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8th of November

The song, which begins with a spoken introduction by Kris Kristofferson, tells the tale of Niles Harris, a soldier in the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the United States Army during Operation Hump in South Vietnam on November 8, 1965.

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

The unidentified narrator recites the tale as told by Bedloe, delivered after his late return from one of his customary long rambles in the Ragged Mountains, "the chain of wild and dreary hills that lie westward and southward of Charlottesville."

A. W. Underwood

A century later, the tale of Mr. Underwood was brought to the public eye again as the subject of a 1974 song by musician Brian Eno, entitled "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch," from his debut solo album Here Come the Warm Jets.

Aarøsund

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

Adrian Paul

He starred in the remake of The Masque of the Red Death (1989), a re-telling of the Edgar Allan Poe tale.

Arnould Galopin

Galopin also wrote a number of science fiction novels in the Jules Verne and H.G. Wells style, including the remarkable Doctor Omega (1906), La Révolution de Demain (Tomorrow’s Revolution) (1909) and Le Bacille (1928), an uncannily prophetic tale of a mad scientist who uses biological warfare for revenge.

Batman: The Man Who Laughs

Hilary Goldstein of IGN Comics said that The Man Who Laughs "lacks the smooth pacing and adept dialogue of Moore's The Killing Joke, but this is a worthy companion to the classic Joker tale."

Ben Hibon

Hibon assisted David Yates in directing the animated short of The Tale of The Three Brothers in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.

Child of the Prophecy

Publishers Weekly said that "Marillier's strong voice and rolling, lucid prose seem appropriate for a 10th-century Irish tale, and her command of a fantasy story's

Cripps the Carrier

Cripps the Carrier: a woodland tale, is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone.

Daimonic

Typically, the daimonic tale centers around the Solitary, the central character of the story, who usually is introduced in innocence, wealth, and often arrogance.

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.

Francis Grose

Burns suggested to him that he should include Alloway Kirk in his Scottish Antiquities, and Grose agreed on condition that Burns provided a witch tale to go with his drawing.

Fredegund

Fredegund has been proposed as one of many sources for the folk tale known as Cinderella.

Gráinne

She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne and most famously, in the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

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).

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.

Julius Grey

Grey defended La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood, the French version of The Handmaid's Tale, in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004.

Kisaeng

Some of Korea's oldest and most popular stories, such as the tale of Chunhyang, feature kisaeng as heroines.

La chute de la maison Usher

La chute de la maison Usher is the French translation of the title of Edgar Allan Poe's tale The Fall of the House of Usher (1839).

La Spagna

The work is an adaptation of the story of Charlemagne's battles in Spain and the adventures of his nephew, the paladin Orlando (Roland), including the tale of his mortal duel with Ferraguto and his ultimate death at Roncesvalles.

Lake Chaubunagungamaug

The second was recorded by Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger and released in 1954 by Decca and incorporates the tale about the lake's name according to Daly.

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.

Lludd Llaw Eraint

In the Mabinogion tale of Lludd and Llefelys, which seems heavily influenced by Geoffrey of Monmouth's work, he is the ruler of Britain while his brother Llefelys ruled Gaul.

Malayisation

In the west, the development of such sultanates of Sambas, Sukadana and Landak tells a similar tale of recruitment among Dayak people.

Marian Lines

Tam Lin Choral folk fantasy based on the Scottish folk tale and a precursor of the "fables"; Blacksmith and the Changeling and Burd Ellen.

Milesian tale

But Gottskálk Jensson of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, offers a dissenting view or corrective, arguing that the original Milesian tale was

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.

Order of the Peacock Angel

Cooper McLaughlin's 1987 short novel, The Order of the Peacock Angel, published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, claims historical sources for its tale of a 1,000 year old society that continued into the 1960s.

Pocumtuck Range

The lake described in the tale is very reminiscent of the post-glacial Lake Hitchcock which occupied the Connecticut River Valley from Burke, Vermont to New Britain, Connecticut 15,000 years ago.

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".

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples

So of the Aryan folk; not the Vedas, not the Avestas, not the Iliad, or the Nibelungenlied, or Beowulf, but the marvelous tale of what the Aryan man has lived—how he has subdued the wild and waste lands—how he has made the desert to blossom as the rose—how he has built up empire with ax and plow, and has sailed the unknown paths of the seas—these are his true race epic.

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.

Rollie's Follies

The Switch is On (The tale of switch-pitcher Pat Venditte successfully playing a game of cat and mouse against a switch-hitter)

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.

Scleromystax

In fact, S. salmacis was named for Salmacis of Ovid's tale; this is an allusion to the slight difference between males and females when compared to other Scleromystax.

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.

Tale for a Deaf Ear

Tale for a Deaf Ear is an opera in one act with music and lyrics by Mark Bucci, sung in three languages and based on a story by Elizabeth Enright that appeared in the April 1951 edition of Harper's Magazine.

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 Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories

The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories is a book by R. K. Narayan with illustrations by his brother R. K. Laxman published in 1994 by Viking Press.

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Inspired by Sherlock, Jr., Hellzapoppin', and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is the tale of a film character who leaves a fictional film of the same name and enters the real world.

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.

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.

White and Black Blues

Ursull sings that "When someone talks to me about skin colour/I have the blues which sends shivers down my spine/I feel as if I'm in a tale by Edgar Allan Poe".


see also

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.