Friday, March 13, 2009

Swiss Fairy Tale: The Gnome Wife Tirli-Wirli

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In these fairy tales, some words must never be spoken. In Switzerland a farmhand married Tirli-wirli, the daughter of a gnome. One day sh...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Grimm's Fairy Tale: The Six Swans

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In this fairy tale, silence reflects true virtue. A King once went out hunting in the forest. He was soon so intent on the chase that none ...
Friday, March 6, 2009

Grimm's Saga No. 541: The Swan Ship on the Rhine

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The Mythology of the Swan Knight: Don't Ask, Don't Tell In the year 711 the Duchess of Kleve, the only daughter of Beatrix and...
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Life in the Castle: The Arrival of the Swan Knight

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Grimm’s Saga No. 545: Gerhard the Good, Swan Knight King Charlemagne once stood at his castle window and looked down upon the Rhine ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The Ways of Warmth in February: Grimm's Saga No. 161: Silver gushes from the ground.

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In February of the year 1605, Duke Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig ruled the land. A mile from Quedlinburg in a place called the Valley, it...
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! ...