Fairytales

[bluntforcemama]

Fairytales often have a gothic streak that I love, harbor sexual innuendos, and usually contain elements of D/s. Cinderella is about as submissive as one can get. The beast in Beauty and the Beast could be a Dom. The princess in The Princess and the Pea is a blatant sensualist. Rapunzel's prince could have been a fetishist, not to mention the slave element of Rapunzel's incarceration.

So what is your favorite fairytale and what might be the underlying reason for its attraction?

 

[graceanne]

I'm actually not a big fan of fairy tales. I think that the prince in sleeping beauty and in snow white was nasty. I mean what kind of man goes up and kisses a sleeping woman that he's never seen or met before?
Also, have you ever noticed in fairy tales that there are not positive mother characters. Either it's the father by himself, or the evil step mother. What's up with that?
Plus the whole happily every after thing. No one lives happily ever after. Things happen, good and bad. Relationships are hard work.

Although, I do like Beauty and the Beast. She sacrifices herself for the good of her father. And then there's none of this, they see eachother and live happily ever after stuff. There's a bit of time where they get to learn more about eachother. They fall in love with the person, not the package.

*edited for typos

 

[redelicious]

Plus the whole happily every after thing. No one lives happily ever after. Things happen, good and bad. Relationships are hard work.

Ever see "Into the Woods?"

I can't think of any BDSM fairy tales, but there is a cross-dressing wolf in Little Red Riding Hood.

 

[Netzach]

I like Oscar Wilde's fairy tales. They are so sad that reading them is an act of masochism.

 

[proserpine]

Orkney Folklore

The people of this island often tell takes about selkies: creatures who are both woman and seal. They are shape shifters of a sort. They only appear in human form during the Spring Equinox and are said to have the voices of sirens. In order to capture a selkie, one must steal her skin that she has left on the rocks while she sings and basks in the sun in her human form. She will then follow you anywhere until her skin is returned and she can return home. There are tales of a man who fell in love with a selkie while she sang, but every time he tried to approach, she would jump into the sea and swim away. He almost starved to death thinking of her. An old wise woman told him to steal her skin on the next Spring Equinox, and she would follow him home. He had to keep the skin hidden from her, though. The story ends sadly.

http://www.patriciarosestudio.com/assets/images/selkie.jpg

 

[graceanne]

Re: Orkney Folklore

The people of this island often tell takes about selkies: creatures who are both woman and seal. They are shape shifters of a sort. They only appear in human form during the Spring Equinox and are said to have the voices of sirens. In order to capture a selkie, one must steal her skin that she has left on the rocks while she sings and basks in the sun in her human form. She will then follow you anywhere until her skin is returned and she can return home. There are tales of a man who fell in love with a selkie while she sang, but every time he tried to approach, she would jump into the sea and swim away. He almost starved to death thinking of her. An old wise woman told him to steal her skin on the next Spring Equinox, and she would follow him home. He had to keep the skin hidden from her, though. The story ends sadly.

http://www.patriciarosestudio.com/assets/images/selkie.jpg

I love the story of the selkies and finfolk. Their's also stories of male selkie that would seduce maids, and get her pregnant. And their's a family out there that has birthmarks that look like places where webs were cut off. Their's even a journal of a nursemaid that took care of one of their ancestors children. She wrote that all of the children were born with finned hands and toes, and she clipped the fins off. Wierd, huh?

 

[FungiUg]

There's a lovely Irish movie called "The Secret of Roan Innish" which is about a family of Selkies. Well worth watching!

 

[SkyBluAngelEyes]

There's a lovely Irish movie called "The Secret of Roan Innish" which is about a family of Selkies. Well worth watching!

*note to self: Put on wish list to watch*

 

[m wisdom]

Snowwhite is one of my favorites, and the reason?

http://hus7.rsn.bth.se/~magnus/misc/snow11.jpg

Do I need to say more

 

[Betticus]

What about that one where the young girl is taking some lunch to her grandmother out in the woods only to be chased down by a pack of wolves and rescued by a massively hung lumberjack that keeps her tied up in a small cabin performing his every whim. She finds out only after she falls in love with him that he is the one keeping the trained pack of wolves that help him to kidnap innocent young girls.