The Fairytale Tarot - The Stories

THE STORIES

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Good sources of folk and fairy stories on the web:

University of Pittsburgh's "Grimm Brothers' Home Page.
Excellent resource for both original texts and analysis.

SurLaLune Fairy Tale pages. Great site. The notes to the tales and the links to illustrations are particularly interesting.

The Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts. Unmissable - a hub for some of the best work around today in the visual arts, literature and scholarship.

Andrew Lang's collected "coloured" Fairy Books.

Andrew Lang's "Arabian Nights Entertainments" (which was the version we mostly used)

A huge collection of fairy and folk stories (including many Celtic tales) can be found at the Sacred Text Archive

The Fairytale Review. Well-chosen new fairytale and mythic writing.

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SWORDS

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The Superior Pet
The Man Who had to Mind the House.
The Escape of the Mouse
The Fisherman and his Wife
The Ruined Man Who
Became Rich Again Through A Dream
The Golden Goose
The Brave Little Tailor
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Habogi
The Goose Girl
The Tinder Box
Gawain and the Green Knight
Spindle, Shuttle and Needle
The King of the Golden Mountain

The Poor Miller's Boy and the Little Cat
The Storyteller at Fault
Libuse
The Emperor and the Nightingale
Cinderella
The Five Wise Words of the Guru
Tatterhood
The Snow Queen
Beauty and the Beast
Bearskin
Fortune and the Wood-cutter
The Juniper Tree
The Shifty Lad
Godfather Death
Water and Salt
The Red Shoes
Deirdre of the Sorrows
The Fairy of Dawn
The Nixy
The Sunchild
Snow White
Many Fur

The Ugly Duckling
Thumbelina
The Three Princes
The Boy who wanted to learn to shiver and shake
The Haunted Cellar
Hansel and Gretel
The Silver Plate and the Bi-coloured Apple
Brother and Sister
Puss in Boots
The Happy Family
Sadko
The Enchanted Horse
The Prince and the Tortoise
King Cormac’s Cup

MAJORS

The Fool
The Magician
The High Priestess
The Emperor
The Empress
Hierophant
Lovers
Chariot
Strength
Hermit
Wheel of Fortune
Justice
Hanged Man
Death
Temperance
Devil
Tower
The Star
The Moon
The Sun
Judgement
The World

THE STORIES

The Fairytale Tarot The Musicians of Bremen

THE STORIES

March 2006 update: In response to many requests, we are now gradually adding as many direct web-links to these stories as possible.
Please note, however, that the linked stories are not necessarily those that we used for the cards (in many cases we used very old printed books, not web sources, and sometimes we drew from several versions of a story to make our preferred version). But the links will lead you to a story that is at least very similar, and in some cases indentical, to the one used in the deck. Happy reading - these are wonderful tales.

THE STORIES

THE STORIES

Jack and the Beanstalk
The Billy Goats Gruff
First Voyage Of Sindbad Hight The Seaman
Musicans of Bremen
The Story of Kintaro, the Golden Boy
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
The Fairy Hunt
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
The Sorceror’s Apprentice
Vassilisa the Beautiful
Sivka Burka
Kip the Magic Cat
The Elf Hill

Yu-Kong and the Dragon
The Glass Mountain
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Sleeping Beauty
Little Red Riding Hood
The Six Swans
The Frog Prince
Rapunzel
The Little Mermaid
The Constant Tin Soldier
Finist the Falcon
Bluebeard
Rumpelstiltskin
The Maiden King