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Posts Tagged ‘Folklore’
Enter The Faerie Realm of Lily Wight…
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Arts, Blog, blogging, Faerie, Fairies, fairy tales, Fairytales, Folklore, Galleries, Gallery on June 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Sweetest Tongue Has Sharpest Tooth
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Arts, Big Bad Wolf, fairy tales, Fantasy, Folklore, Galleries, Gothic, Literature, Red Riding Hood on June 11, 2013| 7 Comments »
There are some brand new images of Little Red Riding Hood available now at Lily Wight ~ The Arcade of Arts & Arcana Gallery.
Here are a selected few to fire your imagination, click the link at the end for more…
Azur And Asmar: The Princes’ Quest ~ Movies You Might Have Missed
Posted in Faerie, Movies, Movies You Might Have Missed, tagged Animation, Arts, Azur And Asmar, Entertainment, fairy tales, film, Folklore, French Film, Lotte Reiniger, Michel Ocelot, Movies, Princes Quest, Tales of the Night, The Librarian, Videos, World Cinema on April 22, 2013| 5 Comments »
Regular visitors to Lily Wight ~ The Arcade Of Arts & Arcana can’t seem to get enough of marvellous French animator, Michel Ocelot. If you like the look of Tales Of The Night you’ll probably appreciate this too…
Click for previous Movies You Might Have Missed 🙂
The Librarian: Quest For The Spear
Tales Of The Night
Posted in Movies, Reviews, tagged Animation, Arts, Cartoons, Cinderella, fairy tales, film, Folklore, Lotte Reiniger, Michel Ocelot, Movies, Reviews, Shadow Theatre, Silhouette Animation, Television, TV, Videos, World Cinema on April 16, 2013| 8 Comments »
French animator Michel Ocelot may lack the marketing appeal of a certain mouse but his movies cast more enchantments than a month at Disneyland, Paris.
Tales Of The Night is an anthology of little known silhouette folktales, imagined by would-be moviemakers against a jewel bright backdrop of ancient and exotic locations.
The roots of familiar stories lurk beneath the strange beauty of Ocelot’s shadow theatre in a primal and dangerous form; cunning and tenacity are worth more than might, princess brides are not what they seem, animals speak, werewolves roam and Happy Ever Afters have a high price.
Children used to big-eyed cuteness and easy moralising will be entranced, while grown-ups will feel like children all over again.
Verdict ~ Lovely, hypnotic and bizarre.
If you enjoy silhouette animation click here to watch Lotte Reiniger’s Cinderella in full..
Lotte Reiniger’s Fairy Tales ~ Movies You Might Have Missed
Posted in Faerie, Movies, Movies You Might Have Missed, tagged Adventures of Prince Achmed, Animation, Art, Cinderella, Fairy gif, Fairy tale, film, Folklore, Lotte Reiniger, Movies, Television, Thumbelina, Videos on March 16, 2013| 10 Comments »
German animator Lotte Reiniger created the first surviving full-length animated feature, The Adventures Of Prince Achmed, back in 1926.
An enchanting collection of Reiniger’s paper silhouette Fairy Tale adaptations is now available on DVD.
You can watch Cinderella (1922) right here…
Recommended…
From Aliens To Vampires And Angels To Zombies
Top 5 Blog Posts Of The Year ~ #1
Posted in Art, Reviews, tagged 2012, Arts, Best Blog Post, Door Handle, Door knocker, Enchanted Door, Faerie, Fairy, Fairy Door, fairy tales, Fantasy, Folklore, Mythology, Top Blog Posts on December 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Fairies, Fey, Phaeries, Fay… call them what you will because we love them all at The Arcade of Arts & Arcana.
Return To The Faerie Realm Of Lily Wight, first posted on 31st May, was this year’s top post; the one that featured a very alternative Alice and earned this blogger the nickname “Macabre Cutie”!
