Fairy Tales
Tales that feature youngest sons:
- The Princess on the Glass Hill
- The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
- The Frog Princess
- The Singing Bone
- Don Joseph Pear
- Thirteenth
- Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye
- The Grateful Beasts
- The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples
- The Crystal Ball
- Lord Peter
- The Queen Bee
- Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf
- Baš Čelik
Tales that feature youngest daughters:
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan
- Water and Salt
- How the Devil Married Three Sisters
- The Brown Bear of Norway
- Fitcher's Bird
- The Hut in the Forest
- The Goose-Girl at the Well
- The Battle of the Birds
- Finette Cendron
- Molly Whuppie
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Famous quotes related to fairy tales:
“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 (18991973)
“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but becausedespite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific contentthese 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)