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My Fairytale entry. She's an old creation, but perfect for this category! She's the Defender of the Forest.
Hi sorry to be such a stickler, but what fairytale is she supposed to be from? The entry is supposed to be a fairytale hero/heroine and not an OC.
There are many fairytale references to a "Forest Defender" or the "Defender of the Forest", a supernatural entity, often depicted as a fairy or elf, usually female. I unfortunately can't cite any one story, so if not allowed I have another ready to go.
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:23 pm
Aidylasia Fyrestar
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There are many fairytale references to a "Forest Defender" or the "Defender of the Forest", a supernatural entity, often depicted as a fairy or elf, usually female. I unfortunately can't cite any one story, so if not allowed I have another ready to go.
There are many fairytale references to a "Forest Defender" or the "Defender of the Forest", a supernatural entity, often depicted as a fairy or elf, usually female. I unfortunately can't cite any one story, so if not allowed I have another ready to go.
Little Red Riding Hood, walking thru the forest with some woodland friends.
Thanks she is cute! I like the stag in the background.
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:51 pm
For my Folklore and Fairytales entry, I chose Scheherazade.
Scheherazade is the main character and narrator of the Middle Eastern collection of stories called One Thousand and One Nights (also known as Arabian Nights, told in the frame narrative style which is a story within a story). Her story starts when the current monarch, Shahryar, discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him. He decrees that he will wed a new wife every day and then behead her the next morning before she can dishonor him. Eventually, no more young women of noble blood could be found and so a vizier to the king offers his own daughter, Scheherazade. She was said to be polite and pleasant, wise and witty, and she collected thousands of stories from poets, and studied philosophy and science and history. She knew all of the tales by heart and she used this to her advantage.
It was planned that on her first night with the monarch, she would ask to say goodbye to her sister, Dunyazad, who then would ask for a story. Scheherazade recounted the first tale all night until the sun was rising, but she had purposefully stopped halfway through. The king asked her to continue as he was invested in her story but she said there was no time for it was morning and she was to be beheaded. Instead, he spared her life so that she could continue the story the next night. So Scheherazade finished the tale on the second night and then started a new, more thrilling adventure. The same thing happened. She stopped before the story was complete when dawn came and again Shahryar spared her life. She continued to tell 1,000 stories over 1,001 nights and then she told the king that she had no more tales to tell. However, after listening to Scheherazade's stories night after night, Shahryar had fallen in love with her and made her his queen.
Popular characters featured in the collection of tales in One Thousand and One Nights include: Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Sinbad the Sailor.
For my Folklore and Fairytales entry, I chose Scheherazade.
Scheherazade is the main character and narrator of the Middle Eastern collection of stories called One Thousand and One Nights (also known as Arabian Nights, told in the frame narrative style which is a story within a story). Her story starts when the current monarch, Shahryar, discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him. He decrees that he will wed a new wife every day and then behead her the next morning before she can dishonor him. Eventually, no more young women of noble blood could be found and so a vizier to the king offers his own daughter, Scheherazade. She was said to be polite and pleasant, wise and witty, and she collected thousands of stories from poets, and studied philosophy and science and history. She knew all of the tales by heart and she used this to her advantage.
It was planned that on her first night with the monarch, she would ask to say goodbye to her sister, Dunyazad, who then would ask for a story. Scheherazade recounted the first tale all night until the sun was rising, but she had purposefully stopped halfway through. The king asked her to continue as he was invested in her story but she said there was no time for it was morning and she was to be beheaded. Instead, he spared her life so that she could continue the story the next night. So Scheherazade finished the tale on the second night and then started a new, more thrilling adventure. The same thing happened. She stopped before the story was complete when dawn came and again Shahryar spared her life. She continued to tell 1,000 stories over 1,001 nights and then she told the king that she had no more tales to tell. However, after listening to Scheherazade's stories night after night, Shahryar had fallen in love with her and made her his queen.
Popular characters featured in the collection of tales in One Thousand and One Nights include: Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Sinbad the Sailor.
She is the Weaver Maiden(Vega) from the myth of Altair and Vega, celebrated in China as Qixi Festival and in Japan as Tanabata Festival. Once upon a time there was a poor Cowherd (Altair) who fell in love with a Heavenly Weaver Maiden(Vega). The Jade Emperor found out and was enraged, and the Maiden had to go back home to Heaven. Their forbidden love story moved the magpies, who drew a bridge over the Silver River (Milky Way) so the Cowherd and the Maiden can meet once a year. Quite romantic isn't it?
She is the Weaver Maiden(Vega) from the myth of Altair and Vega, celebrated in China as Qixi Festival and in Japan as Tanabata Festival. Once upon a time there was a poor Cowherd (Altair) who fell in love with a Heavenly Weaver Maiden(Vega). The Jade Emperor found out and was enraged, and the Maiden had to go back home to Heaven. Their forbidden love story moved the magpies, who drew a bridge over the Silver River (Milky Way) so the Cowherd and the Maiden can meet once a year. Quite romantic isn't it?
The Mermaid: In the process of turning to foam, then air. I tried to keep to the Disney inspired colors, with a twist.
The prince and princess celebrate their new marriage aboard a wedding ship, and the Little Mermaid's heart breaks. She thinks of all that she has sacrificed and of all the pain she has endured for the prince. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her, but before dawn, her sisters rise out of the water and bring her a dagger that the Sea Witch has given them in exchange for their long, beautiful hair. If the Little Mermaid kills the prince and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid once more, all her suffering will end, and she will live out her full life in the ocean with her family. However, the Little Mermaid cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping prince lying with his new wife, and she throws the dagger and herself off the ship into the water just as dawn breaks. Her body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warm sun and discovers that she has turned into a luminous and ethereal earthbound spirit, a daughter of the air.
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