East of the Sun, West of the Moon is, according to scholars, one of the oldest fairy tales we know of. The first half shares elements (the unseen groom, peering at him in the dark, only to force him to

This time I went for a classic: Cinderella. But this isn’t the French version, with a fairy godmother and a glass slipper (and mice, if we talk about the Disney version). This is the German version. It has three days

I’m starting with one of the earliest stories from my childhood. In fact, this is the fairy tale my mother talks about. She says that when I was three or so, I was watching a fairy tale show of The