@TabledFables

A podcast to discuss and dissect fairy tales and fables, hosted by @sophiebushwick and @akraft22

 New York, NY
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Joined July 2012
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Lissa Sloan@LissaSloan7 Oct 2023
“But I forbid you to open one particular room, which this little golden key can unlock.” #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #grimm 📖 “Bluebeard” #brothersgrimm 🎨Gustave Doré
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A fairy-tale good night to you all. Sweet dreams 🖤 (Art by Ulla Thynell)
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Quiz: How well do you know fairy tales? bookriot.com/fairy-tales-qui…

QUIZ: How Well Do You Know Fairy Tales? | Book Riot

From the myriad versions of Cinderella to Baba Yaga, how well do you know fairy tales? Quiz yourself to find out!

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Two Versions of a Classic Fairy Tale: Disneyfying The Little Mermaid tor.com/2023/09/25/disneyfyi…

Two Versions of a Classic Fairy Tale: Disneyfying The Little Mermaid - Reactor

I’m a bit skeptical about the recent Disney trend toward rebooting animated classics as live-action films. I understand that CGI and effects have advanced tremendously, and the animated versions have...

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What fairy tales can teach students about creative writing news.syr.edu/blog/2023/09/26…

Cool Class: Mona Awad’s Art of the Fairy Tale

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"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", 1937
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'Alice in Wonderland' by Alicia Scavino #AliciaScavino #illustration #aliceinwonderland
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Some enchanted forests for all of you from the imagined worlds of Lily Seika Jones
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Maria Tatar@mariamtatar1 Oct 2023
"Before The Brothers Grimm published their story, titled Sneewittchen, the original Italian folktale was about a mother's envy & jealousy towards her own daughter." Original Italian folktale??? thedailystar.net/daily-star-…
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"There are few things more elementally fairy tale than mirrors...So, perhaps mirrors are simply vexing as much as they are sinister—at best, chaotic neutral." tor.com/2023/09/12/mirror-mi…

Mirror, Mirror in the Ward - Reactor

There are few things more elementally fairy tale than mirrors. From classic fairy tales Grimm’s “Snow White” and Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” to ancient myths like Narcissus, there is an intrinsically...

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Maria Tatar@mariamtatar12 Sep 2023
"Beauty is pain. Swim and bear it. Which is a foreshadowing of the bargain she’ll make with the sea witch, trading her tail for feet and pain." "tor.com/2023/09/11/souls-and… via @tordotcom

Souls and Sacrifice: Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid - Reactor

The heart of mermaid lore in the West is one of the great fairy tales, as told by Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Mermaid. She is much beloved in Europe; her statue in Copenhagen is a point of...

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@TitaniasRealm16 Sep 2023
The Blue Bird ('Fågel blå') is a Swedish fairy tale about a prince who is turned into a blue bird because of a curse that is put on him by a troll. The princess never stops loving him, and strength of their love eventually breaks the curse.
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Lissa Sloan@LissaSloan15 Sep 2023
In some Cinderella tales, the animal helpers do more than aid with impossible tasks; they also help in the revenge department. #AnotherCinderella #notdisneyprincess #faustianfriday 🎨Natale Schiavoni
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Lissa Sloan@LissaSloan16 Sep 2023
"The cat leaped upon her and made an end of her. And that is the way of the world." 📖 "The Cat and Mouse in Partnership": The #BrothersGrimm 🎨 Henry Justice Ford @lit_saturday #BookWormSat #murder #fairytales #grim #Caturday
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‘Donkey Skin’ Uses the Power of Song to Remind the World That Incest Is a Massive Bummer indiewire.com/features/best-… via @IndieWire

‘Donkey Skin’ Uses the Power of Song to Remind the World That Incest Is a Massive Bummer

"Donkey Skin," Jacques Demy's incest-tinged Technicolor musical, is a perfect midnight movie fairy tale.

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Book review: In This Dark Fairy Tale, the Beauty Industry Is the Villain nytimes.com/2023/09/09/books…

In This Dark Fairy Tale, the Beauty Industry Is the Villain (Published 2023)

Mona Awad’s new novel, “Rouge,” indicts the quest to be fairest of them all.

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'Beauty and the Beast' #illustration by Felix de Gray, 1926 #Felixdegray #fairytale
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Fairy Tales From the North illustrated by Swedish artist Einar Nerman from 1946
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Ded Moroz lived in the forest in a cottage dripping with icicles. Sometimes described as a blacksmith who forged chains of ice to shackle the earth and to bind the sea... #FaustianFriday 🎨Ivan Bilbin
Frosty snow covered figure rising up out of the snowy forest appearing to a woman in a long brown coat and red head scarf.

ALT Frosty snow covered figure rising up out of the snowy forest appearing to a woman in a long brown coat and red head scarf.

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The Wind’s Tale…a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, circa 1911 🍂
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