New Fairy Tale: King Goldenlocks!

[Lokabrenna]

Last month I posted a thread about how five hundred new fairy tales were discovered in Germany. This is a tale from that collection, in English, and it's awesome:



http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...fairytale.html

Featuring: a wicked father (for once!), a wild man, apples, a snake woman, and a whole lot of people with golden hair, among other things (It all makes sense in context.)

[Sharysa]

Last month I posted a thread about how five hundred new fairy tales were discovered in Germany.

five hundred new fairy tales

five hundred new fairy tales

FIVE HUNDRED NEW FAIRY TALES

And just when I thought I had enough of those things lying around.

[Valentine]

Last month I posted a thread about how five hundred new fairy tales were discovered in Germany. This is a tale from that collection, in English, and it's awesome:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...fairytale.html

Featuring: a wicked father (for once!), a wild man, apples, a snake woman, and a whole lot of people with golden hair, among other things (It all makes sense in context.)

Interesting. It seems like a close cousin/variation of the Grimm's "Iron Hans," the one Robert Bly wrote his book on masculinity riffing off of. The little differences are interesting to pick apart, for a nerd like me.

[earth_dragon]

Last month I posted a thread about how five hundred new fairy tales were discovered in Germany. This is a tale from that collection, in English, and it's awesome:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...fairytale.html

Featuring: a wicked father (for once!), a wild man, apples, a snake woman, and a whole lot of people with golden hair, among other things (It all makes sense in context.)

Thank you for this!!! It was quite an interesting read!

[Annie Roonie]

Last month I posted a thread about how five hundred new fairy tales were discovered in Germany. This is a tale from that collection, in English, and it's awesome:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...fairytale.html

Featuring: a wicked father (for once!), a wild man, apples, a snake woman, and a whole lot of people with golden hair, among other things (It all makes sense in context.)

Thank you for posting this!

Of course, I can picture a child asking how the messengers knew everything.

[tihana]

Last month I posted a thread about how five hundred new fairy tales were discovered in Germany. This is a tale from that collection, in English, and it's awesome:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...fairytale.html

500? 500? As in a five with two zeros next to it? I.... it.... huh?

But the question now is how long will it be until some of these are made into movies.

[catja6]

Last month I posted a thread about how five hundred new fairy tales were discovered in Germany. This is a tale from that collection, in English, and it's awesome:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...fairytale.html

Featuring: a wicked father (for once!), a wild man, apples, a snake woman, and a whole lot of people with golden hair, among other things (It all makes sense in context.)

Awesome story! It's got a number of links to existing tale types and motifs -- Valentine mentioned "Iron Hans," but there's also "The Golden Bird/Firebird and Gray Wolf" quest-plus-supernatural-helpers tale type (ATU 550), and several others. The most unusual element is that the king banishes his son, and he stays banished; usually, evil kings persecute daughters (when sons get banished, it's usually the idiot youngest son of a farmer, not a king). Then the father-in-law takes over the role of the supportive father in the youngest son's quest, with the brothers-in-law standing in for the usual perfidious brothers.

[savvy]

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Thanks for posting this, I go to TC for all my rediscovered fairytale needs