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.
Wonder tale
The Nixie of the Mill-Pond
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · 1884
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.
- Original title
- The Nix of the Mill-Pond
- Collected by
- Irmãos Grimm
What the app opens
In Dovor, every tale comes in full, with four readings written for it.
- Psychoanalytic readingdesires, lacks, defences and repetitions
- Analytical readingconflicts, compensations and transformation
- Archetypal readinguniversal images, figures and motifs
- Phenomenological observationearth, water, air and fire
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Tradição popular norueguesa · Noruega
A young woman given to a white bear breaks a promise and crosses the world to recover the enchanted prince.
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.