A girl’s outdoor picnic goes horribly wrong because of bad communication and even worse navigation.
- Little Red Riding Hood
“The princess felt something hard under the twenty mattresses and the twenty feather beds.”
— The Princess and the Pea (Hans Christian Andersen)
In fairy tales things can happen ___ or ___ times
3 & 7
Snow white:
Disney version (1937): The queen simply falls off a cliff after her plans fail.
Original (Grimm Brothers): The evil queen is forced to wear red-hot iron shoes and dance to death at Snow White’s wedding.
Name the professor's real name in narnia
Digory
A teenager with extreme hair growth issues gets locked in a tower, then immediately trusts the first man who shows up yelling her name.
- Rapunzel
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”
— The witch - Snow White (Brothers Grimm)
Every fairytale has a _________ character and a __________ character.
good and evil
Cinderella
Disney version (1950): The stepsisters are forgiven; the story ends happily with the prince and Cinderella marrying.
Original (Grimm Brothers): The stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to try to fit the slipper, and later have their eyes pecked out by birds.
Name the characters we met in class in the first chapter of Narnia
Lucie, Mr Tumnus, Peter, Susan, Edmund, The professor
A woman falls asleep so hard that an entire kingdom gives up and does nothing for 100 years until some dude finally shows up
- Sleeping Beauty
“I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!”
— Wolf - The Three Little Pigs
Every fairytale begins with ______ and ends with ________
Once upon a time... & They lived happily ever after.
The Little Mermaid
Disney version (1989): Ariel marries Prince Eric, gets her human form permanently, and lives “happily ever after.”
Original (Hans Christian Andersen): The mermaid doesn’t get the prince, he marries someone else and she dissolves into seafoam and becomes a “daughter of the air”
What was the reason for the wardrobes creation
The apple grew into a tree, the tree was destroyed in a storm and was preserved as the known wardrobe
A guy trades the family’s entire food supply for a single bean, which somehow turns into a crime scene involving burglary, trespassing, and giant murder.
- Jack and the Beanstalk
“What a lovely tail you have!”
— The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen)
(Said by the sea witch describing her human form.)
Every fairytale involves some sort of _______
Magic
Rapunzel:
Disney-style (e.g., Tangled): Rapunzel cuts off her hair to escape, and they live happily ever after.
The prince is blinded when he falls from Rapunzel’s tower in a bush of thorns Rapunzel eventually heals him with her tears in a desert
Name a Folk tale We have read
"The farmer's sons" or "The lion and the mouse "
A woman ruins her own apartment by spinning too much, cries about it, accidentally summons a short angry man with a gambling addiction, then forgets his name so hard that it becomes the entire plot.
- Rumpelstiltskin
“Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!”
- Jack and the Beanstalk
Name at least three evil characters you encounter in fairytales
What are giants, goblins, wolves, foxes, trolls, dragons, and stepmothers.
The Frog Prince
Disney version / modern retellings: She kisses the frog, breaking the spell.
Original (Grimm Brothers): The princess throws the frog against a wall in disgust, which breaks the spell.
Name a fairytale we have read
Lazy jack