 Fantasy: May 28, 2008 Issue [#2414] |
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Folktales are part of the cultural traditions across the world. Often these stories about methodical animals, ordinary animals with unusual powers and inanimate objects that come alive are the first stories children hear. These fantasy stories contain both poetic and non-poetic elements sometimes in the same story.
The plots to these stories range from alien abductions to multiple births to talking animals and animal brides or bridegrooms. The aliens in folktales are elves, trolls and other creatures, which come from hidden kingdoms right here on earth. These stories contain wizards, dragons and young men raised in isolation who see woman for the first time when their parent or guardian takes them out into the world.
These tales told by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Aesop, to name a few, contain lessons that cause a person to stop and ponder the story. Other stories cover subjects like unusual farts, tests for choosing a bride or people with unusually long names. Some of these tales have there basis in religious text such as the story of Cain and Abel. While others tell about unusual food items, careless girls or boys and disputes over child custody.
Many of us remember these folktales fondly as the first stories our parents either read or told to us. These fantasy stories excited our imagination and caused us to dream about lands and places we could not visit in real life. Today we carry on the tradition of reading these stories to our children and grandchildren. However, in today's world we have folk stories from cultures different from our birth cultural to tell and read to the children in our lives.
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emerin-liseli 
Thanks so much for highlighting my prologue!
Great introduction to dark fantasy. It's a great subgenre, and almost all fantasy novels have SOME elements of it.
Great newsletter!
Hugs,
Em
Amarisa
Neil Gaiman is an author who helped me understand the concept of Dark Fantasy; I didn't start using the term until I encountered his stuff (Neverwhere or Coraline are prime examples). Anne Bishop's Dark Jewels Trilogy adds to that. I use the term not with horror elements or high fantasy, persay, but rather fantasy in a much darker sense, twisted plots and logic, and characters that are commonly anti-heroes. Like film noir, it shows the darker side to fantasy without resorting to horror. I think it also includes a little magical realism. Those two elements (dark fantasy and magical realism) have helped build my writing stle to what it is now, and those aforementioned authors act as muses every time I read them.
What were some of your favorite folktales?
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