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“Diamonds and Toads”: A Fairy Tale About Getting What You Deserve?

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Illustration of a scene from "Diamonds and Toads" or "The Fairies": A young woman fills a jug of water, while an old woman rests in the background.
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Fairy Tales

“Diamonds and Toads”: A Fairy Tale About Getting What You Deserve?

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Unnatural Love and Healing: Charles Perrault’s “Donkey-Skin” and Other Fairy Tales

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Imprisonment and the Fairy Tales of Henriette Julie de Murat

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Two Visions of Transformation: Riquet with the Tuft

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Enchantment and Distrust: Marie-Jeanne L’Heritier’s The Discreet Princess

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Trickery, Social Climbing, and Possibly Fish: Puss in Boots

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Questioning History Through Fairy Tale: Anatole France’s The Seven Wives of Bluebeard

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A Fairy Tale Warning: Little Red Riding Hood

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Rereads and Rewatches
Disney Read-Watch

Cannibalism and Other Nightmarish Things: Sleeping Beauty

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Movies & TV
Disney

A Pair of Magical Shoes: Variations on “Cinderella”

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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