by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 6, 2017 | Fairy-Tale Files
Unlikely to star in a fairy tale anytime soon, flies nonetheless play a role in the Grimm Brothers’ “The Brave Little Tailor.” A breakfast annoyance, seven flies are felled by the meek clothier with a single swat, his personalized belt which reads “seven in one blow”...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 30, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Files
Saint George slew one. The X-Men’s Kitty Pryde fostered one. Hiccup of the Cressida Cowell series trained one. Literary staples of the scaliest order, dragons have loomed since the time of Beowulf and Gilgamesh. The Greek δράκων (“serpent of huge size, water-snake”)...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 27, 2016 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 24, 2016 | Calls for Submissions
In a time when the shifting political and cultural landscapes of our world are becoming increasingly authoritarian, restrictive, intolerant, and frightening, we have decided to dedicate The Charcoal Issue to fairy tales as forms of resistance and protest. A remnant...
by Fairy Tale Review | Nov 18, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Miscellany
In “The Enchanted Quill,” a recently-discovered Bavarian fairy tale from the 1850s, a crow enlists the help of a woman, the youngest and most open-minded of her sisters. She migrates to the city; employed as a royal servant, it is implied her work will help him return...
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