A great deal of fairy tales involve animal transformations. Princes come disguised as bears, beasts, and frogs, while princesses and maidens become swans and turtle-doves ( Read more... )

I hope this is allowed - it's just to say that my Swan Lake fic is completed. Warning: slash ( Read more... )

I'm looking for stories about involving characters shapeshifting from humans to birds (or the other way around) either willingly or otherwise. The only two I can think of are Swan Lake and The Six Swans, but there must be others.

Thank you in advance!

I notice amongst all the recent Intro-activity that a number of people list swan-related stories as favourites. So I have a query.

Does anyone have any information on the ORIGIN of the Swan Lake ballet storyline? Tales about human-into-swan transformations are fairly common throughout Europe (and probably beyond); but where did the ballet-creators ( Read more... )

10 Swan Lake lyrical icons at my journal.


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