#Vasilisa the Wise

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

"Marry me, for it is your destiny."

#fairy tale #the frog princess #tsarevna frog #moodboard #moodboards #wmmap #who made me a princess #sbapod #suddenly became a princess one day #athykiel #athy x ijekiel #athanasia x ijekiel #athanasia de alger obelia #ijekiel alpheus #fairy tales #russian folklore #vasilisa the wise #ivan tsarevich

[bigfootboyband]

Vasilisa the Wise

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#digital art #art #original art #animation #slavic folkart #slavic folk art #slavic folklore #slavic #slavic art #russian folklore #russian #russian art #Russian folktales #vasilisa the wise #vasilisa #vasilisa the beautiful

[nastyboker]

@kazachokolate and I decided to do this Double Meme by rennyo8 (unfortunately, we couldn't find them or their original version anywhere). My side is the left one and hers is on the right.

1. Our self-portraits.

2. Our attempts to draw each other

Based on old photos, drawings and imagination. Yeah we never actually met, but that's the fun part. :D

3. and 4. are skipped due to being plain Russian text.

5. Our redraws of each other's art.

I chose Kazachokolate's OC, I think she's adorable!

I gave her Lamb-Cult-ish pupils because Kaza likes the game.^^

6. Art Trade Time!!!

We both agreed on ships, bc shipping is love, shipping is life. Kazachokolate requested Vasilisa and Alexander from Black Book. I asked for Vasilisa (yeah that's kinda funny) and the Cat from Fantasy Patrol. Guess we both like Russian witches with braids, fine relations with black cats and who also are female husbands to their male wife nerds.

7. "Blind" Ship.

Each of us picked a character and drew them in a kissing pose without telling each other about our choice. We only agreed on head size and hand position beforehand. I had a very hard time making the decision. Mavis is probably not the most creative option, but I'm actually happy with how it all turned out to be.

A tin man and a vampire girl is a pretty neat ship, if I do say so myself. Them outliving their partners wouldn't be an issue anymore. :D I love how they randomly got some similar details like Mavis' hair and Tin Man's hadle (which resebles hair a bit) sticking out and curving or them both having small round dimples.

This meme was an enjoyable experience. Really helped me to get myself out of my comfort zone a bit.^^

I'm sorry, if you broke your eyes trying to read all this.

#double meme #my art #redraw #not my OC #art trade #ruby gloom #ruby gloom fanart #fantasy patrol #fantasy patrol fanart #fantasy patrol the learned cat #the learned cat #fantasy patrol vasilisa #fantasy patrol liz liz #vasilisa the wise #black book game #black book fanart #black book vasilisa #black book alexander #hotel transylvania #hotel transylvania the series #mavis dracula #the wonderful wizard of oz #the wizard of the emerald city #tin man

[evil-is-relative]

Vasilisa the Beautiful suggested by @woodskulker

#mandala #art #my art #vasilisa the beautiful #vasilisa the wise #baba yaga #I found this one very therapeutic to do

[princess-hippie]

"When women integrate this aspect of the Yaga, they change from accepting without question... every everything that comes their way. To gain a little distance from the sweet blessing of the too-good mother, a woman gradually learns to not just look, but to squint and to peer, and then, more and more, to suffer no fools."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., Women Who Run With the Wolves, pp. 110

- Illustration by Ivan Bilibin

#vasilisa the wise #vasilisa #fairy tales #ivan bilibin #clarissa pinkola estes #women who run with the wolves #books of 2022 #reading #read #book #litblr #psychoanalysis #jung

[princesssarisa]

Character ask: The Frog Princess, Vasilisa the Wise

Tagged by @ariel-seagull-wings

Favorite Thing About Them: Her intelligence and skill. I love that she knows magic, that she's an excellent seamstress and baker too (in the versions where she makes the Tzar's shirt and bread herself, that is), and that she was cursed because someone (her father) was jealous of her cleverness. Fairy tale princesses often earn jealousy, but usually for their beauty, not their brains. She flouts the stereotype that fairy tale princesses are shallow and only valuable for their looks, and she flouts it with flying colors!

