Reading Notes Week 15 Grimm (Librivox): Part B

 Grimm Notes

Barbie and the 12 dancing princesses illustration. (Source: Fandom Wiki )

The Queen Bee

-2 princes went out into the world to seek fortunes

-had a brother who was "a little insignificant dwarf"

-he tried to find his brothers but they laughed at him

-the older brothers though he wasnt capable because they werent 

-came across an ant hill the elder bros wanted to knock down but the younger wouldnt let them 

-"Let the poor things enjoy themselves," repetitive 

-came across ducks the elders wanted to kill but younger said no

-came across a bee hive with honey and dwarf stopped brothers from huritng the bees

-came to enchanted marble castle

-eldest brother first challenge with pearls

-turned to stone b/c he failed

-next brother failed too

-dwarf was last to try

-dwarf sat on a rock and cried because the job was so hard. 

-King of ants (who he had rescued) heard and helped him find them

-the second challenge was to gte a key from a lake

-the ducks helped

-the last to choose the best princess

-queen bee helped to pick the right one

-enchantment was broken

The 12 Huntsmen

-kings son had a bride he loved

-king sent for him because he was dying

-told his bride he would return and gave her a ring

-made a promise to his father to marry a different princess

-she cried and her father asked her what she wanted

-she wanted 12 other girls just like her

-she had costumes made for all

-went to court of the prince and asked to be hsi hunstmen and he said yes

-kings pet lion told him the truth

-king put hunstmen to the test

-truth revealed and lion believed again

Jorinda and Jorindel 

-old castle in a gloomy wood

-old fairy

-fairy had the power to shape shift into animals except at night she was always an old woman again

-any men that came near her castle were sent away, women she turned into birds and kept

-beautiful purple flower with a pearl in it 

-the flower disenchanted everything and turned Jorinda inot a maiden again

-"They lived happily ever after"

The Fox and The Horse

-a farmers horse too old for work

-horse was "very melancholy"

-farmer said he had to have the strength of a lion

-fox said he would help him

-fox helped him catch a lion and bring him to the farmer

-farmer ket him stay

The 12 Dancing Princesses

-king had 12 daughters who all shared one room with 12 beds

-even though they were locked up, their shoes were always worn through the next day as if they had been dancing all night

-king put it to a challenge to find out  how

-if a man could figure it out in three days and three nights he could marry one of the girls he chose and become king, but if not was put tot death

-an old soldier

-old dame warned not to drink wine and gave him an old cloak

-youngest knew something was wrong but eldest made fun of her for it 

-went through a trap door in the floor

-12 princes in 12 little boats

-soldier married the eldest

The Turnip

-2 soldiers who were brothers, one poor, and one rich

-poor soldier became a gardener

-grew a huge turnip and thought to give it to the king

-kign rewarded him and made him richer than his brother

-the brother got jealous and was determined to become rich too and got the king a gift of gold and horses

-hired villians to kill his brother

-got tied up in a sack and tricked a student to let him down

The Willow-Wren and The Bear

-Willow-wren- "King of Birds"

-talking animals

-bear saw nest of willow-wrens and thougth the children disreputable

-king and queen said they would punish the bear with a bloody war

-fox leading floor legged animals'-willow-wrens all flying insects and animals

-Willow-wrens won but children said the bear had to come and apologize to them

Bibliography and Sources

sources come from the Grimms' Fairy Tale sbook published by the Project Gutenburg
website- Project Gutenburg

Reading Notes Week 15 Grimm (Librivox): Part A

 Grimm Reading Notes 

Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959). (Source: Tumblr )

The Frog Prince

-young princess in bonnet and clogs (German?)

-golden ball was her favorite plaything 

-lost the ball in the spring when playing with it 

-a frog offers to help in exchange for the princess' love and letting him live with her and eat from her plate and sleep in her bed

-princess thought to trick the frog 

-when the frog got the ball for her she ran home and did not stay to listen to the frog 

-"Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here!
And mind the words that thou and I said
By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade."

