Golden Apple - Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales

Many European fairy tales begin when golden apples are stolen from a king, usually by a bird:

  • Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf, Russian
  • The Golden Bird, German
  • The Golden Mermaid, German
  • The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples, Serbian/Bulgarian
  • Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples, Romanian, where the thief is not a bird but a zmeu
  • The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple, Bulgarian, where the thief is not a bird but a zmey
  • The White Snake, German

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Famous quotes related to fairy tales:

    “And in their fairy tales
    The warty giant and witch
    Get sealed in doorless jails
    And the match-girl strikes it rich.”
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    “What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)