find it, but the youngest parted with his older brothers at a crossroads. A lame fox came up to the older brothers to beg bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Ian Direach Got The Blue Falcon
How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon (Scottish Gaelic: ''Sgeulachd Mic Iain Dirich'') is a Scottish fairy tale, collected by John Francis Campbell in '' Popular Tales of the West Highlands''. He recorded it from a quarryman in Knockderry, Roseneath, named Angus Campbell. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Orange Fairy Book''. Publication The tale was republished as ''The Adventures of Iain Direach'', ''Prince Ian Direach and His Quest'', and ''Prince Iain''. Synopsis A king and a queen had a son, Ian. When Ian was almost grown to a man, his mother died, and his father remarried. One day Ian went hunting and shot at a blue falcon, knocking off a feather. His stepmother cursed him until he found her the falcon. He cursed her to stand with one foot on the great hall and the other on the castle, and always face the wind, until he returned, and left. He met with Gille Mairtean the fox, who tells him that the blue falcon is kept by the Giant of the Five Heads, and the Five Necks, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bird 'Grip'
The Bird 'Grip' is a Swedish fairy tale.Andrew Lang, ''The Pink Fairy Book'',The Bird 'Grip' Andrew Lang included it in ''The Pink Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for the golden bird/firebird; other tales of this type include ''The Golden Bird'', ''The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener is an Irish fairy tale collected by Patrick Kennedy in ''Fireside Stories of Ireland''. Joseph Jacobs included it in ''More Celtic Fairy Tales''.Joseph Jacobs, ''More Celtic Fairy Tales''"The Greek Prince ...'', '' How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon'', '' The Nunda, Eater of People'', and ''Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf''.Heidi Anne Heiner,Tales Similar to the Firebird Summary A king lost his sight. An old woman said that the song of the bird, 'Grip', would restore it. The king's eldest son offered to fetch the bird, from where it was kept in a cage by another king; but on his way to fetch the bird, he sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Bird
''The Golden Bird'' (German: ''Der goldene Vogel'') is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 57) about the pursuit of a golden bird by a gardener's three sons. It is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as type ATU 550, "Bird, Horse and Princess", a folktale type that involves Supernatural Helper (Animal as Helper). Other tales of this type include '' The Bird 'Grip''', ''The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener'', ''Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf'', '' How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon'', and '' The Nunda, Eater of People''. Origin A similar version of the story was previously collected in 1808 and published as ''Die weisse Taube'' ("The White Dove"), provided by Ms. Gretchen Wild and published along ''The Golden Bird'' in the first edition of the Brothers Grimm compilation. In the original tale, the youngest son of the king is known as ''Dummling'', a typical name for naïve or foolish characters in German fairy tales. In newer edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 best-known storytellers of folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" ("), "The Frog Prince" (""), "Hansel and Gretel" ("), " Little Red Riding Hood" (""), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" (""), "Sleeping Beauty" (""), and "Snow White" (""). Their first collection of folk tales, ''Children's and Household Tales'' (), began publication in 1812. The Brothers Grimm spent their formative years in the town of Hanau in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. Their father's death in 1796 (when Jacob was eleven and Wilhelm was ten) caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers many years after. Both brothers attended the University of Marburg, where they developed a curiosity about German folklore, which grew into a lifelong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Bolte
Johannes Bolte (11 February 1858 – 25 July 1937) was a German folklorist. A prolific writer, he wrote over 1,400 publications, including monographs, articles, notes and book reviews. Works * ''Zeugnisse zur Geschichte unserer Kinderspiele'', ''Zeitschrift für Volkskunde'' 19 (1909), pp. 381-414 * (with Georg Polívka) Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm', 5 vols, 1913-32 References Further reading * Fritz Boehm, 'Johannes Bolte: Sein Leben und sein volkskundliches Werk', ''Zeitschrift für Volkskunde'' 46 (1936-37), pp.1-15 * Walter Anderson, ''Johannes Bolte: Ein Nachruf'', Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1939. FF Communications 124. * Fritz Boehm, 'Bolte-Bibliographie', ''Zeitschrift für Volkskunde'' 42 (1932) pp.1-68 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolte, Johannes 1858 births 1937 deaths German folklorists Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mythology
Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrative as a myth can be highly controversial. Many adherents of religions view their own religions' stories as truth and so object to their characterization as myth, the way they see the stories of other religions. As such, some scholars label all religious narratives "myths" for practical reasons, such as to avoid depreciating any one tradition because cultures interpret each other differently relative to one another. Other scholars avoid using the term "myth" altogether and instead use different terms like "sacred history", "holy story", or simply "history" to avoid placing pejorative overtones on any sacred narrative. Myths are often endorsed by secular and religious authorities and are closely linked to religion or spirituality. Many so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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