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The Enchanted Pig
The Enchanted Pig (Romanian: ''Porcul cel fermecat'') is a Romanian fairy tale, collected in ''Rumanische Märchen'' and also by Petre Ispirescu in '' Legende sau basmele românilor''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''. The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or "The Search for the Lost Husband", wherein a human maiden marries a husband in animal form, breaks a prohibition and has to search for him. Synopsis A king goes to war and tells his daughters they may go anywhere in the castle except one room. One day, they disobey and find a book open in it. It says that the oldest shall marry a prince from the east, the second a prince from the west, and the youngest a pig from the north. The youngest is horror-struck, but her sisters manage to convince her that it is impossible. The king returns and discovers, from the youngest's unhappiness, what they had done. He resolves to face it as best they can. A prince from the east marries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Justice Ford
Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. He came to public attention when he provided the illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s. Early years Henry Justice Ford was the son of Katherine Mary Justice and William Augustus Ford, a solicitor; his paternal grandfather was George Samuel Ford, a well known bill discounter. His father and many of his family were cricketers. His father wrote several articles and books on the subject, and Ford's brother, Francis Ford (1866-1940), played for England in an Ashes series in Australia. He was educated at Repton School and Clare College, Cambridge - where he gained a first class in the Classical Tripos in 1882. He returned to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art and later, at the Bushey School of Art, under the German-born Hubert von Herkomer. Career In 1892, Ford began exhibiting paintings o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rule Of Three (writing)
The rule of three is a writing principle which suggests that a trio of entities such as events or characters is more humorous, satisfying, or effective than other numbers. The audience of this form of text is also thereby more likely to remember the information conveyed because having 3, three entities combines both brevity and rhythm with having the smallest amount of information to create a pattern. Slogans, film titles, and a variety of other things have been structured in threes, a tradition that grew out of oral storytelling and continues in narrative fiction. Examples include the Three Little Pigs, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and the Three Musketeers. Similarly, adjectives are often grouped in threes to emphasize an idea. Meaning The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even Trilogy, whole books. The three elements together are known as a triad. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sprig Of Rosemary
The Sprig of Rosemary ( Catalan: ''Lo romaní'') is a Catalan fairy tale from Spain collected by Dr. D. Francisco de S. Maspons y Labros in ''Cuentos Populars Catalans''. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Pink Fairy Book''. It is related to the international cycle of '' The Search for the Lost Husband'' and is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 425A, "The Animal (Monster) as Bridegroom". Synopsis The fairy tale is about a man who makes his only daughter work very hard. One day after work, he sends her to collect firewood and so she does. While searching for the wood, she picks herself a sprig of rosemary as well. Then a handsome young man appears and asks why she has come to steal his firewood. She replies that her father sent her. The young man leads her to a castle and tells her that he is a great lord and wants to marry her. She agrees, so they marry. While living there, she meets an old woman who looks after the castle and the woman gives her the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Semolina
Master, master's or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles In education: *Master (college), head of a college *Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline *Schoolmaster or master, presiding officer of a school In military: *Master (naval), a former naval rank *Master mariner, a licensed mariner who is qualified to be a sea captain in the merchant marine *Master or shipmaster, the sea captain of a merchant vessel * Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy In orders and organizations: *Master craftsman, in the Medieval guilds In other: *Master (form of address), an English honorific for boys and young men *Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions *Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland * Master of ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of The Hoodie
The Tale of the Hoodie (Scottish Gaelic: ''Ursgeul na Feannaig'') is a Scottish fairy tale, collected by John Francis Campbell in his ''Popular Tales of the West Highlands''. Andrew Lang included it, as ''The Hoodie-Crow'', in '' The Lilac Fairy Book''. In the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, the tale falls under the cycle of the '' Search for the Lost Husband'', wherein the heroine marries a prince in enchanted form, betrays him and has to search for him after he vanishes. Source According to Campbell, the tale was collected by Hector MacLean in Islay from an informant named Ann MacGilvray, a "Cowal woman". Plot summary A farmer's three daughters are each wooed in turn by a hoodie crow. The older two repulse it because it is ugly, but the youngest accepts it, saying it is a pretty creature. After they marry, the crow asks whether she would rather have it be a crow by day and a man by night, or the other way around. She chooses a crow by day, and during the night, he becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon
