Official Mod's Contest - 'Fairy tales and Mythical Characters'

Here is mine..

From Estonian fairy tale "Kullaketrajad"(Gold spinners).
It talks about three girls who were captivated by an evil witch. They worked with her old spinning wheels and made cold strings. One of the girls tried to escape but she failed. Despite that she beat the old witch with the help of a young prince.

I'm American, and America doesn't really have any mythology. There are tall tales though, and one of them is the tale of Johnny Appleseed. Johnny Appleseed had eyes as blue as the bluest cornflower, he wore old patched-up pants, and a rope belt to hold them up. He wasn't very tall, he never wore shoes, and he wore a old pot on his head. After the American Revolution, people were moving into territories where no settlers had been before. Johnny wondered where people would get their apples from. He had a dream in which an angel told him to to travel west and plant apple trees wherever he went. Along the way he made friends with a wolf who was his closest companion. The years passed and a snow storm hit. Johnny Appleseed found a cabin and lied down on the porch. As he closed his eyes, an angel came and told him that he had done all he was asked and more, and the angel told Johnny that he would take him to a place where he could plant his remaining seeds. Johnny was found in the morning with a smile on his face and an apple in his hand. ( This hat was the closest I could come to a pot!)

I'm from Argentina
and this is my representation of Little Mermaid..
from Disney Channel xD







The Little Mermaid (Danish: Den lille havfrue) is a fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a merperson to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince. The tale was first published in 1837 and has been adapted to various media including musical theater and animated film.

Last edited by anii235 (11-30-2008 03:43)

snow white goes punk!!!
from snow white and the 7 dwarfs

Morrigan Irish Dea










Morrigan by Koehen








The Morrígan ("terror" or "phantom queen") or Mórrígan ("great queen") (also known as Morrígu, Morríghan, Mor-Ríoghain, sometimes given in the plural as Morrígna) is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have once been a goddess, although she is not explicitly referred to as such in the texts.

She is associated with sovereignty, prophecy, war, and death on the battlefield. She sometimes appears in the form of a carrion crow, flying above the warriors, and in the Ulster cycle she also takes the form of an eel, a wolf, and a cow. She is generally considered a war deity comparable with the Germanic Valkyries, although her association with cattle also suggests a role connected with fertility, wealth, and the land.

Last edited by melanina (11-28-2008 21:10)

circe

















In Greek mythology, Circe (sərsē; Greek Κί

Last edited by TRESETTINA (11-28-2008 21:41)

The Mermaid of Zennor - from Cornwall.

http://www.connexions.co.uk/culture/html/mz.htm has the full story, but basically Morveren was a mermaid who fell in love with the voice of a young man, and began to disguise herself as a woman, with her long skirt covering her tail, to be able to see him. Each night she'd stay a little longer, until finally he saw her and gave chase, eventually joining her beneath the waves.

I did The Jersey Devil
Home Country: USA



The Jersey Devil, the supposed mythical creature of the New Jersey Pinelands, has haunted New Jersey and the surrounding areas for the past 260 years. This entity has been seen by over 2,000 witnesses over this period. It has terrorized towns and caused factories and schools to close down, yet many people believe that the Jersey Devil is a legend, a mythical beast, that originated from the folklore of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Others disagree with this point of view. The following text will show there is evidence to support the existence of an animal or supernatural bring known as the Jersey Devil. The evidence consists of the stories of the Jersey Devil's origin, the sightings of it, and finally, the theories on it.

"Laibast pruut"
It's Corpse bride in English.
I choosed this fairytale because it's my own favourite. It's little creepy and funny too. It has film too. I hope you have heard about it. It's really public in Estonia.
Here is a trailer of this movie .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-akimwGclk
In this film there is one of my favourite actors, Johny Depp.
I really reacommend this fairytale everybody!

I tried to do an impression of Corpse Bride.


I'm from Estonia. I hope this fairytale is made in Estonia. I think it is made here, but i'm not sure.

In Corpse Bride movie there is one song what i like so much. Here it is.
Corpse Bride sings:
If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain
If you cut me with a knife it's still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
For it seems that I still have a tear to shed.

(PS. Sorry, but i'm not good in English. I hope you will all understand everything what i am trying to tell you in my description of Corpse Bride.)

I really hope that you like it .

Last edited by Melluu (11-28-2008 23:58)

I'm from the USA. So, as we don't have that many native legends not based on fact, I picked Calamity Jane from the USA.
"Calamity Jane was a frontier woman of some renown. Many legends and stories have been told about her. It is difficult to sort fact from fiction in many cases, but one thing is certain, she led a life that few women of that time would have survived."

mrs Clause
the wife of the most thort about man at this time of the year
mrs clause is the lady that gets santa moving and
cooks hime dinner

hop you like thankyou

AMERICA-  Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962; baptized Norma Jeane Baker) was an American actress, singer, model and film producer.The final years of Monroe's life were marked by illness, personal problems and a reputation for being unreliable and difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture. Though officially classified as a "probable suicide", the possibility of an accidental overdose has not been ruled out, while conspiracy theorists argue that she was murdered.In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.(information received from Wikipedia)

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