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The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats - A Myth Becoming a Fairy Tale
The second myth antecedent to fairy tales, Cronus was eating his children, alerts us to Cronus' "fate - one of his own kids will dethrone him just like he did his father. To prevent this happening, he decided to eat all of his posterity right ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
The Puss in the Boots
The first fact, One of many stories about the animal helper, mentions "a female cat in Italy (enchanted princess) and a male cat in France (typical trickster),"
Might fairy tales always, never, sometimes present female animal sentients more ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
How to spot a spammer
The second telltale spammer sign, Short and boring looking posts, causes me to wonder even more why it is that spammers spam.
Do spammer sites feature legitimate products or get legitimate ads that generate substantial income?
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
The Beauty and the Beast
Your introduction alerts us to the beauty and the beast fairytale as "popular for several hundred years already and it's still going strong. We know it in dozens of versions, yet French one seems to be the most influential of all. We are dealing ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Best Sources of Free Pictures (Photos, Clip Art, and Other Royalty Free Images)
The first subheaded free-image source, Communities of photographs, appears to equate Pixabay with high resolution and Pixnio with high originality.
Membership in both communities perhaps can be considered a dreamed-of merger of two bestest ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Who was Giambattista Basile?
The second paragraph to the second fact, Naples, apprises us of the last name Basile being the only knowable about Giambattista's paternal heritage.
It's interesting that Basile managed to obtain socio-economic success despite "his middle-class ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Charles Perrault: Biography - Just the Facts
The first fact, Wealthy Family, First Class Education, describes Perrault as from "a wealthy family" but "without noble heritage."
What socio-economic class or segment did Perrault belong to?
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Carl Offterdinger and his vintage illustrations
Thank you for the link at the end of the first-listed Offterdinger illustration, The hare and the hedgehog (fairy tales by Grimm Brothers).
That link's Children's and household tales by Brothers Grimm site begins with The hare and the hedgehog ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Rumpelstiltskin: 10 important transformations of the characters
The summary statement attributes our acquaintance with Rumpelstiltskin to the Grimm Brothers' assiduous fairy-tale collecting.
English Wikipedia and English Wiktionary commence the name with Johann Fischart (1546/1547?-1590/1591?) considering ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
What is the Point of an Artist Painting a Selfie
Your introduction begins with the question "Have you ever taken a selfie?"
No, I never have painted, sculpted, sketched or taken a selfie!
What reason might Rembrandt give if posthumously -- ;-D -- we question all his selfies?
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Death of Nola: Only Three Known Living Northern White Rhinoceroses
Thank you for stopping by and empathizing with northern white rhinoceroses.
The article The Northern White Rhino Went Extinct, But for Two Minutes at a Time, the Animal Makes a Digital Comeback by Alice George March 3, 2020, for Smithsonian ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
North Indian Chicken Caesar Salad: Celebrate Julius Caesar's Birthday July 12 or 13
Thank you for stopping by and liking North Indian chicken Caesar salad!
Caesar salad is one of my favorite salads because I still remember as a child -- whose father taught his children languages such as Greek and Latin so that they were multi ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Daniel Kotynia - From the Extreme to the Sublime
The image left of your title particularly draws me (or as Unitedstatesians say, "speaks to me" ;-D!).
The cursor draws up nothing for it even as it draws up the titles of all in-text images.
May I ask what is the image next to your title ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Rumpelstiltskin: 10 important transformations of the characters
The second paragraph to your introduction directs us to the fairy-tale truth that "We can also say that at least one of the characters should at least symbolically grow up, what is in fairy tales is mostly shown by getting a job, finding a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/28/2023
Death of Nola: Only Three Known Living Northern White Rhinoceroses
I enjoyed reading this article, even though it was unfortunate. Have I got this right? The death of 41-year-old Nola at California’s San Diego Zoo spells extinction for northern white rhinoceroses.
So, there is no hope of stopping them from ...
Jo_Murphy, on 12/28/2023