"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" () is a Norwegian fairy-tale. It was included by Andrew Lang in '' The Blue Fairy Book'' (1889). "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is related to the cycle of the ''Animal as Bridegroom'' or ''The Search for the Lost Husband'', and is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 425A, "The Animal (Monster) as Bridegroom". Other tales of this type include " Black Bull of Norroway", " The Brown Bear of Norway", " The Daughter of the Skies", " The Enchanted Pig", " The Tale of the Hoodie", " Master Semolina", " The Sprig of Rosemary", " The Enchanted Snake", and " White-Bear-King-Valemon". The Swedish version is called " Prince Hat Under the Ground". It was likely an offspring from the tale of " Cupid and Psyche" in ''The Golden Ass'',Neumann, Erich. ''Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine''. Vol. 24. Routledge, 2013. which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daughter Of The Skies
The Daughter of the Skies (Scottish Gaelic: ''Nighean Righ nan Speur''; English: 'Daughter of the King of the Skies') is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in ''Popular Tales of the West Highlands'', listing his informant as James MacLauchlan, a servant from Islay. It is Aarne-Thompson type 425A. Others of this type include '' The Black Bull of Norroway'', ''The Brown Bear of Norway'', ''East of the Sun and West of the Moon'', ''The Enchanted Pig'', ''The Tale of the Hoodie'', ''Master Semolina'', ''The Enchanted Snake'', ''The Sprig of Rosemary'', and ''White-Bear-King-Valemon''. Synopsis A man had daughters, and owned many cattle and sheep, but one day they vanished and he could not find them. A dog offered to find them if a daughter would marry him. The father agreed, if the daughter consented. He asked each of his daughters, and the youngest agreed. They married, and he took her home and turned into a fine man. They stayed for a time, and she wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brown Bear Of Norway
The Brown Bear of Norway is an Irish fairy tale collected by Patrick Kennedy which appeared in his ''Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts'' (1866). It was later included by Andrew Lang in his anthology '' The Lilac Fairy Book'' (1910), though Lang misattributed his source as '' West Highland Tales'' (cf. The Brown Bear of the Green Glen). Others tales of this type include The Black Bull of Norroway, The Daughter of the Skies, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Enchanted Pig, The Tale of the Hoodie, Master Semolina, The Sprig of Rosemary, and White-Bear-King-Valemon. Synopsis A king in Ireland asked his daughters whom they wanted to marry. The oldest wanted the king of Ulster, the second the king of Munster, and the youngest the Brown Bear of Norway. That night, the youngest princess woke to find herself in a grand hall, and a handsome prince on his knees before her, asking her to marry him. They were married at once, and the prince explained that a witch had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Bull Of Norroway
"The Black Bull of Norroway" is a fairy tale from Scotland. A version titled "The Black Bull of Norroway" in the 1870 edition of ''Popular Rhymes of Scotland'' was reprinted in an Anglicised version by Joseph Jacobs in his 1894 book ''More English Fairy Tales''. It was included within '' The Blue Fairy Book'' by Andrew Lang, ''English Fairy Tales'' by Flora Annie Steel, '' Scottish Folk Tales'' by Ruth Manning-Sanders, and ''A Book Of British Fairytales'' by Alan Garner. J. R. R. Tolkien cited it in the essay " On Fairy-Stories" as the example of a " eucatastrophe". It is Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 425A, " The Animal (Monster) as Bridegroom". Others of this type include, The Brown Bear of Norway, The Daughter of the Skies, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Enchanted Pig, The Tale of the Hoodie, Master Semolina, The Sprig of Rosemary, The Enchanted Snake, and White-Bear-King-Valemon. Synopsis A washerwoman's three daughters each in succession ask her to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Jörg Uther
Hans-Jörg Uther (born 20 July 1944) is a German literary scholar and folklorist. Biography Born 20 July 1944, in Herzberg am Harz, Uther studied Folklore, Germanistik and History between 1969 and 1970 at the University of Munich and between 1970 and 1973 at the University of Göttingen. In his last academic year, he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In 1971, he began a period of over 40 years working on the '' Enzyklopädie des Märchens'', initially as a student assistant, from 1973 as an editor. In 1980 he became a PhD with the Dissertation "Behinderte in populären Erzählungen" ("The Disabled in Folktales") in Göttingen. From 1990 to 1992, he was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen, and from 1991 to 1994 at the University-Gesamthochschule Essen. In 1994 he gained his Habilitation there in German studies, literature and folklore. From 2000 he was professor extraordinarius for German and literature studies in Essen. Since 2010, Uther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
