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How The Dragon Was Tricked
''How the Dragon was Tricked'' is a Greek fairy tale collected by Johann Georg von Hahn in ''Griechische und Albanesische Märchen'' with the title ''Von dem Schönen und vom Drakos'' ("About the Beauty and the Drakos"), and sourced from Kukuli. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Pink Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thompson type 328, the boy steals the giant's treasures. Synopsis An older brother was jealous of his younger brother and one day tied him to a tree to be rid of him. An old, humpbacked shepherd saw him and asked him why; the younger brother said it was to straighten out his back, and persuaded the shepherd to be tied there in his place. Then he drove off the sheep. He persuaded a horse boy and a driver of oxen to come with him. He played many tricks and became famous. The king captured him, said he had earned death, and promised to spare him if he brought him the dragon's flying horse. He went and tried three times to steal the horse. Each time it neighed, alertin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esben And The Witch
Esben and the Witch (Danish language: ''Esben og Troldheksen'') is a Danish fairy tale first collected by Jens Kamp.Kamp, Jens. ''Danske Folkeminder, æventyr, Folkesagn, Gaader, Rim Og Folketro''. Odense: R. Nielsen, 1877. pp. 93-102. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Pink Fairy Book''. A version of the tale also appears in '' A Book of Witches'' and '' A Choice of Magic'', by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327B (a small boy defeats an ogre). In it, a boy named Esben outwits an evil witch to get the magical treasures for the sake of his brothers. Synopsis A farmer had twelve sons, and the youngest, Esben, was little while his brothers were big and strong. One day the brothers persuaded their father to let them seek their fortunes; he gave them each horses and money. Esben decided he would go too. His father refused to aid him. He took a stick and whittled it, so it was whiter than his brothers' horses, and rode off on it. The eleven brothers came to a hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragons In Fairy Tales
A dragon is a Magic (supernatural), magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but European dragon, dragons in Western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire. Chinese dragon, Dragons in eastern cultures are usually depicted as wingless, four-legged, Snake, serpentine creatures with above-average intelligence. Commonalities between dragons' traits are often a hybridization of Reptile, reptilian, mammalian, and Bird, avian features. Etymology The word ''dragon'' entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French , which, in turn, comes from Latin (genitive ), meaning "huge serpent, dragon", from , (genitive , ) "serpent". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Tales About Brothers
A fairy (also called fay, fae, fae folk, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic mythology, Celtic, Slavic paganism, Slavic, Germanic folklore, Germanic, and French folklore, French folklore), a form of Supernatural#Spirit, spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities. Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Various folk theories about the origins of fairies include casting them as either demoted angels or demons in a Christian mythology, Christian tradition, as deities in Paganism, Pagan belief systems, as Spirit (supernatural entity), spirits of the dead, as Prehistory, prehistoric precursors to humans, or as spirits of nature. The label of ''fairy'' has at times applied only to specific Magic (su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATU 300-399
Atu may refer to: * Atu, a character in Samoan mythology * Atu Bosenavulagi, an Australian rules footballer * Atu, Iran, a village in Iran * Atu Moli, New Zealand rugby union player * Atu'u, a village on Tutuila Island, American Samoa ATU may refer to: Organizations Universities * Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran * Arkansas Tech University, United States * Atlantic Technological University, Ireland Other organizations * African Telecommunications Union * Amalgamated Transit Union, trade union in Canada and the US * ATU Network, a caucus group within the Amicus trade union * Autoridad de Transporte Urbano or Urban Transport Authority, Lima, Peru * Anti-Terrorist Unit (Liberia) * Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit, Croatia * Asian Taekwondo Union, the official governing body for Taekwondo in Asia Other uses * Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, a catalogue of folktale types * Abstract Tribe Unique, rap musicians using #ATU hashtag * Amphibious Task Unit * Antenna tuning unit An a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragons In Greek Mythology
Dragons play a significant role in Greek mythology. Though the Greek ''drakōn'' often differs from the modern Western conception of a dragon, it is both the etymological origin of the modern term and the source of many surviving Indo-European myths and legends about dragons. Origins The word dragon derives from the Greek ''δράκων'' (drakōn) and its Latin cognate ''draco''. Ancient Greeks applied the term to large, constricting snakes. The Greek ''drakōn'' was far more associated with poisonous spit or breath than the modern Western dragon, though fiery breath is still attested in a few myths. There is also the ''drakaina'', the specifically female form or "she-dragon." The ''drakaina'' is occasionally treated differently from the more common masculine or gender-neutral ''drakōn'', often surviving by mating with a hero or being the ancestress of an important lineage. Daniel Ogden speaks of three ways to explain the origins of Greek dragon myths: as ''vertical'' evolutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Fairy Tales
Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek **Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC) **Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC **Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity **Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople **Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD) *Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language *Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church *Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity * Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD *Greek mythology, a body of myths o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hop O' My Thumb
Hop-o'-My-Thumb (or Hop-on-My-Thumb and similar spellings) also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet (), is one of the eight fairytales published by Charles Perrault in ''Histoires ou Contes du temps passé'' (1697), now world-renowned. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327B, the small boy defeats the ogre (in other versions of this fairy tale the character is a giant). This type of fairytale, in the French oral tradition, is often combined with motifs from the type 327A, similar to ''Hansel and Gretel''; one such tale is '' The Lost Children''. The story was first published in English as ''Little Poucet'' in Robert Samber's 1729 translation of Perrault's book, "''Histories, or Tales of Past Times''". In 1764, the name of the hero was changed to ''Little Thumb''. In 1804, William Godwin, in "''Tabart's Collection of Popular Stories for the Nursery''", retitled it ''Hop o' my Thumb'', a term that was common in the 16th century, referring to a tiny person. Summary H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master Thief
"The Master Thief" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. The Brothers Grimm included a shorter variant as tale 192 in their fairy tales. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Red Fairy Book''. George Webbe Dasent included a translation of the tale in ''Popular Tales From the Norse''. It is Aarne–Thompson type 1525A, ''Tasks for a Thief''. Plot A poor cottager has nothing to give his three sons, so he walks with them to a crossroad, where each son takes a different road. The youngest goes into a great woods, and when a storm strikes, he seeks shelter in a house. An old woman nearby warns him that the house is a den of robbers, but he stays anyway. When the robbers arrive, he persuades them to take him on as a servant. The robbers tell the boy to prove himself by stealing an ox that a man is bringing to market. The boy puts a shoe with a silver buckle in the road. When the man sees it, he thinks it would be good if only he had t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buttercup (fairy Tale)
Buttercup or Butterball (, literally "Butter-buck") is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327 C, the devil (witch) carries the hero home in a sack. Buttercup is so named because he is "plump and fat, and fond of good things". Synopsis While Buttercup's mother was baking, the dog began to bark and Buttercup saw an evil witch coming. His mother had him hide under the kneading trough, but the witch said she had a silver knife to give him and this lured him out. The witch told him that he had to climb into her sack to get it and, as soon as he was in, she carried him off. On the way, the witch asked "How far is it to Snoring?" and Buttercup said half a mile, so she rested and, using the knife, he escaped, putting a big fir root in the sack. The next day, the witch lured him out again with the offer of a silver spoon, but he escaped in the same way, placing a stone in the sack. The third day, she offered him a silver fork and went straigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grateful Beasts
The Grateful Beasts (German: ''Die dankbaren Thiere'') is a Hungarian fairy tale collected by Georg von Gaal ( hu) in ''Mährchen der Magyaren'' (1822). The tale was also published by Hermann Kletke in ''Märchensaal'', Vol II (1845). Synopsis Three sons set out to seek their fortune. The youngest, Ferko, was so beautiful that his older brothers thought he would be preferred, so they ate his bread while he slept, and refused to share theirs until he let them put out his eyes and break his legs. When they had blinded and crippled him, they left him. Ferko crawled on and, in the heat of the day, rested under what he thought was a tree, but was a gallows. Two crows talked together, and one told the other that the lake below them would heal any injury, and the dew on the hillside would restore eyesight. As soon as evening came, he washed his face in the dew, and crawled down to the lake and was whole again. He took a flask of the water and went on. On the way, he met and heal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pink Fairy Book
''The Langs' Fairy Books'' are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and Leonora Blanche Alleyne, a married couple. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as ''Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books'' or ''Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors''. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in ''The Blue Poetry Book''. Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851–1933) was an English author, editor, and translator. Known to her family and friends as Nora, she assumed editorial control of the series in the 1890s, while her husband, Andrew Lang (1844–1912), a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic, edited the series and wrote prefaces for its entire run. According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