Click the link for another peek and rummage through the May 2012 archives for more fairy treasures.
https://lilywight.com/2012/05/31/return-to-the-fairie-realm-of-lily-wight/
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Dark Fairy Theatre ~ Blog Review Of The Year, April 2012
Posted in Movies, Reviews, tagged Beast, Beauty and the Beast, Belle, Dwarf, Emma Watson, fairy tales, Fantasy, Folklore, Horror, Kristin Kreuk, Little Red Riding Hood, McFarlane Toys, Miranda Richardson, Monster, Seven Dwarves, Snow White, Twisted Fairytales, Urban Gothic, werewolf, Wicked Stepmother, witch, Wolf on December 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Dark Fairy Tales & Faerie Lore enchanted everyone at The Arcade Of Arts & Arcana throughout 2012 https://lilywight.com/2012/04/01/the-wonderful-world-of-froud-aprils-magickal-thing/.
Brew yourself something strong, sit back, put your feet up and enjoy the rare gems recommended in the posts Pitch Black & Fey On Film…
https://lilywight.com/2012/04/07/pitch-black-fey-on-film-beauty-the-beast-2-cannon-movie-tales-1987/
https://lilywight.com/2012/04/11/pitch-black-fey-on-film-beauty-the-beast-5-have-you-seen/
https://lilywight.com/2012/04/15/pitch-black-fey-on-film-little-red-riding-hood-2-scary-music/
https://lilywight.com/2012/04/18/pitch-black-fey-on-film-little-red-riding-hood-3-christina-ricci/
https://lilywight.com/2012/04/22/pitch-black-fey-on-film-snow-white-1-a-tale-of-terror/
https://lilywight.com/2012/04/24/pitch-black-fey-on-film-snow-white-2-the-fairest-of-them-all/
https://lilywight.com/2012/04/29/pitch-black-fey-on-film-happy-ever-after/
You Should Not Peep At Goblin Men
Posted in Art, tagged Brian Froud, Christina Rossetti, Fairy, Fairy tale, Folklore, Goblin Market, Literature, Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian on September 23, 2012| 12 Comments »
We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?
“Come buy,” call the goblins
Hobbling down the glen.
“Oh,” cried Lizzie, “Laura, Laura,
You should not peep at goblin men.”
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), Goblin Market.
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Blue Faerie Art
Posted in Art, tagged Bill Willingham, Blue, Brian Froud, Fables, Fairy, Fairytale, Folklore, Gallery, Morgana, Pictures on September 18, 2012| 9 Comments »
Find more Faerie Lore & Fairy Tale images here – https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.174334199353858.37043.100003318388415&type=3&l=b8e3716a99
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“Amid a Sea of Eyes” ~ The Adventuress by Audrey Niffenegger
Posted in Art, Books, Faerie, Macabre, Reviews, tagged Art, Arts, Audrey Niffenegger, books, Fables, fairy tales, Fiction, Folklore, Review, Reviews, The Adventuress, The Time Traveler's Wife on July 8, 2012| 11 Comments »
Audrey Niffenegger, best known as the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife, spins a macabre yet enchanting novel in pictures.
The Adventuress, an ethereal yet tenacious heroine, is created by an alchemist, has a love affair with Napoleon and gives birth to a cat in a quest of Fairy Tale subversions and surreal post-feminism.
The text may tell us of wedding revelry and honeymoons but the fragile images betray subjugation and abuse as The Adventuress is repeatedly betrayed by the promises of love and motherhood. This is a story in which transformation can lead to madness and happy-ever-afters may only be attained through cleansing fire or the release of death.
Niffenegger’s images combine the uncanny distortions of German Expressionist cinema with a sketchiness which invites universal interpretations.
A truly beautiful, unique and inspiring work.
Enter The Faerie Realm of Lily Wight…
Posted in Art, Faerie, tagged Art, Arts, fairy tales, Fairytales, Folklore, Gallery on May 16, 2012| 1 Comment »
If you enjoy a little “Scary Fairy” just click the pics to view an album of inspired images and why not send us a Facebook Friend request while you are there. xx
Gyb Farm
Posted in Books, tagged Fiction, Folklore, Horror, Legends, Literature on May 11, 2012| 3 Comments »
Now this sounds like my kind of read! Impressive research too. x
The reason I bought a Kindle a couple of weeks ago is that I’ve decided to start publishing on it! I’ve launched an imprint called Apparition, tying in with my app development work.