-after three nights the frog turned into a prince 

-princess married the prince and they lived happily ever after

Rapunzel

-a man and a woman prayed to God for a child 

-had a window that looked into the enchantress' garden  

-the woman craved the rampion (rapunzel) in the garden 

-she started to look sick because she craved it so much

-her husband went to get it not caring about the consequences

-the wife then wanted 3 times more 

-the enchantress showed mercy as long as they gave her the baby

-Ell- measurement of cloth, usually as long as a persons arm

-Rapunzel locked into a tower at age 12 

-prince climbed up her hair and talked to her like a friend 

-enchantress cut off her braids and abandoned her in the desert

-prince jumped out the window and lived, but was blinded by thorns and wandered around the forest

-found Rapunzel with the twins she had given birth too and when she cried over him, two of her tears healed his eyes

The Straw, The Coal, and The Bean

-a poor old woman was cooking a dish of beans 

- a bean fell out near a piece of straw and coal

-all three reflected on what would have happened to them and decided to stick together 

-when they left they came to a small brook

-the straw offered to lean across it and make a bridge

-the coal went across first, but got scared in the middle and stopped

-the straw burned and broke into two pieces and fell into the brook and so did the coal where it died

-the bean laughed so much it burst, a tailor saw and took pity and sewed her back together and used black thread

-since then every bean has had a black seam 

The Mouse, The Bird, and The Sausage 

-starts with "Once upon a time"

-all three set up house together

-"When people are too well off, they always begin to long for something new."

-bird refused to do his part

-dog ate the sausage 

-mouse burned up in the pot

-bird drowneed in water

- a lesson to learn 

The Musicians 

-an old donkey ran away from his owner so that he wouldnt be killed and wants to be a musician 

-saw a dog and asked the dog to join him and he did 

-they cam across a cat and aksed her to come with

-found a rooster and invited him to come along with them 

-saw a house far off while travelling and went there to try to find shelter and food 

-scared robbers out of house with "music"

Clever Elsie 

-parents wanted to get her married to a man named Hans

-Hans said if she wasnt really smart he didnt want her for a wife

-cried over if she married Hans, had a child, and he had to draw beer that the pick axe may fall on him and kill him

-Hans found her clever and took her as his wife

Briar Rose 

-sleeping beauty story

-"Once upon a time"

-king and queen were grieved that they had no children 

-Queen helped a litttle fish from dying and the fish granted her wosh for a daughter

-had a party to celebrate the child

-but when inviting the thirteen fairies, they only had 12 plates, so left one out

-13th fairy cursed the girl to pirck her finger on a spindle when she was 15 and die

-the 12th fairy softened the curse by saying she wouldnt die but just fall into a 100 year sleep

-king had all the spinning wheels burned in the kingdom 

-on her 15th birthday, was left alone in the castle and found an old woman at a spinning wheel spinning

-was curious about the spinning wheel and pricked her finger on it 

-everyone and everything went inot a deep sleep with the princess

-thick thorns grew around the palace and killed any princes who tried to get through it to the castle 

-another prince heard about it from an old man who warned him but went anyway

-because 100 years were up, prince did not see the thorns but flowering shrubs and walked through them easily

-found Briar Rose and kissed her 

-she woke up along with the rest of the palace

-they lived happily ever after

Bibligraphy and Sources

sources come from the Grimms' Fairy Tale sbook published by the Project Gutenburg 

website- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2591

Faerie Queen Reading Notes: Part B

 Faerie Queen Notes

Britomart by Cristian Gonzalez (Source: Reddit )

The Enchanted Chamber

-What Britomart Saw in The Enchanted Chamber 

-Shrill trumpet 

-"brave Princess" 

-"Then stepped forth a grave-looking person, in costly raiment, and bearing in his hand a branch of laurel."

