What sorts of "creatures from the vasty deep"--fantastical creatures, if you will--would be called if you called them in Minnesota?
There is another Oscar Wilde fairytale called "The Happy Prince" which has winter in it. As does, for that matter "The Selfish Giant". And "The Remarkable Rocket" has a Russian prince.
There is a lovely (with illustrations and words) fairy tale site at:http://www.belinus.co.uk/fairytales/Homeextra.htm. It has fairy stories by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang (all the 'color' fairy tale books), Grimms, Hauffs, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, ... . In fact it's a marvelous time travel place with scans of goreous work and thought.
Actually, if I wrote of fairies in Minnesota, I'd write of sirens in the water and wood maidens in the trees, ... (and likely sod maidens on the side of Plum Creek!)
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Date: 2002-09-12 12:00 pm (UTC)There is another Oscar Wilde fairytale called "The Happy Prince" which has winter in it. As does, for that matter "The Selfish Giant". And "The Remarkable Rocket" has a Russian prince.
There is a lovely (with illustrations and words) fairy tale site at:http://www.belinus.co.uk/fairytales/Homeextra.htm. It has fairy stories by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang (all the 'color' fairy tale books), Grimms, Hauffs, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, ... . In fact it's a marvelous time travel place with scans of goreous work and thought.
Actually, if I wrote of fairies in Minnesota, I'd write of sirens in the water and wood maidens in the trees, ... (and likely sod maidens on the side of Plum Creek!)