Mar 31, 2018
A friend recently gave me Philip Pullman's 'Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm', I can't recommend it highly enough. This story is from there.
He says "As quite often in Grimm, we have two separate story types sewn together here. Once the hunter has the bird's heart and the wishing cloak, he could in theory go on to...
Mar 17, 2018
Catskin is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs, in More English Fairy Tales.[1] Marian Roalfe Cox, in her pioneering study of Cinderella, identified as one of the basic types, the Unnatural Father, contrasting with Cinderella itself and Cap O' Rushes. Indeed, some translators of Allerleirauh titled...
Mar 1, 2018
A very dark story about jealously, murder and a magical instrument being made out of the corpse! For me the song came first, this version I'm singing is different to any other I've come across, although this is a great link for some backstory: