All About History

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A common trope in fairy and folk tales is magical protection. This can take the form of an enchanted object, such as a hero’s shield, or it can take the form of a space or place, like the mythical Isle of Avalon in Arthurian myth, sheltered from the

ImagineFX

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LOCATION: Belgium MEDIA: Photoshop, Procreate WEB: www.margawart.com “Fairy tales and mythical creatures have always had a very special place in my heart,” says Margarita. “I love creating illustrations full of magic and mystery, and telling my own s

Best Self Magazine

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April 3, 2017, New York, NY Photographs by Bill Miles ______________________________________ My mission is to awaken women, to turn women on, to have women truly live rather than play small. I must model that. ~ Regena Thomashauer, ‘Mama Gena’ Kriste

PEARL

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Fairy tales belong to ancient human heritage. They are not tied to any particular country or people, so we find the same or similar themes everywhere. They are stories that have no relationship at all to earthly human history. Fairy tales tell nothin

NPR

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Elizabeth Lim's new young adult novel follows a girl who disguises herself as a boy and sets off for the emperor's court in place of her ailing father, who's been summoned as an imperial tailor.

The Atlantic

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No wonder, then, that the news of a new live-action Cinderella in the works was greeted by Slate's Alyssa Rosenberg with a certain amount of ambivalence. The "fairy tale" is "ripe for revision," Rosenberg argues, and hopes that we might see a Cindere

Literary Hub

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In the happy country of fairies, one leaves it only to find one’s way back. One suffers only to become happy, whereas pain is for us an enigma and life a struggle without end where the better people are the first to fall. There, in the country of fai

Chat It's Fate

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Witches love an altar – but it’s always important that our altars represent the season we’re in and are decorated appropriately. Roses are the flower of June, so they’re a popular choice for summer altars – however, red, pink or yellow only as we nev

Woman & Home

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The distinction between good and evil in fairy stories is always very clear, and though good doesn’t always win, evil is, if not vanquished, then at least exposed for what it is. However, the fairy stories I grew up with were very different to the ‘s

The Atlantic

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The action-packed 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is less a subversion of an old story than a return to one.

The Millions

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1. The logic of novice programming goes something like this: Run function (x, y) If x is greater than y: Do this Else if y is greater than x: Do that Else: Something else happens. I quickly learned that computers don’t like choice, and they don’t lik

WHO

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With concerts and live theatre productions – as well as interstate travel – now possible, fans of fairytales and musicals should head to Sydney later this year. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella will premiere at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre in Novembe

Fortean Times

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It is a commonplace among fairyists that the fairies seen today in midnight walks are not the same as those seen 800 or even 100 years ago. Twenty-first century fairies are smaller: they are often doll-sized, or even butterfly-sized. They frequently

DIVA

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BOOK OF THE MONTH FICTION Kalynn Bayron Queering a fairytale isn’t new, but when it’s good it’s really good… For many LGBTQI women who were coming of age in the late 2000s, Ash by Malinda Lo may have been the first lesbian retelling of Cinderella the

Watch

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“USUALLY, I’M TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM reality,” says best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who is noted for embracing magical realism in such novels as Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, and The Marriage of Opposites. At first glance, her 28th work of adul

Fortean Times

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Forteana and folklore are strongly connected to sleep. Ghosts walk down corridors while residents hide under duvets; aggressive polts pull sheets from over and even under sleepers. Aliens have, of course, perfected early morning visits, with abductio

Country Homes & Interiors

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I’ve always loved fairy tales. I was given a copy of Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales when I was around nine years old and I remember reading it from cover to cover, over and over again – Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, The Three Spinners… I loved them all.

TIME

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IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO DISCUSS Gingerbread, the sixth novel from Helen Oyeyemi—named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013—without the mention of fairy tales. Just a few of the new book’s familiar elements include enchanted confecti

NPR

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Kenji Miyazawa is a beloved author in Japan; this book — a reissue of a 1993 story collection — balances chaos and kindness, natural and supernatural to build a world in which anything might happen.

Brides Today

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There is much in common between weddings and fairy tales… A fairy tale romance, a fairy tale celebration, and, of course, a happily-ever-after. The idea of spending your life with a special someone is certainly enchanting, and yet, the modern woman a

Writing Magazine

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Enchanted Conversation is a monthly US webzine for adult readers with a love of classic fairytales. Originally debuting in 2007, the site relaunched this summer and now publishes one story per month and two non-fiction articles. The editor is Kate Wo

ImagineFX

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LOCATION: Finland MEDIA: PaintTool SAI, Photoshop WEB: www.artstation.com/midorisa “I enjoy painting artworks inspired by mythology, fairy tales and nature,” says Riikka, a fantasy artist and illustrator who enhances her work with vibrant colours and

The Atlantic

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Brit Marling discusses the folklore and real-life research that went into her trippy Netflix series.

Chat It's Fate

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In the UK, we’ve got the Beast of Bodmin, Black Shucks and the Loch Ness monster – just a few of the weird and wonderful entities that are the stuff of British folklore and fairy tales. Other countries have their own crazy creatures – and they’re eve

Inked

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Las Vegas is the home of many beautiful women; however, none are quite as magical as those created by Kurtis Rykovich who pulls his inspiration from fairy tales, horror, comics and the furthest depths of his imagination. However, while his Damsels ar

Literary Hub

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I read hundreds of pages a week for my English PhD program. When I left my program after four years, I discovered an unexpected side effect: I could no longer read the vast majority of adult fiction. This wasn’t just a matter of taste, but of physica

SFX

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⏵ RELEASED 17 JUNE 480 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ⏵ Author Hannah Whitten ⏵ Publisher Orbit Books Wolves run through fairy tales, flashing a tooth here, a tail there. But if you pick this up expecting to see familiar motifs popping up, you’ll

The Paris Review

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Sabrina Orah Mark’s monthly column, Happily, focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. “I know you’re the tooth fairy.” Noah, my eight-year-old, looks me dead in the eye. We are out to dinner. A large television hangs from the wall. Without blinking, h

Guernica Magazine

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The novelist discusses his latest book, The Changeling, and imagining the deaths of your children. The post Victor LaValle: Fairy Tales Redux appeared first on Guernica.

Literary Hub

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What do you call a villain when she finally gets to tell her own story? Not a hero, certainly. A villain doesn’t automatically become a hero just because the point of view on her story shifts. No, what a villain becomes when she tells her own story i