What is your favourite fairy tale?

[Josephine]

My favorite, long before the Disney version was “Beauty and the Beast”. It’s probably one of the only ones where the heroine actually spent time with her hero before they went off into the sunset together. I remember as a child loving when the Beast would ask Beauty every night, “Beauty, will you marry me?” and she’d reply, “No, Beast, I will not.” It was only after she went back to her family and missed him terribly that she realized what had happened…that she had fallen in love somewhere along the way, too. So romantic!

I do like the original Snow White. I’ve never been that enamored of the the Disney version, after you get past the songs, but the original (okay, not original, but non-Disney) version is much more interesting. Not only does the Evil Queen poison her, but she only does it after the third attempt. Then she’s awoken, not by True Love’s Kiss, but by one of the traveling Prince’s men tripping over a tree root and dislodging the piece of apple. Interesting story, but I’ve never really considered it romantic.

[once_dude]

this is disappointing to me: as an English major I a most familiar with the tales told by Disney rahter than those told by Grimm and Anderson.

However here are my picks: 1. snow White 2. Rumpelstiltskin 3. the Pied Piper 4. Peter and the Wolf (since that was said as a fairytale)  5. Brementown musicians. 6. the six soldiers (i remembered it from the once upon a time collection) 7. i forget its proper name but it was about two mice and a tub of fat.

modern fairytales: Alice in wonderland, through the looking glass and what alice found there, peter pan. (i have not read wizard of oz yet but that is next)

Magic always comes with a price, so I pay with visa.

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