What's your favorite fairy tale?

[sunnysideup488]

I'm super bored. My email is archiving and I'm just twiddling my thumbs.

Can we play what's your favorite fairy tale? Because, why not be random? =)

[mellymel]

Hansel & Gretel

[sunnysideup488]

I should probably post mine. Ha.

Hansel and Gretel

Some argue whether Alice in Wonderland counts as a fairytale. It's my favorite if it counts. =)

[liveintheville]

Rumplestilskin.

[dirtyred]

It's a French fairy tale called The White Cat.

[nomad100]

The real Little Mermaid (not the shitty Disney version).

And pretty much anything from the Grimm's Fairy Tales.

[sunnysideup488]

Aug 21, 2014 14:04:14 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

The real Little Mermaid (not the shitty Disney version).

And pretty much anything from the Grimm's Fairy Tales.

I need to read the real one. I haven't.

[nomad100]

Aug 21, 2014 14:24:36 GMT -5 sunnysideup488 said:

Aug 21, 2014 14:04:14 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

The real Little Mermaid (not the shitty Disney version).

And pretty much anything from the Grimm's Fairy Tales.

I need to read the real one. I haven't.

It is so much better than the Disney version (which I hate with the passion of 1000 suns).

[dirtyred]

Aug 21, 2014 14:04:14 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

The real Little Mermaid (not the shitty Disney version).

I was just coming back to say this same thing.  It really touched me the first time I read it.

[elleblue]

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

[elleblue]

Aug 21, 2014 16:34:00 GMT -5 @songforyou said:

Aug 21, 2014 12:26:20 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

Rumplestilskin.

I am a fan.

Also, the Princess and the Pea.  She was pretty fly.

Can someone remind me how Hansel and Gretel ends?

Gretel shoves the witch into the oven and she and Hansel gather up the witch's treasure, returning home to their father (the stepmother has since died).

[elleblue]

Aug 21, 2014 16:38:00 GMT -5 @songforyou said:

Aug 21, 2014 16:35:40 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Gretel shoves the witch into the oven and she and Hansel gather up the witch's treasure, returning home to their father (the stepmother has since died).

That's gangster.  I will add this to my list, also.

Yeah, I actually like that Gretel is the main hero of the story (Hansel is still in the cage when she pushes the witch into the oven).

[WOT?*]

Probably The Goose Girl (probably because I love horses and I always thought Falada was cool.)  Any of the Grimm's and Hans Christian Anderson that haven't been Disney-fied are just blood-thirsty enough to be amusing. The Snow Queen was a child-napper who stuck troll-mirror ice shards in the boy's eyes and the girl was held captive by a witch who put a memory spell on her. In the original Little Mermaid every step she takes feels like she is walking on knives; the prince falls in love with and marries another but the mermaid can keep her legs if she kills him with a magic knife and lets his blood fall on her legs, which she cannot do so she throws herself into the ocean and dies. The Twelve Dancing Princesses dance until their feet bleed, and any prince who can't solve the question as to why is killed.  The Red Shoes/Dancing Slippers girl is condemned to dance without stopping.  Happy times, happy stuff.

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The Dancing Princesses

[loremipsum]

"The Princess on the Glass Hill".

I don't even know why - I was just captivated by it as a kid. I also loved "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" so maybe I just have a thing for Norwegian fairy tales?

Oh, and any of the Firebird stories.

[jillboston]

The Princess Bride. I am a wuss and am afraid of all witch containing fairy tales.

[wildfloweragain]

Beauty and the Beast