I've gone through many journals and tend to be very picky about the ones I buy, but thanks to an ad in Faerie Magazine I have just possi...

Kay Nielsen, 1886-1957, was a Danish illustrator of fairy tales. I have to admit, before I started blogging I didn't think too much ab...

Bruno Bettelheim is a very interesting figure whose work involves two of my passions-fairy tales and people with disabilities-specifically,...

A Rusalka is a Slavonic female water nymph, or ghost. She haunts watery places and will lure men, and sometimes children, to their deaths. ...

There seem to be two kinds of books about Disney: those produced by the Disney company to promote their image and sell their products, and t...

Quick recap: Madame de Villeneuve's story of Beauty and the Beast is the closest we have to any sort of "original" or "a...

Part 1 of Muppets in Disney World. A 1990 film not available unless you taped it off tv. From the comments: printthelegends 6 ...

Edmund Dulac Earliest influence-"Perceforest," French romance from 1528, which has similar elements-mainly a girl getting raped i...

"If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want your children to be even more brilliant, tell them even...

Indian mythology is intertwined with Hindu beliefs. Indian epic poems "are some of the oldest epic poetry ever created and some works f...