History of Grimms' Fairy Tales.

[Danustouch]

This was really cool!!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html

[Lavender]

Yup! I grew up reading the Grimms Fairy tales. They were, by far, much more interesting! :D

[Yvonne Belisle]

These are the versions I grew up with and am raising my children with! I love the old tales I collect fairy tales I have always loved them and try to pass that love to my children.

[loopy]

An awesome book on the subject is "The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales." Very interesting.

[Danustouch]

Yeah...my favorite one was always the troll beneath the bridge one :)

Kinda on the subject, but kinda off....when I was a baby, my grandmother refused to sing "Rockabye Baby" because she thought it would give me nightmares. She said that song was evil. LOL.

[Yvonne Belisle]

My family tells the story of taking me to the theater to see Disney's Cinderella and me getting angry and anouncing that they had it all wrong.

[Danustouch]

LOL Yvonne..I can SOOOOOOO see you doing that! LOL

[BrightStar]

Hi all!
Those old ones are great.I read a version in undergrad that had no happy endings whatsoever,absolutely no one lived happily ever after.
The word "grim" is said to have come into our vocabulary as a result of these guys.I think they became bedtime stories because they scared the little darlings so badly that they would not leave their beds in the night.The parents could then get some rest without worrying about them!
Peace and Love
BrightStar

[Swanspirit]

and their meanings.............which is what Clarissa Pinkola Estes goes into so beautifully in Women who Run with The Wolves..... the myths legends folk and fairy tales that are the tapestry of oral tradtions , and the psycholigical functions they serve.......
The tales vary from locale to locale ...... and we owe a debt to the "gatherers" like Grim and Aesop ......many of the origins of Gods and Goddesses and their workings can be found in those old stories........
There is a WONDERFUL BOOK out called the Uses Of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim ....( one of my favorite authors )where in he talks about the wondrous effects these stories have upon the human psyche .......
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/mjoseph/bettelheim.html
This is very interesting........ and even has connections to the thread about dealing with children and their sexuality over in parenting.....
Love and Light
Swannie

[Xander67]

two awesome fairy tales (modern)

"Alice through the looking glass"
and "road to eldorado"

very enlightening if you watch them with your magic eyes

[Danustouch]

xander...i feel the same way about "Charlottes Web". I loved the movie as a child, though it always made me cry. But as I watched it as an adult, and a Pagan, it took on entirely new meaning to me. The story line, and some of the songs sung, are VERY pagan :)

[Cinnamon Girl]

One of my favorite modern day fairy tales is the Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch. :)

But I love the old, undisneyfied fairy tales as well.

[Azure]

I loved Grimm. I also read all of Andrew Lange's compliations - the Red Fairy book, the Blue Fairy Book and so on - there are 15 or so of them.

[Djiril]

Originally posted by loopy
An awesome book on the subject is "The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales." Very interesting. I just read that book. What I found interesting was how they made the stories more violent for the children.