Also, I like seeing an animal transformation fairy tale where the heroine is the one transformed into an animal and the male hero is the one who's always human. More often the reverse is true (Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, Snow White and Rose Red, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, etc.); it's refreshing to sometimes see a gender-flip of the usual "animal bridegroom" trope.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: The fact that in some versions, she has magical servants make the shirt and bake the bread that the Tzar commanded instead of doing it herself. That's cheating: the Tzar's order was that his son's wives each make him a shirt and bake him a loaf of bread, not their servants. Fortunately, there are other versions where she does it herself, and those are the versions I prefer.

Also, the fact that after being so active and wise in the first part of the story, she becomes just a silent damsel in distress after she becomes Koschei the Deathless's prisoner.

Three Things I Have in Common With Them:

*I'm intelligent, or at least I hope I am.

*I'm partly of Russian descent.

*I'm a decent dancer.

Three Things I Don’t Have in Common With Them:

*I don't know magic.

*Neither my looks nor my dancing ability would make ball guests stare in amazement.

*I have a good relationship with my father.

Favorite Line:

Her advice to Ivan when she urges him to go to sleep instead of worrying the night away:

The morning is wiser than the evening.

From the Let's Pretend radio adaptation "The Enchanted Frog":

The soul is the thing one tries to find When choosing a mate, keep this in mind. A lovely face may conceal a shrew, Or ugliness bring you blessings true.

BROTP: Her magical servants, in the versions where they exist. In crossover land, I could also see her becoming friends with the Grimms' Frog King, or any other fairy tale characters who go through an animal transformation.

OTP: Prince Ivan.

NOTP: Koschei the Deathless, her old father-in-law the Tzar, or her own father who cursed her.

Random Headcanon: She isn't completely inactive during the last part of the story – from inside Koschei's palace she casts a spell to give the power of speech to all the animals Ivan meets on his journey so they can help him.

Unpopular Opinion: She would have made an excellent Disney princess. It's too bad that they'll presumably never adapt the story because The Princess and the Frog already exists. Oh well... maybe someday they'll adapt the Finnish variation where she's transformed into a mouse instead of a frog.

Song I Associate With Them: None at the moment.

Favorite Picture of Them:

These illustrations showing her dancing and magically conjuring up swans (or doves) at the ball in her human form:

These illustrations of her in her frog form:

And this one showing her first meeting with Ivan as a frog, with the symbolic specter of her human form looming over the scene:

#character ask #ask game #the frog princess #vasilisa the wise #fairy tale #russia #russian fairy tales

[maeowl]

Dhampir hungers for sorrow, destroys everyone’s lives in the process. More at 8.

#Vasilisa needed a new portrait so I am using my time wisely and productively #dnd #dungeons and dragons #gunslinger #vampire #art #artists on tumblr

[thelastofthebookworms]

My tag for this series is 'fairy tales'.

#polls #fairy tales #folktales #the three billy goats gruff #the sea tsar and vasilisa the wise #the twelve sisters #the golden bird #the scarlet flower #peronella #the false prince and the true #the wild swans #mirza sahiban

[sovietpostcards]

"The Tale About Vasilisa the Wise" (Russian folk tale) illustrated by Aleksandr Azemsha (1986)

#book illustration #children's books #1980s

[bigfootboyband]

Vasilisa the Wise (sketches from Russland)

#digital art #art #original art #animation #slavic folk art #slavic art #slavic folkart #slavic #slavic folklore #russian folklore #russian #russian art #vasilisa #vasilisa the beautiful #vasilisa the wise

[alexidoesart]

Many folktales throughout different cultures feature a heroine being given the impossible task of sorting through grains/seeds-- whether that be picking them from the ashes, from between each other, or from their rotting counterparts.

In this task, she often does as much as she can before submitting to a higher power, whether that power recognizes her virtue or she directly asks for help varies based on the culture and tale.

Featured are eight such tales, most of which can be categorized into “Snake Bride” (ATU 425) type tales or “Cinderella” (Both often ATU 510 in the folklore index-- Cinderellas are specifically ATU 510A)

The circle puts them in no particular order, as “origins”  and lineages are muddied, and many of the current incarnations have been influenced by each other, though Ye Xian is the oldest known “complete” version of Cinderella.

