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Venus
Fangs
Registered User
(2/21/04 1:41 pm)
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Dangerous Marriage in Fairytales-looking for tales...
I'm working on a thesis about dangerous or harmful marriages in folk and fairy tales. I'm currently using Bluebeard (of course!) and The Robber Bridegroom. I was hoping a few of you avid readers out there could help me find a few more tales to flesh out my ideas. I have several variations of the above tales, but I was hoping to find at least a few more different stories.
Thank you from the bottom of my lil' old heart!
Edited by: Venus Fangs at: 2/21/04 1:42 pm
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AlisonPegg
Registered User
(2/22/04 4:59 am)
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Re: Dangerous Marriage in Fairytales-looking for tales...
There are many examples of this theme in the old ballads particularly
the Child Ballads. An excellent site for dipping into them and the
music is www.contemplator.com/
Try www.contemplator.com/child/index.html
Edited by: AlisonPegg at: 2/22/04 5:03 am
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Venus
Fangs
Registered User
(2/22/04 1:18 pm)
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Re: Dangerous Marriage in Fairytales-looking for tales...
Wow, that's fantastic! Thank you very much, it's exactly what I
needed. I must admit, I didn't even think of looking to the ballads,
though it seems rather obvious now...
I can actually think of several more off the top of my head. I feel invigorated and ready to research and write again! Hurrah!
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Niniane
Sunyata
Registered User
(2/22/04 2:09 pm)
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Re: Dangerous Marriage in Fairytales-looking for tales...
You might want to (if you haven't already, that is) look into Margaret Atwood's "The Robber Bride", an interesting contemporary version of "The Robber Bridegroom", which looks at destructive relationships from more than one angle.
Anita Harris.
Terra Mythogene
www.mythopoetica.com
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janeyolen
Registered User
(2/23/04 7:19 am)
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Re: Dangerous Marriage in Fairytales-looking for tales...
You should definitely look at the selchie legends which are full of dangerous marriages. (Dangerous for the selchies.) Ditto swan maidens. And often mermaid marriages end up in the mortals being drowned. (See my FISH PRINCE AND OTHER MERMEN STORIES.)
Make sure to look at Melusine stories.
And while you are at it, take a look at my FAVORITE FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD which has a section on marriages, many of which end badly.
Jane Yolen
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aj
Unregistered User
(4/3/04 10:33 pm)
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re
try reading "the fox wife" from Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears--datlow and windling; the woman is forced into an arranged marriage to an abusive man, becomes possesed by a fox, and runs off into the wild (it's a contemporary tale)
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Terri Windling
Unregistered User
(4/4/04 9:03 am)
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marriage tales
I highly recommend Midori Snyder's essay "The Monkey Girl" in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Expanded Edition), edited by Kate Bernheimer. It's a wonderful essay about a dangerous/magical marriage tale.
Heinz Insu Fenkl's essay "Dangerous Women," which looks
at Fox Wife and other Asian tales, is also quite good. It's available
on-line at:www.endicott-studio.com/fordangr.html
The next issue of Realms of Fantasy contains an article I wrote on "magical marriage" folklore.
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