Wednesday, November 11, 2009

November Fairy Tale: a Mysterious Lady of the Moor and Sunken Cities

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Grimm’s Saga No. 114 November Fairy Tale: Maidens of the Moor Bathe in the Shadows of Sunken Cities In the Rhone Valley there is a swamp cal...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Fairy Tale of the Little Swineherd

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From the shores of Lake Geneva: Fairy Tale of the Little Swineherd (This fairy tale takes place on Lake Leman in Switzerland, which is ...
Monday, November 9, 2009

The Peaceable Kingdom of Fairy Tales: Paradise of Animals

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Grimm’s Saga No. 301: The Paradise of Animals In every creature a spark of God. Hidden between the lofty and forbidding cliffs of t...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

A Fairy Tale to Remember when the First Snow Flies: Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 53, Snow White

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Grimm's Fairy Tale No. 53: Snow White Once in the middle of winter when the snow flakes fell like feathers from heaven, a q...

November Hauntings: the Feast Day of Lemuria November 9

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Doppelgänger and Our Own Internal Demons An illusive spirit appears in Grimms' Saga No. 260 Ghost as Married Woman ( full text bel...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Have you experienced a sudden drop in fortune? Then your Hopfenhuetel or Butzenhaensel has probably left you.

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Ghost Theory Expounded Here (So what does ghost theory have to do with the latest book of short stories, Too Much Happiness , by Alice M...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Grimm's Saga No. 260: Ghost as Married Woman

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Grimm's Saga No. 260 In the time when Johann Casimir was Duke of Coburg*, his Master of the Stables was named G. P. von Z. This mas...
Friday, October 23, 2009

In this tale for hallow e'en, a hand lurches through the darkness at the church of dead souls.

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Three Tales for Halloween: Beware of the Hand in the Dark Tale 3: The Lurching Hand This strange story happened in the year 1517 in the St. ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Three Tales for Halloween: Vampire Empire

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Tale 2: Vampire Empire In Livland the following story is told: on All Soul’s Eve a young boy can often be seen limping about in the stree...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Three Tales for Halloween: The Cat in the Willow Tree

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Three Tales for Halloween Tale 1, Grimm’s Saga 250: The Cat in the Willow Tree There once lived a farm boy in Strassleben who told the f...
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. ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Reading Hänsel and Gretel: Stepmother and witch, the ladies we love to loathe.

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The fairy tale Hänsel and Gretel features two female characters that audiences love to abhor: the stepmother and wicked witch. It is ...
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...