Vietnamese fairy tales
Famous Vietnamese fairy tales include The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree and The Story of Tấm and Cám.[1] Various tales have been translated into English,[2][3] as well as folk tales containing some elements of fairy tales.[4]
Well known tales
- "The Wishing Pearl" - a peasant befriends an animal and receives a magic gift
- "The Heart of Crystal" - a Princess falls in love with a commoner
- "The Student and the Frog" - about a frog who becomes a beautiful woman
- Tấm Cám "The Two Sisters" - a dark Cinderella story
- Từ Thức Gặp Tiên "Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen" - Từ Thức meets a flower who is really a fairy queen
- "The Student and the Painting" - a girl in a painting[5][6]
- Ba Giai and Tú Xuất are a comical duo in South Vietnamese folk tales
References
- ↑ Nicole Seitz A Hundred Years of Happiness: A Fable of Life After War - Page 64 2009 "My favorite Vietnamese fairy tale was the Cinderella-like story about Tam and Cam. As a child, I'd ask my mother to recite ... The stepmother wanted all of her husband's favor to go toward the new child, so she told him lies about Tam."
- ↑ Lynette Dyer Vuong Brocaded Slipper: And Other Vietnamese Tales 1999 "A collection of five Vietnamese fairy tales, including "Little Finger of the Watermelon Patch" and "The Lampstand Princess."
- ↑ Đình Thâm Nguyễn Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature 1992 Page 163 "Wonder tales from the Far East. lll. by Hans Guggenheim. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co., 1962. 219 pp. includes two Vietnamese fairy tales: "The magic Mango," pp. 166-75, and The ungrateful Tiger," pp. 1 51 -58."
- ↑ Sherry Garland Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam 2001 An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explanatory notes following each story.
- ↑ Luna monthly - Numéros 13 à 31 - Page 21 1970 "The themes of the tales are quite basic: the peasant befriending the animal and receiving a magic gift ("The Wishing Pearl"), the Princess falling in love with a commoner ("The Heart of Crystal"), the Princess who becomes a fish ("The Kingdom ...... the frog who becomes a beautiful woman ("The Student and the Frog"), the Cinderella story ("The Two Sisters"), a flower who is really a fairy queen ("Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen"), and a girl in a painting ("The Student and the Painting")."
- ↑ Kay Nielsen The wishing pearl, and other tales of Vietnam 1969 "Five traditional Vietnamese fairy tales: The Wishing Pearl; The Heart of Crystal; The Student and the Frog; Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen; and The Student and the Painting."
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