Whether collected by The Brothers Grimm, written by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson or by other prolific writers or collected by others, which one is your favorite, and why? And it doesn’t have to have been adapted by Disney.
I ask this because Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson have been by Special Interest for a while now. My favorite is “The Snow Queen”, because unlike most fairytales, it spins the damsel in distress scenario on its head, with the way the heroine saves her boy best friend from the titular snow queen, and along the way meets several different interesting characters. It could make for a great 9 episode miniseries on HBO or something.
So what is your favorite fairytale or fairytale character?
Apparently, she doesn’t appear in just one Russian Folktale. She appears in a lot of them. I myself would be happy just to have a mobile home like hers.
I had a drunken convo with my partner where we speculated that Baba Yaga embodies the fear of the aristocracy and landlords because her home is mobile. But also neither of us knew much about Baba Yaga other than walking chicken house and my recent playing Ravenswatch.
Yeah, she is a more or less pan-slavic entity. Kind of like Odin is for germanic peoples.