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Elizabeth Genco
Registered User
(7/25/05 10:13 pm)
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Informal poll: what's your favorite obscure tale?
Hello, everyone!
It's been a while since I've posted, I know. I'm back with a question. What's your favorite of the more obscure fairy tales? "Obscure" cuts a wide swath; feel free to interpret that however you like. Feel free to mention folk tales, too, if you're so inclined.
Over the next few months I'll be selecting some tales to turn into short comics adaptations for a self-published anthology. The plan is to adapt them for a modern setting and/or play around a bit. I'm always looking for stories I may have missed....
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Writerpatrick
Registered User
(7/27/05 2:40 pm)
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Re: Informal poll: what's your favorite obscure tale?
I would say that the Twin Brothers is an interesting tale since it involves so many fairy tale cliches, such as the hero defeating the dragon (though I suppose I favor my version better than the one in Grimms).
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zephrene
Registered User
(7/28/05 9:17 am)
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Re: Informal poll: what's your favorite obscure tale?
Hi Elizabeth. :)
My favorite obscure tale is The Enchanted Pig, which I first read in Cricket Magazine.
In a similar vein, I also really like Caporushes, which I discovered in an elementary school story anthology. I wish I still had that book.
Keri
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dlee10
Registered User
(7/28/05 4:15 pm)
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Re: Informal poll: what's your favorite obscure tale?
It is not exactly obscure but I always loved the "Tinderbox" Something about those big eyed dogs really tickled me when I was little.
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midori
snyder
Registered User
(7/28/05 6:39 pm)
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Teig O'Kane and the Corpse
Oh man I love this story...it's just so cranky. Falls into one of those "clinging creepy thingy" stories. Teig O'Kane shoulda known better..a wild unruly lad out a little too late...meets up with the fey who decide to teach him a lesson in manners. He's to carry a corpse to its final resting ground...of course when he leans down to pick up the thing (feeling a bit green as his whiskey buzz starts to unwind) the thing hoists itself onto his back, clasping its boney thighs around his waist and rides him like a donkey all over the fields at night...
great stuff. (wish it would happen to my regularly inebriated young neighbors...)
*you can find a version of this tale in "Harvest of World Folk Tales" ed. by Milton Rugoff. It's an old book...but maybe in a library.
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beautifulstars
Unregistered User
(7/29/05 8:09 am)
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obscure....
oh my. i love 'rose red and snow white,' 'tattercoat,' and an old african folktale 'the children of the wind.'
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DividedSelf
Registered User
(7/29/05 7:10 pm)
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Re: obscure....
Couldn't really claim to know anything really obscure, but at the moment I'm off-and-on getting through Lang's 12 volumes. (What do people think of his collection, by the way?) Just read "The Magic Mirror" in the Orange book, which has a (to me) unusual twist in that it suddenly jerks you into the real world to quite chilling effect - a bit of a magic mirror itself, in a way.
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Elizabeth Genco
Registered User
(8/1/05 12:22 pm)
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Re: obscure....
Thanks muchly, folks! These are great!
That tale sounds like a hoot, Midori... the wheels, they are a-turnin'...
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