Add to ORKG“Le roi des poissons” (“The Fish King”) and “La sorcière” (“The Witch”) are tales of fantasy and enchantment belonging to France’s rich oral tradition. The oral tales presented here for the first time in an English translation were originally recited in Occitan, or langue d’oc, a Romance language still spoken in many parts of southern France, as in Spain’s Aran Valley, and recognized today as an official language of Catalonia. First published in French translation by Louis Lambert (1835–1908) in 1899, “The Fish King” and “The Witch” offer the modern reader many elements of the popular fairy tale: witches and fairies who perform acts of sorcery, magical potions used to transform humans into animals, the slaying of a beast by a folkloric hero...
Writers from Central African Republic are virtually unknown abroad. This study focuses on the place ...
The proliferation of 17th and 18th century fairy tales in Europe centuries occurred as a result of t...
"In this study I examine three fairy tale authors, Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and Jacob ...
“Le roi des poissons” (“The Fish King”) and “La sorcière” (“The Witch”) are tales of fantasy and enc...
Translated into English by Rosemary H. Thomas; written in Missouri French dialect by Joseph Médard C...
Laurence Harf-Lancner's book, Les fées au moyen âge (Paris, 1984), contains every document one could...
“France’s First Fairy Tales” offers evidence for a broad distribution of Straparola’s tale collectio...
This resource contains 5 extracts of texts in Occitan which were manually annotated with lemmas and ...
Excerpt Among the earliest collections of Breton folktales and folksongs in the nineteenth century w...
The ingenious student.--The ugly princess.--The wolf-child.--The magic mirror.--The black slave.--Th...
L’étude du conte de fées de 1690 à 1789, période de la mode du genre en France, montre que la matièr...
became the source for a huge progeny of children’s books, pantomimes, ballets and folklore.1 The fro...
Mme d’Aulnoy’s “Finette Cendron” underlies an American oral telling, “Belle Finette.” Since no trace...
Since the term fairy tale or conte de fées has become so troublesome for scholars and does not do ju...
The first ideas about magic go back to the earliest periods of human perception of the world. The ea...
Writers from Central African Republic are virtually unknown abroad. This study focuses on the place ...
The proliferation of 17th and 18th century fairy tales in Europe centuries occurred as a result of t...
"In this study I examine three fairy tale authors, Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and Jacob ...
“Le roi des poissons” (“The Fish King”) and “La sorcière” (“The Witch”) are tales of fantasy and enc...
Translated into English by Rosemary H. Thomas; written in Missouri French dialect by Joseph Médard C...
Laurence Harf-Lancner's book, Les fées au moyen âge (Paris, 1984), contains every document one could...
“France’s First Fairy Tales” offers evidence for a broad distribution of Straparola’s tale collectio...
This resource contains 5 extracts of texts in Occitan which were manually annotated with lemmas and ...
Excerpt Among the earliest collections of Breton folktales and folksongs in the nineteenth century w...
The ingenious student.--The ugly princess.--The wolf-child.--The magic mirror.--The black slave.--Th...
L’étude du conte de fées de 1690 à 1789, période de la mode du genre en France, montre que la matièr...
became the source for a huge progeny of children’s books, pantomimes, ballets and folklore.1 The fro...
Mme d’Aulnoy’s “Finette Cendron” underlies an American oral telling, “Belle Finette.” Since no trace...
Since the term fairy tale or conte de fées has become so troublesome for scholars and does not do ju...
The first ideas about magic go back to the earliest periods of human perception of the world. The ea...
Writers from Central African Republic are virtually unknown abroad. This study focuses on the place ...
The proliferation of 17th and 18th century fairy tales in Europe centuries occurred as a result of t...
"In this study I examine three fairy tale authors, Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and Jacob ...