[ All credit to Jenn Turner, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
[ Hans Christian Andersen – The Little Mermaid ]
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Thirty Years Of Growing Pain(s)
The journey of a "motherless daughter" about to hit 30 and her search for kindred spirits
I just wrote those words (not the exact words, but the exact feeling) a second ago in a comment. I wish I had written those exact words.
They are beautiful – I love the “old” fairy tales – I mean I do enjoy Disney as well, but I love the old Grimms and Andersens tales (wish I could read the Andersen ones in the original tongue as well).
Thank you for (still) sticking around I really appreciate how patient you all are with me 😀
In my head, at present: Part of Your World.
I had a book of Grimms when I was little…the stories had a tendency to be a little frightening though…along with the folk tale books my relatives passed my way.
Yes. They are frightening and gruesome, but that makes them so much more fabulous (well at least in my freaky opinion! 😉 ).
Did you know, the Brothers Grimm were actually charged with travelling through Germany and collecting all the different civil legal laws throughout the country to establish a new unified civil code for Germany? Their stories were basically just the by product of this, because whilst collecting legal customs they also collected German folk lore 😉
What folk tale books did your relatives pass your way? I mean what heritage? Irish? Scottish? Welsh? Or not on the Island at all? 🙂
Wow! I had no idea – fascinating, the historical significance intertwined…
Not on the island, actually…one was of Russian folk tales and the other was a book called “Gypsy Folktales”…while I do have some Russian in my background, I don’t think anyone was trying to connect me to a past of sorts…I do remember that both books made far less sense than the Grimm tales…
Yeah! Some people may argue that Grimm’s Tales were more benefitial for creating a unified Germany, than a unified civil code, but those people – obviously – without exception would not be lawyers 😉
Russian Folk Lore sounds fascinating and my guess is at least equally as gruesome as German folk lore. They must have at least one about an ice-princess/queen/fairy maiden? 😉