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New Twists on Old Tales
The brothers Grimm wrote over 200 fairy tales and documented more than 500 folklore legends in the 1800's. While many like Cinderella and Rapunzel are well known, quite a few tales are not. Tales like Fitcher's Bird are quite gruesome. The German folklore they recorded are much like today's urban legends. The origin of the term "fairy tales" comes from Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baronne d'Aulnoy, a french writer who termed her work "contes de fée".
Fairy tales and urban legends are told in every part of the world. These stories, told over and over, continue to be inspiration to new authors. William Shakespeare's King Lear and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are considered to be variations of old tales. Hans Christian Andersen continued the tradition of drawing on old tales to create something new. George MacDonald also used parts of tales to create his fantasy writing.
So if you're looking for some reading to inspire a new tale from your pen, try reading some fairy tales. But please, read them first before indulging a bedtime story for your children. Or it may be a very long night...
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Excerpt: A rock fell from the sky and struck Hawk squarely in the face, breaking his nose.
“Tk, Tk,” The gryphon clicked its beak twice in what passed for that species’ laughter.
Excerpt: I'm “Cinderella” if you want to use that name. But that's not how my story goes. I wasn't some poor pathetic maiden who was of needing a prince to come and rescue me. I didn't need rescuing at all at least not from a evil stepmother and stepsisters. I had better things to worry about. Like someone trying to kill my prince.
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Excerpt: It all started on what seemed to be a normal day. I was out tending my garden, when I heard a twig snap behind me. I whirled around, just in time to catch a glimpse of a man, dashing for the bushes. I jumped up, and raced after him, cornering him at the wall that separated me from my neighbors. In his arms was a basket full of vegetables from my garden.
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Excerpt: Locked in a tower, far away from the entrance of her father's manor, Ashley stood tippy-toed, allowing her to see from a narrow window. The royal carriage could just be made out as pulled into the driveway of her father's manor. Ashley refused to let a single tear fall, but she was overflowing with worry.
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Excerpt: Prince Charmings generally were only capable of riding by in time to rescue damsels in distress or to cause said distress in the first place. The current model felt rather out of place, then, having just scaled a high wall to catch sight of a lovely maiden with a gruesome haircut lobbing produce at a tower. She was aiming at its top, but her throwing arm left something to be desired. There were signs of improvement, as the splatter stains on the stone were fresher higher up, but there was a good thirty feet of spotless wall beneath her target: a gaping square hole, out which obscenities screamed.
Excerpt: Once upon a time, deep in the Smokey mountains of Appalachian country, lived a poor girl named Cindy sueann Maryjane. Folks called her Cindersue fer short, becus like most all the mountain people, she had been given three first names at the time she was born. She was a skinny but healthy tanned mountain girl, and she could look purdy if she was cleaned up some.
Excerpt: Alice could hear it gaining speed as the sound of trampled leaves grew louder with each stride her short legs took. Ever since she was a little girl, Grandma insisted they only visit her in the evening because the wolf hunted during the day and was rarely seen about at night time. She always wondered why her mother would send her and her brothers and sisters, out so late just to bring Grandma her precious jars of strawberry preserves, even when it has cost some of them their lives.
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Excerpt: Once upon a time there were four little Marauders who'd finally grown up and were ready to make their way in the world. So they left Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to seek their fortunes.
Excerpt: Great! Now I am most definitely lost. I can’t believe this. Lost. In my own woods. Argh! And it is all her fault. Darn woman, why she gotta fight with me like that.
I stop and scratch a twig from my fur and let out a long, mournful howl like only us wolves can. Usually a good howl is prideful and happy, and even a comfort in stressful times. It doesn’t comfort me this time. I truly feel as sad as it sounds.
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