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A White Snake retelling set in Melthkior, where Ewan is deceitfully gifted the ability to hear the thoughts of animals and the wounded land itself. Lowri, healer-warrior of the old ways, walks the path with him; Branwen and Arianrhod both have purposes of their own. The book in the series that goes deep into the weight of a gift that wasn't chosen.
One year old. If it's been waiting on your list, today is the right occasion. 🐦⬛🌿
#FantasyRomance #BrodyrAlarch5 #BrothersGrimm #WelshMythology
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/05/wislawa-szymborska-fairy-tales-fear/
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/05/wislawa-szymborska-fairy-tales-fear/
When discussing fairy tales, be aware that there is a significant distinction between
1. fairy tales as folk tales, and
2. fairy tales as a literary genre.
Tales in the first category have a raw, chaotic energy and reflect the mindset of the rural peasantry. Tales in the second category are more "polished" and reflect the mindset and values of the urban bourgeoisie.
And, in fact, tales can move from the first category into the second. The #BrothersGrimm provide a perfect example of this - in their first edition of their famous "Children's and Household Tales", they published the tales pretty much as they heard them. But when they found financial success, they rewrote the tales again and again over the course of six subsequent editions to reflect their own moral views as well as the tastes of the urban middle and upper classes.
The tale of Rapunzel showcases this. In the first edition, Rapunzel unwittingly reveals that she has received a male visitor to the tower when her clothes become too tight - i.e. the prince has knocked her up, although she does not understand that this is what happened. In the seventh edition, she explicitly blurts out that a prince has been visiting her.
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm012a.html
#FairyTale #folklore
Sealed with a Curse is the unifying thread that runs through all six Brodyr Alarch books, the tapestry that holds the series into a single mythic whole. If you haven't found Melthkior yet, this is where it begins. 🦢
Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/Dd0is
Universal: https://books2read.com/SealedwithaCurse
#FantasyRomance #FairyTaleRetelling #BrodyrAlarch #BrothersGrimm #WelshMythology
https://www.europesays.com/3135533/ Cloquet students spend month touring Germany – Cloquet Pine Journal #BlackForest #BrothersGrimm #CaraJago #CloquetGermanExchange #CloquetHighSchool #Dachau #dapp #exchange #GermanAmericanPartnershipProgram #germany #PatrickRadosevich
Cloquet students spend month touring Germany – Cloquet Pine Journal
CLOQUET — Having never left the United States before, Cloquet junior Hendrix Wilkinson missed his home shortly after…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #BlackForest #brothersgrimm #carajago #Cloquetgermanexchange #CloquetHighSchool #dachau #dapp #exchange #German-AmericanPartnershipProgram #PatrickRadosevich
https://www.europesays.com/germany/56215/
Wondering what the Fedi's mytho-poets, Jungian analysts, investigators of the subconscious, & archetype explorers make of the folk tale The Raven, collected by the Brothers Grimm, translated by an unknown person, and performed so well by
Joey DeNoia at the link below.
Very much interested in how you personally understand the story - not what you've found others saying about it.
#JugianArchetypes #BrothersGrimm #TheRaven #FolkTales #RobertBly #JoeyDeNoia #PreModern
One year ago today, Daffodils and Dreams quietly arrived in the world, and I'm not sure I've entirely got over writing it yet! 😆
It's the fourth book in the Brodyr Alarch series, and my Rapunzel retelling. Daffodils in Welsh tradition are stubborn, bright things that push up through the cold without asking permission, and that felt exactly right for this story.🌼🦢
#FolkloreFantasy #WelshFolklore #TalesFromWales #BrodyrAlarch #FantasyRomance #IndieAuthor #BrothersGrimm
SEALED WITH A CURSE is the prequel book in the Brodyr Alarch series, a Welsh gods and Brothers Grimm retelling where the love story grows quietly underneath a curse that asks Selene to make an impossible choice. 🌿
Have you ever loved a romance where the hero's greatest quality is just that he genuinely sees the heroine? 🤍
#FantasyRomance #FairytaleRetelling #WelshGods #BrothersGrimm #RONEAwardNominee
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➡️ books2read.com/SealedwithaCurse
Ewan can hear the land itself speaking, but it's Lowri who makes him listen to something closer to home 🌿 RAVENS AND RUIN is out now. Have you ever loved a slow-burn built on impossible odds?
Which do you love more in a fantasy romance, the slow burn or the moment it finally breaks? 🖤
#Fantasy #Romance #WelshGods #FairytaleRetelling #BrothersGrimm #BrodyrAlarch5
➡️https://books2read.com/Ravens-and-Ruin
💃 Princess Tesni dances every night, her heart bound by an enchantment.
