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Dans tous les contes, mythes et légendes, les princesses ont toujours raison : ce sont elles qui consentent, qui décident, qui agissent. Elles ont un atout extraordinaire : leur grande sensibilité, qui leur permet de détecter les signaux faibles et de triompher des emmerdes. Dans ce livre, Fabrice Midal propose une lecture philosophique et décapante de cette sagesse dont nous avons hérité mais que nous négligeons. Autrefois, ces histoires n'étaient pas destinées aux enfants : elles s'adressaient aux adultes pour éclairer l'énigme de la condition humaine. Véhiculant un savoir profond, ces histoires donnent des clés pour affronter toutes les formes de violence, d'ignorance et de haine que nous rencontrons dans nos sociétés actuelles.

Fairytales --- Psychoanalysis and fairy tales --- Fairy tales

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Classic text republished as an e-book.

Fairy tales. --- Fairy tales --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales

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Fairy tales are alive with the supernatural - elves, dwarfs, fairies, giants, and trolls, as well as witches with magic wands and sorcerers who cast spells and enchantments. Children into Swans examines these motifs in a range of ancient stories. Moving from the rich period of nineteenth-century fairy tales back as far as the earliest folk literature of northern Europe, Jan Beveridge shows how long these supernatural features have been a part of storytelling, with ancient tales, many from Celtic and Norse mythology, that offer glimpses into a remote era and a pre-Christian sensibility. The earliest stories often show significant differences from what we might expect. Elves mingle with Norse gods, dwarfs belong to a proud clan of magician-smiths, and fairies are shape-shifters emerging from the hills and the sea mist. In story traditions with roots in a pre-Christian imagination, an invisible other world exists alongside our own. From the lost cultures of a thousand years ago, Children into Swans opens the door on some of the most extraordinary worlds ever portrayed in literature - worlds that are both starkly beautiful and full of horrors.

Fairy tales --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales --- History and criticism.

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With this collection, the author retells 36 Jewish fairy tales that are at once otherworldly and earthy, pious and playful. Drawn from around the world, the stories are characterized by their infusion of traditional Jewish characters or by their treatment of Jewish religious themes.

Jews --- Fairy tales. --- Fairy tales --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales --- Folk-lore --- Jews in folk-lore