Halfway to Fairyland

 I have always adored this story. I’m not sure why, because it also makes me kind of mad? But it’s fantastic. Once a peasant and his daughte...

 This story is completely unrelated to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, although it does also prominently feature a dwarf. I have no idea w...

 So this whole story type is weird. Or at least, the categorization of it is. The variant I had read that made me want to make a post was “K...

 Today we’re going to talk about another Schonwerth story, this one from the smaller, illustrated collection White As Milk, Red As Blood  in...

 Well, we’re still with Pourrat for one more week at least. Today’s story is The Grain Merchant. A French grain merchant has a son named Jea...

So I mentioned Henri Pourrat briefly in my last Beauty and the Beast post. He's really late for folklore collection—1940s and 50s. He co...

 The Grimm brothers released seven editions of their fairy tale collection over the course of 40 years. What we read today are mostly transl...