👑 Prince Brenin follows her into the Otherworld, where riddles, gods, and whispers of love await. But can he free her, or will she dance forever?
🌼 Slippers and Songs — Book 1 of the magical Brodyr Alarch series.
💬 Would you risk everything to break someone else’s curse? Or walk away?
#Fantasy #Romance #WelshGods #BrodyrAlarch1 #BrothersGrimm #FairytaleRetelling
https://books2read.com/SlippersandSongs
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/12/wislawa-szymborska-fairy-tales-fear/
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/12/wislawa-szymborska-fairy-tales-fear/
Who Defines Culture?
Since May 2025, Germany has a new government coalition led by the Christian Democrats. There are those among the Christian Democrats whom I respect, even if I might not agree with them. But Chancellor Friedrich Merz is not among them. He is a BlackRock creature through and through, extruded to serve American business interests before those of German citizens, and infused with the soul of Diederich Hessling, the protagonist of Heinrich Mann’s “Der Untertan”. I don’t think he is capable of seeing anyone who isn’t a multi-millionaire as a person deserving of dignity and respect – instead, they are resources to be exploited, or alternatively admonished if they do not work themselves to an early grave for the glory of the all-holy Gross Domestic Product.
With Merz in charge, my expectations for the members of his cabinet were exceedingly low, and indeed they are every bit the grotesque parodies that Merz himself is. My primary attention – and ire – has been focused on the Minister for the Economy and Energy Katherina Reiche, who has waged a one-woman war against renewable energy, favoring outdated fossil fuel business models that harm Germany just as much as they fill the treasuries of autocrats. The recent Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz shows the folly of such policies, but I doubt that the Merz cabinet is capable of learning this lesson (or, indeed, any lessons).
But another lackey of Merz has recently come to my unwelcome attention – Wolfram Weimer, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. He banned three left-leaning bookstores from participating in an award for independent bookstores, and, after receiving pushback, he canceled the award ceremony altogether. This prompted me to take a closer look at this man, and I did not like what I found.
Beyond founding or working for a number of fascist-adjacent conservative magazines and newspapers – Cicero, Die Welt, and so forth – he also seems to hold a number of truly loathsome beliefs. He seems to view cultural identity as something static, inherent in “blood and soil”, rather than something that each generation creates anew. He identifies with the concept of the “Abendland” – “Occident” in English, although this concept is more commonly referred to as “Western Civilization”. And he blames “Decolonization” for the “decline of European supremacy”.
There is a lot to unpack here.
First of all, we need to recognize that the concepts of “Abendland”, “Occident”, or “Western Civilization” are, at their core, a code for White Supremacy. They reduce the USA and Canada (and other English-language former colonies, for that matter) to nothing more than a cultural appendix of Europe – and thus erase the cultural contributions of the First Nations, Black Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and others in favor of white people who want to remain on top of the social heap.
Americans should feel insulted to have their culture reduced to that of “Europe Lite”. Europeans should think twice before invoking such a racist concept.
And by arguing against Decolonization, Weimer makes clear what kind of system he favors – a rich white elite class who alone get to decide what “culture” is, and who gets to impose their vision on everyone else while exploiting them and turning them into serfs.
This is not only insulting to non-white people, but to everyone who isn’t rich. And here is where this intersects with my folklore research.
For all their faults, the Brothers Grimm understood something about culture that Weimer, Merz, and indeed the entire Epstein Class do not and never will: Culture starts at the bottom, not at the top. The Brothers Grimm were passionate about figuring out what made German culture unique, and their approach was to learn about the tales and customs of the peasant population. This was new and revolutionary in Germany – in previous centuries, scholars paid the poor little heed, or else held them in contempt. But to the Brothers Grimm, and the many other folklore researchers who followed in their footsteps, the thoughts of people who were poor mattered.
It wasn’t the peasants sitting around the communal hearth fires who plundered the world and erected monuments to their own vainglory. Instead, they invented stories, developed customs, celebrated festivals, and in general tried to inject a little happiness into their lives which otherwise were full of hard labor and more than a little misery. These people weren’t perfect – plenty of folk tales display more than a little moral myopia. But tried to get by despite all the obstacles in their paths, and the stories they left behind remind us that they existed, and that their lives mattered.
