I just discovered two new (to me) blogs I've added to my link list and wanted to highlight: Spinning Straw into Gold and Something to...

Gypsy already has a more thorough post on the new Beauty and the Beast tv show over at Once Upon a Blog , but my main reaction after seein...

These days it's probably rarer to find a version of Little Red who is not independant and a fierce contender for her classic enemy, w...

Graham Anderson's essay "Finding the First Fairy Tales" is an interesting contrast to Ruth Bottigheimer's Fairy Tales: A N...

I don't know about you, but I find it hard to find tales of sirens -the pathetic figure of the Little Mermaid seems to be the only remna...

This illustration is from the book Fairy Tale Food: Enchanting Recipes to Bring a Little Magic To Your Food , which includes a recipe fo...

I've mentioned Strewwelpeter before , but I just found a humorous article highlighting some of the most gruesome stories found in it. S...

The traditional Freudian meanings associated with Beauty and the Beast, as espoused by Bruno Bettelheim, is that Beauty shows a successful t...

In my last post I shared my love for ballet combined with fairy tales. For me, the combination of beautiful dancing, costumes, music, and st...

The random number generator has chosen Rachel, whose favorite fairy tale is Jorinda and Jorindel! Thank you to all of you who participated...