Whether collected by The Brothers Grimm, written by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson or by other prolific writers or collected by others, which one is your favorite, and why? And it doesn't have to have been adapted by Disney.
I ask this because Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson have been by Special Interest for a while now. My favorite is "The Snow Queen", because unlike most fairytales, it spins the damsel in distress scenario on its head, with the way the heroine saves her boy best friend from the titular snow queen, and along the way meets several different interesting characters. It could make for a great 9 episode miniseries on HBO or something.
So what is your favorite fairytale or fairytale character?
The giant from Jack and the beanstalk cause he could smell out and destroy the English
There are also Redcaps, faerie looking like short old men with iron boots and polearms, brutally murder Scots and Englishmen at the border.
So named because they dip their hats in the blood of people they murdered. ANd I believe in one version they have to keep killing because if their bloody hat ever dries out they will die.
A very British creature indeed
It's the clearest explanation for the behaviors of the British ruling class I've seen/