I don't know what kind of stories you write but Keats wrote a poem called 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' that's ripe with erotic undertones. For the right writer it could haunting, melancholic, or twist it to a good or bad ending, depending on what you like to write. It's not a long poem.
Mostly, non human and fantasy. Although, I do have a story about feet that is awaiting edits, and a work in progress that is a sci-fi about a girl and a chair.
Oh, that sounds interesting.
It's about an underwater fairy that seduces men, trapping them forever even after she moves on another. A fascinating and interesting poem. And it's Keats so you know the verse is beautiful
One last thing and I'll leave you alone. If you do write something based on that poem let me know I would like to read it. Ok, peace.
=) If I do I'll let you know. I do find fairies rather scary so I might.
. Russian folklore is full of scary creatures as well. Good luck with the story!
Ha! Hard to get Disney out of your head with stuff like this. But Irish folklore, and in 19th century lit, faeries are far more malevolent and dangerous.When I think of fairies, I think of Tinkerbell. So my fantasies along this long go in a different direction.
I tend to think of Rumpelstiltskin, Baba Yaga, The Cat in the Hat, sorry I mean Cat-Sith.When I think of fairies, I think of Tinkerbell. So my fantasies along this long go in a different direction.
Baba Yaga! Fricking love the idea of Baba Yaga! An obsession of mine in folklore! She fascinates me like no other mythic/ folkloric figure ever.
I always liked the idea and concept that the motives of faeries in Irish folklore were inscrutable, like the changling concept. Creepy as hell. The Banshee ( I know, not inscrutable there, but still). Kidnapping humans in fairy rings, dancing forever, and for what? Just fascinating.
There are some who argue that she's not a fairy because of her iron teeth. But I figure, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then just because it breathes fire doesn't mean it's not a duck.
. A witch, so yeah a faerie creature. Cannabalistic too. I always think of her as formerly, pre Christian days, as an earth goddess, crone form, associated with the moon. And the cannibalism, which I've never found in a story as actually happening, as a symbol of Death and burial. Reminds me a little of Mother Holle. Always wished there were more stories about that one, too.Wait!!! Does she float like a duck?
. If so there's the Monty Python test...
Would it help if the kelpies could make water weeds act like tentacles?
Ooooo that's an idea! Run with that!
Do you know who Katherine Arden is? She wrote a trilogy a few years back, book 1 is 'The Bear and the Nightingale'. All about Russian folklore and myth. Pretty good and entertaining fiction work. Hits all the major creatures of Russian folklore including Baba Yaga in vol. 3
I haven't heard of her before, thanks for the recommendation though.
