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The queen with her mirror, from the 1921 My Favorite Book of Fairy Tales (illustrated by Jennie Harbour). The Evil Queen is described as a "proud and arrogant" woman with exceptional beauty, who marries the King following the death of his first wife, Snow White's mother. [1]
Holle is the goddess to whom children who died as infants go, and alternatively known as both the Dunkel Großmutter (Dark Grandmother) and the Weisse Frau (White Lady), elements which are more typically associated with the Grimms' fairy tale as well. Frau Holle's festival is in the middle of winter, the time when humans retreat indoors from ...
An episode of the series Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (1987–89) is dedicated to Princess Briar Rose. [61] The Legend of Sleeping Brittany (1989), an episode of Alvin & the Chipmunks based on the fairy tale. [62] Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty (1990), a Japanese/Czechoslovakian stop-motion animated featurette directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto.
Forbidden Fairytale (Korean: 동화지만 청불입니다) is a 2025 South Korean romantic comedy film directed by Lee Jong-seok and starring Park Ji-hyun as Danbi. It follows Danbi, who dreams of being a children's book writer but is in reality a rookie on the illegal pornography crackdown team.
The Aziza are a beneficent fairy race from Africa, specifically Dahomey. The Yumboes are supernatural beings in the mythology of the Wolof people (most likely Lebou) of Senegal, West Africa. Their alternatively used name Bakhna Rakhna literally means good people, an interesting parallel to the Scottish fairies called Good Neighbours.
After researching folklore traditions gathered primarily from Gaelic areas of Scotland, [16] an authority on congenital disorders, Susan Schoon Eberly, has speculated the tale of the Ghillie Dhu may have a basis in a human being with a medical condition; [17] other academics, such as Carole G. Silver, Professor of English at Stern College for Women, [18] agree and suggest he was a dwarf. [10]
In the view of Jared Shurin, grimdark fantasy has three key components: a grim and dark tone, a sense of realism (for example, monarchs are useless and heroes are flawed), and the agency of the protagonists: whereas in high fantasy everything is predestined and the tension revolves around how the heroes defeat the Dark Lord, grimdark is ...
Fairy Tale is a dark fantasy novel by American author Stephen King, published on September 6, 2022, by Scribner. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The novel follows Charlie Reade, a 17-year-old who inherits keys to a hidden, otherworldly realm, and finds himself leading the battle between forces of good and evil.