So, as promised and in celebration of La Ragazza dai Piedi di Vetro being available in Italy, here are some pictures for a great folk story collected by the legendary Italo Calvino in his book Italian Folktales. This one is from the same family as The Griffin and The Devil With The Three Golden Hairs (the latter [...]
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
…although I would rather we call it The Seven Dwarfs And Snow White here.
Needless to say, this is one of the fairy tale heavyweights. Whole libraries have been written about it, which makes even typing this sentence daunting. You only have to enter Snow White into Wikipedia to get a sense of how many adaptations [...]
The Nixie In The Mill Pond
I thought nixies would be more commonplace. I was pretty confident they’d be one of the folk monsters now employed by genre fantasy, and that the internet would be crawling with very dramatic pictures of them battling heroes and whatnot. But try typing nixie into Google Images and see what you get.
Nixies, as I understand [...]
Scrapefoot
Check this out… sound familiar?
Once upon a time there was a mummy bear, a daddy bear and a baby bear, right? Not really. Once upon a time there was a fox…
I’ve never really been a fan of Goldilocks. It always seemed as sickly as Mummy Bear’s porridge. Goldilocks herself was the problem. She was too [...]
My mother she slew me, my father he ate me…
I heard somewhere (although I can’t vouch for whether it’s true) that The Juniper Tree is the story most often omitted or edited from collected editions of the Brothers Grimm on grounds of taste. If anybody wanted to argue that fairy tales aren’t suitable reading material for young children, they might well point to this [...]
Hans-My-Hedgehog
I thought it would be fun to start an occasional series of blog posts about some of my favourite fairy stories and folk tales. I’ll find a link to somewhere you can read a particular story online, write up a few thoughts and post some drawings to go with it. When I’ve done enough, and if I [...]
