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Red-necked Wallaby
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From Wikipedia:
A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod (Family Macropodidae). It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name.
Very small forest-dwelling wallabies are known as pademelons (genus Thylogale) and dorcopsises (genera Dorcopsis and Dorcopsulus). The name wallaby comes from the Eora Aboriginal tribe who were the original inhabitants of the Sydney area. Young wallabies are known as "joeys", like many other marsupials.
Kiss me... / Dame un beso...
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... and you will be the princess of my kingdom.
... y te haré princesa de mi reino.
ENGLISH
Prince Charming is a stock character who originates in a number of fairy tales. He is the prince who comes to the rescue of the damsel in distress, and typically must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell. The name has been given to the heroes of a number of traditional folk tales, including Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella.
These characters are often handsome and romantic, a foil to the heroine, and are seldom deeply characterized, or even distinguishable from other such men who marry the heroine. In many variants, they can be viewed more as rewards for the heroine rather than characters.
In the eighteenth centurey, Madame d'Aulnoy wrote two fairy tales, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, where the hero was named Avenant, and The Blue Bird, where the hero was Le roi Charmant ("The Charming King," in French). When Andrew Lang retold the first (in 1889) for The Blue Fairy Book, he rendered the hero's name as "Charming"; the second, for The Green Fairy Book, as "King Charming".
Although neither one was a prince and the first was not royal, this may have been the original use of "Charming."
Then, Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray refers ironically to "Prince Charming," perhaps the earliest use of the exact term. The main character, Dorian, is supposed to be a young actress's "Prince Charming," but he abandons her and in despair she commits suicide.
The Walt Disney animated version of Cinderella that appeared in 1950 further popularized the name in English. In the Charles Perrault version of Cinderella, and in most pre-Disney versions, the prince is not specifically identified as Prince Charming. Nor is the character of the Prince named Prince Charming - or for that matter anything else - in the earlier Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Since that film appeared, the name has been bestowed upon the highly similar characters who appear in Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. In fact, the princely status of Prince Charming is more important to the plot of this latter tale, since it is his royal status that enables Prince Charming to break the curse that keeps Sleeping Beauty in her supernatural sleep. In Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" (1959) the Prince is named Phillip and never referred to as "Prince Charming".
In another variant, Prince Charming is the victim of a curse that has transmogrified him into a frog or toad. In this version, Prince Charming has to be kissed by a princess while in his amphibian form for the curse to be broken; only then can he be restored to his human form as a handsome prince.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Charming
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CASTELLANO
El príncipe azul es un personaje tipo que se originó en varios cuentos de hadas. Es un príncipe que va al rescate de la dama en apuros, y típicamente debe emprender una búsqueda para liberarla de un malvado hechizo. Se ha llamado así a los héroes de varias historias del folclore tradicional, entre ellas Blancanieves, La bella durmiente y Cenicienta.
El príncipe azul es típicamente un joven bien plantado. Con frecuencia luce un fajín o cinta alrededor de su uniforme principesco, y a menudo pequeño y lustroso bigote. En muchas representaciones habla con acento francés o británico.
Según el escritor y profesor de literatura Severino Calleja, el personaje nace con este nombre en «una leyenda rumana del siglo XIX llamada El Príncipe Azul de la lágrima». El color azul alude al carácter real del personaje, teniendo posiblemente el mismo significado que en la expresión sangre azul: la aristocracia acostumbraba a alejarse del sol, por lo que estaban pálidos y las venas eran más visibles en su piel blanca (aunque quizá también tenga que ver con la endogamia, fuente de enfermedades cardiovasculares que hacen que la sangre tenga un color rojo menos intenso). El color, sin embargo, no es lo más importante, y de hecho sólo se menciona en versiones modernas de los cuentos; de hecho, la expresión se popularizó a raíz de la canción cantada por la protagonista de la versión de La bella durmiente animada por Walt Disney (1950). Desde entonces el nombre se ha aplicado a personajes muy similares que aparecen en Blancanieves y Cenicienta. Lo más importante para la trama de estas historias es el estatus real del príncipe azul, que le permite romper las maldiciones que mantienen dormidas a Blancanieves y La bella durmiente.
En otra variante, el príncipe azul es la víctima de una maldición que le ha transformado en una rana o un sapo. En esta versión, el príncipe debe ser besado por una princesa mientras tiene aspecto anfibio para poder romper la maldición, y sólo entonces puede recuperar su forma humana de guapo príncipe.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%c3%adncipe_azul
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