Sharon Gerald – Fairy Tales and Folklore

Little Red Riding Hood

December 14, 2018 Sharon Gerald

Various versions of Little Red Riding Hood can be read online at D. L. Ashliman’s folklore site from the University of Pittsburg or from the Little Red Riding Hood Project from the University of Southern Mississippi. I have also been reading them from The Classic Fairy Tales, Second Norton Critical Edition, edited by Maria Tatar. Tale Versions In which she dies in the end… “Little Red Riding Hood,” Perrault (France) In which she tricks the wolf… “The Story of Grandmother”…

Fairy Tale Fever

December 13, 2018 Sharon Gerald

I’m starting this blog as a place to track my interest in fairy tales, folklore, mythology, fables, fantasy, and whatever else I might toss into this same category. I hope to read a lot of fairy tales in the coming year(s), and to start with the reading itself will be my primary interest. As I progress, though, I will be looking for ways to incorporate this particular interest into other things that I do. I want to write poems based…