And this is an affront to the sensibilities of Weimer, Merz, and all those who have sold their souls to the oligarchs or even joined their ranks. For all their talk about preserving German or European culture, they hold any culture that they don’t control in utter contempt. They favor fascist aesthetics over anything created, shared and enjoyed by a large number of non-rich people.
As a German patriot, this stance offends me deeply. But we don’t have to buy the stories they are telling. We don’t have to submit to the Mighty Whities and permit them to define what “culture” is and is not. We can tell our own tales, whether old or new. We can create our own customs and traditions, with each generation adding their own threads – no matter where their ancestors came from.
Culture is what we make of it.
#BrothersGrimm #culture #EpsteinClass #folklore #Germany #Merz #Weimer #WhiteSupremacy
March stirs something old and half-remembered. RAVENS AND RUIN asks what we hear when the world grows quiet enough to listen, and whether truth, once known, can ever be unspoken. 🌿
#Fantasy #WelshMythology #FairytaleRetelling #MythicFantasy #BrothersGrimm
Image from Jim Henson's "The Storyteller" #BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #MythologySky #FolkloreSky #FairyTaleSky #GeramnSky #LiteratureSky #BookSky #Mythology #GermanMythology #Folklore #GermanFolklore #FairyTale #GermanFairyTale #Literature #GermanLiterature #Germany #Grimm #BrothersGrimm #JimHenson
The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/27/wislawa-szymborska-fairy-tales-fear/
#GreatExpectations by #CharlesDickens
The story of Pip and the mysterious fortune that changes his life. Meet the haunting Miss Havisham in her decaying wedding dress. 🏚️🎩🕯️
Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/08/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens.html
#GrimmsFairyTales by The #BrothersGrimm
Forget the cartoons—dive into the dark, enchanting, and often brutal roots of the folklore stories you thought you knew. 🌲🐺🍎
Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/11/grimms-fairy-tales-by-brothers-grimm.html
I don't post enough dragons, so here's an especially elaborate one by Kay Nielsen. It's an illustration for the Brothers Grimm story 'The Two Brothers'. #FairyTaleTuesday #dragon #dragons #KayNielsen #BrothersGrimm #illustration #artsky
I don't post enough dragons, so here's an especially elaborate one by Kay Nielsen. It's an illustration for the Brothers Grimm story 'The Two Brothers'. #FairyTaleTuesday #dragon #dragons #KayNielsen #BrothersGrimm #illustration #artsky
December draws near—with druids gathered and a healer’s hall on the horizon, hope stirs… and so does something unexpected between Harri and Ffion.
Are you ready to dream?
#Fantasy #Romance #WelshGods #BrodyrAlarch4 #BrothersGrimm #FairytaleRetelling https://books2read.com/DaffodilsAndDreams
Fairytales aren’t just for children…
🌙 Cursed princesses.
🎶 Songs of the Otherworld.
💖 A love stronger than enchantment.
✨ Slippers and Songs — Book 1 of the Brodyr Alarch series.
#Fantasy #Romance #WelshGods #BrodyrAlarch1 #BrothersGrimm #FairytaleRetelling
https://books2read.com/SlippersandSongs
The Witch
In October 1958 on Shirley Temple's Storybook, Agnes Moorehead brilliantly portrayed the Witch in a producrion of Rapunzel with Carol Lynley & Don Dubbins as Prince Peter ... 6 years before playing another witch - Endora on Bewitched
#thewitch #witch #agnesmoorehead #rapunzel #shirtlytemplesstorybook #fairytale #brothersgrimm #letdownyourhair #carollynley #dondubbins #actress #greatperformances #halloween #halloweenseason #halloweenvibes
✨ What if Rapunzel were set in the world of Welsh mythology? Enter Bridge of Bones, where fate, magic, and courage collide. Join Macsen and Delyth on a spellbinding journey you won’t forget. Ready to escape into legend?
👇 Who’s your favourite myth-inspired hero?
#Fantasy
#Romance
#WelshGods
#BrodyrAlarch3
#BrothersGrimm
#FairytaleRetelling
https://books2read.com/Bridge-of-Bones
🔥 “The fire between them never burned high, but it never died.” – @Debbiereadsbooks
📖 Ravens and Ruin (Brodyr Alarch #5) by @MorganSheppard
⭐ 5/5 – exceptional!
👉 https://archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/ravens-and-ruin-brodyr-alarch-5-by-morgan-sheppard
#Fantasy #Romance #FairytaleRetelling #WelshMythology #BrothersGrimm
💫 The brothers’ fates are bound by magic. The gods are still watching.
In Daffodils and Dreams, Harri’s coronation promises change for his kingdom—until divine meddling sends his future spiralling into legend.
