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Classifications of fairies

Mythic humanoids

Ten-Cent Daisy

Volksmärchen der Deutschen

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Syrian god Dagon was mistakenly interpreted by scholars as a fish god and merman-like deity.

The Stolen Veil
"Der geraubte Schleier"

The Stolen Veil is an example of the worldwide Swan Maiden tale. It may have inspired Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

"The original idea for the story of SWAN LAKE was based on themes from an eighteenth century tale DER GERAUBTE SCHLEIER by JK.A. Musaeus. His rather ornate story has been adapted considerably over the years, ..."

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Plot

Benno the hermit

magical pool where nymphs come in swan form to bathe and renew their youth

English translations

 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Popular_Tales_of_the_Germans/hFiBeDVvjxkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=benno 
 * "The Stealing of the Veil; or, the Tale À La Montgolfier" in Popular Tales of the Germans (1791)
 * "The Lost Veil; or, the Lake of the Swans" in Tales (1805)
 * The Stolen Veil; or, the Tale à la Montgolfier (1850)

'''The Stealing of the Veil, or the Tale A La Montgolfier. Pp. 162-264'''

Long ago in Germany, an elderly hermit named Benno lives next to a pool with magical properties. When the Swabian army is driven from Austria, Benno encounters a fleeing soldier and grants him refuge at his hermitage. The soldier, Friedbert, stays and becomes his servant. Every summer equinox, Benno sends Friedbert to check the pool for visiting swans.

After several years, Benno explains his past. He was once a knight, and was shipwrecked on the island of Naxos. There he fell madly in love with the queen, Zoe, and tried to confess his love. However, her jealous husband, King Zeno, had Benno thrown into prison and would have let him starve to death if not for Zoe’s pleading on his behalf. Benno was exiled from Naxos instead. However, he learned from the sympathetic palace physician that Zoe was actually part fairy—the descendant of Leda and the swan, which was one of the spirits whom the ancient Greeks knew as the Olympian gods. Every summer equinox, the swan-descended nymphs take on swan form and travel to magical pools to renew their youth and beauty. If Benno can catch Zoe at one of the pools and steal the magical veil that allows her to change shape, then she will be unable to fly away. Benno traveled to the closest pool, which was in Germany. There he built a hermitage, and people took him for a genuine holy man. However, he was there expressly to wait for Zoe, checking every summer solstice until one year she finally appeared with a group of other nymphs to bathe. Overcome with excitement, Benno called out to her without taking the veil, and the nymphs flew away in swan form. He found her glove and ruby ring on the shore and assumed it was a token of her love for him, but she never returned.

Benno dies not long after telling his story. Friedbert buries him. Many people flock to the grave since they think Benno was a saint, and Friedbert makes a fortune by manufacturing “relics,” especially toothpicks made from Benno’s staff. When the summer equinox arrives, Friedbert goes to the pool and sees three swans arrive and transform into nymphs. He snatches one of the veils and goes home. Soon afterwards, he sees two of the swans fly away, and then one of the maidens shows up. She speaks only Greek and is stranded and distraught. Friedbert welcomes her in and acts with sympathy. He even pretends to help her search for the veil. Over time, they find ways to communicate and she reveals that she is Kalliste, the youngest daughter of Zeno and Zoe of Naxos. With Friedbert constantly manipulating her, she becomes attached to him and he finally takes her home to Swabia to celebrate their wedding. He gives the magic veil to his mother for safekeeping without telling her the story. As Kalliste tries on her wedding dress, she is displeased with her veil, and Friedbert’s mother brings out the enchanted veil as a replacement. Shocked and angered by the revelation of Friedbert’s lies, Kalliste puts it on, transforms back into a swan, and flies out the window.

