britishstarr:

kkristoff: cold-never-bothered-me-anyways: Arabian Little Red Riding Hood with a red hijab A Japanese Snow White with her coveted pale skin and shiny black hair Mexican Cinderella with colorful Mexican glass blown slippers Greek Beauty and the Beast where Beast is a minotaur Culture-bent fairy tales that keep key canonical characteristics GIVE ME THESE I M M E D I A T E L Y I AM SO TEMPTED TO DRAW THIS YOU HAVE NO IDEA

*sigh*

There are thousands of different variants of fairy tales from all over the world because of the nature of fairy tales.There is no such thing as a “culture bent fairy tale” because ALL fairy tales are culture bent. That’s basically half the story. Every single fairytale is modified depending on where and when it’s being told as well as who’s telling the story. Hence the Grimms versions of Perrault stories being different, because Perrault was French aristocracy where the Grimms were collecting from German peasants. Fairy tales, being oral tales, traveled all around the world and were adapted by cultures to fit their own culture and circumstances. I guarantee you if there’s a culture out there, they have a folktale that sounds familiar, even if it’s different.

Here:

Yeh-hsien (Chinese Cinderella) and The Story of Tam and Cam (Vietnamese Cinderella), as well as other Cinderella tales from around the world.

Fatime (Albanian Snow White). Here’s a book of Snow White stories from around the world.

Goldflower and the Bear (Chinese Red Riding Hood), and other Red Riding Hood tales from around the world (Riding Hood did not have a red cap/hood until Perrault’s version in the 1600s)

The “original” Beauty and the Beast Story is actually considered to be the story of Cupid and Psyche (A Roman myth…as in from Italy and Greece), but there are several BatB stories. My favorite is a Norwegian tale called “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” but here’s a Russian version as well.

You’ve already GOT your “culture bent fairy tales.” They’re just called fairy tales (they’re not “culture bent” because ALL fairy tales are culture bent) and they’re not as popular because they are not the popularized Western canonized versions (The French BatB, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty, the German Snow White, etc).