Fans of Sealed with a Curse, your next chapter awaits.
📖 Ancient Wales. Mythic love. A curse worth breaking.
#Fantasy
#Romance
#FridayKiss
#WelshGods
#BrodyrAlarch4
#BrothersGrimm
#FairytaleRetelling
My novel The Fairy Godmother's Tale has just started a Kindle countdown deal! For the next couple of days, you can get it just $0.99:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF96MZYT
Get it while the deal lasts!
#books #Kindle #fantasy #fairytales #SnowWhite #cinderella #historicalfantasy #historicalfiction #brothersgrimm #fiction
Rapunzel
Retelling the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale in 1983 on Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre starring Shelley Duvall as Rapunzel, Jeff Bridges as the Prince and, and Gena Rowlands as the Witch. Narrated by Roddy McDowall. Written by David Wyles. Directed by Gilbert Cates.
#ShelleyDuvall #Rapunzel, #JeffBridges #GenaRowlands #ShelleyDuvallsFaerieTaleTheatre #faerietalethearte #brothersgrimm #fairytale #tv #tvshow #allstarcast #evilwitch #theprince #greatmomentsontv
“Grimm Germany”
#magic #witch #bigboobs #bigbreasts #boobs #breasts #caption #chastity #cleavage #chastitycage #chastitydevice #chastitycaption #chastityslave #forest #woods #darkforest #goth #paleskin #corset #creepy #creepycute #germany #grimm #brothersgrimm #seductress #femdom #femaledomination #dominantwoman #mistress #dominantfemale
Took a chance at entering the Folio Society Illustration Award this year for their #Rapunzel theme - unfortunately wasn’t selected but it was a fun piece to explore and I enjoyed the process. Go check out the amazing longlist of extremely talented illustrators on their page!
🖤📚🖤
#brothersgrimm #fairytale #myth #folklore #folktale #tale #story #illustration #illustrator #folk #grimmsfairytales #darkart #linocut #linoprint #lino #foliosociety
👑🌹 Exciting News! Want to get your hands on an ARC of my upcoming fantasy romance novel? It's a Brothers Grimm fairytale retelling with a Welsh twist! Sign up for a chance to dive into a world of magic, adventure, and love. 👑🌹
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#ARC
#Fantasy
#Romance
#BookLovers
#BrodyrAlarch4
#BrothersGrimm
#WelshMythology
#FairytaleRetelling
🎉✨ Today marks the release of BRIDGE OF BONES, the third book in the Brodyr Alarch series and a retelling of Rapunzel intertwined with Welsh mythology. 🏰 Immerse yourself in the magical realm where fate intertwines with courage. Join Macsen and Delyth on their epic journey through a world of enchantment and destiny. 📚💫
#Fantasy
#Romance
#WelshGods
#BrodyrAlarch3
#BrothersGrimm
#FairytaleRetelling
Out now, the latest single by Bygone Dave
THE PUPPET'S DREAM
A dark Grimm-esque tale of a marionette whose nightmare only ends when he goes to sleep.
Merry Christmas everyone!
https://open.spotify.com/album/0AdXHUagASdDlfOr7ysCp1?si=uRCDCYggREO_3BWlISiDog
#stringpuppets #marionette #brothersgrimm #fairytale #acoustic #bygones #folk #folkmusic #indie #indiemusic #merrychristmas #puppet #dream #slideguitar
A beautiful list of authors who worked as #librarians, even featuring the Brothers Grimm - our very own Göttingen librarians / scholars / authors @subugoe !📚
https://electricliterature.com/15-authors-who-started-as-librarians/
The publication date for my next novel has been set, and the e-book version is now available for pre-order (print edition to follow).
So, coming on March 7, 2025...The Fairy Godmother's Tale
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF96MZYT
#books #fantasy #fairytales #historicalfantasy #brothersgrimm #preorder
And here is the front cover for my upcoming book, The Fairy Godmother's Tale.
#books #fantasy #fairytales #historicalfantasy #brothersgrimm
Every time I read Grimm’s fairy tales I get inspired to try a style of Otto Ubbelohde’s amazing illustrations. And one day I will.
#FairytaleFriday #BrothersGrimm #braciaGrimm #BaśniowyPiątek #fairytale #baśń
Lost books of the Brothers Grimm discovered in Poland
Researchers at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań have discovered a treasure trove of literary history, discovering 27 original volumes from the private library of the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/04/lost-books-of-the-brothers-grimm-discovered-in-poland/
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