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American McGee's Grimm
''American McGee's Grimm'' is a 23-part episodic video game series based upon ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'', designed by American McGee, developed by Spicy Horse and distributed online initially by GameTap starting July 31, 2008. ''Grimm'' was originally thought to resemble the warped fairy tale style of ''American McGee's Alice'', but the art style appears to be much more child-friendly and simplistic. ''Grimm'' is written and executive-produced by the same person as ''American McGee's Alice'', R. J. Berg. The original announcement was made in the June 2007 issue of ''PC Gamer''. Spicy Horse Games is using Unreal Engine 3 technology for ''American McGee's Grimm''. There are 23 weekly episodes, divided into three seasons of eight or seven episodes each. Each episode offers approximately a half an hour of gameplay, although different playing styles (either for "complete conversion" or "speed-runs") make for different times. The game has been referred to as "highly accessible" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spicy Horse
Spicy Horse () was a Shanghai-based independent video game developer started by American McGee, Anthony Jacobson, and Adam Lang in 2007. It was announced on July 23, 2016, that the company is closing its doors to focus on smaller indie development. The studio is best known for '' Alice: Madness Returns'', the sequel to ''American McGee's Alice''. History After shutting his then-company The Mauretania Import Export Company, American McGee flew to Asia to seek business opportunities. From there, he met a pool of talented people in China who had been working and outsourcing games for western developers for many years but did not have any creative control over the IPs. American saw this as a favourable circumstance and decided to form a company in Shanghai to not only provide job opportunities to local talents but to also offer a healthy work environment. The studio was established in 2007. It was called a studio "leading the way" in episodic games. It was the largest independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MSNBC
MSNBC is an American cable news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Launched on July 15, 1996, and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, the channel primarily broadcasts rolling news coverage and Modern liberalism in the United States, liberal-leaning Opinion journalism, political commentary. MSNBC was originally established as part of a joint venture between NBC News and Microsoft (with its name being a portmanteau of MSN and NBC), encompassing the channel and the news website NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com. Microsoft would divest its stake in the channel in 2005, followed by the website in 2012; the website was then rebranded as NBCNews.com to associate it more closely with the NBC News division, leaving MSNBC.com to become a website for the channel and its opinion content. MSNBC initially focused on rolling news coverage, including long-form reports, interactive television, interactive programs, and stories con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Singing Bone
"The Singing Bone" () is a German fairy tale, collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 28. It is Aarne-Thompson type 780. Synopsis A boar lays waste to a country, and two brothers set out to kill it, with the prize being given the princess's hand in marriage. The younger meets a dwarf who gives him a spear, and with it, he kills the boar. Carrying the body off, the man meets his older brother, who had joined with others to drink until he felt brave. The older brother lures him in, gives him drink, and learns of the younger brother's adventure. They then set out to deliver the body to the king, but on passing a bridge, the older kills the younger and buries his body beneath it. He takes the boar himself to the king and marries the king's daughter as prize. One day a shepherd sees a bone under the bridge and uses it to make a mouthpiece for a horn, which sings of the brother's fate: "Ah! Dear shepherd, you are blowing your horn With one of my bones, which night and morn L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master Thief
"The Master Thief" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. The Brothers Grimm included a shorter variant as tale 192 in their fairy tales. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Red Fairy Book''. George Webbe Dasent included a translation of the tale in ''Popular Tales From the Norse''. It is Aarne–Thompson type 1525A, ''Tasks for a Thief''. Plot A poor cottager has nothing to give his three sons, so he walks with them to a crossroad, where each son takes a different road. The youngest goes into a great woods, and when a storm strikes, he seeks shelter in a house. An old woman nearby warns him that the house is a den of robbers, but he stays anyway. When the robbers arrive, he persuades them to take him on as a servant. The robbers tell the boy to prove himself by stealing an ox that a man is bringing to market. The boy puts a shoe with a silver buckle in the road. When the man sees it, he thinks it would be good if only he had t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty And The Beast
"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales''). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in ''Magasin des enfants'' (''Children's Collection'') to produce the most commonly retold version. Later, Andrew Lang retold the story in ''Andrew Lang's Fairy Books#The Blue Fairy Book (1889), Blue Fairy Book'', a part of the ''Fairy Book'' series, in 1889. The fairy-tale was influenced by the story of Petrus Gonsalvus as well as Ancient Greece, Ancient Latin stories such as "Cupid and Psyche" from ''The Golden Ass'', written by Apuleius, Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in the second century AD, and "The Pig King", an Italian fairy-tale published by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in ''The Facetious Nights of Straparola'' around 1550. Variants of the tale are known across Europe.H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil With The Three Golden Hairs