-name of man was Ease 

-iron wicket

-joyous band 

-Fancy, Desire, Doubt, Danger, Fear, Hope, Dissembling, Suspicion, Grief, Fury, Displeasure, Pleasure, Spite, and Cruelty all personified. 

-Love was also personified and was "tyrant of the castle" and had a winged figure 

-also- Reproach, Repentance, Shame, Strife, Anger, Care, Unthriftiness, Loss of Time, Sorrow, Change, Disloyalty, Rioting, Poverty, Death-with-Infamy

-all returned to the inner chamber they had come from 

A Wicked Enchanter 

-How Britomart Rescued a Fair Lady from a Wicked Enchanter

-Britomart tried to open the door to the inner chamber and couldn't because it was closed by magic

-no one but the enchanter and the lady was in the inner chamber. her hands were tied up and a chain around her waist

- the enchanter was drawing figures in blood trying to use magic to make her love him

-Britomart didn't kill him because he had to undo the spell over the lady 

-Glauce and Scudamour left to look for more help, so when Britomart and Amoret came out, they weren't there 

Strange Meetings 

-What Strange Meetings Befell on the Way

-As they were looking for the knight and Glauce, Amoret shared the story of how she was captured with Britomart

-her and Britomart became best friends 

-Duessa and Ate-treacherous and in disguise 

-Strife

The Golden Girdle

-How Britomart did Battle for the Golden Girdle

-last day of the tournament 

-Knights of Maidenhood

-The Savage Knight- Sir Artegall, The champion of justice 

-Britomart beat all the other knights

-Girdle of Florimell- wearer said to be peerless

The False Floimell

-How the Golden Girdle was Awarded to the False Florimell

-Snowy Lady- impersonating the Lady Florimell

-"Unlucky maid, to seek her enemy! Unlucky maid to seek far and wide for him whom, when he was nearest, she could not discover because of his disguise!"

The House of Care 

-How Sir Scudamour Came to the House of Care

-Scudamour wants revenge of Britmoart b/c Ate filled his heart with jealous rage 

-Care- a blacksmith by trade, ragged and dirty appearance 

-6 servents who were strong men 

Two Knights

-How the "Savage Knight" met the "Knight with the Ebony Spear"

-Scudamour and Artegall meet

-they both agreed to help seek revenge on Britomart

-Britomart fought both and won

How Britomart Ended her Quest

-Britomart and Artegall are made known to each other

-Glauce makes everyone make amends

-Amoret is missing

Bibliography-

Stories from the Faerie Queen by Mary McCleod, with drawings by A.G. Walker (1916).

Faerie Queen Reading Notes: Part A

 Faerie Queen Notes

Britomart walking into the fire. (Source: www.oldbookillustrations.com )

Sir Guyon

-"How Sir Guyon met a Champion mightier than himself"

-Acrasia- the wicked enchantress, captured

-he traveled with Prince Author- (possible connection with king Arthur later???)

-traditional chivalry and knight cade

-saw another knight with a golden lion on the shield 

-Guyon wanted to be the one who fought the knight 

-Guyon fell off his horse because of an enchanted spear he was holding 

-knight was actually a maiden 

-maiden was actually the famous Princess Britomart, daughter of Ryence, King of South Wales.

-she was trying to find Artegall- the champion knight of justice

-she saw him in a magic mirror Merlin gave to her father

-definite connections to Arthur 

-traveled and fought together, when they lost to one another they were graceful about it 

How Britomart Fought with Six Knights 

-a milk-white pony rushed past them with a lady on its back

-Florimell- name of the lady on the pony

-Arthur and Guyon started to fight the woodman chasing her

-Britomart found a "stately castle" 

-she saw one knight fighting six others on the plain that was in front of the castle

-Britomart ran to help

-story reads like a fairytale 

-"There dwells within this castle a fair lady whose beauty has no living rival. She has ordained this law, which we approve: that every knight who comes this way and has no lady of his own, shall enter her service, never to leave it. But if he has already a lady whom he loves, then he must give her up, or else fight with us to prove that she is fairer than our lady."

