Myths and Fables


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Donkey-Skin

In Perrault’s Donkey-Skin, the grotesque and the marvelous collide: a princess, pursued by her father’s delusion, cloaks herself in a beast’s hide and vanishes into obscurity. She keeps her splendor hidden until a ring, slipped unnoticed into a cake, reveals her secret and restores her to love, dignity, and a rightful place in the world.

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The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

What begins in enchantment ends in menace, as a sleeping kingdom stirs not only to love, but to the hidden threat of bloodlines and appetites. Perrault’s fairy tale drifts from spellbound stasis to a darker domestic reckoning, where happy endings arrive only after one final awakening.

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