We enjoy reading and commenting on the meaning and interpretation of myths and fairytales. If you would like to request a particular myth or fairytale to add to the list please contact us.

For some interesting timelines often featured in fairytales see the pictures below.

The Grimm Fairytales

• True and Untrue Dasent, Sir George Webbe (2001) Popular Tales from the Norse. Dover Publications Inc.
• The Juniper Tree Brothers Grimm tale no. 47
• The Seven Ravens Brothers Grimm tale no. 25, and Aarne-Thompson type 451
• The Woman who became a spider
• The girl without hands Brothers Grimm tale no. 31
• The Frog Prince (or Iron Henry) Brothers Grimm tale no. 1, and Aarne-Thompson type 440
• Bearskin Brothers Grimm tale no. 101, and Aarne-Thompson type 361
• The Crescent Moon Bear Japanese folk tale, 'paraphrased' from the version found in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola
• The Blue Bird Madame D'Aulnoy (1892)
• The Goose Girl by the well Brothers Grimm tale no. 179, and Aarne-Thompson type 923, love like salt.
• The White Snake Brothers Grimm, tale no. 17. It is Aarne-Thompson type 673.
• The Golden Bird Brothers Grimm, tale no. 57. Aarne-Thompson type 550.
• Allerleirauh Brothers Grimm, tale no. 65. Aarne-Thompson type 510B, unnatural love.

Just in case :) Family tree of the Greek gods

• Orpheus and Eurydice Moncrieff, A R Hope. Gramercy Books. New York. Avenel
• Oedipus by Sophocles
• Phaëton
• Amor and Psyche from the Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius

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