-Britomart won, entered the castle 

Britomart in Castle Joyous 

-Lady of Delight and Castle Joyous 

-the lady always satisfied her own desires no matter what

The Magic Mirror

-How Britomart Looked into The Magic Mirror

-explains to her companion knight that she is traveling and disguising herself as a knight to seek adventure but also find Artegall

-lied about how she felt about Artegall to hide her feelings from the other knight 

-"These words sank into Britomart's heart and filled her with rapture, but still, she would not let her companion see it."

-mirror was round and hollow like a globe

The Cave of The Magician Merlin

-How Britomart went to the Cave of the Magician Merlin

-saw Artegall in the mirror and was plunged into grieving thinking that she would never see him again

-went to Merlin to try to find out where Artegall was

Britomart's Quest

-How Britomart Set Forth on Her Quest

-the nursemaid helps her to come up with a plan to sneak away to the Faerie Queen's land to find Artegall

The Castle at the Churl Malbecco

-How Britomart Came to the Castle at Churl Malbecco

-a great storm 

-churl-an impolite and mean-spirited person

-the churl refused to let Britomart into his castle away from the storm

-he eventually let her and other knights into the castle where they all shared stories

How Britomart Walked Through Fire

-saw a giant chasing a man

-wandered into the forest to find the giant and both got separated

-Britomart found a sobbing knight

-knight told her that his lady love had been taken by an evil enchanter 

-she vowed she would rescue her or die with her 

-found a great magical fire at the entrance of the castle

-Britomart's boldness helped her to pass the fire 

-castle was richly decorated 

Bibliography-

Stories from the Faerie Queen by Mary Mcleod, with drawings by A. G. Walker (1916). 

Celtic Fairy Tales Reading: Part B

 Celtic Fairy Tales

Cover of the "Celtic Fairy Tales" book. (Source: Mythology Untextbook Unit )

King O'Toole and His Goose

-"OCH, I thought all the world, far and near, had heerd o' King O'Toole — well, well, but the darkness of mankind is untellable!"

-owned the churches

-loved hunting

-had a pet goose that entertained him when he got old and couldn't hunt anymore

-Saint Kavin

-Saint Kavin says will make the goose good as new if the king will give him the land she flies around after shes better

The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire

-Fairy of Gannon and the Laughin Goblin

-asked the king of Erin to marry his daughter

-king told him that if he could find out what made the goblin stop laughing he could marry her, if he didn't, he would behead him

-fairy starts working for the goblin

-Land of the Giant

-five-headed giant 

Beth Gellert

-prince Llewelyn had a greyhound named Gellert

-called for Gellert but he never came

-went hunting but came back angry

-when he came back, found the dog covered in blood

-went to sons nursery and saw chaos

-"Monster, thou hast devoured my child," he drew out his sword and plunged it in the greyhound's side, who fell with a deep yell and still gazing in his master's eyes."

-Beth Gellert- "Grave of Gellert"

The Tale of Ivan 

-Cornish Tale

-Market Jew- nothing to do with Jews, "Marghas Yow,"-means Thursday Market

-Llanlavan Chyannor

-3 pounds for a year's wages at the farm for Ivan

-"Never leave the old road for the sake of a new one."

-"Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman."

-"Honesty is the best policy."

Andrew Coffey

-whole barony-repeated 

-quiet decent man

-got lost in the woods and found a cabin

-heard his name being called

-"better see, than be seen"

-dreamed the whole ordeal

Brewery of Eggshells

-Welsh changeling story

-Place of Strife

-"old elves of the blue petticoat"

-"Wise Man of Llanidloes, for he knew everything and would advise her what to do."

-"So she went back into the house, seized the children, and threw them into the lake, and the goblins in their blue trousers came and saved their dwarfs and the mother had her own children back and so the great strife ended."

