Monday, March 1, 2010
Poll (of sorts)
I'm trying to decide what tales to retell in my retellings journal next. So far I've Maid Maleen and the Selkie. I will of course do the Allerlairauh type retelling and a Six Swans/Three Ravens type. What else? What stories (that are not the usual Disney overdone and overculturalized [seriously, Cinderella is not the best story in the world. I hope I do NOT randomly have to marry some rich guy simply because my shoe is sort of loose]) do you want to hear again and again and again?
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The Hans Christian Anderson one about the Snow Queen.
Is HCA under copyright? Surely not...
The original story of The Little Mermaid is interesting. She sacrifices herself for the human. Not at all like Disney. there's also a story called "The Story of the Three Trees" that I LOVE. I'll find the author for you!
I have the story of the three trees. I believe it's under copyright.
Honestly I'm not too fond of Hans Christian Anderson type tales. They are extra long and are overly preachy. I am hoping to give him another chance but I really just don't like him much. In the original Mermaid story she is punished relentlessly for seeking love. She feels as if she's walking on knives when she walks on her new feet. She's basically punished for going outside her world and disobeying her father. Punishing women for being independent is not my game. I'm more into folklore than the moral tales of one man (who apparently wasn't exactly a saint anyway)
Hmmm.
I picked Anderson because he wasn't copyrighted. All the others I know are copyrighted.
Unfortunately, most fairytales aren't folkloric at all, or at least survive only as authored by a particular person. However, this being said, surely you can find some somewhere. Unfortunately, you're not likely to get them from me.
Google Mar'rallang, though. I think that's how it's spelled; it's from Australia. It might be hard to find. You will surely find it chauvanistic, but I think it could offer interesting re-writing.
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