Fairy Tales Explored

In “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear,” writer Maria...

In August, 1896, a literary fairy tale called “The Princess Baladina—Her Adventure” by Charles Douglass appeared In The Home Monthly...

As Marilyn Berg Callander writes in Willa Cather and the Fairy Tale, “Cather’s imaginings were shaped by myth: her childhood reading was...

In 2016, folklorists and fairy tale scholars Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman created an online community for “magic-seekers and...

Sister-brother team, author Kate Bernheimer and architect Andrew Bernheimer began collaborating in 2011 on a series for Places Journal...

To lengthen our list of Latin American fairy tales, I (Dana) considered including the Tradiciones peruanas (Peruvian Traditions) of...

L. Frank Baum’s literary imagination is firmly woven into the American fabric. He will be forever remembered for his story The Wonderful...

In October of 2019, we went to Denmark to see where Hans Christian Andersen lived. We visited Odense, where he grew up, and Copenhagen,...

On October 11, 2019, we toured the wonderful GRIMMWELT (Grimm World) Museum in Kassel, Germany. Kassel is considered the capital of the...

In October, 2019, we drove the German Fairy Tale Route and captured some of the highlights and our impressions along the way.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are famous for putting into writing tales from the oral tradition, which were often told to them by women. Marie...

Shortly before he received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, Portuguese author José Saramago published a fairy tale called The Tale of...

In the story “How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country” by American poet and writer Carl Sandburg, the main character Gimme the...

Long-lasting and wide-ranging is the fame of Scheherazade, the legendary Arabian storyteller. Scheherazade’s 1001 cliffhangers saved her...

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) loved to spin fairy tales. The prolific, 19th-century writer is perhaps best known for writing the timeless...

In Washington Irving’s well-known tale “Rip Van Winkle,” the lazy, good-natured Van Winkle follows a strange gentleman into the woods, is...

Those searching the Internet for Latin American fairy tales in English will need more than the sites recommended in our last post:...

For readers who want to find fairy tales beyond those made famous by the Grimm Brothers, Disney, and other Western collectors and...

"The Happy Prince"

In his preface to English Fairy Tales, folklorist and scholar Joseph Jacobs writes, “Who says that English folk have no fairy tales of...