Back in 2012 I read Ruth Bottigheimer's book Fairy Tales: A New History and posted my thoughts on it.   Bottigheimer claims that fairy...

" Rima Staines, a talented British artist, has experimented with portraying different images of Baba Yaga, Red Riding Hood's gra...

"Today, the word Perrault used for Cinderella's footwear, pantoufle, is translated as "slipper," whereas in 1697 a pantou...

You guys are probably sick of my soapbox on how fairy tales are so much more than childish and oversimplified stories, yet the vast majori...

I've heard of people trying to find true historical precedents for fairy tale characters such as Bluebeard and Snow White , but despite ...

Even if you're not headed to the beach this summer, all things nautical start popping up in advertisements at this time of year and we...

Tales of Faerie is run on a budget. Or rather, it's completely a labor of love. The books I read are received as gifts or borrowed from...

Psychologists have long thought that the presence of witches, evil stepmothers, and ogresses in fairy tales are a result of splitting the...

Continuing on in my trend this week of reviewing Disney movies everyone has already seen...now we go even FURTHER back in time. Last week...

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