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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(12/10/03 9:15 pm)
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Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
With the coming addition of The Little Mermaid to SurLaLune this month, I am planning to add three new tales to SurLaLune in January, February, and March to celebrate five years on the web. While I have some thoughts of my own on which ones to choose, I am also soliciting recommendations and votes from all of you.
If you were to pick three tales to add, which three would you choose?
Feel free to post here or send me an e-mail. The address is available on www.surlalunefairytales.com.
Heidi
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jess63
Registered User
(12/10/03 9:51 pm)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
A Baba Yaga tale, the Snow Queen, and Iron Hans would be my picks.
Jess
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Blackwolf
Unregistered User
(12/10/03 10:19 pm)
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Suggestions.
The Firebird.
Reynard.
Baba Yaga.
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Gail
Unregistered User
(12/11/03 5:06 pm)
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Baba Yaga please
I must chime in with Baba Yaga as well. It is one that seems to have been reworked a few times latly as well. Gail
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Nalo
Registered User
(12/11/03 8:34 pm)
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Re: Baba Yaga please
The story that has Brer Tiger putting a hot poker down his throat to make his voice sweet so that he can sing to entice a tender young girl to step outside her house. ("Laura, Laura, ting-a-ling; honey at the door, darling...")
The Magic Orange Tree (there's a version of it in Diane Wolkstein's book of the same name).
Anansi and Dry Bone.
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AlisonPegg
Registered User
(12/12/03 3:03 am)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
Stories by Selma Lagerloef, the Swedish writer, would be good. I read some very beautiful stories by her, years and years ago, but haven't been able to find them since. I know she won the Nobel Prize.
Alison
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Valkith
Registered User
(12/14/03 3:17 pm)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
Baba Yaga as well, please. Although, I like Nalo's suggestions, I don't recall reading those.
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Nalo
Registered User
(12/14/03 3:43 pm)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
Yes, me for Baba Yaga too. Always liked her.
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wrightales
Registered User
(12/14/03 4:54 pm)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
I would love to see Jane Yolen's The Girl Who Cried Flowers if you could get permission.
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janeyolen
Registered User
(12/14/03 5:30 pm)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
I actually try NOT to have my original fairy tales up on an open site, except when I post something for a limited time on my own webpage. Thanks for asking, though.
Jane
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Nalo
Registered User
(12/14/03 6:42 pm)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
Interesting. I went looking online for references to the "Anansi and Dry-Bone" story, and all the ones I found seem nice and amusing, nothing like the terrifying tale that was the earliest version I read.
I'd like to see the story of the crab-back woman up there, too, but I don't really remember the name of it. My friend Laurel the Librarian could probably help me find it.
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(12/15/03 6:44 pm)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
Thank you for the suggestions! Baba Yaga has certainly made the short list, and perhaps a few others, especially Hans Christian Andersen. Any thoughts on Tom Thumb and/or Thumbelina?
I know SurLaLune is Eurocentric, but I am limited to what is available in the public domain. I am still hunting for old enough translations to use popular tales from other cultures.
Heidi
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jess63
Registered User
(12/16/03 12:06 am)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
Heidi,
I prefer Snow Queen to Thumbelina since I think it is a more interesting reflection of the then backlash to the trend towards realism. I would think as an annotator, the parallels to Dickens' works and others and the contrast, somewhat, to Lewis Carroll's works make it especially fun.
Tom Thumb is always a good story since it is one of those oft repeated, rewritten, retold stories. Lots of good stuff there. And it is very familiar to many people.
I understand the difficulty of finding unprotected versions of North American tales. I haven't seen Judith on the board for a while, but she always seems to have her finger on the pulse of NA literature. Regardless, if I run into any older versions, I will let you know.
Jess
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Nalo
Registered User
(12/16/03 1:03 pm)
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Re: Requests for new tales on SurLaLune
Ah, I didn't realise that finding stories in public domain was part
of the issue. That's a tough one. It's only a beginning, but I found
this url: www.sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/index.htm
It lists Caribbean stories collected by Martha Warren Beckwith in the 1920's. The home page to the site claims that the stories are in the public domain, but I wasn't able to ascertain when Beckwith died. #91 in this list ("Tiger Softens His Voice") is a version of the Brer Tiger story where he puts a poker down his throat to make his voice sweet. But it doesn't have the song I know, which I like much better.
Too, the language may be difficult to figure out for someone unfamiliar with Jamaican speech. But if you're ever looking for a translator for stuff like this, I might consider it.
The site has links to some fascinating texts in public domain, including
one of Hausa folktales written down by a Hausa person: www.sacred-texts.com/afr/
and some Native American texts: www.sacred-texts.com/nam/index.htm
Found this url too with African-American folk tales, but I couldn't
find anything on the site about copyright: www.toptags.com/aama/tales/tales.htm
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Rosemary
Lake
Registered User
(12/23/03 12:16 am)
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Snow Queen
If you use Snow Queen, you might mention that she showed up as the Queen in Narnia.
It would be nice to see some sources before Andersen.
R.
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LostBoyTootles
Registered User
(12/26/03 8:44 pm)
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Re: Snow Queen
I would like to see Thumbelina and Puss in Boots on SurLaLune.
Tootles~~If I can't be anything important, would you like to see me do a trick? |
Mark
Unregistered User
(12/26/03 11:41 pm)
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Jack the Giant Killer
Not enough on him around the web as it is...
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(12/27/03 3:02 pm)
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Re: Jack the Giant Killer
Puss in Boots is already on SurLaLune and has been almost since its creation. I am currently working on the textual annotations which I had never finished. They will be launched within a week or so.
I also recently finished the annotations for Jack and the Beanstalk which has been on SurLaLune for quite a while. I have included versions of Jack the Giant Killer in the similar tales, but have decided not to annotate them.
I have actually updated and completed textual annotations for many of the tales and am finishing the remaining nine or so now. I have been busy on SurLaLune the past several weeks and there is a lot more to be found there from movies to plays to poetry to annotations to books. I have a long list of more to do, but it is the best it has ever been.
Heidi
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rachel
Unregistered User
(12/27/03 8:18 pm)
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fairy tales and folklore discussion
Anything by E.T.A. Hoffman. Tres bizarre!
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Mark
Unregistered User
(12/29/03 12:57 am)
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This is the greatest fairy tale site on the web.
In our rush to offer suggestions we may sound like we are criticizing, but I am sure that is definitely not the case. You've done an incredible job here, Heidi, and I am hard pressed to find anything else like it online. I checked out the Beanstalk page before but hadn't noticed the Giant Killer link. Oops! In the past there has been little or no info on this subject anywhere on the web, aside from the one JTGK project undertaken by a university. I did a search last night out of curiosity and it seems a few more have appeared. Anyway, just wanted to say you do a hell of a job here, not to mention providing this great forum!
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LostBoyTootles
Registered User
(12/29/03 8:16 am)
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Re: This is the greatest fairy tale site on the web.
You're right! Puss in Boots is there! Sorry, my mistake...
Tootles~~If I can't be anything important, would you like to see me do a trick? |
