An illustration to Russian fairy tale „As The Pike Orders“. Soviet Russian postcard from 1956. I mostly visit the Huma publishers to buy their postcards (I especially love their nature and...from them ** sigh, and when are they not? *** I must say I am tempted to retell the tales I have read from the books with different English words. As I hear them told differently in my head.

I did have another story in mind for this post, but the story ended up being longer then I thought it was---I'll get around to it about the same time I decide to tackle 'Beauty and he Beast,' which, in...who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. The translated version of this story is Copyright Zipes, Jack. Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments .Canada: NAL Books, 1989

I remember hearing this story in my World Civ class when we were doing Chinese history. I had wanted to hear the whole thing, and just a little while ago I picked up a small book of Oriental Myths from...the frigged sea below. And as the horrified people looked on, her body turned into that of a great silver fish, and it is said that she still swims in the sea near the edge of the great wall of China