Does anyone have any fairy tales that they just love? Although it is somewhat hard to admit I have some fairy tales that just never get old. I really like to hear Rumplestiltskin.

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My favorite fairy tale is Brother and Sister!It's a twisted version of Hansel and Gretel!Except Brother gets turned into a deer and sister marries a King.Then after she has a baby, Sister is killed by her stepmother and step sister!Then her ghost comes back and tells the King the truth.He has the stepmother excuted and Sister comes back to life and Brother becomes human again!

I don't know why I love this fairy tale so much but I do! I also like Rumplstilskin!I like the version my sister did with her class in a play it was so funny!

I personally like lil Red ridding hood or Hansel & Grettle. Though I'm more drawn to new age fairy tales where everything doesn't end all with butterflies and magic.

More adult bases fairy tales, like twisted oz and Twisted Fairy Tales by Mc Farlen. Or anything by Ann Rice for that matter.

But as far as kiddie Fairy Tales go, Red Ridding hood would be the clean winner.

I never took a liking to a fairytale... I would like to see some musicals of fictional books though. =] Do you count those as fairytales? I wish I could watch a musical, it'd be awesome. My friends have been talking about how awesome it is to watch a musical live... So not fair. D:

the one fairy tale that i absolutly LOVE is alice in wounderland!! it never gets old,i've seen tons of different versions.

Oh yes Alice in Wonderland Rules!
Though the correct title is "Alice's Adeventures in Wonderlan!"
I just finished reading the unabrigded version fo the book and loved it!
The Disney cartoon of the movie is way off!

The story used to scare me!

Originally Posted by Clair Voyant

My favorite fairy tale is Brother and Sister!It's a twisted version of Hansel and Gretel!Except Brother gets turned into a deer and sister marries a King.Then after she has a baby, Sister is killed by her stepmother and step sister!Then her ghost comes back and tells the King the truth.He has the stepmother excuted and Sister comes back to life and Brother becomes human again!

I don't know why I love this fairy tale so much but I do! I also like Rumplstilskin!I like the version my sister did with her class in a play it was so funny!

The version I read of this was called Hansel and Gretel, and I must say, it didn't have that much of a sadistic twist to it.

I like Rumplestiltskin too.
But my favorites are Beauty and
the Beast, Snow White and
Jack and then Beanstalk.

i like all fairytale, but especially love one

Hmmmm....fairytale right?

I like, The Little Mermaid, although its really sad.

I also like...

Rapunzel! :>

I love practically every fairy tale I see.. BUT I do have a favorite.. It's the Beauty and the Beast.. Nice story!

Ooh, fairy tales <3
There's this book written byy...Tanith Lee called "Red as Blood", and it has wonderfully creepy and dark twists on old fairy tales like Snow White, Cinderella, and Rapunzel <33
Now if only I could find it...xD

I've always loved fairy tales.

I kind of grew up on those cheezy 80's fairy tale movies.

There was a live version of Rumpelstiltskin that was really good.

And there was this cartoon that used to be on Nick that was like the fairy tales, there would be a different fairy tale every day.

And the animated Peter Pan Cartoon that was on fox.

And I still love the Frog Prince with Kermit and Sir Robin the Brave. xD


I used to read fantasy magazine where they went into the origins of Fairy Tales. Like Sleeping Beauty being raped by a passing prince who then leaves her and she wakes up nine months pregnant.

Or the wicked step-sisters in the iron shoes with their eyes picked out. :O


But anyway, much nastier than Disney. xD

There was this fairy tale that I always kind of liked, it was called "Rose Red and Snow White" and the two were really pretty sisters. They were out getting something for their mother and they found a dwarf or lepricaun that had his beard stuck. And they freed him by cutting his beard, and he got pissed off. The same pattern followed two more times and the dwarf/lepricaun finally tried to kill them (I think) and a talking bear comes along and saves them by eating the dwarf/lepricaun.

They were able to find the creature's gold hoard that it was trying to hide from the girls and they were able to live in a nice cabin. The bear would visit and Rose Red (or Snow White, I can't remember at the moment) fell in love with the bear. They found out later when the bear was injured that he was a prince that had been enchanted by the dwarf/lepricaun. And the girls moved to the prince's castle where Rose Red married the bear/prince and her sister married the prince's brother.

I'm not sure if it'd be considered a fairy tale, but I always loved The Little Match Girl. So incredibly sad, but beautiful.
As far as ones that I know are fairy tales, I love Sleeping Beauty as well.

^ I'd consider that a fairy tale. Or a folk tale, at least. It was one of the original stories from the Brothers Grimm, just not one of the best publicized. After all, it doesn't exactly have a happy ending...

That is a sad and beautiful story!

The Little Match Girl was Hans Christian Andersen, not the Brothers Grimm though.

yes I know... but brothers grimm aren't the only writers of fairy tales you know!

Opps! Wrong collection, sorry. I've got the complete works of both sitting on my shelf right next to each other, and I was just thinking of the wrong one.

Does anyone remember a fairy tale about a murderer who killed a lot of girls?

He was going to get married to a girl but she had some apprehensions about him, so she snuck into his house and found out about his nasty little habit.
(Dead bodys, tub full of blood, ect.)

She she snuck out with the ring finger of one of the dead girls and at dinner than night she started asking him questions about the murders, which he denied. Then she brought out the severed finger and her brothers killed him.

Does anyone know what that story was called or if it was by Grimm or someone else?

I love Hansel and Gretel. <3 It's just so cute!

I also love the Wizard of Oz, if that counts...although it's probably only because I like Wicked. xD;

I luff Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel. <33333

I can never get tired of them.
I'm such a sucker for prince-sweeps-away-princess fairy tales.
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Originally Posted by Jaina Solo

Does anyone remember a fairy tale about a murderer who killed a lot of girls?

He was going to get married to a girl but she had some apprehensions about him, so she snuck into his house and found out about his nasty little habit.
(Dead bodys, tub full of blood, ect.)

She she snuck out with the ring finger of one of the dead girls and at dinner than night she started asking him questions about the murders, which he denied. Then she brought out the severed finger and her brothers killed him.

Does anyone know what that story was called or if it was by Grimm or someone else?

I remember reading something like that,but the one I remember had all the bodys in this one room,and the man(something-beard,I can't remember,)had gone on a trip and left the keys with his latest wife,along with a warning not to use a particular one of them.She gets bored and/or curious and gos in the room with the corpses,but when she re-locks the door the key turns blood red,and she spends the rest of the time untill her husband gets home trying to scrub it clean.She trys to hide the stained key,he finds out what she did,is about to kill her,her brothers arrive in the nick of time and save her,and there was something about her sister,but I don't remember exactly how she fit in...

One of my fav's is Snow-White and Rose-Red,partily thanks to a rewrite of it called "Shadow of the Bear".