[Mercedes-Lackey] Re: The Halls have reopened ----Party!

[Layla Voll]

> For those who have read the Re-told fairy tales....Could you identify 
> which tale it came from?  How many correspondences did you find?
>
> Dax the Eternal

I was just thinking about that, because my mother and I were discussing The 
Wizard of London: she said she wasn't familiar with the underlying fairy 
tale to begin with, so it meant she read it slightly differently than the 
others (she wasn't looking for the correspondences).

I didn't figure out what "Serpent's Shadow" was based on until almost the 
very end, although it seems as if there are more correspondences in the 
details there than with any other: the seven familiars, the kiss at the end, 
the evil female relatives, even the apple.  On the other hand, the *plot* 
wasn't as similar: I thought the issues of Maia trying to become a 
practitioner in London, and Peter teaching Maia how to control her power 
were great, and not particularly related to the original story.

On the other hand, with "Phoenix and Ashes" and "Gates of Sleep," the basic 
story is the same but the details seem to differ more.  I especially liked 
how "Phoenix and Ashes" dealt with something that had always bothered me 
about Cinderella -- that is, why didn't anyone else from their previous life 
seem to notice that the man's daughter had been reduced to servant status?

By the way, I have to admit that I enjoyed Disney's recent direct to DVD 
"Cinderella III," in which the stepmother goes back in time to fix the shoe 
to fit one of her daughters, so it's up to Cinderella to save the day.
Layla