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The Beauty and the Beast
Your wizzley about mythological antecedents to the Wolf and the seven little goats fairy tale caused me to consider other possibly parallel evolutions.
The first paragraph to your introduction considers that "The story of Beauty and the Beast ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/27/2023
How to spot a spammer
Thank you for the additional information.
Do spammers like free blogging services because, despite their weird content there, they expect to funnel traffic to legitimate sites operated elsewhere by them or their phalanx of family and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/27/2023
The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats - A Myth Becoming a Fairy Tale
Your title acquaints us with the possibility of a myth becoming a fairy tale.
Is the reverse, a fairy tale becoming a myth, possible?
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/27/2023
The Puss in the Boots
The first sentence in your introduction alerts us to two possible titles for the above fairy tale: Master cat or Puss in boots.
Online sources confirm what I as francoparlante ("French-speaker") determined as possible original French titles Le ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/27/2023
How to spot a spammer
I am not sure I understand your question, DerdriuMarriner. As 'weird' I mean random sequences of word with an active link in the middle of such sentence, generic comments like 'Gret job, keep it up, etc.' with a link to an unrelated website, and ...
Tolovaj, on 12/27/2023
Best Sources of Free Pictures (Photos, Clip Art, and Other Royalty Free Images)
Pixabay has relatively long and well-defined written rules in its site nd there is also a community with ability to rank published photos.
Tolovaj, on 12/27/2023
Rumpelstiltskin: 10 important transformations of the characters
All three options are legitimate, although we obviously prefer happy endings. But, for instance, at classic fairy tales, we often focus only on the happy end for one character, forgetting about punishment or even death of his nemesis.
Tolovaj, on 12/27/2023
Carl Offterdinger and his vintage illustrations
I agree, DerdriuMarriner.
Tolovaj, on 12/27/2023
How to spot a spammer
The first sentence under the first subheading, Weird language, alerts us to spammer affection for link-building.
Is the link-building to legitimate sites?
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/27/2023
Best Sources of Free Pictures (Photos, Clip Art, and Other Royalty Free Images)
The first paragraph to the first source, Communities of Photographs, advises us that "Everybody can become a member and upload his or her work, but all presented images are handpicked to guarantee an appropriate quality."
What does Pixabay ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/27/2023
Rumpelstiltskin: 10 important transformations of the characters
The first paragraph to your introduction approaches fairy tales as articulating transformation. It approaches that transformation as something that attends both the "main character (and often several other characters)."
Can that transformation ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/27/2023
Carl Offterdinger and his vintage illustrations
The first characteristic Offterdinger illustration, The hare and the hedgehog, appears as an attractive example of the Heinrich von Rustige's influences upon Offterdinger images.
Do you not find that the hare in his running stance and the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/27/2023
Interesting, unknown and fun facts about The Little Mermaid
I have no idea, DerdriuMarriner. I guess nobody asked them;)
Tolovaj, on 12/24/2023
Hop o' My Thumb: 10 facts to know
I don't think so. We can look at the ogre and his wife as symbolic parents. The main goal of the fairy tale is the growing up of the protagonist, so the fcus should be on him. We also know he takes care of his parents and siblings, so there is ...
Tolovaj, on 12/24/2023
10 Symbols in Goose Girl
Seven times beauty was written by Bechstein, the other two by Grimms.
Tolovaj, on 12/24/2023