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"Editor's note: Fairy tales don't often features actual fairies, so it's intriguing to have a poem that brings them to us (or us to them). Hercynius has given us a vivid peek into nature as well, with this work.
"Where did you get to, time?
"When we pass, do you stay behind?
"Of you and me something yet mingling,
"Out in the dusking sylvan stillness lingering. . . ."
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Ipswich Star Suffolk: Eerie tales and folklore to the fore in new book Ipswich Star Now Kirsty Hartsiotis, who has a lifelong love of folklore and history, has penned an enchanting collection of tales of ancient ghosts, strange beasts and nefarious...
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While Kirsty Hartsiotis has collected local folklore in this work, she has also reworked the stories. While the original "local legends and fragments of tales" she gathered might have been of greater interest to scholars, her retellings of old stories, and the stories she wrote based on the stories she gathered, will still be enjoyed by those of us who love folklore and spooky stories. As such, she is part of the folklore tradition whereby stories move between oral and written retellings, and their newer media cousins. Delete the scoop?
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Anglo-Norman writers seem to assign women to one of two extremes within the chronicles: on one side there are women who are presented as visions of perfection.
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Do stepmothers get a bad rap in fairy tales, or are they just evil? Delete the scoop?
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Collection of fairytales gathered by historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth had been locked away in an archive in Regensburg for over 150 years
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What a fabulous discovery! I look forward to the opportunity to read more of these, as they become available. Delete the scoop?
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That archaeologists are eager to find the resting places of long lost kings isn't news. That England is suddenly the center of that search seems to be, given the recent discovery of Richard III's body. Oddsmakers, however, are giving long odds on the search for Arthur. Delete the scoop?
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In the past Walter Map's tale of Gado, included in his De Nugis Curialium, written towards the end of the twelfth century, has been merely regarded as a Medieval Latin version of a pre-conquest lay concerning the exploits of the Germanic hero Wade. Delete the scoop?
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Norwegian Fairy Tales: White-Bear-King Valemon. By ThorNews on March 20, 2013 • ( 0 ). By Asbjørnsen & Moe [See movie trailer at the bottom of the article]. Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon Theodor Kittelsen1912 THERE was once, as well could ...
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Here's a lovely fairy tale that will be new for most readers. Delete the scoop?
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Adrian Bott: There is no definitive historical evidence that a goddess named Eostre and her hare companion was part of pagan folklore Delete the scoop?
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delightful and enchanting new publication has recently debuted in the world of fairy tales and folklore. It's called Unsettling Wonder and if its first issue is anything to go by, fans and writers inspired by fairy tales and folklore ...
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A new market for writers working with fairy tales and wonder. Delete the scoop?
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A centuries-old folktale is helping researchers understand the limits to cultural exchange.
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This makes sense to me, in a common sense way: people on the move can swap DNA without staying around long enough to raise the children they leave behind. Delete the scoop?
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In this paper I will first outline the history of teratology (the study of monsters) from antiquity to the late Middle Ages in order to lay the foundation and to help the reader grasp the larger cultural-historical context. Delete the scoop?
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'When a human being dies, both flesh and bones die.'
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Medievalists.net is such a wonderful resource, providing links to information about all aspects of medieval life, including their folklore and beliefs. This particular article is a splendid find. Delete the scoop?
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A short story inspired by Amadis of Gaul.
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A blending of old and new, as the fiction of the Middle Ages continues to inspire authors today. Delete the scoop?
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The story, "Tallow Candle," is believed to be one of his early works.
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"A fairy tale about a lonely candle that wants to be lighted had been languishing in a box in Denmark’s National Archives for many years." The story of this fairy tale is a fairy tale itself! The story of the lonely fairy tale hidden away, whose greatest desire was to be read. Now, it will be! Delete the scoop?
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If you were cut by a sword in 17th century New England, either a family member or a village healer would take care of the wound. They'd clean it with water, bandage it, and possibly smear it with a salve containing herbs and animal fat.
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Here's an interesting convergence of a folk tradition involving sympathetic magic that has managed to survive into recent decades. I'd love to discover whether the 17th century New England weapon salve was, itself, a relic of earlier salves used in medieval Europe or beyond.
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Ryan Jude Novelline "Novum in Modum" | Golden Book Gown
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Green fashion designer Ryan Novelline created this fairy tale gown from discarded Golden Books. The books' golden spines were used for the bodice, while pages from the books were sewn together with gold thread to create the skirt. Delete the scoop?
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Fairy tales' overt themes are threaded throughout hit TV series like Game of Thrones and True Blood, Grimm and Once Upon a Time. These stories survive by adapting across cultures and history -- helping us work through things like fear and hope. Delete the scoop?
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Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower, friends and colleagues, both chose to retell the same story at roughly the same time in their story collections, The Canterbury Tales and the Confessio Amantis.
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A great addition to my studies of literary folktales and fairy tales! Delete the scoop?
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The fascination for witches has gripped many Western artists from the sixteenth century to the present. Now next Summer a major new exhibition explore Delete the scoop?
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Justice lawyer speaks to folklore students The Daily Tar Heel Robert Cantwell, an American studies professor, brought Goldston to UNC to speak in conjunction with the folklore program because of the connection between oral traditions of...
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"Robert Cantwell, an American studies professor, brought Goldston to UNC to speak in conjunction with the folklore program because of the connection between oral traditions of marginalized communities and human rights issues." Delete the scoop?
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In researching medieval queens, I came across the story of a queen having all the elements of a fairy tale. Her name is Aelfthryth, the wife of King Edgar the Peaceable
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Go far enough back and history begins to read like fairy tales . . . Delete the scoop?
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Did you know that Tuesday, February 26th, is a holiday? It is; it's Tell a Fairy Tale Day. I'm thinking of coming up with an original tale and posting it. There are only a couple of days left, so I won't do anything long or elaborate.
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Fun! Do you have a fairy tale you'd like to share? Delete the scoop?
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For those who, like me, have a fascination for British folklore, the new article from Kithra will be of interest. It starts as follows… “Hares have had a mystical reputation around the world, and here in Cornwall there are myths ...
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Originally published at Kithra's Krystal Kave <<http://kithraskrystalkave.co.uk/whitehares.html>> by a native of Cornwall, this article reviews the hare folklore of Cornwall:
"Hares have had a mystical reputation around the world, and here in Cornwall there are myths surrounding the white hare.
"The most famous belief about white hares in Cornwall is that they are the spirits of girls who had been deserted by their lovers; as a result of which the girls died broken-hearted due to grief. Thus, with their spirit being unable to rest, they chose the form of a white hare in which to return and haunt their deserters. In this guise they are invisible to all except the one who jilted them, and they will haunt him until he finally dies." Delete the scoop?
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Thirty-five authors write about the fairytales that hold special meaning for them. Delete the scoop?
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Hobbit's critics forget how fairytales feed our humanity Delete the scoop?
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Following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour — by putting a frog in the bucket of milk — scientists have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances in the skin of the Russian Brown frog. 
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December 16, 2012 5:06 PM
It was hard to decide whether to put this into folklore or science. :-)
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