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🐈 In the Catskin tale, a princess flees her father’s unwanted marriage plans by disguising herself in a coat of catskins and working as a servant, but her true identity is eventually revealed and she marries a worthy prince.
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Best disguise for a princess in a "Donkeyskin"/"All-Kinds-of-Fur"/"Catskin"/"Cap o'Rushes" type of tale
A single lowly and dirty animal's skin (e.g. a donkey's or a pig's).
A coat made from every kind of fur
A coat made of cat skins
A coat made of mouse skins
A coat made of louse skins
A coat made of rushes
A wooden suit that makes her look like a living puppet
A magical full-body coating of fur that makes her look like an apelike creature
A magical transformation into an old woman
A magical transformation into an animal
Simple peasants' rags
Other
excerpts from “Catskin” by Kelly Link, published in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer
bro just looking at my cat makes me wonder, what would his name be, cause like. no way his name would be spirit lmfaaoo. - mungojerrie kin (cats)
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Favorite Fairy Tale/Folktale 15
The Six Swans
Catskin
Stingy Jack O'Lantern
The Wolf Queen
Rhodopis
Sohni Mahiwal
The Angel
The Dog in the Sea / The Dog and the Sailor
Jean de l'Ours / John (the) Bear
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So for my third Villainess Background project I stumbled into, I have the Wicked Stepmother from Cinderella. I named her Lenore, after her voice actress Eleanor Audley.
I like the idea that she's actually got a Cinderella-esque backstory. But instead of staying kind or realizing that she shouldn't treat others how she had been, she lets her experiences make her bitter, perpetuating the abuse cycle :/
What I've got so far is her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was ready to marry her off to the first guy who offered, no matter how horrible they were. She wasnt about to put up with that however. So she runs away and ends up as a kitchen maid in a manor house far away from her home, where she's then abused by the Cook who keeps her in the kitchen and tuns her ragged.
She's already becoming hard hearted by then, shrinking away from helping anyone else but herself while she tries to survive, so the fact that her Fairy Godfather who shows up to give her a dress for the manor party is kinds shady and gives some not great advice about "nobody wants to see her real self, just her best self" doesnt phase her too much, it seems pretty par for the course. (Her Fairy Godfather is from the Disney Cruise line play " Twice Charmed" and is named Franco DiFortunato, and is a thoroughly unscrupulous character)
So she wins the heart of the manor owner's son, first just out of mercernary need for power/money--but who starts to melt her heart just enough that when he dies, leaving her alone with two young daughters and facing poverty once again, it actually hurts like anything, and makes her determine to never open her heart again.
I'm thinking maybe one of the reasons she despises Cinderella is she thinks Cinderella is weak for "putting up" with the abuses she gives her, instead of running away like she did. Even though she ran away as an adult from a house she always hated anyway, and Cinderella has been abused since she was a child who can't just up and run away, and still has happy memories connected to her birth parents in her old house.
Credit to Jessie Wilcox Smith and Edmund Dulac for the last two pictures
What are some of your favorite fairy tales? One of mine is "Catskin".
Last Day of March!! My final submission for NH2020 March “Inspo” Theme. <3
“Catskin” by @dayseternal-blog
(sorry, I ran out of time to do the background myself. U n U )
