By Ann Rice under the pen name A N Roquelaure.

I've read the first.

And those are Sleeping Beauty, not Beauty and the Beast

...uh. Yeah.

I... don't remember. Blagh.

Like Princess Furball, or Allerleirauh, who had to marry her father because she was the only woman who could compare to her mother, and her father had promised her dying mother he wouldn't marry someone unless she could compare to her.

Or the fact that Cinderella's stepsisters not only tried the shoe on, but one cut off a toe and another a heel to get it to fit. Icky icky.

And mine's Shrek.

I'm starting to think it's made up.

Anyway, Aesop and Son is to Aesop's Fables as Fractured Fairy Tales is to, well, fairy tales.

Not quite. Aesop's fables were more morality type stories than anything. Fairy tales were for entertainment, to record history sometimes, and they usually did have a hidden meaning, although it's often open to interpretation.

Aesop's fables always had a lesson.

I want to take a few creative writing classes in college. I want to get the training and skills I need so I can do rewritings of fairy tales eventually. I already have a few ideas in my head.

There are even books of them out there.

I'm a fairy tale nut

They provide interesting stories, as well as a lot of potential material for writers.

All future writers (Azrael ), be sure to remember that some of the best ideas come from the simplest and oldest of things.

Also liked the one were these two chicks and thier mom befriend a bear, pick on a poor dwarf and eventualy end up killing him, the bear turns into a prince, takes the two girls to his castle, nails one while his brother nails the other. (Incase no one know this one, it's called "Snow White and Red Rose")

Ever read Jorinda and Joringel? Another old favorite.

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King Parcelan had this to say about Punky Brewster:
I like a lot of fairy tales. I particularly enjoy the 'uncut' gruesome ones.

They provide interesting stories, as well as a lot of potential material for writers.

All future writers (Azrael ), be sure to remember that some of the best ideas come from the simplest and oldest of things.

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Yup, Roleplaying is sort of practice for me, have been writing notes for an original novel of my own, which has bases in a whole lot of different stuff.

The Witches is a particular favorite of mine, however, and I also loved the movie that was done of it.

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Lyinar Ka`Bael had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Mine are Beauty and the Beast, and East O' The Sun, West O' The Moon which had a Grimm counterpart, The Singing, Soaring Lark.

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OMG!
If i told you i loved you and wanted to make you the mother of my childe would you... slap the crap outta me and say " hell no Freak! you is fugly!"

"She traveled far into the night held aloft by the North wind and her dreams. She traveled east of the Sun and West of the moon to find what she had lost there."

That is MY favorite Russian Fairytale/fables. I stole the Book from the library when i was 6 because it had such an impact on me! I think i still have it someplace at my moms house!!!

I had gone to story time at the library ( something we did every summer thanks to my grandparents) and we had a book club there. The teacher who read that book to me turned out years later to be my 3rd grade teacher Mrs Knox.

Funky

Take me now please! i need to Feel ALIVE!
or something

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[ 08-18-2002: Message edited by: Timpofee ]

I think Deth would have something to say on that

The version I read was Scottish I believe. The first, that is. But I do believe it must have Russian origins, simply because the idea of the bear bridegroom is prevalent in fairy tales from Russia, and Scandinavian countries as well.

Of course, if you really want to look into it, the basis is even older than that, and Greek. Ever read the story of Pysche and Cupid?

Here is the site with the story

Read and enjoy

Oh.. and if you can find it in its originally translated Verse stylings ill give you Bajah for a night. K thanks

Tim the person yo

[ 08-18-2002: Message edited by: Timpofee ]

Right. Anyone else want to hit on or steal my sweetie? I got plenty of magic left

humor disclaimer. mostly.

And I like the stories with nasty, crafty wizards.

But in the Cupid and Psyche tale, Cupid only revealed his true form at night. And Psyche was not allowed to see him. But she disobeyed one night, and looked at him by candlelight. Some of the candlewax fell on him, and he had to go away.

Psyche had to find him again, akin to that story. So while the folktale in that telling is Norweigan, the actual basis is much, much older.

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not realy a fairy tail as much as it is a folk tal, but its still great

I put a vote in for Loki.

I just brought up Cupid and Pysche to compare to East O' the Sun, West O' the Moon.

The Little Mermaid did indeed fall in love with a man on the mainland. She went to the sea hag, sold her voice, and got legs. If she didn't get the man to fall in love with her by a certain time (3 days, or sometimes it's longer) she would become sea foam.

Whenever she walked on her legs it felt like a million needles stabbing her, that was true. She did rescue the man from drowning, but he was found on the shore by a woman from nearby. He thought her his rescuer and ended up marrying her.

The mermaid's sisters came to her with the way she could become a mermaid again. They had sold their hair to the sea hag, and the sea hag had given them a knife. If the little mermaid killed the man through the heart using that knife, and the blood fell on her legs, they would become fins again.

But the little mermaid couldn't do it. But when the time came for her to become sea foam, it didn't happen. Because of her goodness, she instead became a sea spirit, and was able to watch over the man as that.

That's the original tale, at least as I've found it in my readings.

The best part of the book was "Little Red" turning the wolf from her story and the three little pigs into coats.

Had to rez this thread because Roald Dahl rules.

He also had a short story about a man who had the ability to see through cards, and such, psychic abilities.. I forget the name of it, however I have a collection of his stories downstairs in my room.. I should go re-read it sometime.

Also, his schooling was quite interesting to read about as well, especially about how most of his teachers said he was a terrible at English class, and such