With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

In a series of fairy tales and fantasies, Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story, with beginning, middle and end, complications, resolutions, climaxes, and conclusions.

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Potter ’ s artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy.

She was a student of the classic fairy tales of Western Europe.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

The tales sometimes recounted that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or a mother who died in childbirth.

Writers of Fantasy fiction draw heavily from the fanciful beasts described in mythology, fairy tales, and bestiaries.

These are not fairy tales my dear Cowper but actual gruesome reality in the heart of this poor, benighted savage land.

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

His first literary efforts, at the age of 11, took the form of fairy tales and imitations of the Arabian Nights.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

as some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Charles Dickens ' " Christmas Books ", and Lewis Carroll's Alice books.

This use of unu plays the role of " there was " in the introduction of fairy tales ( There was an old woman who ...) and in introducing new participants ( A man came up to me and said ...).

Folklore ( or lore ) consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Propp discovered a uniform structure in Russian fairy tales.

Other uses of the term gnome remain obscure until the early 19th century, when it is taken up by authors of Romanticist collections of fairy tales and becomes mostly synonymous with the older word goblin.

As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome by the 20th century became largely synonymous with other terms for the " little people ", such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the " domestic spirit " type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.

Campbell would share comic dialog with Clark ( Campbell's legendary " That's Good, That's Bad " routine immediately comes to mind ) or tell one of his " backwards fairy tales " such as " Rindercella ".

Category: Collectors of fairy tales

Category: Collectors of fairy tales

His work with fairy tales and his philological work dealt with German origins.

One is that a single point of origin generated any given tale, which then spread over the centuries ; the other is that such fairy tales stem from common human experience and therefore can appear separately in many different origins.

Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature.

Sometimes this is the result of shape shifting on part of the fairy, as in the case of the selkie ( seal people ); others, like the kelpie and various black dogs, appear to stay more constant in form.

Dickens ' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied but are principally the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.

Peter O ' Connell's 1819 Irish Dictionary defines the Badb as a " bean-sidhe, a female fairy, phantom, or spectre, supposed to be attached to certain families, and to appear sometimes in the form of squall-crows, or royston-crows " and badb-catha as " Fionog, a royston-crow, a squall crow ".

Two Will-o-the-wisps appear in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily ( 1795 ).

Ogres appear in many classic works of literature, and are most often described in fairy tales and folklore as feeding on human beings.

In fairy tales, such transformations are usually temporary, but they commonly appear as the resolution of myths ( as in many of the Metamorphoses ) or produce origin myths.

* Hermits can appear in fairy tales in the character of the donor, as in Făt-Frumos with the Golden Hair.

In any event, this novel marks a clear maturation of Ozma's character, now said to appear significantly older than Dorothy ( in Ozma of Oz they appeared the same age ) and a fairy working her own innate magic.

Like the stocks of European fairy folklore, the Aswang's plant duplicates soon appear to sicken and die.

:" On the surface teaching stories often appear to be little more than fairy or folk tales.

On the South Downs in southern England, Calocybe gambosa has formed huge fairy rings that also appear to be several hundred years old.

A Devon legend says that a black hen and chickens sometimes appear at dusk in a large fairy ring on the edge of Dartmoor.

Southern Māori oral tradition tells of five successively arriving peoples and while the earliest, Kahui Tipua, appear to be fairy folk modern anthropological opinion is that nevertheless they represent historical people who have become encrusted with legend.

He is the most human-looking fairy to appear in the strip, without insect wings or goat-legs, and could pass for a miniature human.

The plot contains elements which also appear in The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and in Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and has been described as a " sad, modern fairy tale ", in a similar vein to his previous play, Princessa Pampeliška.

" This in turn led to an offer to appear in Casey, a gay pornographic film in which Culver played the title role, a gay man who is visited by his fairy godmother Wanda ( Culver playing a dual role in drag ), and is granted a series of wishes which make him sexually irresistible to other men.

Multiple fairy godmothers appear in Sleeping Beauty, in both Charles Perrault's and the Grimm Brothers's variants, including a witch.

When she arrives at home, she peeks into the bottom of the mug and discovers an engraved note which says, " If you read this message aloud while pouring hot cocoa into the mug, a love fairy (" muglox ") will appear and grant your every wish.

When she arrives at home, she peeks into the bottom of the mug and discovers an engraved note which says, " If you read this message aloud while pouring hot cocoa into the mug, a love fairy (" muglox ") will appear and grant your every wish.

Early persecuted heroines were often driven from their husbands ' homes by the persecutations of their mothers-in-law, whose motives are seldom delineated, and whose accusations are of the heroines ' having borne monstrous children, or committed infanticide, or practicing witchcraft — all of which appear in such fairy tales as The Girl Without Hands and many others ; but, as time progresses, a new persecutor appeared: a courtier who was rejected by the woman or whose ambition requires her removal, and who accuses her of adultery or high treason, motifs not duplicated in fairy tales, and while he never eliminates the mother-in-law, many romances such as Valentine and Orson have later variants that change from the mother-in-law to the courtier, whereas a more recent version never goes back.

" He notes that several " standard Homerisms " appear for the first time in the episode, such as Homer's conversations with his brain and his high-pitched " fairy voice ".