These are dope

The songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

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The Valiant Little Tailor

Jack and the Beanstalk

Beauty and the Beast

Pinocchio

Thumbelina

Puss in Boots

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

The Little Mermaid

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

The Princess and the Pauper

The Snow Queen

HBO’s “Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child” 1995 - 2000

(from the same people who eventually brought us “The Proud Family”)

YA Retellings brought to you by Epic Reads - Fairy Tale Retellings:

Beauty and the Beast: East by Edith Pattou / Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George / Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley / Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge / Spirited by Nancy Holder / Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier / The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison / Stung by Bethany Wiggins / The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle / Beastly by Alex Flinn / Beauty by Robin McKinley / Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay

The Little Mermaid: September Girls by Bennett Madison / Fathomless by Jackson Pearce / Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama / Midnight Pearls by Cameron Dokey / Mermaid: A Twist on a Classic Tale by Carolyn Turgeon

Cinderella: Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix / Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine / Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George / Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas / If I have A Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? by Melissa Kantor / Gilded Ashes by Rosamund Hodge / Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott / Cinder by Marissa Meyer / Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey / Ash by Malinda Lo

Rumpelstiltskin: A Curse As Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce / Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli / The Crimson Thread by Suzanne Weyn

The Frog Prince: Cloaked by Alex Flinn / Enchanted by Alethea Kontis / The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley / Water Song by Suzanne Weyn

The Snow Queen: Cold Spell by Jackson Pearce / Winter’s Child by Cameron Dokey / Stork by Wendy Delsol

Little Red Riding Hood: Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright / Scarlet by Marissa Meyer / The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly / Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce / Scarlet Moon by Debbie Viguié / Dust City by Robert Paul Weston

Twelve Dancing Princesses: Entwined by Heather Dixon / The Phoenix Dance by Dia Calhoun / The Night Dance by Suzanne Weyn / Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George / Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier

Hansel and Gretel: Sweetly by Jackson Pearce / Bewitching by Alex Flinn / Greta and the Goblin King by Chloe Jacobs

Rapunzel: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth / Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett / Towering by Alex Flinn / Cress by Marissa Meyer / Golden by Cameron Dokey / Zel by Donna Jo Napoli

Snow White: Beauty by Nancy Ohlin / Snow by Tracy Lynn / The Glass Casket by McCormick Templeman / The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block / The Serpent’s Shadow by Mercedes Lackey / Nameless by Lili St. Crow / Fairest by Gail Carson Levine / Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (*this is actually a retelling of “Snow White and Rose Red”) / Devoured by Amanda Marrone

Sleeping Beauty: A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn / Briar Rose by Jane Yolen / Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey / Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay / The Healer’s Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson / Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley / Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross / A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

#reference#would not recommend anything by marissa meyer#ESPECIALLY CINDER#DO NOT READ THAT BOOK#and Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon is flat-out bad writing

thanksss

lookatthewords replied to your post:You guys, if you haven’t read Boy, Snow, Bird by…

It’s a retelling of Snow White in 1950s-1960s USA, with black protagonists. Basically, a white woman marries into their family and finds out that they’re passing for white when she has a daughter with darker skin (the daughter with darker skin is not Snow White, that would be the elder daughter from a previous marriage).

Race relations is a huge theme in the book, and I think it’s done with a lot of thought, but take that with a grain of salt, since I’m not black. I will say there’s one Chinese kid in the book, and the racism he gets feels pretty damn realistic, and he’s a rounded-out character to boot.

oh wow. D: did this just come out? TO READ!!!

Research Masterpost part 1 (Fairytales/Folktales, Arthurian Legends)

General

Wikipedia.org

Project Gutenberg

Fairy Tales/Folktales

http://www.worldoftales.com/ 

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

http://hca.gilead.org.il/ 

http://germanstories.vcu.edu/grimm/grimm_menu.html 

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html 

http://www.storynory.com/archives/fairy-tales/ 

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0425c.html#jacobs 

http://park.org/Korea/Pavilions/PublicPavilions/KoreaImage/hangul/litera/

http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/reada/dent.pdf 

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-chinese-fairy-book-1921/ 

http://www.gymmuenchenstein.ch/stalder/texts/reading_1fi/african_fairy_tales.htm 

http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=orczy&book=hungarian&story=_contents 

http://www.tradestonegallery.com/?content=fairytales 

http://www.fairy-tale.info/index.php/action_show_id_NDl8PDwmPj58NTN8PDwmPj58NTR8PDwmPj58.html 

http://www.fairytales247.com/catalog/tanzanian-folktales/ 

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/ift/ 

http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/joseph-jacobs/indian-fairy-tales.pdf 

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/mexican-folklore/ 

http://www.eagleservices.ca/1stlorette/Html/MexicoWeb/FolkTales.pdf )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson_classification_system 

