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:

    “Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because—despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content—these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
    —Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)

    “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)