"The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs" () is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 29). It falls under Aarne–Thompson classification types 461 ("three hairs from the devil"), and 930 ("prophecy that a poor boy will marry a rich girl"). The story was first translated into English as "The Giant and the Three Golden Hairs" to avoid offense, but the devil in the story does indeed act like a folklore giant. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it, as "The Three Golden Hairs of the King of the Cave Giants", in '' A Book of Giants''. Synopsis A poor woman gives birth to a son with a caul (where the amniotic sac is still intact at birth), which is interpreted to mean that he would marry the king's daughter at fourteen years of age. The wicked king, hearing of it, visits the family and persuades them to allow him to bring the boy back and raise him in the castle. Instead, he puts the boy in a box and throws the box into the water, so that he will drown and not grow up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfather Death
"Godfather Death" (German: ''Der Gevatter Tod'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 (KHM 44). It is a tale of Aarne-Thompson type 332. Origin The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' in 1812, as tale no. 44. Synopsis A poor man has twelve children and works hard to feed each of them every day. When his thirteenth and last child is born, the man decides to find a godfather for this child. He runs out into the highway and finds God walking there. God asks to be the godfather, promising the child health and happiness. The man, after finding out that the man is God, declines, saying that God condones poverty. Then the man meets the Devil on the highway. The Devil asks to be the godfather, offering the child gold and the world's joys. The man, after finding out that the man is the Devil, declines, saying that the Devil deceives mankind. The man, still walking down the highway, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Without Hands
"The Girl Without Hands" or "The helpless Maiden" or "The Armless Maiden" () is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 31 and was first published in the 1812 edition of '' Children's and Household Tales''. The story was revised by the Grimm brothers over the years, and the final version was published in the 7th edition of Children's and Household Tales in 1857. It is Aarne-Thompson type 706.Heidi Anne Heiner"Tales Similar to the Girl Without Hands" Story elements Throughout different variations, the story takes place in four sections.Ashley, Melissa"'And Then the Devil Will Take Me Away': Adaptation, Evolution, and The Brothers Grimm's Suppression of Taboo Motifs in 'The Girl without Hands'."''Double Dialogues'', 15 December 2010. The Mutilated Heroine: A strange man approaches a miller and offers him riches in exchange for whatever he found standing behind the mill. Believing that it was only an apple tree, and unaware of the stranger's identity, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puss In Boots (fairy Tale)
"Puss in Boots" (; ; ; ) is a European fairy tale about an anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand in marriage of a princess for his penniless and low-born master. The oldest written telling version (Italian for "Lucky Costantino") by Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola, included in ''The Facetious Nights of Straparola'' (), in which the cat is a fairy in disguise who helps his owner, a poor boy named Costantino from Bohemia, to gain his princess by duping a king, a lord, and many commoners. There is a version written by Girolamo Morlini, from whom Straparola used various tales in ''The Facetious Nights''; another version was published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile with the title . The most popular version of the tale was written in French at the close of the seventeenth century by Charles Perrault (1628–1703), a retired civil servant and member of the . Puss in Boots appears in DreamWorks' ''Shrek'' franchise, appeari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fisherman And His Wife
"The Fisherman and His Wife" (Low German: ''Von dem Fischer un syner Fru'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 (KHM 19). The tale is of Aarne–Thompson type 555, about dissatisfaction and greed. It may be classified as an anti-fairy tale.''The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F''article "Anti-fairy tale", p. 50/ref> Origin The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' in 1812 as tale no. 19. Their source was the German painter Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810), from whom the Grimms obtained a manuscript of the tale in 1809. Johann Gustav Büsching published another version of Runge's manuscript a few months earlier in 1812 in ''Volkssagen, Märchen und Legenden'', with some discrepancies with Grimm's version. Synopsis There is a poor fisherman who lives with his wife in a hovel by the sea. One day the fisherman catches a fish who claims to be able to grant wishes and begs t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Red Riding Hood
"Little Red Riding Hood" () is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European Fable, folk tales. It was later retold in the 19th-century by the Brothers Grimm. The story has varied considerably in different versions over the centuries, translations, and as the subject of numerous modern adaptations. Other names for the story are "Little Red Cap" or simply "Red Riding Hood". It is number 333 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system for folktales. Plot The story centers around a girl named Little Red Riding Hood, named after her red hood (headgear), hooded cape that she wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother (wine and cake depending on the translation). A stalking wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. After he inquires as to where she is going, he suggests that she pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of The Youth Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was
"The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" or "The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear" () is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 4). The tale was also included by Andrew Lang in '' The Blue Fairy Book'' (1889). It is classified as its own Aarne–Thompson index type 326. It refers to tales of a male protagonist's unsuccessful attempts to learn how to feel fear. This tale type did not appear in any early literary collection but is heavily influenced by the medieval adventure of Sir Lancelot du Lac called ' in which he spends a night in a haunted castle and undergoes almost the same ordeals as the youth. Origin The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the second edition of ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' in 1819. The first edition (1812) contained a much shorter version titled "Good Bowling and Card-Playing" (). Their immediate source was Ferdinand Siebert from the village of Treysa near Kassel; th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