Arthurian Legends

http://www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/housearthur.html 

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Arthurian_Genealogy.pdf 

http://www.legendofkingarthur.co.uk/genealogy.htm 

http://www.heroofcamelot.com/introduction 

http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/8035.asp 

http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/index_welsh.html 

http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/ 

http://www.arthuriana.org/ 

http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot-project 

http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A533350 

http://www.heroicage.org/ 

http://www.facesofarthur.org.uk/bibliograrth.htm 

http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/benson-and-foster-king-arthurs-death-introduction 

http://www.caerleon.net/history/arthur/page2.htm 

http://www.britannia.com/history/arthur/excalibur.html 

http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs993a/arthurian/excalibur.htm 

http://www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/excalibur.html 

http://www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/vulgate.html 

http://www.lancelot-project.pitt.edu/lancelot-project.html 

http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/triads4.html 

http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/culhwch.html 

Next masterpost I’ll go over Arthurian Legend characters and naming characters. Any broken links or suggestions for later masterposts?

Update for anyone new here- you can also check the Works Presented page, it is regularly updated.

Presence of PoC in latin and ancient greek literature

Playwrights-Authors-Poets

15nth-16nth century

17nth-18nth century

Visual Arts

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LGBTQ themes in literature (in progress):

For anyone looking for people of color in Ancient Greek and Roman literature, with lots of other stuff, too!

If Cerberus, the three-headed dog, guards the entrance to Hades, what do you suppose a three-headed deer is the guardian of? This awesome image of three fallow deer bucks, standing in a perfect row and looking backward at the same moment, was captured in the forests of Lithuania by photographer Renatas Jakaitis. But we prefer to think this photo was taken on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest.

[via Twisted Sifter]

Fairy rings occupy a prominent place in European folklore as the location of gateways into elfin kingdoms, or places where elves gather and dance. According to the folklore, a fairy ring appears when a fairy, pixie, or elf appears. It will disappear without trace in less than five days, but if an observer waits for the elf to return to the ring, he or she may be able to capture it. They are soooooo beautiful!

fairy rings are usually caused by decaying organic matter, generally a tree stump. many types of fungi have symbiotic relationships with tree roots and mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of such fungus. So if a huge old tree was cut down, you’ll often find fairy rings. they can last for years and years as the earth  reabsorbs all the nutrients left behind by the beautiful tree.

sorry, didn’t mean to crush dreams - but i have a degree in horticulture and i was really excited when i first learned this.

maybe fairies and fungi are joining together to mourn the loss of the tree

xo

NO BUT FINDING OUT ABOUT WHY FAIRY RINGS EXIST IS ALSO REALLY COOL.

From a writer’s perspective, it’s even more interesting to find out why they exist on a horticultural level, because it opens up a whole realm of fictional possibilities. Science doesn’t have to invalidate mythology or fiction, no more than mythology or fiction invalidates science.

For example, doesn’t that just essentially make this a tree grave? And if folklore has taught us anything, it’s that “fairies” and other spirits usually occupy trees, or have them as their life force. And that’s to say nothing of the folklore of trees being spirits in and of themselves, or kitsunes that live in tree hollows, or dryads, etc., etc.. So, if it’s disrespectful or feels like a slight to step on human graves, wouldn’t that logic transfer to stepping inside the Fairy Circle, AKA, the tree’s grave? It’s essentially giving more fuel to the story, not detracting from it, in my humble opinion!

And this is yet another reason I love K — her perspectives are awesome.

Also because the ring is a grave, the death of the tree means the death of the dryad who occupied it. so the dryad spirit would, in death, be a gateway. its spirit joining this world and the Realm of Faerie.

A tiny voice is heard from inside the womb of a pregnant woman: “Mother, give birth to me!”

“A child who can speak from his mother’s womb can give birth to himself”, replies the mother.

Here’s a blast from the past (released in 1998) that we can all enjoy, Kirikou and the Sorceress.

Drawn from familiar cultural elements of West Africa, this traditional animated film tells the story of Kirikou, a newborn boy who can speak and walk right after cutting his umbilical cord.. He is born into a village where an evil sorceress has cast a cruel spell; drying up their spring and kidnapping just about all the men. Her name is Karaba and she is a beautiful, but cruel woman. Kirikou wastes no time with setting off to find the plague of his village and to …  (keep reading)

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In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.

Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.

Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.

And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.

How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies

How don’t you

Well, in the “original story” (folkstale), the King and Queen thought the old and powerful fairy was either dead, or had just locked herself in some tower, since nobody had heard from her for years. But when the old fairy actually showed up, the King and Queen served dinner for her as well, although, they didn’t have enough gold to give her as much as the others. Which the old fairy thought meant they didn’t want to welcome her and that they didn’t respect her enough; so she cursed their daughter.