13. Charlie is badly burned in an accident. When he reaches the emergency room, the examining physician finds that he can remove entire hair follicles from Charlie's arm when he gently pulls on a hair with his forceps. After…
Rapunzel have a magic hair that glows when she sings, it can also heal wounds and manages to achieve eternal youth to whoever…
A girl named Steph, who lives in Weeksboro, Maine, is getting help from her friend to get a boyfriend. Alexandra, one of Steph's best friends, thinks she needs to have a boyfriend, like everyone else in the eighth grade. They find a whirligig they believe has magical properties and try to wish for a boyfriend on it. Brent's whirligig impacted the girls because it gave them hope that there was some magic out there working to help their "wishes" or desires come true. The girls believe the whirligig gives them luck and when they see it, they will be lucky.…
One of the problems is that “The Unicorn is Tamed by the Maiden” only survives in two fragments. The general accepted order of the tapestries as asserted first by Rorimer and later by Freeman is laid out by Helmut Nickel, “The Start of the Hunt, The Unicorn at the Fountain, The Unicorn Tries to Escape, The Unicorn Defends Himself, The Unicorn Is Tamed by the Maiden (preserved only as a fragment), The Unicorn Is Killed and Brought to the Castle, and finally The Unicorn in Captivity” (Nickel 1982). However, countless scholars have noted the differences between the first and last of the series of tapestries. When studying “The Unicorn in Captivity” (fig. 7) and “The Start of the Hunt” (fig. 1), the first noticeable difference is the millefleur style of the background flora, while in the other five tapestries the plants are woven more realistically and naturally (Alexander and Woodward 1965, 2). This could mean that these two tapestries were woven elsewhere, that they simply are not part of the series, or that they were not woven by the same weavers. It is most likely that the tapestries are all part of the same series, due to the AE markings present on all of the tapestries, but their differences could be due to any of the reasons speculated above. The possible explanations for the striking differences in the first and final tapestries are endless, but one…
“Now let's introduce my daughter, Maddie.” The crowed roared in excitement! Maddie was tall, 5’8, and was a good type of skinny. Her black hair draped all the way down to her waist, she had bright blue eyes that sparkled under any light and she had the perfect amount of freckles. Cedric came too Maddie’s side to assist her out of her throne. Maddie denied the help and got up herself. She came to the light of the floor and carefully examined both princes in…
The young girl looked down at her watch, it was already 5 o'clock—the dance began at 7 and they had a lot of getting ready to do. Itasha glanced at the duffel bag that was hanging on her shoulder, inside it were the two most amazingly, beautiful dresses she had ever seen. Quinn is going to love her dress!…
The human hair had significant detail throughout the whole strand. On the outer rim of the strand, the texture was very smooth and precisely…
“...the queen of the fairies came flitting in at the window and kissed him and gave him the name of Tom Thumb. Then seven other fairies came dancing in…” (James Baldwin). Fairies are very mystical things and though there were many superstitions in ancient times, fairies are a stretch. Having fairies as a main plot point was a new and much pondered idea. “Tom never grew any larger than his father’s thumb, which was only of ordinary size” (Grimm). Tom himself was only as big as a thumb, so most likely about 2 inches tall, and that would have been an unheard of idea. People are generally only used to what they know and see, so the idea of a boy being as tall as a thumb was very creative. “Little did this this good-hearted couple realise that their humble guest was, in fact, none other than Merlin, the greatest and most skillful wizard who ever lived” (Grimm). Though Merlin was a popular character in many stories as well as a big chunk of folklore, a wizard was still a very creative idea. The ability to perform magic and bewitch things was usually looked down upon by most people, whereas in this story he is a nice old traveler. For these few reasons and more, “Tom Thumb” is a very creative story for its…
“Just yer wand left — oh yeah, an’ I still haven’t got yeh a birth-day…
Laurel is a white man who comes from California and his family his described as pickers in apple orchards and grape vineyards. Laurel is a black lady who is termed to be radical and works in creating a journal on racism and activism in Georgia. The story is set in the 1960s in the Deep South where cases of racism are high. Laurel comes to work for the journal and there is where he has an encounter with Annie. Annie is described as a 20-year old lady who is adventurous and is on the stage of exploring her sexuality (Walker 5).…
I know that because of how much of the potion she gave me that I ended up combining it with the makeup of my body so that I could survive. I also know that that the potion has a safeguard that makes it so that if the potion doesn't recognize her than the person can't control me, but I never quite understood how it worked, but the moss had said it had something to do with the makeup of her magic. And it seemed as if this girl, Hannah had the same magical makeup as Nyssa which made me worried that I would be suggestible to whatever she said, although I was pretty sure that with it in my system for so long that I had developed some immunity to it. I decided that I would cast a spell so that she couldn't talk until I decided what to do with her. I quickly cast the spell and then ask the other two children why they were in the woods. Hannah shakes her head vehemently and the two children glance at me with wide eyes but don't say a word. I decide that I must be more persuasive. Seeing how they looked at Hannah for direction I figured that she was the the leader of this ragtag group of miscreants. I form a bottomless pit below hannah and watch the children's reaction as I position them so that they can see into the hole then I drop her suddenly and let her plummet until I slowly bring her to a halt . The child who looks the youngest starts struggling against the bonds, screaming, then she wilts and whispers something almost…
I'm going to give all of you a curl of my hair; and, when you look at it, think that I loved you and am gone to heaven, and that I want to see you all there."(251) Now, Tom had got one of these curls and he treasured it dearly, Miss Eva, in fact, was the reason St. Clare bought Tom in the first place, for she liked Tom and wanted her Father to buy him for her; they became an almost inseparable…
“Orlando? Are you okay?” he asked when he saw his worried face. The man explained how he worried that the unicorn would turn back into his horse. The unicorn was the only friend he had.…
In this essay I have chosen to look at Angela Carter’s book The Magic Toyshop, I intend to explore the book’s wealth of characters that the author appears to define to different degrees through a number of issues.…
The fairy godmother told Cinderella that the spell would be broken at midnight. Cinderella’s carriage rushed to the castle for the ball. She walked inside to where the event was being held and started walking around. The prince saw Cinderella alone and walked towards her. They both started dancing together and danced outside of the castle. The infatuated broad looked over at the clock and saw that it was nearly midnight, she rushed and told the prince that she had to go. For the reason of her rush her shoe fell off, the prince quickly noticed and went to get it. He demanded to the duke to search for the girl in which her foot will fit the shoe. The duke searched all over the kingdom for her. Exhausted, he reached a house which turned out to be Lady Tremaine’s. He walked into the home without knowing that the woman he is searching for is in the house, neither does she know he is there because she is locked in her room. The two stepsisters came rushing to him and desperately tried to fit their foot in the shoe, but their feet were too…