tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770811529718101789.post3035682504546995298..comments2024-03-21T00:29:29.587-07:00Comments on Fairy Tale Fandom: Beauties and Beasts in Different Places with Different Faces.Adam Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129844426168129584noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770811529718101789.post-44355129284634645102017-03-27T12:27:43.037-07:002017-03-27T12:27:43.037-07:00Have you ever run across the German "The Ench...Have you ever run across the German "The Enchanted Frog"? I found it on Ashliman's page when I was researching both B&B and The Frog Prince. It's a mashup of the two stories, which I found rather interesting: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/frog.html#colshorn<br /><br />AMOffenwangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429398915780302831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770811529718101789.post-69156599781619982432017-03-27T01:06:57.796-07:002017-03-27T01:06:57.796-07:00You may be interested, if you aren't already a...You may be interested, if you aren't already aware of it, of the story 'Princess Feroza and the Horse Prince', which I read in 'Tales of the Bazaars', a book of folk tales retold by Amina Shah. In that tale, the prince was turned into a horse because he "spoke arrogantly to a sorcerer", but there's no captivity for the Beauty figure; Princess Feroza and the horse are instead partners in a heroic adventure. The horse even serves as Feroza's steed, which sounds like something just waiting for an "edgy" adult rewrite! Ahem.<br />Another fun one from that book is 'The Princess, the Vizier and the Ape', although it gets even further away from Beauty and the Beast as we know it. A creepy vizier contrives a plan to abduct a princess, which involves locking her in a chest. However, her beloved prince rescues her and leaves an ape in the chest instead. The vizier opens the chest and is aghast to see that the princess has been trasnsformed into an ape; but he resolves to stay with the ape and serve it patiently until 'she' turns back into the princess. Ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com