Beauty and the Beast
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
A lost merchant finds a palace where everything is served by unseen hands. A rose taken from its garden costs nearly his life, and Beauty chooses to take his place before the Beast.
Tales in the Dovor collection
Fairy tales, folk tales and myths from many traditions, with the symbolic images they carry and the human themes they cross.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Tradição popular norueguesa · Noruega
A young woman given to a white bear breaks a promise and crosses the world to recover the enchanted prince.
Fitcher's Bird
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm
A sorcerer disguised as a beggar carries young women in his basket to a splendid house and gives each an egg, a key and a prohibition. The third sister changes the order of the test and turns every instrument of captivity against him.
Hansel and Gretel
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Alemanha
In a time of famine, two siblings are abandoned in the forest. Pebbles, crumbs and a white bird lead them to an edible house hiding a devouring threat.
Rumpelstiltskin
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm
A miller’s daughter is forced to spin straw into gold under threat of death. A mysterious little man helps her three times, each time demanding a higher price, until the final debt reaches her first child.
The Little Old Woman with Five Cows
E. A. Khudyakov / tradição oral Sakha
A plant gathered by an old woman becomes an extraordinarily beautiful maiden. On the way to her wedding, she is killed and replaced by a monstrous impostor, but a speaking horse preserves the truth.
The Nixie of the Mill-Pond
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm
A bargain made without understanding its price crosses two generations, until a woman seeks to recover the husband taken by the nixie of the pond.
The Red Shoes
Hans Christian Andersen · Dinamarca
A poor girl receives a pair of red shoes and insists on wearing them, even after being forbidden to. The shoes make her dance without stopping, along roads, across fields and into a dark forest, and she cannot get them off her feet. A tale by Hans Christian Andersen with strong images and a definitive ending.
The Three Golden Hairs of the Devil
Irmãos Grimm
A boy born under a prophecy crosses abandonment, a sentence of death and hell itself in order to fulfil his destiny.
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Tradição oral russa, recolhida por Aleksandr Afanásiev · Rússia
When her mother dies, Vasilisa receives a doll and an instruction: feed it and ask its advice whenever misfortune comes. Sent into the forest to fetch fire, she reaches Baba Yaga's hut and must fulfil the tasks of the old woman who eats people.