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.ResourcesJack 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_PrincesGeorge MacDonald’s The Princess and CurdieDiana Wynne Jones’s A Tale of Time CityWilliam Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”J.R.R. Tolkien’s RoverrandomMusicIntro and Outro from Adam Saban’s “Tales From the Past”; episode segments from “Intercept” by Cody Martin

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