Inside the Forest under the moonlight, Caspar David Friedrich
Tag: fairytale
The story of a Brahmadaita
From the book “Folk-Tales of Bengal” by the Rev. Lal Behari Day,
with illustrations by Warwick Goble (1912).
Rapunzel or The Magic of Tears (1988)
“Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.”
“Nay!” answered the child; “but these are the wounds of Love.”
“Who art thou?” said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and he knelt before the little child.
And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, “You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.”
And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms.
(The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Charles Robinson and Walter Crane)
A Lithuanian book “Amber heart” (“Gintarinė širdis”) by Neringa Dangvydė contains magical stories for children about people with disabilities, same-sex couples, Roma and other socially vulnerable groups. The Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences that published the collection removed it from bookstores and proclaimed it to be “harmful, primitive and purposeful propaganda of homosexuality”. On top of that, the Lithuanian Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics concluded that two fairy tales that promote tolerance for same-sex couples are harmful to minors and should be marked by the index “N-14” (a Lithuanian rating indicating certain media is only for children aged 14 years and up)
read an English version of one of the fairytales here
Kay Nielsen illustration for “East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North”. Tales: “East of the Sun and West of the Moon”, “The Lassie and Her Godmother”, “Three Princesses of Whiteland”.
With goodly greenish locks, all loose ‘untied’ – Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Anton Pieck, Grimm’s fairy tales (De sprookjes van Grimm), 1942
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