FAIRY TALES BLEND mythological pasts and present realities. And like their miniature sisters and brothers (fables and folk tales, myths and legends, ballads and proverbs, even saints’ lives and miracle narratives) their magical micro-universes of honed and coded wisdoms seem ceaselessly combinatorial and connective.
Wonderful Essay/Art. I’m fascinated when folk heroes become the stuff of modern fairytales. It’s also heartening to see how the mass fairytale makers break the bifurcation of defanged/refanged through characters like Cruella and Maleficent. Though it can be hard to love and dislike them at the same time.
Consolation, comeuppance, and escape
Wonderful Essay/Art. I’m fascinated when folk heroes become the stuff of modern fairytales. It’s also heartening to see how the mass fairytale makers break the bifurcation of defanged/refanged through characters like Cruella and Maleficent. Though it can be hard to love and dislike them at the same time.