Query Post #1

[crantz]

Thanks for your nominations! Nominations close at 11:59pm CST, Sunday 11 February.

We'd like help with these nominations:

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - nominator, sorry, it's difficult to find a version in the public domain with a similar title and where the protagonist is actually called Goldilocks. In 2023, we approved The Three Bears - Joseph Jacobs - would that work?

Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale) - Nominator, which version are you interested in, please? For example, the Perrault version and the Brothers Grimm version, are quite different. We've already approved the Grimm version. Would you like to add characters to the Grimm version, or would you like the Perrault version, or would you maybe like another version?

The Stolen Child - William Butler Yeats - for 'The Fairy', did you mean the narrator, or the fairy who takes the child's hand near the end, or a different character? We will approve the 'mice' as Brown Mouse - is that okay?

Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song) - While we've approved this with no version information before, there are a lot of different versions. Nominator, do you have a preference? Please let us know if so!

Tom Thumb (Fairy Tale) - this has been nominated with both Tom Thumb and Thumbelina as characters. As far as we can tell, they belong to different stories. Nominator, if you're aware of a text that combines both, could you please supply its link? Please let us know which version of Tom Thumb you had in mind - there are a lot of versions.

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[minoanmiss]

I nominated The Stolen Child. I guess I should nominate Narrator Fairy abd Hand Taker Fairy separately. Brown Mouse sounds cute

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[crantz]

Yes! That would be appreciated.

[lady_ragnell]

A bit of preemptive disambiguation for a nomination I just did! I nominated the Grimm version of Twelve Dancing Princesses (nominations page here!), and the AO3 tags have a group called "Princes," but the tale has two groups of people who are largely referred to as such, and I'm trying to nominate both! So the "Princes Who Failed The Test" nomination is for the men the princesses drugged and left to be killed by their father (it doesn't explicitly say that all of them are princes before the soldier shows up, but at least implies it in the translation I read, happy to have it changed if it makes more sense to you another way, though) and the "Cursed Princes" nomination is for the men underground, whose curse is added to at the end.

[crantz]

Thanks for the heads up!

[desertvixen]

Link for text of The Snake Prince - https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/144/the-olive-fairy-book/5147/the-snake-prince/

Link for text of The Green Knight - https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/greenknight.html (slightly different ending then the one in the Olive Fairy Book)

[crantz]

Thank you for the sources!