The Power of Names in Fairy Tales
The Power of Names in Fairy Tales - SWW - Snow White Writes
Tales all over the world use names as a way to escape bad bargains, save the ones they love, or to help a beautiful girl escape an arranged marriage.
Characters in fairy tales are often referred to either by generic descriptions – 'the king's daughter', 'the boy', 'the maiden', and so on – or ...
According to Joseph Jacobs, this was a reference to the ancient belief knowledge of a name gives you power over that person.
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It seems to me that many tales focus on names being a source of power. Just a thought. Also, when dealing with folklore, we are dealing with ...
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Fairy tales and other stories occasionally suggest the idea that a name gives some kind of power over the thing named, or at least that ...
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In the fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin, knowing his name allows the woman to get out of a bargain. In others, names can be used to summon or ...
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A common concept in history is that knowing the name of something or someone gives one power over that thing or person.
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Why did Rumpelstiltskin's name have so much power? Fairy tales notwithstanding, by the time I got to college I had come to think that names were ...
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Most of my characters names in both "Damsel in the Red Dress" and "Hushabye Prince" just are. Occasionally, I use them for a plot element, and ...
A name can, therefore, be a source of power and of protection. It follows-as with Tam Lin- that the fairies could very likely want to change an ...
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You cannot sell/give that which does not belong to you so a (so called) friend cannot sell/give your name to the Fae.
The Power of Names : r/Fantasy - Reddit
Neverending Story saying names is a source of power. ... The trope is present in Rumpelstiltskin (in fact, there is an entire fairy tale category: ...
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After reading the original fairytale, I'm not as impressed with Rumpel. Granted, I know…He wasn't all that great in Faerie Tale Theatre (and really, to be quite ...
In the land of Faery names are very important - to know a person or creatures name is to have power over it and so true names are closely ...
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If you are an enchanted man, your name is [your name] + “my” + [you favorite animal]. Ex. Andrew my Aardvark. (You will spend the tale trying to ...
What struck me most on first hearing this fairytale as a child was the power of a name. Rumpelstiltskin's name was ultimately his undoing. As ...
A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical to, its true nature. The notion that language, or some specific sacred ...
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As myths and fairy tales are representations of our psyches, much like a dream, it makes sense that this same principle would apply to the “ ...
The Reason I Hate My Name - SWW - Snow White Writes
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the power of names in fairy tales. Names have always carried a special fascination for me, even since I was a little girl.
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And perhaps you remember the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin, where the title character offers to let the queen keep her firstborn child if she can ...