Looking for stories that have someone who loses time due to time spent with fairies, or they have spent time in fey-lands and when they return time has moved differently. Similar to what happens in Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle story, but more specifically dealing with more fantasy and folk tale elements. Thank you!

I can only think of horses mentioned a lot

It's about a prince who has a bet with a giant for his life and has to complete 3 impossible tasks, one of them I'm pretty sure was finding a needle in a stable, another was climbing an impossible to climb tree and for each task he is helped by the giants daughter. For climbing the tree she tells him to use her bones which will stick and to touch them on the way down and they will unstick, he can lay them out and she will come back, but he forgets one of her small bones (i think its either a toe or a finger). She turns up at his wedding later and does a trick with some talking birds to remind him of her and they end up together at the end.
Please help me, I'm convinced this was real and so are my family but none of us can remember what it was called!

The story of the goose girl (Grimm089) whose talking white horse’s head is cut off and nailed to the gate😭! What is yours?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8zj6evvtw&pp=ygUWSGVuc2VsIGFuZCBncmV0ZWwgMTk5Ng%3D%3D

I’ll love you forever if you can find the English version 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I owned it around 2010 but im sure it’s older than that. It was a book of multiple short fairytale stories, and it had a couple pictures in it that were all black and white. I only remember this from it:

-There was a toy/doll maker who recently moved to a small village, all the kids buy toys/dolls from him but in the morning all the toys had disappeared from the kids bedrooms/houses. The toy maker puts magic into the toys/dolls, and at night they’d come alive and walk back to the makers shop to be resold to a new child.

And then there’s another one I remember but not much at all.

-There’s a boy and (I don’t remember how) he finds himself in a land made of porridge. A car drove past him and instead of water being splashed on him from a puddle, it was porridge.

If anyone knows the name of them or maybe the name of the book they were in id appreciate it so much 🙏💞

I have for a while now been thinking about this one specific fairytale I really loved as a kid, but I can't seem to remember the name of it (and unfortunately don't know where the book is). I don't remember a lot of it, but at least some.

The fairytale had a main character who was a prince with a lot of brothers, where he was the youngest one. It started with them one day being sent out to hunt in the forest. Either on accident (or on purpose because the other princes were jealous of the youngest one, I can't quite recall) he was left behind. I think while he was in the forest, he had to hide in an old tree from a wild hog or something like that. Then I don't remember much more. What I remember if the ending is that the prince made a deal with a white dove. I think he traded his beauty for the doves freedom or something similar.

That is unfortunately all I can remember. I also know it was a pretty thin book, and it was written in German (although I don't know if it is originally a German fairytale). I also remember it being a bit older.

If anyone has any clues, please let me know. Not being able to find this again has kind of been driving me a bit mad （╹◡╹）

I’m currently working on my final project for my bachelor’s in acting, and I’m looking into different fairytales to get inspiration for where I want to take it.

It seems strange to a modern audience that the mirror just knows who is objectively the fairest in the land, and it named a 7-old-child. I was thinking it could be interesting to see a story where the mirror had its own agenda, so it lied about Snow White being the prettiest. Maybe it’s goal to cause chaos in the kingdom and take over after the turmoil and the queen died. Maybe revenge on the queen or something? Is there anything like that you know of? That’d be interesting to see.

Examples I can think of is Jack and also recently Ivan Tsarevich

Hi guys,

So, I've been thinking about this book from when I was a kid. It was a collection of fairy tales that were illustrated, and the fairy tales were from all around the world. The stories were also pretty graphic for a children's novel if I'm being honest; like it had the original Cinderella story where the stepsisters cut their feet in order to fit the slipper. Another story was Rapunzel and there were a few others that I don't really remember the titles. I'm pretty sure there is one that was a variation of Cinderella with cows and there was one about a girl that had magical shoes that made her dance till she dropped. It was a bunch of weird stories, but I really loved this book as a kid. My dad bought it from Barnes and Noble in 2014 0r 2015 and it had a red cover. If anyone knows what this book is, please let me know. Thanks everyone!!

Hey friends, I'm working on a project and I'm looking for fairytales about/prominently featuring art (painting, music, etc.), anyone know any good ones?