Bibliography-

Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892). 

Celtic Fairy Tales Reading: Part A

 Celtic Fairy Tales

Silver-Tree in the glen. (Source: The Untextbook )

Connla and The Fairy Maiden 

-Connla of the Fiery Hair

-Conn of the Hundred Fights

-Plains of the Ever-Living- "Where there is neither death nor sin"

-Hill Folk

-interesting names 

-old language 

-only Connla saw the Fairy Maiden 

-Plain of Pleasure- Moy Mell

-Boadag is king

-"Oh, come with me, Connla of the Fiery Hair, ruddy as the dawn with thy tawny skin. A fairy crown awaits thee to grace thy comely face and royal form. Come, and never shall thy comeliness fade, nor thy youth, till the last awful day of judgment."

-Coran-Druid

-"by woman wiles and witchery"

-Coran got rid of the maiden and the maiden threw an apple at him

-Connla ate only from the apple and ate and drank nothing else for a month, his longing for the fairy maiden grew

-"Tis a glorious place, forsooth, that Connla holds among short-lived mortals awaiting the day of death. But now the folk of life, the ever-living ones, beg and bid thee come to Moy Mell, the Plain of Pleasure, for they have learnt to know thee, seeing thee in thy home among thy dear ones."

-maiden called druid "false black demon"

-curragh-a canoe

The Field of Boliauns

-lady-day - Feast of the Annunciation- angel Gabriel told Mary of Jesus' birth

-Tom Fitzpatrick

-"clacking sort of noise"

-"stonechatters"

-brown pitcher that might hold a gallon and a half of liquor 

-Leprachaun description

-"They say a body must never take their eyes off them, or they'll escape."

-good beer in the pitcher

-made beer out of heath

-boliaun-pot

The Horned Women

-Witch of One Horn

-Witch of Two Horns

-12 women all with horns, last had 12 horns

-Mistress of house felt near death from witchs' spell

-"The mountain of the Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire."

-Slievenamon- their main home 

-the Spirit of the Well

-feet-water

-feet-water, beam, and cake all talk back to the witches

The Shepherd of Myddvai 

-Black Mountains in Caermarthenshire lies the lake known as Lyn y Van Vach

-3 maidens from lake

-shepherd fell in love with one of the maidens

-maiden said she would marry him and be with him but he couldn't strike her 3 times (familiar to other stories I've read)

-sons became Meddygon Myddvai, the physicians of Myddvai

The Sprightly Tailor

-the great Macdonald

-told tailor to make trews at night in a haunted church

-ghost appears

-the "fearsome thing" ran after the tailor after he left the church and gave chase

Munachar and Manachar 

-starts off like an original fairytale

-inanimate objects talking (rod,axe,flag,water, butter, milk)

-talking animals (deer, hound, cat, cow)

-repetitive, always adding a new character 

- threshers, miller

-Manachar bursts before Munachar can get everything he needs to hang him on a gad

Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree

-starts with "Once upon a time.."

-silver-tree is mother, gold-tree daughter

-trout in the glen they go to tells silver-tree that her daughter is prettier than her

-a prince from far off ask to marry gold-tree and the king approves

-king gave her the heart and liver of a he-goat instead

-siler-tree begs king for a ship and they go visit their daughter

-gold-tree locked herself in her room when they came

-mother teicked her and stuck her finger with poison that killed her

-prince didn't bury her, but locked her in her room where she was

-prince marries again and second wife finds the room where gold-tree is

-she takes the poison out of her finger and gold-tree lives again

-prince keeps both wives

-repetitive

-"The prince and his two wives were long alive after this, pleased and peaceful. I left them there."

Bibliography-

Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892). 

