It is a fascinating concept and certainly one to set the wheels of your imagination in a spin! These are stories that appear to follow the traditional pattern until fairly early into the story, when the reader discovers that all is not what it seems! 'Shreck' is an obvious example, where the Ogre is seen to be the hero, the princess is anything but beautiful and the handsome prince is the 'bad guy'! Jenna Mathis of Morrow County Community Center has recently written to me, drawing my attention to the subject of 'Fractured Fairy Tales'. Telling, I make a slight alteration and introduce a 'Lucky Bean' in order to accommodate some visual and interactive business at the end. It is from the Brothers Grimm collection. One of the stories that I regularly tell to children is, If like me, you prefer collecting your stories in books, you will find most anthologies of folk and fairytales available from. We will put up some more sites as we discover them. Joseph Jacobs - Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs - English Fairy Tales Indian Folk Tales American Folk Tales Native American Legends and Folk Tales Arabian Nights - Lang translation Chinese Folk Tales Charles Perrault Fairy Stories Middle East Tales of The Mullah Nasruddin Wishfaery Andrew Lang - The Violet Fairy Book There is enough in the above to keep you going for a month or six!
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Audiences flocked to see them and loved them! because Fifty years later, Disney produced "Aladdin" and "The Walt Disney was no fool, he knew that "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" 'Old favourites', "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Little Pigs" You were told when young and have never forgotten. Our advice is to begin with the tales that you grew up with! The stories that So with this great wealth of material, you are able to consider: We have the original fairy stories written by Denmark'sĪsbjornsen and Moe and others, as well as the romantic folktales from the Middle and Far East. The tales that they themselves heard from others. That of the storytellers of the past who were only able to pass on Our potential repertoire of stories is far greater than Of folk tales passed down from different cultures and translated from their original They are all now available in books!īecause of this huge availability, we all have access to a vast storehouse Tales that he has heard others tell, also knows many of the folktales The modern day storyteller of course, in addition to re-telling the Response to the manner in which his audience is reacting. The oral storyteller shapes his tale according to the way he feels and in In that respect, the oral storyteller of today performs in exactly the same way It isĮssentially the difference between listening to a 'Teller of Tales'Īnd hearing someone reading a story from a book. Storyteller placing his emphasis in the areas he felt would create theīest response or deliver the important message. Through which we were able to know good from evil kindness fromĬruelty and the difference between ambition and despair.īecause most of these folktales and fairy stories were created before many peopleĬould read or write, they had to be passed on by word of mouth,Ĭonsequently they were never the same twice in the telling. These were our first experiences of life's changing patterns and Wicked witches and goblins that inflict harm. Young, passed down through the generations.įolktales were stories of hopes and dreams, of encounters with giants Tales that our parents and their parents heard when they were The stories that we heard as small children, were usually folktales and fairy stories.
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