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Psychics, Psychologists, and Gynecologists
WARNING! SPOILERS! Don’t Look Now – This movie starts with a girl drowning when she goes into a pond after a ball. Children in movies really need to stop chasing after objects, although I guess you can also meet frog princes that way. That’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Drugs, Fairy Tales, Health, Monsters, Music, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged ariel, barry manilow, beetles, burgess meredith, carol channing, charo, dead ringers, don bluth, don't look now, donald sutherland, gilbert gottfried, gynecology, hans christian andersen, jeremy irons, jodi benson, mice, moles, psychics, shelley duvall, smile, stewart and cyril marcus, swallows, the little mermaid, thumbelina, toads |
You’ve Got a Fiend in Me
I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →
Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh |
She’s Come Undine
I keep forgetting to write something about the novella Undine, by German author Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, which I read on Gutenberg in a translation geared toward children. I’ve become somewhat fascinated with the influence of Paracelsus‘ concept of … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Celtic, Characters, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Greek Mythology, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Religion, They Might Be Giants, Video Games | Tagged bertalda, blue men of the minch, brothers grimm, cap'n bill, elementals, fossegrim, friedrich de la motte fouque, hans christian andersen, huldbrand, immortals, john flansburgh, kelpies, kuhleborn, mermaids, nixies, nokks, nymphs, ondine, paracelsus, queen of the water sprites, sirens, souls, stromkarlen, the life and adventures of santa claus, the little mermaid, the nixie of the mill-pond, the sea fairies, trot griffiths, undine, undines, vampires, water sprites |
Ariel View
I’ve looked at quite a bit of fairy lore over the years, but one character I hadn’t really addressed is Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, largely because I hadn’t read it. I recently did so, and I also found out that … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Futurama, Gender, Greek Mythology, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Nursery Crime, Oz, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Roman, Television, Theosophy, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, alexander pope, angels, ariel, belinda, bible, caliban, demons, elementals, fairies, gnomes, hans christian andersen, isaiah, j. l. bell, john milton, king lear, lucifer, mermaids, nomes, oberon, paracelsus, paradise lost, philip j. fry, prospero, rosicrucianism, sycorax, sylphs, the fourth bear, the little mermaid, the rape of the lock, the tempest, titania, umbriel, uranus, uriel, witches |
Stepping Out of the Story
The Crown of Ptolemy, by Rick Riordan – I actually read this a few months ago, if I recall correctly, but I never got around to reviewing it. It isn’t surprising that I liked it, though, is it? This is … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Egyptian, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Kane Chronicles, Magic, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, Tom Holt | Tagged ali baba, annabeth chase, carter kane, hans christian andersen, larry gonick, lunar chronicles, marissa meyer, open sesame, ramesses ii of egypt, sadie kane, scheherazade, setne, stars above, the cartoon history of the modern world, the crown of ptolemy, the little mermaid, the oddfits, the serpent's shadow, tiffany tsao, wadjet |
The Single Dads’ Club
When I wrote about Princess Peach’s father, I noted that it’s pretty common in fiction for kings to have young, strong-willed daughters who are only children, and for the mother to be nowhere in sight. Rebecca pointed out that a … Continue reading →
Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Characters, Chrono Trigger, Comics, Dragon Quest, Families, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aladdin, beauty and the beast, dragon quest iv, endor, fathers, king charles of videoland, king guardia xxxiii, king harkinian, king sizzeroo, maurice, mushroom king, ozma, pastoria, peer haps, perhaps city, princess gureeda, princess gwaelin, princess jasmine, princess lana, princess nadia marle guardia, princess peach toadstool, princess pretty good, speedy in oz, the little mermaid, the lost king of oz, thief of bagdad, triton, tsar stepan of zamoksva, tsarevna alena, umbrella island |
The Little Maiden of the Sea
Ponyo – Originally known in Japanese as Gake no ue no Ponyo (literally “Ponyo on the Cliff”), this was a 2009 release from Studio Ghibli. Partially inspired by The Little Mermaid (both the original Andersen story and the Disney film), … Continue reading →
Posted in Fairy Tales, Mythology, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged betty white, cate blanchett, cloris leachman, fujimoto, gake no ue no ponyo, granmamare, guanyin, hans christian andersen, hayao miyazaki, liam neeson, lily tomlin, matt damon, ponyo, sosuke, studio ghibli, the little mermaid, tina fey |
Where the Ballyhoos and the Tritons Are
In Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale of “The Little Mermaid,” the titular mermaid’s father is simply known as the Sea King, and is a widower with six daughters and a mother who tends his house. In Disney’s adaptation, they removed … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Greek Mythology, Mythology | Tagged amphitrite, athena, ballyhoos, disney, gigantes, hans christian andersen, hippocampus, icthyocentaurs, mermaids, pallas, pausanias, poseidon, the little mermaid, triton |
I Want to Be Where the People Are
The Little Mermaid – Disney’s twenty-eighth animated feature is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, but takes a lot of liberties with its source material. This is typical for Disney, of course, but in this particular case it’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged ariel, divine, flounder, hans christian andersen, john waters, mermaids, prince eric, scuttle, sebastian, the little mermaid, triton, ursula |
H.C. Andersen 360
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, annotated by Maria Tatar – This book, with notes by the same person who did The Annotated Brothers Grimm, was a gift from Tavie. I’d read some of Andersen’s stories before, but many of them … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Historical Personages, History, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion | Tagged brothers grimm, hans christian andersen, jenny lind, maria tatar, story-blossom garden, the annotated hans christian andersen, the girl who trod on the loaf, the little match girl, the little mermaid, the magical mimics in oz, the red shoes, the snow queen, the wonderful wizard of oz |