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So Much for My Happy Ending

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

This comic got me thinking about stock openings and closings for fairy tales, particularly the latter. I’m terrible at coming up with endings. You may have noticed that a lot of my posts end pretty abruptly. Anyway, the “happily ever … Continue reading →

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Paging Dr. Swineheart

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

I’ve been reading some of the earlier volumes in Bill Willingham’s Fables series, and the characters include both ones I’m quite familiar with and ones I hadn’t heard of before. One of the latter is the surgeon Dr. Swineheart, who … Continue reading →

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Once Upon a Dream

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

It’s been some time since my last post on a Disney movie. Blame my wife, who’s been busy doing such things as working. Anyway, at long last, here’s Sleeping Beauty, from 1959. The most noticeable thing about this film is … Continue reading →

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Eleven Swans A-Flying

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

Picture by Susan Jeffers “The Wild Swans” is a Hans Christian Andersen story that I remember reading for a report when I was in elementary school, but all I could really recall from it was something about a girl’s brothers … Continue reading →

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Getting Goosed

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

An interesting post on Tumblr today inspired this post. And people think Tumblr is just for pictures of naked girls! Okay, it’s for that too, but this particular post was about the fairy tale “The Goose Girl.” I’d read the … Continue reading →

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Everybody Loves Bremen

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Since Calvin just recently mentioned the story of the Bremen Town Musicians, I thought it might be a good idea for the subject of another fairy tale post. I remember finding this one amusing when I first heard it as … Continue reading →

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Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Blog

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

We finally got around to Cinderella this evening. I know this was one of Walt Disney’s own favorites (if not his overall favorite), and I really can’t say I’ve heard of anyone NOT liking it. Like Snow White, it uses … Continue reading →

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Hedgehog Wild

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

Are there very many famous hedgehogs in fiction? There’s Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and of course Sonic, if you want to count video games (which I definitely do). Then there’s the fairy tale from the Grimms’ collection about a hedgehog, … Continue reading →

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The Satanic Family Players

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

One curious character who shows up in at least two fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm is the Devil’s grandmother. She puts in appearances in one story called simply “The Devil and His Grandmother” (sometimes called “The Dragon and … Continue reading →

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And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Breadcrumbs

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Let’s see. How about Hansel and Gretel for a fairy tale post this week? This story is best known from the version recorded by the Brothers Grimm, who added a lot of the elements we now associate with the tale. … Continue reading →

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