This first book is chock-full of some of the finest, scariest, most bizarre and fascinating true ghost encounters you’re ever likely to read. They all come from the works of George Frederick Lee, a pioneering paranornal researcher whose work is sadly neglected. There is a reason for this (as you’ll learn if you read on) but the result is that very few of his stories have gained wider currency. How the title story, about hideously transformed spirits clawing their way out of the ground to terrify an isolated farmhouse, has escaped attention before now escapes me. Most of the stories are from the UK but many are from the USA and beyond. One of my favourites comes from…
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Pitch Black & Fey on Film. Little Red Riding Hood #3 (Christina Ricci)
Posted in Movies, tagged Arts, Christina Ricci, Fairy tale, Fairytales, film, Folklore, Goth, Gothic, Movies, Red Riding Hood, Urban Gothic, Wolf on April 18, 2012| 2 Comments »
Pitch Black & Fey on Film. Little Red Riding Hood #2 (Scary Music!)
Posted in Movies, TV, tagged Arts, Brian Froud, Fairy tale, Fairytales, Fantasy, film, Folklore, Isabella Rosselini, Lily Wight, Literature, Little Red Riding Hood, Movies, Wolf on April 15, 2012| 3 Comments »
Hello Blogsprites,
Many of you may remember the Cannon Fairy Tale films. Here is a little reminder for Dark Fairy Tale Month, the music accompanying the opening credits is enough to give you nightmares!
While you are here don’t forget to check out April’s Magickal Thing with a link to Brian Froud in the sidebar. x
Pitch Black & Fey on Film. Little Red Riding Hood #1 (Inspired Fan Trailer).
Posted in Movies, Music, tagged Angela Carter, Angela Lansbury, Company of Wolves, David Warner, fairy tales, Fairytale, Films, Folklore, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Little Red Riding Hood, Movies, Neil Jordan, Stephen Rea, werewolf, Wolf on April 13, 2012| 1 Comment »
Few Fairy Tales are as dark and multifaceted as Little Red’s.
Angela Carter wrote the screenplay for Neil Jordan’s lush and evocative adaptation of Carter’s own collected short writings and radio plays.
This wonderful fan trailer for The Company of Wolves is by the talented Hedge Labyrinth with music from the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack.
Thank heaven for little girls, they grow up in the most peculiar ways …
Mo
Lots On Fairy Tales
Posted in Faerie, tagged Fairy, Fairytale, Folklore, Germany, Literature, Snow White, Tales, World Tales on March 30, 2012| 1 Comment »
A brilliant little film, such exciting news about the new cache of Fairy Tales and LOADS more Fairy stuff on its way!
Special fairy tale edition of our usual quick round-up of news and factoids, articles and more that struck our fancy, tickled our interest, and had us scratching our heads. For readers, writers, and genre fans of any form.
A cache of 500 folk tales were discovered in Germany recently, many of which have not been a part of our previously documented understanding of the folk tradition in Europe. From that trove, the fabulous tale of the “Turnip Princess” — which could easily be retitled “The Tao of the Turnip” — the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
This amazing bit of animation is a beautiful, bloody, Red Riding Hood becomes an interesting twisted-origin story of folk lore’s favorite caped crusader. The short film is titled simply “RED”:
The film puts me in mind of one of Roald Dahl’s poems “Little Red Riding…
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Lore of Ireland: Fairies, Mermaids, Yeats
Posted in Faerie, tagged Folklore, Ireland, Poetry on March 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Fairies, Yeats, Ireland. What’s not to love 🙂
A Day In Fairyland
Posted in Faerie, tagged A Day In Fairyland, Art, Arts, books, fairy tales, Fiction, Folklore, Literature on March 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Updated 05/03/2015
I have a wonderful book that my mum gave me, it is about fairies and it was given to her by my grandad on his return from the 2nd world war.
It is an enormous thing measuring about 350mm x 465mm, more like a presentation than a book to be read at bed time but it is a thing of loveliness.
It sits on a shelf in our dining room and it was only when doing a little rearranging lately that I remembered it was there. I flicked through the pages and was reminded of just how interesting it is.
I decided to research it on the internet to discover that it is quite rare and may be of some value. It even has a you tube video showing the plates to music for those not fortunate to have a copy at their disposal.
The dust sheet is still in…
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