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lepetitdragonvert · 7 months

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The Six Swans

Artist : Patrick James Lynch

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valerieandherweekofwonderz · 1 year

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Dana Morávková in Die Geschichte von der Gänseprinzessin und ihrem treuen Pferd Falada / The Goose Girl (1989) dir. by Konrad Petzold.

#Die Geschichte von der Gänseprinzessin und ihrem treuen Pferd Falada #The Goose Girl #Princezna husopaska #Konrad Petzold #German #Czechoslovak #Czech #German Cinema #German Fairy Tale #Fairy Tale #My Gifs #GD

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brightfametexan · 28 days

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#german fairy tale #Instagram

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abs0luteb4stard · 5 months

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W A T C H I N G

#SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)#Adriana Caselotti #Lucille La Verne #Harry Stockwell #Roy Atwell #Walt Disney #German fairy tale #Brothers Grimm #cel animated #WATCHING

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tarisbackyard · 1 month

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Here's how to write an authentic Grimm style fairytale, brought to you by a Certified German TM:

Forget everything Disney movies taught you, besides maybe Snowwhite, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. But even those are on thin fucking ice. Also ignore modern fantasy literature conventions, especially Dungeons & Dragons type stuff.

Ideally only the protagonist or none of the characters ought to have names. And the names should either be really fucking ordinary, or some kind of epithet. Like, either that's a Franz or a Bramblesock, cause when Bramblesock was a child he lost a sock in a shrub of brambles. Everyone else is either the king, the grandma, or the carpenter.

The common types of protagonist: Regular working class guy who cons his way into a life of riches, poor downtrodden peasant who through hardworking kindness is granted salvation (usually via gaining riches), too pure too good for this world princess who can't catch a fucking break, too nasty too bratty for this world princess who gets taught a lesson in humility.

The characters are generally very one note and the only kind of character growth they can experience boils down to "maybe I shouldn't have been a dick, huh?"

The location is either as vague as possible or super fucking specific for no reason; either the story takes place literally nowhere or in the town of Buxtehude.

Animals and inanimate objects that can talk for no apparent reason and no one bats an eye at are always a great addition.

If you want to add any fantasy races, use giants (large, dumb brutes), dwarves (angry little guys who live in the wilderness and get really angry if you touch their beards), or gnomes (mischievous house spirits who might be helpful but watch out!), but never more than one of these. Fairies are rare and usually the "tall beautiful wise woman" type, not the small annoying pixie type. Dragons are very pointedly no-where to be found, those distinctly belong in sagas, which are their own distinct type of literature.

Weird moral of the story that either boils down to "be smarter than all the other fuckers", "good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people", or "don't upset the supernatural".

Random tidbits of gore that no one bats an eye at.

Witches eat children, if a mother gets more than single line dedicated to her she's evil, fathers are spineless and/or assholes who either die or come around in the end.

Ugly means evil, pretty means good. Except when it doesn't.

Optional: Repeated rhyming phrases and numbers. Seventh son of a seventh son kinda stuff. The numbers 3, 7, 12, and 13 in particular.

Ideally a 19th century scholar should be able to read some clumsy Germanic pagan wishful thinking into the story, no matter how big and obvious the Christian overtones are.

Optional: Start the story with "Once upon a time" and end it with "And if they didn't die, then they are still alive today."

#writing #fairy tales #fairytales #grimm's fairy tales #gebrüder grimm #brothers grimm #german stuff #writing advice

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the-evil-clergyman · 6 months

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Illustration from Jugend Magazine by Fritz Erler (1909)

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faith-gigliorosa · 2 years

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Rumpelstiltskin is a german fairy tale which was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812. The story is about an imp - a european mythological being similar to a fairy or demon - who spins straw into gold in exchange for a girl's firstborn. He consents to give up his claim to the child if she can guess his name within three days. "Tonight tonight, my plans I make, tomorrow tomorrow, the baby I take. The queen will never win the game, for Rumpelstiltskin is my name!"

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hometoursandotherstuff · 8 months

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#german fairy tales #other stuff

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thefugitivesaint · 2 months

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Margaret Evans Price (1888-1973), 'The Pied Piper', ''The Real Story Book'', 1927 Source

#Margaret Evans Price #american artists #the pied piper #children's books #Pied Piper of Hamelin #german fairy tales #vintage illustration #vintage art

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illustratus · 4 months

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Undine by Arthur Rackham

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thetiredprometheus · 6 months

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Disney leaving out the backstory for Rapunzels name is so funny to me, because in the fairytale it makes sense but in the movie she's just named after a salad.

For no reason other than mother gothel/ the king & queen are horrible at naming babies

#fairy tales #brothers grimm #Gebrüder Grimm #Die Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm #rapunzel #tangled #german fairytales #Funny

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valerieandherweekofwonderz · 1 year

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