Snake Brides:

Psyche, Eros and Psyche (Greco-Roman)

Sukkia, The Snake’s Bride (India)

Donan Sampakang Tale about Gansaļangi and Donan Sampakang (Indonesian)

Cinderellas:

Aschenputtel (German)

Tam, Tấm and Cám (Vietnam)

Unnamed Heroine The Wonderful Birch (Finish & Slavic)

Ye Xian (Chinese)

Neither (ATU 480B-- Stepmother and Stepdaughter)

Vasilisa, Vasilisa the Wise (or Beautiful) (Slavic)

#animation #folklore #mythology #cinderella #vasilisa the beautiful #eros and pysche #ye xian #the wonderful birch #phenakistoscope

[jewellery-box]

Vasilisa by Ivan Bilibin, 1899.

From the Russian folk tale "Vasilisa the Wise".

#illustration

[seveninchesabove]

Day 1 for chaeyaweek2023 - folktales

The Frog Princess

Kaeya - Frog Princess, Vasilisa the Wise

Childe - prince Ivan

Diluc - Koshchei the Deathless

#chaeyaweek2023 #chaeya #genshin impact #genshin fanart #art #illustration

[aeshnalacrymosa]

Julieta y la bruja

Aya la bruja shows Julieta Madrigal a Psilocybe columbiana and a limón mandarino to make lemon tek with.

“I think mamá gave Tío Bruno mushroom tea. She learned it from Aya la bruja when she was younger. In very small doses, it can ease melancholy.”

Aya la bruja started out as just a name. I had no intention of developing her. When I wrote that for Chapter 6 of "Viñetas," this was the kind of image I had in mind. Julieta's gift is one of the most captivating ones for me because of its resemblance with the magical element in the Mexican novel Like Water for Chocolate. Whereas Tita's emotions affect her cooking and the people that eat her food, Julieta heals physical injuries and presumably illnesses with her food. I wondered how Julieta developed her gift. Since Alma does not have her own gift and is busy running the Encanto, did anyone teach Julieta how to attend to people's health?

I recalled the Clarissa Pinkola Estés' interpretation of Vasilisa the Wise in Women Who Run with the Wolves: that in the title character's stay with the witch Baba Yaga, she learned the ways of the wizened ones from the crone. I thought perhaps there was a witch in the Encanto that could guide Julieta. Much like the Cut-Wife and Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful:

It didn't take me long to come up with the name. Aya comes from ayahuasca because I was looking into psychoactive substances for depression at the time. (For context: In "Viñetas," Bruno suffers from depression, insomnia, and migraines after the events of the movie.) But as I continued writing, the character of Aya la bruja would change before I got to describe her appearance. Look out for the next entry, @encanto-extended-edition 🖤

#encanto oc #encanto original character #aya la bruja #julieta madrigal #encanto oc art #encanto oc appreciation #encanto oc event #encanto extended edition #digital art #aeshna's art #medibang paint #encanto #encanto fanart #medibangpaint #medibang art #fanart #disney encanto #aeshna's fics #Youtube #cw drugs #cw: drugs

[adarkrainbow]

So... I have watched "The Last Bogatyr"! Sorry, "The Last Knight/The Last Warrior/The Last Hero". The 2017 movie.

Due to the recent world events, I had to pause away from anything related to Russian folklore - but I still will dip my fingers into it from time to time.

If you do not know about this movie, "The Last Warrior" is a 2017 Russian movie part of the "fairytale fantasy" category, and... it is one of the rare movies produced by the Russian branch of the Disney Company (in collaboration with the Russian company "Yellow, Black and White"). The title is actually weirdly translated because the whole focus on the story is on the "bogatyr" - a type of semi-historical semi-legendary character of Russian culture who could be best compared to the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian world. They are not knights in the Western sense of the world, though they do fill their role in the traditional fairytales as the heroic military warriors that kill monster and save princesses ; and merely calling them "heroes" is a bit too vast for the very specific thing they are. Anyway...

The Last Bogatyr is a typical "portal fantasy" type of story. In modern-day Russia (there's a reference to the President, and this made me grit my teeth, because fuck Putin), lives Ivan, a famous star-magician, professional medium and dedicated scammer, who poses as "Svetozar, the wizard of light". But one day, after fleeing from the goons of a person he ended up pissing off, Ivan finds himself teleported in "Belogoria", the world of Russian fairytales.

