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How did the animals became tame? Learn in this Sami fairy tale How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, a Sami tale collected by Andrew Lang. It’s the latest newsletter pick from Fairytalez.com!
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“Adventures of a horse.” Unknown illustrator, published in The Adventures of a Horse in Peace and War by Unknown Author (1857), Petter and Galpin.
Why is the king kneeling in our story of the week? You’ll just have to see! Fairytalez is sharing our newsletter pick, the Italian fairy tale The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird by Thomas Frederick Crane.
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“The king begs pardon.” Illustration by John Batten, published in Europa’s Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs (1916), G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Each week, we send out a handpicked fairy tale or folktale in our newsletter! No spam, just stories! This week is Nordic myth Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger. Read it below and sign up for the newsletter at Fairytalez.com!
Iduna and Her Apples
“Iduna, the Goddess, tended the tree on which the shining apples grew.” Illustration by Willy Pogany, published in Children of Odin by Padraic Colum (1920), MacMillan.
Every week we’re sharing a new story right in your inbox! This week the tale is The Quest of Cleverness, a Brazilian fairy tale by Elsie Spicer Eells.
“With the lovely princess borne safely upon the butterfly’s wings the prince swiftly escaped from the land of the giants.” Illustration by Helen Barton, published in Tales of Giants from Brazil by Elsie Spicer Eells (1918), Dodd, Mead and Company.
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The story of Snow White is believed to be based on Margaretha von Waldeck, daughter of Count Philip IV of Waldeck.
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Fairytalez.com has expanded again, as we’re updating with Belgian fairy tales and folk tales! Enjoy the work of Jean de Bosschère and other authors now!
Fairytalez is proud to announce a new self-publishing feature where anyone can share their original fairy tale and folk lore stories with the world!
Publish Your Own Stories
With this new feature, writers can do the following at Fairytalez!
User Profiles – Create your own unique profile at Fairytalez. Display your published stories, as well as favorite tales, a biography, and social share buttons.
Favorite Stories – Save favorite tales from the self-published story section or from the “classic” library of authors such as Grimm, Aesop, Perrault, Andersen, and more. Retrieve your favorites to read again and again.
Feedback – Leave comments on other users’ stories, and get feedback on your own writing. Participate in the Fairytalez community and get to know your fellow writers. Enter upcoming writing competitions.
Social Share – Share stories from Fairytalez.com with friends and family on Facebook or Twitter.
Contests – Participate in upcoming writing competitions for Best New Fairy Tale. Enter for a chance to win a digital badge and gift certificates, plus promotion across all of our social networks and the website.
Win Best New Fairy Tale!
To celebrate the new self-publishing feature, we’re having our first writing competition from June 13th to August 15, 2017! Writers from all over the world are invited to submit their original stories for our first “Best New Fairy Tale” competition. Not only will you get to share your fairy tales and receive feedback on your work, you’ll also get to discover other writers just like you. Stories are even entered to win a digital badge and a gift certificate to Amazon. There will be one winner and four finalists in the Best New Fairy Tale competition.
Find all of the details on how to enter at our Competition page! Questions? Feel free to email [email protected]! The competition is free to enter.
We’ve chosen the winner and finalists of our latest writing competition at Fairytalez! This theme was Gender Swap Fairy Tales, and we received nearly 80 entries.
Read Ash and the finalists at our announcement!
A new competition is coming soon!
