Famous Vietnamese fairy tales include The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree and The Story of Tấm and Cám.[1] Various tales have been translated into English,[2][3] as well as folk tales containing some elements of fairy tales.[4]
Well known tales
edit- "The Wishing Pearl" - a peasant befriends an animal and receives a magic gift
- "The Student and the Frog" - about a frog who becomes a beautiful woman
- Tấm Cám ("The Two Sisters") - a dark Cinderella story
- Từ Thức Gặp Tiên ("Từ Thức and the Goddess") - A mandarin meets a girl at a Buddhist temple who is really a goddess.
- "The Student and the Painting" - a girl in a painting[5][6]
- Ba Giai and Tú Xuất are a comical duo in South folk tales
- Cây Tre Trăm Đốt ("The Hundred-Knot Bamboo Tree") - a laborer struggles to triumph above his exploitative employer
- Coconut Skull
References
edit- ^ Nicole Seitz A Hundred Years of Happiness: A Fable of Life After War - Page 64 2009 "My favorite Vietnamese fairy tale was the Cinderella-like story about Tam and Cam. As a child, I'd ask my mother to recite ... The stepmother wanted all of her husband's favor to go toward the new child, so she told him lies about Tam."
- ^ Lynette Dyer Vuong Brocaded Slipper: And Other Vietnamese Tales 1999 "A collection of five Vietnamese fairy tales, including "Little Finger of the Watermelon Patch" and "The Lampstand Princess."
- ^ Đình Thâm Nguyễn Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature 1992 Page 163 "Wonder tales from the Far East. lll. by Hans Guggenheim. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co., 1962. 219 pp. includes two Vietnamese fairy tales: "The magic Mango," pp. 166-75, and The ungrateful Tiger," pp. 1 51 -58."
- ^ Sherry Garland Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam 2001 An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explanatory notes following each story.
- ^ Luna monthly - Numéros 13 à 31 - Page 21 1970 "The themes of the tales are quite basic: the peasant befriending the animal and receiving a magic gift ("The Wishing Pearl"), the Princess falling in love with a commoner ("The Heart of Crystal"), the Princess who becomes a fish ("The Kingdom ...... the frog who becomes a beautiful woman ("The Student and the Frog"), the Cinderella story ("The Two Sisters"), a flower who is really a fairy queen ("Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen"), and a girl in a painting ("The Student and the Painting")."
- ^ Kay Nielsen. The wishing pearl, and other tales of Vietnam 1969 "Five traditional Vietnamese fairy tales: The Wishing Pearl; The Heart of Crystal; The Student and the Frog; Tu Thuc and the Fairy Queen; and The Student and the Painting."
