Category: Features

June 18, 2017

Sun, Moon and Talia (Stories from Pentamerone, 1637) by Giambattista Basile (includes Audio)

Lately I was having a conversation about how much more cruel, violent and – from our modern point of view – sexually inapropriate some original version of fairy tales were before they got edited....

June 17, 2017

MY LORD BAG OF RICE (JAPANESE FAIRY TALES, 1908) COMPILED BY YEI THEODORA OZAKI

MY LORD BAG OF RICE http://ia801407.us.archive.org/16/items/jap_fairytales_0808_librivox/japanesefairytales_01_ozaki.mp3 No time to read? You can also listen to the recording from the Librivox project. Long, long ago there lived, in Japan a brave warrior known to all as Tawara...

June 11, 2017

THE JUNIPER-TREE (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

This one is for everyone who celebrates Father’s Day today. Happy Father’s Day! THE JUNIPER-TREE Long, long ago, some two thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and...

June 10, 2017

Top 5 toughest women in fairy tales (inspired by Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls)

Recently, when browsing through some online newspapers, I stumbled accross an article promoting the childrens book Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls on the Guardian. The founders of the whole project Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo started a...

June 1, 2017

HANS IN LUCK (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which...

May 27, 2017

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES by Hans Christian Andersen

Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress. He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers;...

Category: Features

Sun, Moon and Talia (Stories from Pentamerone, 1637) by Giambattista Basile (includes Audio)

MY LORD BAG OF RICE (JAPANESE FAIRY TALES, 1908) COMPILED BY YEI THEODORA OZAKI

THE JUNIPER-TREE (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

Top 5 toughest women in fairy tales (inspired by Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls)

HANS IN LUCK (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES by Hans Christian Andersen

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