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pacifiquesea
Registered User
(1/27/06 9:14 pm)
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Jewelry in fairy tales/folk tales.
Hello! Don't worry, I didn't sign up just to ask this question and then leave - though I *am* usually more of a lurker.
I've been into jewelry making (and fairy tales) on and off for a few years and I draw inspiration from fairy tales - sometimes the atmosphere, setting, etc. However, in my super-teeny-tiny amount of research, I haven't come across a lot of jewelry in fairy tales. I vaguely remember reading about a story where a princess ties rings into her hero's hair, three rings, one for each time he goes out to sea to fight some monster. So I'm looking for almost anything like that - where jewelry is even mentioned, whether it's prominent or not. Can you think of any?
Thank you!
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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(1/27/06 9:30 pm)
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Re: Jewelry in fairy tales/folk tales.
Try searching the SurLaLune site through Google since the onsite search box is causing problems (something I'm trying to resolve with my hosting service) for some interesting results.
Try the following search phrases:
necklace site:www.surlalunefairytales.com
bracelet site:www.surlalunefairytales.com
etc.
Heidi
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pacifiquesea
Registered User
(1/28/06 10:31 am)
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Re: Jewelry in fairy tales/folk tales.
Thank you thank you!
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cammykitty
Registered User
(1/28/06 11:34 am)
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Re: Jewelry in fairy tales/folk tales.
Interesting question and I'm drawing a blank. My first reaction was there isn't much in fairy tales, but there's tons of magic amulets and the like in modern fantasy.
I'm thinking the nursery rhyme - rings on her fingers & bells on her toes
And in various Irish folklore, the faeries are detered by gold, iron, crosses and bells. Not all together, but I can see you doing some cool jewelry with bells.
& then there's a story where two girls were enchanted and when one spoke, pearls came from her mouth and from the other, frogs and toads.
I used to make jewelry too. Sounds to me like you need to stop by Greengirl.com - it's two sisters who make hand cast pewter beads and medalions, quite fey. Not cheap stuff, but it's really unique.
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pacifiquesea
Registered User
(1/28/06 12:53 pm)
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Re: Jewelry in fairy tales/folk tales.
I'll have to check out greengirl, thank you! Unfortunately, I don't care much for modern fantasy (though I've tried!).
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Random
Registered User
(1/28/06 2:01 pm)
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Jewellery
In Rumpelstiltskin, the miller's daughter gives up her necklace and her ring before being pressured into trading away her unborn child.
In some versions of Donkeyskin, it is the princess's ability to wear her mother's ring that attracts her father's unwelcome attention. Sometimes in the same type of story, she has a ring which slips off into the food she makes for her eventual husband, or he slips one on her finger while they dance, which allows him to identify her later.
That's just what comes to mind immediately - I'm sure there's more.
Edit: in fact, just remembered the magic ring in Beauty and the Beast which allows her to go home and return to the Beast by turning, wishing, and sleeping.
Edited by: Random at: 1/28/06 2:16 pm
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princessterribel
Registered User
(1/29/06 3:31 am)
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MERMAIDS
First of all there are a few variations of Cinderella in which there is a ring rather than a slipper, and these can be found on this site. Aside from that there is not much focus on jewellery other than I think in some Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella versions, when asked by their father what they would like him to bring them at least one of the sisters usually mentions fine jewellery.
However, when you first mentioned jewellery, I immediately thought of a mermaid's purse, I don't know why. It would make a lovely pendant.hehe. Then I thought that mermaid's (although not strictly fairytale, more like myth and fantasy) are usually presented as being draped in pearls and various decorative combs, mermaid mirrors from mother of pearl etc. These could inspire some lovely items of jewellery.
Dragons are also traditionally associated with hoards of gold and jewels, preshious stones etc.
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