Category Archives: Fairy Tale Lore

Information about fairy tales, fractured or not, and other mythological influences.

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Five Things They Don’t Teach Fairy Godmothers

a fable of fairy godmothers, based on fan fiction by akamarykate Continue reading

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Delightful Fable of Fairy Godmothers.

Now, for the discerning reader, here is a link to a delightful fable about a fable of fairy godmothers. Continue reading

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Fairy Tales for Retelling

Are there any tales other than Cinderella that have not been sufficiently mined, smelted, recast, spun and hammered? Continue reading

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Frog Princesses and Water Nixies

However, once a reader gets past the fairy tales that have been cleaned up to be moral tales for children, one finds a tremendous body of material on various kinds of water beings. One of these is the water nixie–a.k.a. knucker, neck, sprite, sylph, siren, Lorelei, mermaid, melusine, or water-man. Continue reading

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Who’s Maven? Why a Fairy Godmother?

I’ve always loved fractured fairy tales and it was time to start my writing career. Maven Morrigan was born on a pre-internet BBS, and just grew from there. Most of what happens with Maven is true, except that it didn’t happen in just that way to those people in that order. Continue reading

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