Saturday, January 29, 2011

Lafontaine's Fable: The Stag Who Saw His Reflection in the Pool

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The Stag Who Saw His Reflection in the Pool In a deep crystalline pool of water a stag gazed lovingly at his own reflection. ...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Fables, a Type of Fairy Tale New Year's Resolution

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Fable of the Lion and Mouse A small act of kindness is often received with enormous gratitude, as this fable teaches. A lion once lay sl...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Fresh Starts and False Starts in the New Year: A Viper in the Smithy's Shop

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Aesop’s Fable No. 19: Tale of the Viper and the File  Moral: This fable teaches caution in handling sharp-toothed objects. A hungry viper...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Fairy Tale of the Beggar Woman and the Fire

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(Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman with Handkerchief, 1937) Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 150: The Old Beggar Woman There once lived an o...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Fairy Tale New Year's Eve Celebrations

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Fairy Tale Parties, and Dancing, and Feasting on New Year's Eve Designing your own New Year's Eve Traditions: Starting at 11:59 p...
Friday, December 17, 2010

The Farmers of Kolbeck Dance on Christmas Eve

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(Illustration Tomi Ungerer, Das Grosse Liederbuch ) Grimm’s Saga No. 232: The Farmers of Kolbeck   In the year 1012 a farmer in the v...
Monday, December 13, 2010

A Medieval Christmas Carol: King Charles the Fat Encounters His Christmas Ghost

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Grimm’s Saga No. 467: King Charles Sees his Ancestors in Hell and in Paradise On Christmas Eve King Charles (The Fat) lay in bed early in t...
Friday, December 10, 2010

The Fairy Tale Goddesses and Spectres of Christmas

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Perchta , Woodcut ca. 1486 Grimm’s Saga No. 269: Beware of Wild Berta In Swabia, Franconia and Thuringia people often admonish stub...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Christmas Spirits Haunt the Land in December

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Killing the Wild Man, After Pieter Breughel, ca. 1566 Grimm’s Saga No. 270: The Tuerst , the Posterli and the Straeggele, the Wild Ghos...