A reading and discussion of the “Three Princesses” fairy tale and how a Christian artist could approach retelling it. Includes reflections on the images of land, sky, and sea; lions, bears, eagles, falcons, whales, dolphins, and dragons; the wholeness and distinction within Creation; the villain; the concept of matching or completion in fairy tales; images of redemption or the breaking of the enchantment.Resources

• Jack Zipes’s The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, tale 82 (translated from the Grimm’s 1812 edition)
• Version of the tale from Johann Karl August Musaus’s The Three Sons-in-Law (1861) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t7kp82106&view=1up&seq=9
• Version of the tale from Giambattista Basile’s Il Pentamerone (1634): https://fairytalez.com/the-three-enchanted-princes/
• Version of the tale from Andrew Lang’s Golden Fairy Book: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c045427456&view=1up&seq=159
• List of variants from around the world: https://kids.kiddle.co/The_Three_Enchanted_Princes
• George MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie
• Diana Wynne Jones’s A Tale of Time City
• William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s Roverrandom

MusicIntro and Outro from Adam Saban’s “Tales From the Past”; episode segments from “Intercept” by Cody Martin