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6 unusual facts about fairy


Fairy Gifts

The Flower Fairy raised princes and princesses in her house and never sent them away grown without a gift.

Fairy-locks

Shakespeare references such elflocks in Romeo and Juliet in Mercutio's speech of the many exploits of Queen Mab, where he seems to imply the locks are only unlucky if combed out.

North Hill, Malvern

It was also referred to as the "Pixie Path", as it was believed to be used by faeires.

O. R. Melling

Melling's novels are aimed at both adults and young adults and contain stories mostly written around Irish and Celtic folklore, faeries in particular.

The High Deeds of Finn MacCool

The boy grows up strong in the manner of his father, studies under the poet Finn Eces, accidentally tasting the Salmon of Knowledge and thereby gaining magical powers, and ultimately regaining leadership of the Fianna by defeating the Fairy that haunts the Court of Tara, Aillén mac Midgna.

The Princess Mayblossom

The king realized that the ugly woman was the Fairy Carabosse, who had hated him since he played a prank on her as a child.


Aarøsund

Hans Christian Andersen, the world-famous writer of fairy tales, noted his stays in Aarøsund in his travel diaries.

Ann Cargill

She was born to a London coal merchant and was a child star, making her debut in November of 1771 at the age of eleven in Covent Garden Theatre singing the role of Titania in George Colman's The Fairy Prince (music by Thomas Arne).

Beanstalk Bunny

The cartoon's story is derived from the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk and stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck as Jack, and Elmer Fudd as the giant.

Bevis of Hampton

Such writers as Derzhavin and Pushkin praised Bovas literary value; the latter used some elements of the Povest' in his fairy tales and attempted to write a fantasy poem based on the romance.

Cinderella's Eyes

The concept of the album derived from fairy tales, focusing mostly upon Cinderella after titling the album Cinderella's Eyes.

Edward Julius Detmold

Edward Detmold was painstaking in his work, missing deadlines so that a complete set of colour plates for Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales were never used by Hodder and remained unpublished.

Fairy Dust

Fairy Dust is a women's fragrance from Parlux Fragrances released in October 2008, and is the sixth fragrance to be endorsed by Paris Hilton, following Can Can.

Fairy godmother

In William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, the fairy Blackstick concludes that her gifts have not done her godchildren good; in particular, she has given two of her goddaughters the title ring and the title rose, which have the power to make whoever owns them beautiful, which have ruined the character of those goddaughters; with the next prince and princess, she gives them "a little misfortune", which proves the best gift, as their difficulties form their characters.

Indeed, the fairy godmothers were added to The Sleeping Beauty by Perrault; no such figures appeared in his source, "Sole, Luna, e Talia" by Giambattista Basile.

Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess

Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess received positive reviews from critics and viewers, receiving an average of "4 out of 5 stars" from fans on Japan Yahoo! Movies.

Fantaserye and telefantasya

Okey ka, Fairy Ko! is a story about Taga-Lupa ("Earthling" in English) Vic Sotto who married Engkantada (a fairy) Alice Dixson.

Gustaf Tenggren

From 1923 to 1939, Tenggren worked for the game company Milton Bradley; in 1936, he was hired by The Walt Disney Company, to work as a chief illustrator with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the popular feature-length movie originated in 1934 when Walt Disney decided to re-create the romantic fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen bibliography

Anden Samling (New fairy-tales and stories. - Second series. Second collection) ("The Ice-Maiden", "The Butterfly", "The Psyche", "The Snail and the Rosebush"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1862 (appeared 25 November 1861).

Hotel du Cap

The prestigious Hotel also was the scene for stylist Karl Lagerled's short-film "The Tale of a Fairy", featuring actors and models such as Anna Mouglalis, Kirsten McMenamy or Baptiste Giabiconi.

Jack Zipes

He has translated the complete 1857 edition of fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Julie and Ludwig

Their fairy-tale story was however unfortunately short-lived when Ludwig admitted publicly on the local program "Xarabank" on TVM that the duo split up.

Karen Dunbar

She played the fairy godmother in Cinderella (2012–13) and appeared in the 2013-14 season as a new character, Slave of the Ring, in Aladdin.

Linda Medley

Intending to do her own take on some of Grimm's fairy tales, Medley found herself most interested in the unexplained pasts — and their often unresolved fates — of the tales' background characters.

Magic Moon

Magic Moon (original title: Märchenmond, meaning "Fairy Tale Moon") is a young adult fantasy novel written by German authors Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein in 1982.

Mandie

She was born on June 6, 1888 and grew up in a log cabin in Swain County, North Carolina, with her beloved father Jim Shaw, her stepmother Etta, and her stepsister Irene in this slight adaptation to the Cinderella fairy tale.

Martina Stoessel

In 2011, she participated in the Spanish version of the song Shannon Saunders′ "The Glow", called "Tu Resplandor", contained in the album recording Disney Princess: Fairy Tale Songs.

Moira O'Neill

From the first of these collections, composer Charles Villiers Stanford selected the six poems of his song-cycle 'An Irish Idyll' (publ. 1901), dedicated to baritone Harry Plunket Greene, which includes one of Stanford's best-known songs, 'The Fairy Lough'.

Monument to Chocolate

The Monument to Chocolate or Chocolate Fairy is a monument in the City of Pokrov, Vladimir Region, Russia.

Moranak Meada

The film based on Khmer old folk tales which similar to Thai legend Bla Boo Thong and European fairy tale Cinderella.

Moritz von Schwind

His exceptionally mature cycle, "Seven Ravens" from Grimm's fairy stories was produced in 1857.

Oriana

Oriana, fairy and main character in the children's book A Fada Oriana, by Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Pied-piping

it is a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the figure of fairy tales who lured rats (and children) by playing his flute.

Pontlevoy

Each year his company issued a new series of brightly colored cards commemorating notable men (including Benjamin Franklin) with flowers and illustrations of fairy tales.

Prikosnovénie

The label is best known for its promotion of fairy and elven-styled music and art, which is often described as art inspired by fantasy stories such as The Lord of the Rings.

Prosartes trachycarpa

The images of the rough-fruited fairy bell here were photographed as one was climbing up the riverbank of the South Saskatchewan River south of Saskatoon.

Puckane

The village was also mentioned in a well-known Christy Moore cover of Shane MacGowan and The Pogues song "The Fairy Tale of New York".

Reckless Series

The series, based on 19th Century Europe, features many elements of fairy tales, notably the tales of the German Brothers Grimm.

Redwood Grove

Old growth groves such as this will show the birth (shoots and burls) and death (rotting trees and "fairy rings") of ancient redwoods, many of whose birth was before the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Robert Ayres Barnet

It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose burlesque. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou, Klaw & Erlanger, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended.

Ron Roddan

Speaking in a High Court libel hearing in 1998, Roddan told the jury that a magazine article by John McVicar alleging Linford Christie took drugs to get to the top was a "fairy story", describing a suggestion that the Olympic gold medallist's impressive physique may have been due to taking steroids or other performance-enhancing banned substances as "ridiculous".

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears is the third book in a series of collections of re-told fairy tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Ruth Manning-Sanders

Others who illustrated her fairy-tale titles included Victor Ambrus, Scoular Anderson, Eileen Armitage, Raymond Briggs, Donald Chaffin, Brian Froud, Lynette Hemmant, C. Walter Hodges, J. Hodgson, Annette Macarthur-Onslow, Constance Marshall, Kilmeny Niland, William Papas, Trevor Ridley, Jacqueline Rizvi, Leon Shtainmets, William Stobbs, and Astrid Walford.

ShakespeaRe-Told

Despite their own disagreements, the fairy rulers of the woods around Dream Park, Titania (Sharon Small) and Oberon (Lennie James), have a duty to ensure a happy ending, so Oberon gets Puck (Dean Lennox Kelly) — portrayed as a sort of magical wide boy — to try to sort things out with "love juice" eyedrops, while Oberon and Theo discuss their marriages.

Shavasana

Much as in the fairy tale of The Princess and the Pea, the slightest point of discomfort can be endlessly distracting.

Sleeping Beauties

A mother tells her daughter a real life fairy tale of a "Princess Charming" and her Sleeping Beauty.

Star lifting

He dubbed it the "Huff-n-Puff" method, inspired from the Big Bad Wolf's threats in the fairy tale of Three Little Pigs.

Tatyana Vedeneyeva

She became well known amongst the Soviet children of 70s and 80s for her leading role in children programs Good Night, Little Ones!, and Visiting a Fairy Land (V gostiakh u skazki) as "Aunt Tania".

The Curious Room

It also contains a draft of a libretto for an opera based on Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, and five radio plays: "Vampirella", which she then reworked as "The Lady of the House of Love" in The Bloody Chamber collection, "The Company of Wolves", "Puss in Boots" (both reworkings of Charles Perrault's fairy tales) and two "artificial biographies", one of Victorian painter, Richard Dadd, who murdered his father, and the other about Edwardian novelist, Ronald Firbank.

The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was

The Child Ballad The Maid Freed from the Gallows has been retold in fairy tale form, focusing on the exploits of the fiancé who must recover a golden ball to save his love from the noose, and the incidents strongly resemble this tale.

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish

The storyline is similar to the Russian fairy tale The Greedy Old Wife (according to Vladimir Propp) and the Brothers Grimm's tale The Fisherman and His Wife.

Tinkerbell effect

The effect is named for Tinker Bell, the fairy in the play Peter Pan who is revived from near death by the belief of the audience.

Tinkerbella

It was named after the fairy Tinker Bell in the 1904 play “Peter and Wendy” (a.k.a. "Peter Pan") by J.M. Barrie.

Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen

In addition to composing music for his quintet, he has made pieces for string quintet and percussion as accompaniment to fairy tales by H. C. Andersen (2005), background music for Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" (2005), and was the main composer and bandleader for the jazz quintet Lobster (2002–08).

Virginia State Route 457

The state highway passes Martinsville High School and reduces to two lanes at Fairy Street before reaching Chatham Road adjacent to Hooker Field, home of the Martinsville Mustangs of minor league baseball.


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