Gendered Fairy Tale Heroics: Ginny Weasley in The Source

Himalayan Folklore and the Fairy Tale Genre

Based on fieldwork by the author conducted in Tibetan cultural areas of the Indian Himalayas, this paper explores Himalayan understandings of what defines a fairy tale, in contrast to the Western understanding. In parts of the Himalayas, a distinction is made between “lakshung” (fairy tales) and “kyakshung”, which are shorter stories, the kind one might tell over tea. In light of the proposals ...

The "Cinderella effect" is no fairy tale.

committed mateships (v) men paired with physically attractive women exhibit elevated jealous mate-guarding, whereas (vi) women paired with more resource-endowed men exhibit more jealous mate-guarding [7]. (vii) Near ovulation – the critical window in which a man’s paternity probability is compromised by a partner’s sexual infidelity – men increase jealous mate-guarding [8]. Cognitively, relativ...

Fairy Tales as a Forerunner of European Children's Literature: Cross-border Fairy Tale Materials and Fairy Tale Motifs

Due to the Romantic movement there was a growing attention for recording oral tradition. Pedagogues advocating an independent literature for children recognized the importance of folktales especially for the mediation of bourgeois virtues and social norms. Influenced by the stilistic model of the Brother Grimm's Household Tales and as a result of the propagation of national literatures, a broad...

The NICE Fairy-tale Game System

This paper presents the NICE fairy-tale game system, in which adults and children can interact with various animated characters in a 3D world. Computer games is an interesting application for spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. Moreover, for the development of future computer games, multimodal dialogue has the potential to greatly enrichen the user’s experience. In this paper, we also prese...

Informed consent--a fairy tale? Law's vision.