Let’s have another wonderful fairytale by a genuine 🙏❤🙏🤗
The Beautiful Norwegian winter fairy tale collected and written by
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen 1812-1885 and Jørgen Moe.
East of the Sun west of the Moon shows a bridegroom who is in beast form much like the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast including similar tales that go way back to the Roman, Lucius Apuleius 124 CE – 170 CE Philosopher & author.
The story of Cupid and Psyche where the deity Cupid and Psyche wed, she immediately loses him and must tackle several trials and tribulations in order to become his goddess wife.
Kay Nielsen was a Danish artist 1886-1957 that illustrated lovely works of art for the story. His illustration below at Wikimedia Commons in Public Domain.
Translated by Andrew Lang (1844-1912) in The Blue Fairy Book 1889.
Once upon a time there was a poor husbandman who had many children and little to give them in the way…
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Thank you for the reblog lampmagician 😊 Happy Holidays to you family and friends. ⛄❄🐧🎈🎄🎍
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Gratefully thanks from me dear friend, wishing you and your beloved ones too 🙏🤗👍 sincerely Aladin 😊
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Thank you for the the reblog. I have Nielsen’s book of illustrations for these tales. Wonderful.
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Thank you so much lovely Shey 🙏 it must be a wonderful illustration 😊 indeed a beautiful fairytale 🙏❤👍🤗🥰😘😘🙏❤
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Oh I do love that book. I bought it many years ago
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And I think that we can have still fun with it 🤗❤
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Listen the battered Hans Andersen book I got from my parents one Christmas when I was seven is something i still read to this day. You are so right my friend. there is nothing like a fairy tale.
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🤗❤❤🙏🙏😘🙏❤
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