Week 11 Reading Notes Part B: Native American Marriage Tales

 Marriage Tales Part B

Deer running through the forest. (Source: Pixabay)

The Dog-Husband

-tamanous-" spirit power"

-Quinault tale

-young girl who had a dog

-dog slept at foot of her bed

-every night dog would turn into a man and lie with the girl and then turn back to a dog in the morning

-girl becomes pregnant

-parents were ashamed, all the people moved, and left the girl to die 

-Crow had pity on her

-Coals between two clamshells, hear crackling, and see fire

-had 5 dog pups, 4 males 1 female

-heard singing from the house

-caught pups in human form 

-taught boys how to hunt

-made them bathe every day to get tamanous for whale hunting 

-got so many whales beach stank with them

-Crow visited and then told the people who ran away about children and girl

-people went back to village and the boys were chiefs

The Youth Who Joined The Deer

-Nlakapamuk tale

-great deer-hunter

-constantly thought of deer

-2 wives, one son

-see child and woman at the end of deer tracks 

-"You need not trouble yourself about the tracks. For a long time, I have loved you and longed for you. Now you shall go with me to my house."

-hunter could not resist attraction or following her

-"You must not worry or think that you are doing wrong. You shall be my husband, and you will never regret it."

-went underground

-found other people who were dressed in deerskin clothing

-"You are my husband, and will sleep with me. You may embrace me, but you must not try to have intercourse with me. You must not do so before the rutting season. Then you may also go with my sisters. Our season comes but once a year, and lasts about a month. During the rest of the year we have no sexual connections."

-deer people lived by hunting and killing each other for food, but came back to life when thrown into the water

The Youth Who Joined The Deer (Cont.)

-turned into a deer for rutting season, others beat him

-people gave him large antlers to win in fighting

-went back to hunters people

-"For eight days you must prepare yourself by washing in decoctions of herbs."

-deer son teaches other son how to hunt and to throw deer bones in the water

-son from the deer became human and the hunter became a deer

The Girl and The Turkeys

-Zuni tale

-Salt City

-Wealthy people owned large flocks of turkeys

-a little tumbledown, single-room house, wherein there lived alone a very poor girl

-the only thing she owned was turkeys

-turkeys loved her

-Dance of the Sacred Bird

-never allowed to participate

-turkeys can understand the girl

- "Now, listen well, for I speak the speech of all the elders of my people: If you will drive us in early this afternoon when the dance is most gay and the people are most happy, we will help you to make yourself so handsome and so prettily dressed that never a man, woman, or child amongst all those who are assembled at the dance will know you, but rather, especially the young men, will wonder whence you came, and long to lay hold of your hand in the circle that forms around the altar to dance."

The Girl and the Turkeys (Cont. and end)

-"No one knows how much happiness and good fortune may come to you"

-"took turkeys home and gave them her clothes to restore

-made all her clothing looked white and neat and pressed

-turkeys cleaned her too

-"O maiden mother, leave open the wicket, for who knows whether you will remember your Turkeys or not when your fortunes are changed, and if you will not grow ashamed that you have been the maiden mother of Turkeys? But we love you and would bring you good fortune. Therefore, remember our words of advice, and do not tarry too long."

-"Whence comes this beautiful maiden?"

-forgot turkeys

-"It is as we might have expected. She has forgotten us; therefore is she not worthy of better things than those she has been accustomed to. Let us go forth to the mountains and endure no more of this irksome captivity, inasmuch as we may no longer think our maiden mother as good and true as once we thought her."

-turkeys ran away high into the mountains

-"After all, the gods dispose of men according to as men are fitted, and if the poor be poor in heart and spirit as well as in appearance, how will they be aught but poor to the end of their days?"

