1100-word English fairy tale
400-word Danish fairy tale in translation
5500-word Norwegian folktale in translation
3500-word Swedish folktale in translation
3000-word essay to explain how all these narratives fit together
Somewhere to publish the above
Is it too early in the day for sweetmeats?
"There was once upon a time a little princess who was very happy. She had all the best things in the world: a father and a mother and a little white house that lay in the middle of a large green meadow full of a hundred thousand million white flowers. And there in the meadow she also had a whole flock of little curly white lambs."
– Helena Nyblom. "All my lambs and all my bear cubs" (1907).
#SwedishFairyTales #folklore #folktales @folklore #FairyTales
#MastoArt
Yeah, I was accepted to do an artwork for an upcoming, yet untitled queer anthology by @dppunforth inspired by folklore and fairy tales.
That's a dream come true, because I love folklore and fairy tales. 
Here is more about the anthology:
https://duckprintspress.com/untitled-queer-fanworks-inspired-by-anthology/
Want to read a historical fantasy novel about a conflict between two fairy godmothers creating the entire world of fairy tales as we know it?
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“There was once a gyger’s daughter who married an old jutul, and with him she had no children.”
I have now made an unrestricted .ePub edition of Regine Normann’s Legends from Arctic Norway available for purchase.
Information and direct links on my website:
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/legends-from-arctic-norway
#NorwegianLegends #folklore @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales #bookstodon #DarkFolklore
We are honored by this fantastic review by The Horror Review for our magic-themed anthology, OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE, out now! "These new fairy tales deserve a place beside the Brothers Grimm." https://www.horrorreview.com/book-review-of-enchantment-enigma-and-the-infinite/
#fantasy #darkfantasy #fairytales #books #newbooks
Using Positive Reinforcement Instead of Punishment | Parenting & Teaching Tips
Check it out: https://www.childrenstorytales.com/2025/08/using-positive-reinforcement-instead-of.html
Personally, I would go with adventure modules for #TheDarkEye.
The setting is based quite a bit on European #folklore and #fairytales in the first place, from a very German perspective. (Similar to #TheWitcher)
I'm not sure that writing an entire fantasy setting is worth the extra effort.
Guten Morgen allerseits! 
#FotoVorschlag zum heutigen Thema "Traumwelt":
Märchenfiguren im Garten eines Steinmetzes und Bildhauers im oberfränkischen Thurnau.
Storytelling and Spirituality: Reclaiming a Folk Tradition ~ Dr. Natalie Emmons invites readers to consider the role of storytelling and oral tradition to modern Pagan traditions.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/08/storytelling-and-spirituality-reclaiming-a-folk-tradition.html
Fairy tale food
Challenge, transformation, risk: the role of food in fairy tales
Poisoned apples, magic porridge pots, peas you can feel through 20 mattresses, and of course that fantastic gingerbread house - food plays a significant role in literature, and fairy tales are no exception.
by Beth Daley
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/fairy-tale-food?mtm_campaign=EuropeanaNewsletterReg-July2025
Fairy tales at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/131
This article would have been better if the writer had taken the trouble to learn how to spell Andersen.
And as for Andersen's visage? Whatever. I can think of several actors who could quite easily portray him: Liam Neeson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adam Driver(!), Damian Lewis, Owen Wilson, etc... He couldn't have been as ugly as his envious contemporaries would have us believe. Striking, perhaps, but well within the realms of human.
#HansChristianAndersen #Folklore #FairyTales
(ETA: hat-tip to Gutenberg: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114947120101543863)
A girl is in a wood. Give her a brother and one has “Hansel and Gretel,” give her many brothers and sisters and one has “Hop o’ My Thumb,” send the girl to dwarves and one has “Snow White,” to bears and one has “Goldilocks,” to grandmother and one has “Little Red Riding Hood.” Make the girl a boy and one might have Jack, either the one who climbs beanstalks or the one who kills giants; make her a man and one has “The Wonderful Musician”; give her three drops of blood and a servant and one has “The Goose Girl.”
-- Roger Sale. Fairy Tales and After: from Snow White to E. B. White. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP. 1979 (p. 29).
Any claim that Robert Southey wrote "The Story of the Three Bears" is akin to the claim that "The Princess and the Pea" was written by Hans Christian Andersen. Both claims are, of course, true; but both are as wrong as can be.
(Fun fact: only two years separate the publication of these two tales. Andersen was first, in 1835.)
Today is St Olav's wake (Olsok). It is the one day of the year the animals can speak (if they think we can't hear them). But be sure they never hear of how good their advice has been.
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
#NorwegianFolktales #Folklore #Folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales #Bookstodon
Don't do this.
Hanna Winsnes. Norwegian stories: or, Evenings at Oakwood. London: J. T. Hayes, 1868.
(Translation of Aftenerne paa Egelund. Christiania: Chr.A. Wulfsberg, 1852.)
Forgive me, Tooters, for I have blogged.
This one is about the way in which we speak of fairy tales.
https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/eventyr
#norwegianfolktales #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday
