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Asterix and the Magic Carpet

This a reference to the fairy tale of Bluebeard where Bluebeard's wife asks the same thing of her sister, while waiting for her brothers to rescue her.

Bamf

In Uncanny X-Men #153, Kitty Pryde tells a fairy tale to six-year-old Illyana Rasputin, which includes a race of creatures called "Bamfs", described as small versions of Nightcrawler even wearing a costume identical to Nightcrawler's.

Bedside Tales of Sultan

The Bedside Tales of Sultan is a collection of fairy tales, fantasies and moral stories that aims to reach children of all ages and adults.

Beilstein, Rhineland-Palatinate

Each year in July and August, the Beilsteiner Märchensommer (“Beilstein Fairy-Tale Summer”) is held, at which the marionette theatre from Cochem produces fairy tales at the winegrowing museum.

Clever Maria

Clever Maria is a Portuguese fairy tale.

Corvetto

Corvetto is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.

Dănilă Prepeleac

According to literary historian George Bădărău, "Dănilă Prepeleac" is one of Creangă's writings were the fairy tale context meets "realistic fantasy".

Dragons et princesses

It is a fairy tale anthology series of ten further 13-minute episodes in the format established in Ciné si.

Dua Libro

The sample texts include collections of model sentences, a translation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Shadow, some popular sayings, and two poems.

Eternity's Child

Eternity's Child (previously known as Angel's Eternity) is a side-scrolling platform game based on a fairy tale created by Luc Bernard.

Ferdinand Becker

He entered the studio of Steinle, at Frankfort, in 1868, and afterwards removed to Mainz, where he painted his most celebrated work, “Der Jude im Dorn” (1874–1875) illustrating the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Ipomadon

The tournament where the hero fights in disguise and claims to have been busy is a fairy tale commonplace (such as in The Golden Crab or The Magician's Horse, or in Little Johnny Sheep-Dung and The Hairy Man, where it is actual battle), and from there passed into such romances as Robert the Devil, Sir Gowther, and Lanzelet.

Kay Nielsen

He received his first English commission from Hodder and Stoughton to illustrate a collection of fairy tales, providing 24 colour plates and more than 15 monotone illustrations for In Powder and Crinoline, Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in 1913.

La Belle et la Bête

La Belle et la Bête (fairy tale), original French title of the fairy tale known in English as Beauty and the Beast.

Landscape mythology

His interpretations are strongly influenced by the hypothesis of a matriarchal structure of society and a cult of the Great Goddess in Neolithic Europe, and he associates megalithic monuments and elements of traditional fairy tales with these ideas.

Little Daylight

Little Daylight is a fairy tale written by George MacDonald and included as a story within a story in At the Back of the North Wind, published in 1871.

Magician's Hat

Like its predecessor, the album was, at least partly, influenced by fairy tale and fantasy themes, with the song "Elidor" having been directly inspired by Alan Garner's 1965 fantasy novel Elidor.

Marian Roalfe Cox

D - Indeterminate Among the examples included: One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes (which she listed as approximating "Cinderella"), The Bear (which she listed as approximating "Catskin") and Tattercoats (which approximated neither)

MassResistance

Parents' Rights Coalition opposed a Massachusetts public school teacher reading of King & King, a fairy tale involving two married men, to kindergartners.

Misfortune

Misfortune is an Italian fairy tale, from Palermo, collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales.

Prabhat Kalavidaru

One of the most popular of their ballets is Cinderella, based on the English fairy tale and since 1977, has been staged more than a thousand times by the troupe.

Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples

Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples (Prâslea cel voinic și merele de aur) is a Romanian fairy tale collected by Petre Ispirescu in Legende sau basmele românilor.

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo

In O Picapau Amarelo, the farm is visited by several fairy tale characters, including Cinderella, Snow White, Red Riding Hood, all of them led by Tom Thumb (a good friend of Emília's).

The Canary Prince

The Canary Prince is an Italian fairy tale, the 18th tale in Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino.

The Death of Koschei the Deathless

In contrast to the usual myth, he's generally portrayed in a sympathetic light and seems to be intended to serve (similarly to the Kami, Togashi in the Legend of the Five Rings RPG by the same publishers) as a source of adventure hooks and occasionally a Donor (fairy tale) to whom it is perilous in the extreme to apply.

The Emperor's Secret

The film stars the familiar characters from the Finnish TV show The Autocrats in a fairy tale where the inhabitants of a small Finnish village have to defend themselves against a despotic emperor.

The Pretty Little Calf

The marital transformation also figures in European tales, such as Hans My Hedgehog, The Pig King, and The Donkey.

The Story of Bensurdatu

The Story of Bensurdatu is an Italian fairy tale collected by Laura Gonzenbach in Sicilianische Märchen.

The Young Slave

The Young Slave is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.

Tom Holt

Snow White and the Seven Samurai (1999), based on fairy tales (Brothers Grimm and others) making a world within a computer simulation.


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Anyone's Daughter

"Piktors Verwandlungen", a 40 minute piece after a fairy tale by Hesse, was narrated by Heinz Rudolf Kunze.

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.

Bidasari

which has some similarities with the western fairy-tale of Snow White that was published by The Brothers Grimm in 1812 A.D. of their fairy-tale collection book.

Blunderbore

A giant named Blunderbore appears in the similar Cornish fairy tale "Tom the Tinkeard" (or "Tom the Tinkard"), a local variant of the more famous "Tom Hickathrift".

Under the influence of that story, the name "Blunderbore" is frequently appropriated by other legendary giants; the later fairy tale "Tom the Tinkeard", a local Cornish variant of "Tom Hickathrift", contains a similar account of the hero's battle with a giant named Blunderbore.

Catherine II and opera

The subject of the fairy tale on Fuflych-Bogatyr (Fuflych Unfortunate Hero) was suggested by Count Orlov.

Edoardo Bennato

In 1983 another fairy-tale concept album, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin appeared on the market (E' arrivato un bastimento) but it wasn't as successful as the previous ones and this must have led Bennato to try different avenues.

Enchanted Forest Water Safari

Concept watercolor paintings for the park were done by Russell Patterson, who also worked on the designs of the several individual fairy tale houses in the park.

Erich Waschneck

In 1921, he did his first work as a cameraman in the adaptation of the fairy tale The Little Muck by Wilhelm Hauff.

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.

Heinz Rudolf Kunze

In 2002, Kunze narrated Piktors Verwandlungen, a 40 minute piece of the German band Anyone's Daughter after a fairy tale by German author Hermann Hesse, during a festival in honoring the late Nobel laureate in his home town Calw.

Jack and His Comrades

It was later reprinted, revised but only slightly, by Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic fairy tale compilation.

John Pardoe

In 1978, John Pardoe MP played the fairy-tale Liberal prime minister in BBC Radio 4's Christmas Pantomime, Black Cinderella Two Goes East, on the basis that you only get Liberal prime ministers in fairy-tales.

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.

Juraj Filas

Poslední sen starého dubu (The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream), Cantata after the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen for children's chorus and orchestra (1983); words by the composer

Kildonan Park

The Witch's Hut is a small building designed to illustrate the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.

Louise Murphy

She caught both kids and adult readers in her story of the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel mixed in with the Holocaust and World War II.

Lufsig

The toy, designed by German designer Silke Leffler, is inspired by the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood as a representation of the Big Bad Wolf.

Lufsig designed by German designer Silke Leffler, drawing inspiration from the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood.

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.

Moranak Meada

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

Pipe Layin' Dan

This album includes the comic's "toasts" to Buccaneer and Hitler and the most famous bit being her raunchy fairy tale of "Pipe Layin' Dan" describing a woman named "Big Fat Funky Susie Ann", who hadn't had sex because of her homely features, while describing "Pipe Layin' Dan" as someone who "made a dying woman live" and even "made a solid brick wall cum".

Price of gold

"The Price of Gold", a 2011 episode of the fairy tale/drama television series Once Upon a Time.

Prince Prigio

This story was republished by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, and by David R. Godine in 1981 along with another Lang fairy tale, Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia, in a volume entitled, The Chronicles of Pantouflia.

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".

Pygmalion and the Image series

This was not Burne-Jones' only series of pictures: others include The Briar Rose series (1885–1890), which was based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty (as retold by the Brothers Grimm), and Burne-Jones' spectacular Cupid and Psyche frieze.

Robinson Savary

In 2005, Robinson Savary directed his debut feature film, Bye Bye Blackbird, a dark fairy tale written by Arif Ali-Shah, featuring James Thiérrée, Jodhi May, Derek Jacobi, Izabella Miko and Michael Lonsdale.

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.

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.

Snow White and the Three Stooges

Released by 20th Century Fox, this was the trio's take on the classic fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

St. George and the Dragonet

The B side was another Dragnet spoof, "Little Blue Riding Hood," based on the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood".

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.

Stevns Municipality

Stevns is also home to Elverhøj (Elves' Hill), while not much of an attraction, it is famous for the fairy tale The Elf Mound by H.C. Andersen and the Danish national play Elves' Hill, both of which in Danish share the name Elverhøj.

Stroh violin

Pinky Weitzman plays the Stroh violin for various New York experimental ensembles, including her own project (Not Waving but Drowning), as well as Flare, LD & the New Criticism, and as part of the onstage ensemble for Stephin Merritt's My Life as a Fairy Tale.

The Boys with the Golden Stars

The motif of a woman's babies, born with wonderful attributes after she claimed she could bear such children, but stolen from her, is a common fairy tale motif; see The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Three Little Birds, The Wicked Sisters, Ancilotto, King of Provino and Princess Belle-Etoile.

The Chimney Sweep

"The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875)

The Enchanted Princess

The Enchanted Princess is a famous German fairy tale written by Ludwig Bechstein from his book Deutsches Märchenbuch.

The Red Shoes

The Ballad of the Red Shoes, an EP by Andrew Bird with instrumental music written to accompany a series of prints inspired by the fairy tale

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.

Viktor Nessler

His musically conservative, mock-Gothic, fairy-tale operas, notably Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) (1879) and Der Trompeter von Säkkingen (1884), based on the famous poem by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, were very popular in the 19th century.

Violet MacMillan

In motion pictures Miss MacMillan joined the stock company of The Oz Film Manufacturing Company (where she appeared in the company's logo, with her face on a black background) and debuted in the film version of The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) and the lost series of L. Frank Baum-written and produced shorts, Violet's Dreams, in which she played a girl named Claribel who had fairy-tale adventures in her dreams.

Willful

The Willful Child, a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

Wolfgang Thierse

"Peter and the Wolf" is another fairy tale read on CD by Wolfgang Thierse.