There he is welcomed by Dobrynya Nikitich, and discovers he is not an orphan as he always believed but the son of Ilya Muromets, send to another world as a baby. (Dobrynya and Ilya are two of the most famous bogatyr of legends) However he is soon imprisoned by Dobrynya's sorcerous wife, the witch-queen Varvara, and discovers that almost all of the supernatural beings of Belogoria have been hunted down and persecuted by Varvara's crusade against all things "evil". This forced the once great villains of the land to become heroes against the tyrannical oppresor, and as such Ivan (because of course, as the main hero he has to be called Ivan) is forced to team up with Koschei the Deathless and Baba-Yaga to subvert Varvara's evil plans. Other folktales character that join the party include The Frog Princess/Vasilisa the Wise, and the Vodianoy ; and the purpose of their quest is to find the legendary "Kladenets sword" (magical sword).

This movie is... weird. Not weird in a "cult movie" type of way, no, no. This movie definitively is Russian and feels Russian, but at the same time it has Disney smeared all over it. As in: the plot and character types of this movie are all the cliches and stereotypes of Disney live-action fantasy movies. If you just take Ivan's character here - he is just a recycled version of the Wizard of Oz from Disney's "Oz The Great and Powerful". Once you understand you are in a "typical Disney movie", you can easily guess and expect what is going to happen. (Except for the very end, which has a real twist. It is the post-credit scene, if I recall well, and oh boy I did NOT see that coming, that was good) So yes, if you are used to Disney movies, in the likes of Tangled or Pirates of the Caribbean or the like, you'll know exactly where this movie is going.

Despite being very generic in terms of plot and character handling, being a very Disneyified product, this movie has the great interest of showing how Disney would handle the Russian fairytales. It is not everyday you can say "I watched the Disney version of Baba-Yaga" or "I watched Disney's take on Vasilisa the Wise". Plus the movie does look pretty, I will not lie. On the other side, this is definitively a movie for kids and all audiences. It is a semi-humoristic movie, a fantasy-comedy mostly filled with jokes (but one that won't make you "laugh out loud", and not one I would call the funniest movie). There is no gore, no brutal violence, no adult jokes. The "softening" or "Disneyification" is especially seen by the handling of Koschei and Baba-Yaga, who lose the darkness, the horror and the morbid typically associated with them and become comical side-characters, fitting more your typical Disney cast of anti-heroes and funny sidekicks... But don't get me wrong, it does not mean they are done wrong. In fact, Baba-Yaga, Vasilisa, Koschei are without a doubt the BEST parts of his movie.

Because Ivan, the protagonist, is one of the most insufferable characters I have ever met. He is a bad man (morally speaking) as much as a bad character (writing speaking). He is a jerk that has nothing pleasant to him, his moments of "goodness", "kindness" and "heroism" are SO artifical and SO forced it feels out-of-character for him. I understand he is supposed to embody the archetype of "Ivan the Fool", and they do relie in some scenes on the fact he is indeed not a hero but a cowardly, idiotic jerk... But then in other scenes he suddenly becomes this great hero hidden underneath and this kind man that just looks like a pathetic idiot and... yeah I hate this character. If the movie had been all about Koschei and Baba-Yaga and Vasilisa as their own team, it would have been such a better and great movie. The villains are good, the side-characters are good - it is just the main protagonist that is... bleh.

I know that the movie was popular enough to get not one but TWO sequels. I might watch them one day - I heard they are better. As for this movie... What I'd say is that it is not an excellent movie, nor a bad one - depending on your own taste and preferences, it ranges from a "good but not great" movie to a "neutral/middle-ground/meh" movie. It is not groundbreaking or inventive, but it is pretty, and honestly, the real interest of watching this movie is to see how Disney handles Russian folktales. This is the reason I watched this movie, and the main if not only reason I would advise people to go check it out - it is the improbable and bizarre crossover of Russian media and Disney movies, it is a Russian Disney fairytale movie, uniting the beloved folklore of the Soviet world and the traditional movie-making of American culture, and as such it is a very... weird piece that one must at least know about.

