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CJ22
Registered User
(12/19/01 3:56:34 pm)
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Help : What (and why) are your favorite fairy tale/s ?
Can readers please help. I study journalism part time and am researching an article (for a non-profit community newspaper) they’ve asked me to do on fairytales, to include people’s comments on what (and why) their very favorite/s is or are.
They don't just have to all be older Grimm ones.
I want to feature the wittiest and cleverest, most humorous and / or even serious comments anyone (be it contributors to this fantastic board, famous people, writers) has / have made on the topic, that are generally comprehensible to laypersons, as opposed to being acadamic in content, on what and why their favorite fairy tale is. Comments will be ascribed to their makers.
If you’ve read any comments anywhere pertaining to this subject and people’s best reasons why, that you were and are impressed with, any links or threads here or elsewhere, would be very greatly appreciated.
If recounting any personal favorite fairy tale/s not so well known to most laypersons, please briefly describe it’s plot and author. I did a board search, that didn’t yield much.
Cristine Jensen
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Heidi
Unregistered User
(12/19/01 5:07:10 pm)
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Similar Discussion
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Try the above link to a similar discussion we had back in January of this year. There are several discussions of why some fairy tales are our favorites.
Heidi
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Terri
Registered User
(12/20/01 7:49:29 am)
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Re: Similar Discussion
You should definitely get hold of the book "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales" edited by Kate Bernheimer, since it pertains to this very topic, and is a wonderful collection.
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Storyman
Registered User
(12/21/01 7:29:53 am)
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Re: Help : What (and why) are your favorite fairy tale/s ?
"Andy Spandy" - I think it's a variation of a Scottish tale, but not sure. A young girl wants to enter the jump-rope competition, but because she's too little, she has to wait for a few years. She practices each day on the village jumping green and meets one of the little people. He teaches her the high jump and the low jump and gives her a magic jump rope along with a magic jumping song that would assure her of winning. She goes on to become the district jump-rope champion and eventually disappears from village life. Years and years later, a greed Laird tries to buy the village jumping-green and build his house there. However, the villagers are in an uproar and make a deal that as long as a person is jumping on the green, the Laird has to wait to build his mansion. Soon all the children of the village are jumping and one by one they tire and fall out. Just when it looks like the Laird has won, a little wizened woman shows up with her rope. Thinking she can't hold out, the Laird agrees. The old woman begins jumping and chanting: Andy Spandy, sugary candy French Almond Rock. Bread and Butter for your supper, that's all you're mother's got. How many pieces can you eat?" She begins to jump and after hours, days, and weeks she's still jumping. The Laird decides that the villagers have won and withdraws his bid to buy the jumping green. According to the villagers you can still see her jumping and hear her chanting the Andy Spandy jumping song every anniversary of her winning out over the Laird.
I like this story because I first read it as a young child and was determined to meet the jump-rope sidhe and win out over all odds. Later I came to realize that I'm one of those anti-corporate world people and see the story as people winning out over big business - with a touch of magic thrown.
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ZMethos
Registered User
(12/21/01 10:12:53 am)
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Re: Help : What (and why) are your favorite fairy tale/s ?
I've always liked "King O' the Cats" (because I like cats, and also because it's just spooky enough. . . I have a vivid memory of a picture in the book I first read this story in, of the black cats carrying the coffin with the purple pall draped over it. . .)
I also enjoy "Tom Tit Tot" (a variation of Rumplestilskin) because of the cute rhyme: "Nimmy nimmy not, Your name is Tom Tit Tot!"
~M. Pepper
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Nalo
Registered User
(12/23/01 2:30:22 pm)
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Re: Help : What (and why) are your favorite fairy tale/s ?
Anansi and Dry Bone. It's eerie, in a way that feels different from other folk tales of its ilk. I'm very taken by the image of Dry Bone hanging in a sack over Anansi's shoulder, and whispering in Anansi's horrified ear, "When you pick me up, you pick up trouble!"
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