Showing posts with label Fairy Tales and Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fairy Tales and Food. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Fairy Tale of the Importance of Giving Thanks for Our Daily Bread

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Our Daily Bread Grimm’s Saga No. 241: Bread Becomes Stone In many places, especially Westphalia, the story is told of a hard-hearted s...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

A German Fairy Tale about the Problem with Bread Shoes

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(Another saga about Bread Sin. However gloomy these tales might appear to the modern reader, they do reflect a deep reverance for the food ...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

God is Bread in this German Legend

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Although a rather bleak tale, this German legend illustrates the notion of a deity residing within the bread and thus its sacred nature. ...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Reading Hänsel and Gretel: a Journey of Filial Love and Survival

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A Walk Through the Forest: a Recipe for Resilience The situation is dire indeed in the fairy tale Hänsel and Gretel . We are told in th...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

A fairy tale about food, or the lack of it: Hänsel and Gretel

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The woodcutter and his family, Veneto, c. 1890. Fratelli Alinari Museum of the History of Photography, Florence/Italy (Click on picture...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Food and the Fairy Tale: An Aerial Bridge of Stone and a Lord's Godless Daughter

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Grimm’s Saga No. 236: Shoes Made from Bread Rolls In Klatau, a quarter hour from the village of Oberkamenz, there once stood a castle ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

In this Saga A Powerful Giant Queen in Tyrol Does Not Respect God's Gifts

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Grimm’s Saga 234: Lady Huett, Queen of the Giants In ancient times a powerful giantess lived in Tyrol, Lady Huett. Her home was the hi...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Grimm's Saga No. 362: Food from God

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Guardian Angel Protects against the Last Fierce Onslaught of Winter Not far from Zwickau in Vogtland parents once sent their young boy into ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Clever Gretel's Turkey Feast

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Bechlboschen or Christmas Bush, Feast Days, the Color Red and Christmas Goddesses Copyright FairyTaleChannel.org (Please read, enjoy, link ...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

The Feast Days of Fall: Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 77: Clever Gretel

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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. (Lillian Hellman) Translation: Copyright FairyTaleChannel....