(And the character of Varvara is SUCH a good character. I love how she is presented, the visuals, how she plays out in the plot. I don't know if she is inspired by any specific folktale character - from what I have seen around she was invented for the movie and while fitting the fairytale world is not meant to represent a specific folk-character? But that's a very cool character)

#movie reviews #the last bogatyr #the last warrior #fairytale movies #disney fairy tales #disney movies #russian fairytales #russian disney

[ancestorsalive]

BABA YAGA Fiana Sidhe tells us, “Baba Yaga is a very misunderstood Goddess. She is not just the stereotypical wicked witch. She often appears as a frightening old hag, but can also appear as a beautiful woman who bestows gifts. She is wild and untamed but also can be kind and generous. Even in Her haggard form, Baba Yaga has many gifts to share. Baba Yaga is the old crone who guards The Waters of Life and Death. She is the White Lady of Death and Rebirth, and is also known as The Ancient Goddess of Old Bones. The old bones are symbolic of the things we cling to, but must finally let lie. When we experience a death, darkness, depression, or spiritual emptiness in our lives, we journey to Baba Yaga’s hut, where She washes new life into us. She collects our bones and pours the waters on them, while She sings and chants and causes us to be reborn. She destroys and then She resurrects. Baba Yaga symbolises the death of ignorance. She forces us to see our true, darkest selves, then She grants us a deep wisdom that we can attain by accepting the dark shadows within ourselves. We can only receive help from Baba Yaga by learning humility. Her gifts can destroy or enlighten us.” Sr. Dea Phoebe has this to say about Baba Yaga: “So, while She is certainly a dark Goddess, a death Goddess, and may even seem ‘wicked’ in ways, Baba Yaga is hardly the villain of Her stories. But also, Baba Yaga is not a nice, clean, civilised Goddess. In the story of Valalisa the Wise, triple Goddess imagery repeats throughout – in Valalisa and her doll’s white, red, and black clothing, (colours traditionally associated with the Maiden, Mother, and Crone,) in the repetition of threes throughout the story (three colors, three enemies in the stepfamily, three riders, three tasks, three questions, three pairs of hands) and in Valalisa, (the maiden beginning her journey), her mother (who has given Valalisa gifts to guide her), and of course, in Baba Yaga as the crone. As a denizen of the deep forest, Baba Yaga is the wild aspect of the psyche, what Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés calls [in her book Women Who Run with the Wolves] the Wild Hag or the Wild Woman —not the gentle grandmother that bakes you cookies and tells you stories, but the stern grandmother that might just smack your rear with a spoon and tell you to smarten up! She is not pretty to look at, and she represents the deepest mysteries of death. No wonder she has a reputation of a scary old witch! When we work with Baba Yaga, when we take that path into the deep forest to face the mysteries of death and emerge with the light of wisdom, we also face the wild aspects of ourselves. They may not be pretty, they may have long stringy hair and iron teeth and a wild cackle, but they also hold mysteries our more civilised day-to-day selves never think upon. Baba Yaga is not tied by social norms and mores. She flies about in yet another symbol of transformation; She wipes away the signs of Her passing so you’re never sure if She’s really been there. She’s rude, She’s crude, and She lives in a hut that doesn’t have the manners to sit down and stay like we expect a house should—and you can bet She enjoys all of this. She is less concerned about what is civilized and polite than what is true. When you find yourself in need of true wisdom, when you find yourself being too nice, too polite in the face of ongoing boundary violations, when you find yourself stagnated by the expectations of others, it might just be time to retrieve your Wild Woman (or Man.) It might be time to brave the forest and meet Baba Yaga.” ♦️ How might you have courage, as Vasilisa did, to face the frightening depths of the dark forest? ♦️ What gifts can you find within yourself that will give you protection and guidance as you meet the dark goddess and learn from her? ~ Rebekah Myers ~ Fiana Sidhe, “Baba Yaga, The Bone Mother“ ~ Sr. Dea Phoebe, Order of Our Lady of Salt, “The Goddess and the Wheel: Baba Yaga – Wicked Witches and Wild Women“ Art: Rima Staines, Baba Yaga Rima Staines - Artist rimastaines.com

#Baba Yaga #rima staines #Rebekah Myers #Vasilisa #courage #gifts #guidance #lessons #dark goddess #protection #The Bone Mother #archetypes #myth #folkways