I need a list of fairy tales?
The most comprehensive source for fairy tales can be found at: Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html There are hundreds and hundreds of fairy tales at one convenient site. The site not only lists hundreds of fairy tales, you can click the tale and then read it. They are arranged by type, for example: Legends about the underground folk: fairies, trolls, elves, and the like: The Recovered Bride (Ireland). Taken by the Good People (Ireland). Twenty Years with the Good People (Ireland). The Fairies' Hill (Scotland). The Stolen Lady (Scotland). A Smith Rescues a Captured Woman from a Troll (Denmark). The Sea Nymph (Sweden). Cinderella tales and related stories of persecuted heroines: The Cinder Maid (reconstructed from various European sources by Joseph Jacobs). Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper (France, Charles Perrault). Cinderella (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, version of 1812). Katie Woodencloak (Norway, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe). Fair, Brown, and Trembling (Ireland). Rashin-Coatie (Scotland). Cinderella (Italy). Conkiajgharuna, the Little Rag Girl (Georgia). Pepelyouga (Serbia). The Wonderful Birch (Russia). The Baba Yaga (Russia, Aleksandr Afanasyev). The Wicked Stepmother (Kashmir). The site also includes the complete list of the Grimm Brothers' tales and the tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
Fairy tales with a twist?
You could "mash-up" two fairy tales by mixing characters or switching endings; say Snow White and the Seven Ugly Stepsisters! Or you could tell the story backwards (i.e. the ending being first and the beginning being the ending). I think it would funny to end a story with "once upon a time!" Role reversal might be kind of interesting (i.e. make the male role[s] female and the female role[s] male). For example, the lead of Cinderella could be changed to a poor, male servant and the prince role changed into a princess.
A Manga with a twisted fairy tale stories?
I remembered what Manga I read before these are the details:- (it has erotic genre) 1. Snow white the was the most beautiful in the whole land her step mother was very jealous, she's so beautiful that her own father slept with her really shown in the manga 2. Cinderella having her step sisters to try out the glass shoe, the first cut out her toe because it didn't fit the other sister cut out her heel 3. I can't remember this fairy tale.. But the princess was traveling with her royal maid she sent her to do everything while they were just the two together now the princess has a magical horse, in the end the maid died inside a barrel with swords through the barrel when it rolled she was massacred in it.. Those are the stories which I remembered while reading this manga so if any of you recalled the title of the please so answer
Examples of twisted fairy tales?
Much of what Disney is based off of is old fairytales that have been rewritten to please parents and shelter children. For example, in Cinderella, the stepsisters slice off their feet piece by piece in an attempt to fit into the shoe. The Little Mermaid doesn't get to kiss the prince and her father doesn't rescue her in one epic battle scene as per the film: she turns into sea foam and dies. Mulan, though that's based off of an ancient Chinese work and is possibly based off of a true story (no one knows for sure) didn't rescue the emperor with her talking dragon, she was killed for being a woman in the army. Actually, a really new, original, twisted fairy tale (don't you just love gothic things. :D) is Pan's Labyrinth. It has all of the elements of a fairy tale but is just not an ancient one. So if you're wanting to make one, I would suggest picking out an odd location- anywhere that never gets written about- and keep in mind that fairy tales have a key element: things are the way they are with no explanation. Notice, a fairy tale never explains why things work. For example, in the Little Mermaid, there's no real reason why Ariel needs to kiss the prince before the sunset: that's just the way that it is. I'd recommend going for something abstract though- go for a Russian story. Those are always really dark and really cool. Plus you'll get brownie points for thinking of something that people don't normally pick in a school assignment. Good luck. :D
Fairy Tales With A Twist (Short Story Ideas)?
Hello, this is my first question to ask, But i have to write a short story for a contest, and I want it to be something about a fairy tale with a twist, kind of how Beastly was. Like a fairy tale that doesn't really have a lot of adaptions to it (like Cinderella does). And something that would be kind of easy to change......... I already have one idea, although it's not a fairy tale thing at all. Its about a girl who can see into the future and no one believes her and she gets bullied over it and eventually comments suicide. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.S. Also, which one do you think is better???
Are fairy tales out of date?
I don't think fairy tales get 'out of date' as they are constantly being retold and adapted to suit our changing society and attitudes and interests. If you look at some of the Disney cartoon versions of fairy tales that came out in the mid-to-late 20th Century, they are very different from the versions written in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries (in short, they are often sanitised and given happier endings – though I have a post that looks at some of the changes in more detail: How the Last 300 Years Have Changed Fairy Tales), and those in turn are very different to many of the film adaptations we are seeing in cinemas nowadays.In fact, fairy tales seem to be very popular in Hollywood at the moment, with productions like Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman, Once Upon a Time, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Jack the Giant Slayer and Maleficent all hitting screens in the last four years.I think fairy tales, with their very human problems and simple story lines and appealing good-vs-evil narratives, along with their endless ability to be adapted and blended, are almost future-proofed.
Does anybody know twisted fairy tale endings?
Little Mermaid= caught in net turned into tuna Hansel and Gretel=Pushed in oven Snow White= sleeps with seven dwarves Jasmine=killed by tiger Anybody know of any good books with twisted endings thanks. If you give a really good website with link to the stories then first person will get atomatic best answer thanks.
I'm currently writing a collection of twisted fairy tales. What are some twists to traditional fairy tales that you would like to read?
a2a-Twists to fairy tales have been going on for so long that the idea, which used to be great, feels like a cliche. But it still works when you do it unexpectedly. I think instead of telling people it’s a rehash of such and such, you use the structure and they find out it’s a twist on it, as they read it. This makes it feel like a creative original story. In fact, there are only a handful of original plots, stemming from MYTH.Untapped storylines include Treasure Island and Alice in Wonderland. Instead of Disney-claimed fairytales, look outside the box at other classics. A remake of Oliver Twist in modern New York or Anne of Green Gables in Austin, Texas. These would feel good to read, if they were well done.Sleepy Hollow, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations…these are stories that could be redone and in an intriguing and interesting way if you take them out of their context and bring them into modern day.But if you are wanting exactly “fairy tales” I’d say the shoemaker’s elves (in modern LA) or Jack in the Beanstalk (in Chicago) or Ali Baba/Aladdin in Florida.I came across this collection of other folktales that might be helpful in thinking outside the box:A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1