These fairy tales, or folk tales, are from ‘Scottish Fairy Tales’ (Lomond Books, ISBN 0947782028). In the same series you find among others ‘Celtic Fairy Tales’ ‘Sc ‘ and you can buy the books at bookstores and tourist offices in Scotland.
You can also find fairy tales on the internet: www
A. Nippit Fit and Clippit Fit
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Which fairy tales do you know that are a lot like Nippit Fit?
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Find the fairy tale about Cinderella and read it.
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Which differences do you find? Make a list.
B. Habetrot the Spinstress
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Which fairy tale features do you know? Make a list.
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Which do you find in this tale?
C. The Act Model
When you analyse fairy tales you find that you can use this model to many of them.
| donator | object | receiver | communication |
| Î | desire | ||
| helper | subject | opponent | conflict |
This is the same model but now with persons to make it more clear.
If ‘subject’ and ‘receiver’ is the same person, then the story has a happy end.
| king | princess | prince | communication |
| Î | desire | ||
| the old woman | prince | the dragon | conflict |
• Try to use the model on Nippit or Habetrot.
D. Storytelling
Originally
fairy tales were part of an oral tradition, they were told to an
audience and were not in writing. Storytelling has become popular again,
both as a hobby but there are also professional storytellers, such as
The Company of Storytellers with Hugh Lupton as one of them.
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Go
to ww. . Find
out, which services they offer.
E. Write a fairy tale
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Use
the act model, your list of fairy tale features and what more you know
about fairy tales and write your own.