Author: Jonathan Kieran
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Imagination is All it Takes
Fairy tales emerge across human history. Few equal the Arabian Nights, a collection culled from Persian, Turkish, Indian, and other cultures. The mighty Djinn were frequent antagonists here, inspiring writers like Poe himself. These mystical spirits of folklore have definitely…
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“To Travel is to Live”
Hans Christian Andersen was indeed the most prolific author of original fairy tales in history. His elegant creed: “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give. To roam the roads of lands remote, to…
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There is Power in … LA CHANCLA
Think you know the story of “Cinderella”? Think again. Her adventure didn’t begin with a glass slipper. In the ancient original tale, she was a girl named “Rhodopis”. An eagle stole her sandal & dropped it on the King of…
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Sans Commentaire
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Taboo LOVE in the Nursery!
Yeah, yeah, I realize the cat fiddled, a cow jumped the moon, and someone’s (no doubt yappy) little dog laughed, but the REAL meat in this tale is found in the DISH fleeing with the SPOON. Why did they run?…
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Vampirony?
My new favorite Dracula movie is a movie that does not feature Dracula but which was, in its cinematic origin, a direct rip-off of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and is therefore all about Dracula. Without Dracula. #NOSFERATU #RobertEggers ———————— [ THE…
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Taylor Swift Stole Your Rugrats
The myth of the Pied Piper myth of Hamelin is creepy enough, but some researchers speculate that the children were lured away to be massacred by Midsummer cultists! I favor a more prosaic reason: they were simply headed to a…
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This is Job for Robert Eggers
Rumpelstiltskin, fairytale spinner of straw-into-gold par excellence, was known in many nations: Pancimanci in Hungary, Oniroku in Japan, etc., but we NEED an origin-story MOVIE to discover WHAT he is. Demon? Elf? Imp? Get Robert Eggers on this one, too.…
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Mother Goose Should Give You The Creeps
Though Mother Goose of nursery rhyme and fairytale fame was thought to be an avatar of the Queen of Sheba or a bird-riding French witch, she was apparently Mary Goose (wife of Isaac). Her body molders below in the USA.…
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BookTok On the Bubble?
The potential downfall of BookTok is something authors of every stripe should take seriously. Writers unfamiliar with the controversy can get a bit more up to speed via this new article from USA TODAY. The impact could be massive. —————…
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