Curated by University of Colorado Boulder students under the direction of Sean Babbs (Instruction Coordinator for the Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections) and Suzanne Magnanini (Associate ...

Thought fairy tales were all pampered princesses and ... but rescued by a huntsman. In Charles Perrault’s original, there is no happy ending. And the wolf represents a sexual predator.

Most variants of this ATU type come from the French fairy tale by Charles Perrault "Les Fées" or "The Fairies," but the general story comes from a widespread traditional folktale popular in Europe and ...

ATU 312 is mainly comprised of the tale "Bluebeard" and its variations, taken from Charles Perrault's "La Barbe Bleue" first published in 1697. Although there are earlier examples of this tale, the ...

She published most of her fairy tales in 1697 and 1698. The 1690s, in retrospect, kicked off a major wave of the fairy tales genre, with Charles Perrault and others also publishing their collections ...

It's been 75 years since Cinderella taught Us that a dream is a wish your heart makes. Based on the original French fairy tale by Charles Perrault (which was a take on an old folk tale), the 1950 ...

A cave painting of two humans and a pig on the island of Sulawesi serves as one of the earliest examples, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that the telling of stories precedes these surviving ...

Based on the original French fairy tale by Charles Perrault (which was a take on an old folk tale), the 1950 Disney animated film marked the first major film adaptation of the love story.

Charles Perrault published Cendrillon in his 1967 collection of fairy tales in Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The anglicized version of the Cendrillon which means "little ashes." Then in ...

There’s more to this classic tale than sewing mice and magical pumpkins. Ballet Memphis will reprise Steven McMahon’s interpretation of the Charles Perrault fairy tale as the season’s last ...