Sunday, February 22, 2009

Where do Lutherans come from? A Lithuanian Fairy Tale

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(Illustration, Tomi Ungerer Das Grosse Liederbuch ) A castle beyond the borderlands. There was once a wealthy property owner who had...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Shrouded in Mystery: The Hooded Deity

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According to the Roman poet Juvenal who wrote around 100 AD, the hood or cucullus was a Celtic invention. It was primarily worn by peop...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 24: Frau Holle

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Remnants of an ancient oven in the woods in Switzerland A widow had two daughters. One was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly...
Friday, February 6, 2009

Becoming What You Are: the Egyptian Parable of the Doomed Prince

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In the fairy tale The Doomed Prince , we meet a prince whose fate it is to die at a young age. As he grows, he longs to become indepen...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Reading the Doomed Prince: The Hathors

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In the puzzling tale of the Doomed Prince   we encounter a prince who never really grows to adulthood. His fate is foretold by the H...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Doomed Prince, an Egyptian Fairy Tale

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A manuscript dating to approximately 1000 B.C. bears the designation Papyrus Harris 500 , marking it as the property of Mr. Harris at ...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Reading the Lithuanian Fairy Tale, Godmother Death

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In the Lithuanian fairy tale Godmother Death (full text below), neither man nor god reign supreme. Rather, both characters engage in a lif...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

A Princess is Healed and Evades Godmother Death in this Fairy Tale

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Godmother Death A man and a woman were living in abject poverty when God gave them a gift of a small child. They thought to themselv...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Human versus Demon versus Divine: The Surprising Story of the Possesssed Princess and Chunsu the Executor of Plans

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The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain, Duccio du Buoninsegna (c. 1255-1319), Frick Collection (2 versions of the original story p...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Egyptian Princess Bentrescht and the Demon

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This is a re-telling of the Egyptian fairy tale, The Possessed Princess . See the next blog entry to read a complete translation of th...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

An Ancient Egptian Princess is Possessed by a Demon in this Fairy Tale

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Translation: Copyright FairyTaleChannel.org Please enjoy, pass on to friends and link. Please do not plagiarize, copy or pilfer. Thanks! ...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Bogey Women and Maintaining the Proper Social Order

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In the morality tale Frau Trude (full text below), a bumptious maid suffers from an excess of self-assertiveness. This is the type of child...
Friday, January 9, 2009

Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 43 Frau Trude

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Translation Copyright FairyTaleChannel.com (Please read, enjoy, link to or pass this story on to friends. Please do not plagiarize, co...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Three Legends of the Virgin Mary: The Singing Fir Tree

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The Singing Fir Tree Copyright of Translation FairyTaleChannel.com (Please read, enjoy, link to or pass this story on to friends. Please...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Christmas Reading Series: Three Legends of Mary

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The Place Called Maria Stein Copyright FairyTaleChannel.com (Please read, enjoy, link to or pass this story on to friends.  Please do n...