Friedbert is beside himself with rage and grief, but recovers and sets out for Naxos. He arrives during the wedding festivities of Kalliste’s sister, and dresses himself as a knight and excels in the jousts. In the process, he gains the attention of Queen Zoe—now an aged widow, having not visited the magical pool in many years. She notices him wearing her old ruby ring, which he received from Benno. Friedbert lies and says he doesn’t know its history before he won it in battle, but he will give it back to her if she helps him find a bride. Zoe agrees that he may choose whichever of his attendants he likes, and shows off various girls, but Friedbert instead takes an interest in a portrait of Kalliste that hangs in the palace. Zoe, not knowing who Friedbert is, confides that Kalliste escaped from a man who kidnapped her, but still loves him and has retired to a cloister. She allows Friedbert to go and visit her. When Kalliste recognizes him, she initially reacts angrily, but is impressed by how far he traveled to find her. They tell Zoe they wish to be married, while concealing their past history. Once the wedding has been celebrated, they reveal all. They return the ruby ring to Zoe, who explains that she did leave it by the pool as a love token for Benno, but one of the other maidens betrayed her to her husband, who tore her magic veil to shreds in his rage. Friedbert lives happily with Kalliste, who remains young and beautiful while he ages.

The Truth About Dance

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Shahab Nahvi · 2015

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as a storyteller to explain why the Swan Lake narrative is so wellstructured. To justify it, others believe that the work of Johann Musäus, namely his Volksmarchen der Deutschen (Fairy Tales of the Germans), is the basis of the Swan ...

'''The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov: Choreographer of The ... - Page 189'''

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Roland John Wiley · 1997

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Choreographer of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake Roland John Wiley ... ballet libretto where that character is secondary recalls the adaptation of the Moscow libretto of Swan Lake from Johann Karl August Musäus's tale, “The Pond of Swans'.

Dance and Costumes: A History of Dressing Movement

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Elna Matamoros · 2021

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... new trends would lead the Russian ballet to create new languages and the dancers would slowly change both their movements and their appearance on stage.71 The original story of Swan Lake seems to come from Johann Karl August Musäus ' ...

Why a Swan?: Essays, Interviews, & Conversations on "Swan Lake"

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1989 · ‎Snippet view

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Before Swan Lake, they were the subject of a fairy tale by Karl Musäus and a play by Eugène Scribe , both of which are likely sources for the scenario of the ballet. Indeed, Swan Lake , like many 19th - century ballet scenarios ..

Landscape with Moving Figures: A Decade on Dance - Page 64

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Laura Jacobs · 2006

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overture to Swan Lake begins with a high F-sharp held out over a void. ... In his superb book Tchaikovsky's Ballets, Roland John Wiley points to nearby sources such as a folktale by Musäus called The Swans' Pond, and, more compellingly, ...

'''The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov: Choreographer of The ... - Page 189'''

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Roland John Wiley · 1997

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Choreographer of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake Roland John Wiley. into a sorcerer every night, ... In Musäus Benno is the hero drawn to the pond of swans; in the ballet he is merely a friend of Prince Siegfried. * Peterburgskaya gazeta ...

Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's - Page 53

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David Blamires · 2009

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readership that Musäus first intended. ... 'Der geraubte Schleier' (The Stolen Veil) is a version of the swan maiden story, while 'Stumme Liebe' (Dumb Love) manages to combine a sentimental love- story with the hero's hair-raising ...

Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment - Page 28

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David Calvin, ‎Catriona McAra · 2011

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What Musäus does do, however, is use specifically Germanic material: the legend of the mountain spirit Rübezahl, for example, and the old tale of the Count of Gleichen who marries two women. He has swan maidens and animal bridegrooms, ...

In Discours des Sorciers (1608), Henri Boguet describes a story of a beggar who carried around a cambion to gain sympathy. A horseman offered to carry the child across a river for him, but despite its small size, it weighed the steed down until it sank.

In Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea (1866), the main character Gilliatt is rumored to be both a marcou and a cambion. Hugo defines a cambion as "the child of a woman begotten by a devil."

Still if some are occasionally begotten from demons, it is not from the seed of such demons, nor from their assumed bodies, but from the seed of men taken for the purpose; as when the demon assumes first the form of a woman, and afterwards of a man; just as they take the seed of other things for other generating purposes, as Augustine says (De Trin. iii), so that the person born is not the child of a demon, but of a man (Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiæ, Part 1, Question 51, Article 3)

Zână From Latin Diāna (compare Aromanian dzãnã, Asturian xana, Sardinian giàna, compare also Albanian zanë).