girlwithouthands:

dearorpheus:

My god, I am so glad you said “some”. I’m going to use “some” as the operative word here. These are a variety of things I’ve been working over lately. 

The Tinder Box. (Denmark, Hans Christian Anderson)
How Children Played Butcher with Each Other. (Germany, Grimm’s)
The Poor Boy in the Grave. (^)
The Fisherman and His Wife. (^)
The Blood Brothers. (^)
The Twelve Brothers. (^)
The Hand and the Knife. (^) 
The Juniper Tree. (^)
Bluebeard (France) / Fitcher’s Bird. (^)
The Lindworm. (Norway)
The Golden Root. (Italy)
The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon Child. (Japan)
The Boy and the Wolves, or, The Broken Promise. (England)
The Maiden with the Rose on Her Head. (Portugal)
The False Prince and the True. (Portugal)
The Eye Juggler. (Native America)
The Lute Player. (Russia)
The Death of Koschei the Deathless. (Russia)
The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld. (Western Asia, I think?)
The Arabian Nights. (Middle East)

Shorts:
Snow, Glass, Apples, Neil Gaiman
Among The Thorns, Veronica Schanoes (based on The Jew in the Brambles, which I do not like)
Ekaterina and the Firebird, Abra Staffin-Wiebe

Collections:
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Angela Carter
Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales
Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, Tanith Lee
The Language of Thorns, Leigh Bardugo
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, W. B. Yeats
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (haven’t read it but was recommended it by @girlwithouthands and I trust her)

–Interval: I would love to talk about creatures of folklore as well but that would be starting something that I’ll absolutely never come close to finishing so let me just impart to you awareness of the Gashadokuro (x), although… you should probably check out the Yōkai in general–

Books:
The Juniper Tree, Barbara Comyns
Tam Lin, Pamela Dean
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
Uprooted, Naomi Novik
Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier
Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

Poetry:
Transformations, Anne Sexton
Introduction to the Body in Fairytales, Jeannine Hall Gailey
Mrs Beast, Carol Ann Duffy
Fairy-tale Logic, A. E. Stallings

Non-Fiction:
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World, Maria Tatar
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Articles:
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
“Once Upon a Time” and Other Formulaic Folktale Flourishes
It Was or It Was Not: Femininity in Arabic Folktales
Why Are Old Women Often The Face Of Evil In Fairy Tales And Folklore?
Beauty and Bestiality

Films:
Tale of Tales (2015), dir. Matteo Garrone
The Brothers Grimm (2005), dir. Terry Gilliam
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), dir. Guillermo del Toro
Red Riding Hood (2011), dir. Catherine Hardwick (okay, listen, look at me, listen. I know. I know it’s bad. but I find the ending very gratifying and the atmosphere during the film is tasty)
La Belle et La Bête (2014), dir. Christophe Gans
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), dir. Rupert Sanders (Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen and the immense beauty of the forest scenes and Breath of Life are too compelling to ignore but you should probably black out the rest)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), dir. Tommy Wirkola

Miscellaneous:
these illustrations based on Aesop’s Fables
The Wolf by Fever Ray (song)
this video
this professor examining the specifics of a university course, Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales

what a good list !!!