The Golden Root or The Golden Trunk (Italian: Lo turzo d'oro) is a literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the Pentamerone, as the fourth...
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Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing...
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is an Italian fairy tale, originally known as Prezzemolina. Andrew Lang included it in The Grey Fairy Book. It is Aarne-Thompson type 310, the Maiden...
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Pentamerone (redirect from The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones)
The Pentamerone, subtitled Lo cunto de li cunti ("The Tale of Tales"), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier...
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Hassan of Basra (category Male characters in fairy tales)
with the title Von dem Prinzen und der Schwanenjungfrau and translated by Reverend Edmund Martin Geldart as The Prince and the Fairy. In this tale, a king...
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Shapeshifting (category Recurrent elements in fairy tales)
in escape or the pursuer in capturing. The Grimm Brothers' fairy tale Foundling-Bird contains this as the bulk of the plot. In the Italian Campania Fables...
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Animal as Bridegroom (redirect from The Search for the Lost Husband)
folkloristics, "The Animal as Bridegroom" refers to a group of folk and fairy tales about a human woman marrying or being betrothed to an animal. The animal is...
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Forests in Middle-earth (category Themes of The Lord of the Rings)
Mirkwood is the dark forbidding forest of fairy tale. In The Lord of the Rings, scholars suggest that the forests symbolise nature as opposed to industrialisation...
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pursuit. The King of Love Prince Wolf (Danish fairy tale) Tulisa, the Wood-Cutter's Daughter (Indian fairy tale) The Golden Root (Italian fairy tale) Habrmani...
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"Grimm Fairy Tales 2011 Annual". Comics. Retrieved 13 July 2012. "Grimm Fairy Tales Giant-Size 2011". Comics. Retrieved 13 July 2012. "Grimm Fairy Tales 2011...
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The King of Love (Sicilian: Lu Re d'Amuri) is an Italian fairy tale from Sicily collected by Giuseppe Pitre and translated into English by Thomas Frederick...
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Pan's Labyrinth (redirect from The pale man)
that he considers the story to be a parable, influenced by fairy tales. It addresses and continues themes related to his 2001 film The Devil's Backbone...
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illustrated by Charles Vess. The stories, which are sophisticated fairy tales, focus on the power of women and are set in the same alternative history as...
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tales (most often fairy tales) to the Sultan Shahriyar over many nights. Many of Scheherazade's tales are themselves frame stories, such as the Tale of...
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The Fairy Tail manga and anime series features an extensive cast of characters created by Hiro Mashima. The series takes place primarily in the Kingdom...
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Children's literature (redirect from Golden Age of Children's Literature)
be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of...
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Morgan le Fay (redirect from Morgan the Fay)
Morgên y Dylwythen Deg; Cornish: Morgen an Spyrys; all meaning 'Morgan the Fairy'), alternatively known as Morgan[n]a, Morgain[a/e], Morg[a]ne, Morgant[e]...
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George MacDonald (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote...
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(English: Fairy Morgana) is a Catalan fairy tale or rondalla, first collected by Majorcan priest and author Antoni Maria Alcover. It is related to the cycle...
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Once upon a time (category Recurrent elements in fairy tales)
in fairy tales and folk tales. It has been used in some form since at least 1380 (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) in storytelling in the English...
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Prince Wolf (category Danish fairy tales)
fairy tale collected by Svend Grundtvig in his book Danske Folkeaeventyr. It is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or The...
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2013. "Alessandro Manzoni | Italian author". Encyclopedia Britannica. 18 May 2023. Steven Swann Jones, The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination...
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Cinderella (2015 American film) (category Films about fairies)
Allison Shearmur Productions, and Beagle Pug Films, the film is based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale "Cinderella" and also serves as a live-action adaptation...
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Rosemary (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
it means 'fidelity in love.'" In the Spanish fairy tale The Sprig of Rosemary, the heroine touches the hero with the titular sprig of rosemary in order...
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This is the list of episodes for the Food Network competition reality series Chopped, beginning with season 41. New episodes are broadcast on Tuesdays...
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Romanticism (redirect from The Romantic Period)
Wunderhorn ("The Boy's Magic Horn" or cornucopia), a collection of versified folk tales, in 1806–08. The first collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales by the Brothers...
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List of mythological objects (section Swords from Anglo-Saxon mythology and folklore of the British Islands)
always full of limitless money, as told in the tale Bearskin. (German fairy tale) Ǒusībùyúnlǚ (藕絲步雲履; "[Lotus-root Thread] Cloud-stepping Boots" or "~Shoes")...
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boszorkány (witch), tündér (fairy) or ördögszerető (demon lover). The word boszorkány itself stems from the Turkish root bas-, meaning "to press." In...
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Hecate (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
Folklore & Fairy Tale. Womancraft Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 978-1910559697. Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 65, No.2, 1972 pages 291–297 These are the biaiothanatoi...
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Sarah Williams (Labyrinth) (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
inspired by fairy tales and classical stories, as well as fantasy literature such as Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. Reception to the character...
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