Tabled Fables

“But I forbid you to open one particular room, which this little golden key can unlock.” #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #grimm 📖 “Bluebeard” #brothersgrimm 🎨Gustave Doré

A fairy-tale good night to you all. Sweet dreams 🖤 (Art by Ulla Thynell)

Quiz: How well do you know fairy tales? bookriot.com/fairy-tales-qu…

Two Versions of a Classic Fairy Tale: Disneyfying The Little Mermaid tor.com/2023/09/25/dis…

What fairy tales can teach students about creative writing news.syr.edu/blog/2023/09/2…

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", 1937

'Alice in Wonderland' by Alicia Scavino #AliciaScavino #illustration #aliceinwonderland

Some enchanted forests for all of you from the imagined worlds of Lily Seika Jones

"Before The Brothers Grimm published their story, titled Sneewittchen, the original Italian folktale was about a mother's envy & jealousy towards her own daughter." Original Italian folktale??? thedailystar.net/daily-star-boo…

"There are few things more elementally fairy tale than mirrors...So, perhaps mirrors are simply vexing as much as they are sinister—at best, chaotic neutral." tor.com/2023/09/12/mir…

"Beauty is pain. Swim and bear it. Which is a foreshadowing of the bargain she’ll make with the sea witch, trading her tail for feet and pain." "tor.com/2023/09/11/sou… via @tordotcom

The Blue Bird ('Fågel blå') is a Swedish fairy tale about a prince who is turned into a blue bird because of a curse that is put on him by a troll. The princess never stops loving him, and strength of their love eventually breaks the curse.

In some Cinderella tales, the animal helpers do more than aid with impossible tasks; they also help in the revenge department. #AnotherCinderella #notdisneyprincess #faustianfriday 🎨Natale Schiavoni

"The cat leaped upon her and made an end of her. And that is the way of the world." 📖 "The Cat and Mouse in Partnership": The #BrothersGrimm 🎨 Henry Justice Ford @lit_saturday #BookWormSat #murder #fairytales #grim #Caturday

‘Donkey Skin’ Uses the Power of Song to Remind the World That Incest Is a Massive Bummer indiewire.com/features/best-… via @IndieWire

Book review: In This Dark Fairy Tale, the Beauty Industry Is the Villain nytimes.com/2023/09/09/boo…

'Beauty and the Beast' #illustration by Felix de Gray, 1926 #Felixdegray #fairytale

Fairy Tales From the North illustrated by Swedish artist Einar Nerman from 1946

Ded Moroz lived in the forest in a cottage dripping with icicles. Sometimes described as a blacksmith who forged chains of ice to shackle the earth and to bind the sea... #FaustianFriday 🎨Ivan Bilbin

The Wind’s Tale…a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, circa 1911 🍂