Halfway to Fairyland

  *Update: After writing this and just before posting it, I found the story! It’s “The Impossible Enchantment” by Comte de Caylus, recorded ...

 So there’s a particular detail of “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” that’s always stood out to me, but I’ve never seen anyone address it ...

Let’s talk today about fairy tales and their softening over time.   Now, I mean this, not in the sense that in the Grimm brothers and Perr...

So the other day I was flipping through my Kay Nielsen-illustrated “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” collection with my mom, because sh...

So this story opens with a really pretty, really ugly princess being born, much like Perrault’s. Now I said in the last Riquet post that Per...

  So first off, a quick overview of French fairy tales. There were a whole bunch of really cool ladies writing really cool stories. The Salo...

  So today we're going to talk about "The Frog Princess." This is a completely different story from " The Frog Prince ...