One other thing I noted is that, unlike the Native American folk stories book I read last year, practically none of the stories contain what I would think of as fragments of useful foraging information. Instead, their information seems geared toward teaching social norms. Some of these are extremely obvious, like the cautionary tale about incest, but because so many of the lessons applied to the villain and not the hero, it took me a little bit to notice how resoundingly this body of culture condemns the abuse of stepchildren. It suggests that a theory of storytelling focused on protagonists solving problems might be missing the possibility that villains are often the central figure of interest in the stories. After all, one of the most common tropes in this collection is the protagonists solving a problem by asking someone for help, whether that's a family member or a random stranger, and receiving an absurd set of magical instructions to follow. I think it's a stretch to imagine that trope is about teaching children to ask for help when the lesson that you shouldn't abuse your children, even if you are not their biological parent, is so much more obvious. Could be both, though. A few of the stories are incredibly short, as in a mere few lines, but the preservation of any traditional tale, no matter how brief, is a thing to be celebrated. Based on Beauty and the Beast – the concept of the Beast as a lion-like figure is a popular one, most notably in the French film version of 1946.)

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Bien, ocurre como siempre en los libros de relatos: unos gustan mucho, otros un poco menos y alguno nada de nada. Por eso no es un género que se encuentre entre mis predilectos, porque cada relato es una caja de sorpresas con una balanza en su interior. Y esa es la sensación que me queda. Son historias cortas, de entre una y quince páginas, y es verdad que algunas no me han dicho gran cosa, pero en general me ha parecido un libro entretenido e interesante para conocer los cuentos populares de otras culturas. No obstante, me gustó más otro libro que leí de la autora el año pasado, La cámara sangrienta, que sí tenía relatos originales escritos por ella, retellings siniestros. En este volumen del que os hablo hoy ella recopila, pero no modifica prácticamente nada. There was woman who was old, blind and likewise unable to walk. Once she asked her daughter for a drink of water. The daughter was so bored with her old mother that she gave her a bowl of her own piss. The old woman drank it all up, then said: 'You're a nice one, daughter. Tell me - which would you prefer as a lover, a louse or a sea scorpion?' Este libro es tan raro y sorprendente que me encantó. Es una recopilación de cuentos populares de diversas partes del mundo, principalmente de fuera de Europa, porque los de aquí ya nos los conocemos de sobra. Una compilación de relatos de todas las culturas que me ha encantado descubrir, además de estar todas protagonizados por mujeres de lo más peculiares. The stories within The Bloody Chamber are a popular subject for theatrical adaptation. The story "The Bloody Chamber" has been adapted for the theatre more than once, including a performance by the "Zoo District" which was accompanied by an amateur film adaptation of "Wolf-Alice". [24] "The Company of Wolves" is also a popular subject for adaptation by amateur/student theatre groups (e.g. by a Welsh drama college [25]).

The stories are selected with care. There are lengthy introductions, afterwords, and notes explaining why the stories are selected and where they are obtained from. To be honest, these parts are too English 101 for me so I didn't really pay attention. If you want to marry a prince, you need to be one of four things: a) pretty, b) smart, c) pretty and smart, or d) grown from a plant. Has roots in various folktales, most apparently The Snow-child; The Snow, the Crow, and the Blood; and also tales such as Snegurochka and an obscure variant of Snow White. [3] :xvi)

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Some of the fairytales are great, some are local versions of well known fairytales and some are plainly and simply strange.a b c d e f g Locus Magazine, archived from the original on 6 October 2007 , retrieved 23 April 2007 . A magnificent collection, which manages to effectively capture the 'voice' of the various places the tales are gathered from. The crucial patterns and repetitions within the tales tend to be preserved. As such, it's a valuable book for those who treasure folk wisdom and thought and their roots. The collection has been taught and studied in University literature courses. [20] It has been used as part of the AQA English Literature, the OCR English Literature and Edexcel English Language & Literature syllabus for A-Levels in schools and colleges across the United Kingdom.

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The Snow Child" was originally broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme Not Now, I'm Listening. [5] It was revised for this collection. [6] Anonymous, "LS 819: Transformations: Freedom and Magic in Nineteenth Century "Fairy Stories"", (n.d.). Recopilación de cuentos de todas las culturas - intentando respetar al máximo su tradición oral -, con la particularidad de estar protagonizados por mujeres. A girl goes to visit her grandmother, but encounters a werewolf on the way, whose paw she cuts off with a knife. When she reaches her grandmother's house, the paw has turned into a hand with the grandmother's ring on it, and the grandmother is both delirious and missing her hand. This reveals the girl's grandmother as the werewolf, and she is stoned to death. The girl then inherits all of her grandmother's possessions. La edición es preciosa, con esas ilustraciones tan originales que tiene, además de los extras (apéndices donde se cuenta el origen de cada cuento, un prólogo maravilloso que nos habla de los cuentos de hadas en general y el papel de la mujer en ellos...). Pero tengo que decir algo negativo, muy negativo: he encontrado faltas de ortografía en casi todas las páginas. Y estamos hablando de un libro de casi 30 euros. Hay para todos los gustos: tildes que faltan, cambio de género de personajes de un párrafo a otro, palabras omitidas (ejemplo: "cogió la y se la dio a su hermano"). En fin, que no esperaba algo así por parte de esta editorial, que suele cuidar tanto sus ediciones, y me encuentro sorprendida para mal y algo decepcionada en este sentido. Tenía que decirlo.It's hard to know how to review collections like this because in my mind they are as much data as they are entertainment. Every time I read one I get wistful for the day when we will have proper phylogenetic trees to give these stories context. You would expect a collection like this to have a certain amount of filtering or bias, and they definitely do. The premise of this one is that all these random folk stories are in some way about girls. But that still leaves a pretty huge selection, and you would think, for instance, that a curator might include a few examples of the Cinderella story and leave out the rest. Apparently not; there must be a dozen versions of Cinderella, and a fair number of the other tales are also variants of each other. A virginal English soldier, travelling through Romania by bicycle, finds himself in a deserted village. He comes across a mansion inhabited by a vampire who survives by enticing young men into her bedroom and feeding on them. She intends to feed on the young soldier but his purity and virginity have a curious effect on her. When they enter her bedroom she accidentally cuts herself and the soldier kisses it better. He wakes up to find her dead. He leaves to return to his battalion due to the outbreak of World War I.