We Love Fairy Tales Week Tag
Continuing the general celebratory feel of my last post, Hamlette is hosting a We Love Fairy Tales week over at her blog! For today I thought I'd do the tag. Enjoy - and do go and participate in the party if you're not already! On to the questions: 1. What's your favorite fairy tale? My personal favourite is the Six Swans (though depending on the version, it's sometimes the Seven Swans). Have you read it? A (simplified!) synopsis is that a king marries a wicked woman, from whom he hides his six sons and one daughter. The stepmother finds them and turns the sons into swans. The daughter, who was hiding in another place, discovers that the only way to lift the spell is to sew a shirt for each brother out of nettles, and remain silent for the six years this will take her. During those six years, she meets and marries the king of a neighbouring country; but, when her three children are born and disappear (they have been stolen by the stepmother) she is accused of witchc...