The True Bride

-Nlakapamuk tale 

-white man who had a wife and daughter

-first wife died, man remarried and had another daughter

-stepmother was always mean to the first daughter

-stepmother sent out the girl to get berries in winter

-girl left with food in her basket and was going to wander until she died

-found a lodge with four young men

-young men were relatives but she didn't know it 

-told them about stepmother sending her out for berries 

-they gave her a shovel and scraper and told her to remove snow from the house

-found that the roof was covered with fresh strawberries 

-asked what they could do for her

-she said she was poor and had no clothes, they told her to spit and spittle turned into a gold nugget

-made shoes and dress

-stepmother was angry when she saw all the things that the girl had

-stepmother told her daughter to follow elders footsteps in the snow

-came to the lodge and the brothers gave her food and asked why she was traveling 

-told her to do the same for berries 

-asked her to spit but she was too vain and haughty

-when younger spat it turned into smelly toenails 

-brothers refused to help her 

-stepmother not giving up messing with Girl-who-spat-gold

-"animal-birth slander"

-chief's son passed by and saw the elder girl

-chief and his son saw she spat gold and the chief told his son to marry her because she was valuable

-at wedding, the girl spat gold for guests

-She-who-spat-gold became pregnant

-husband said that stepmother and half-sister should help her have the baby

-stepmother made the baby fall into a hole and gave the girl a cat and said that was her child

-"Odd people have odd children."

-stepmother tricked her again the same way and gave her a snake for her baby

-stepmother convinced husband to kill the girl and they threw her overboard in the lake

-four brothers rescued her and turned her into a swan 

-She-who-spat-gold's dog took care of children

-stepmother poisoned them 

-dog took them to the Sun for help

-children came back to life with the Sun's spittle

-stepmother and half-sister hanged 

Bibliography-

Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929). 

Week 11 Reading Notes Part A: Native American Marriage Tales

 Marriage Tales 

Buffalo (Source: Pixabay)

The Piqued Buffalo Wife

-Blackfoot story

-young man fathers a buffalo cow's child

-the child sneaks into the other camps to play with the other children

-wanted to find his father 

-headman called all older man and the boy couldn't find his father 

-father was among the unmarried men of the camp

-boy brought his father to where his mother was

-buffalo cow became a woman and went home with her husband and child

-she warned her husband to not "strike at her with fire"

-struck at her with fire, she and the child turned into buffalo and ran away

- man covered himself in "buffalo-wallow" to try and find them

-was told he had to go through an ordeal to be reunited with his wife and child 

-the buffalo calf that was his son told him he would know it was him b/c he would hold up his tail

-man was trampled 

-found a piece of bone and brought him back to life

Bear-Woman and Deer-Woman

-Lassik story 

-grizzly bear and doe were both wives of chickenhawk

-grizzly bear kills the doe

-cooks her head in the fire

-the does children killed the grizzlys children

Splinter-Foot-Girl

-Arapaho story

-7 people on a journey on the war-path

-they went hunting to find food and one of the hunters cut his leg on a thorny plant

-his leg swelled up so much that it burst and a child came out of it

-the grew very fond of the child

-her name was Foot-Stuck-Child

-a buffalo wanted to marry her so sent a magpie with the message to the hunters

-they said no 

-eventually became his wife 

-had a hand-painted buffalo robe

Splinter-Foot-Girl (cont.)

-been a year since she has married buffalo

-blackbird said that the mole and badger can help the hunters get their daughter back

-finds a stone and asks for help, but it says its not strong enough

-they found a cottonwood tree they climbed to get away from the bull

-bull found her empty robe and was angry

-the bull and his herd track them

-they find the tree the girl is in and start attacking it

-the take of its bark and break their horns on it

-when the bull attacked the tree the last time he got stuck.

-the tree told the men to shoot him and kill him and then cover him with the pieces of wood that had fallen off

Splinter-Foot-Girl (End)

-the rock wanted to marry the girl and sent the magpie to tell her fathers

-the magpie warned that he was not a good man and to refuse him

-had to let the girl go but her fathers knew the mole and badger would help her

-mole and badger tricked the rock to fall into a hole they had made

-her and her fathers escape into the sky and live in a tent covered with stars

The Eagle and Whale Husbands 

-Greenland Inuit story

-2 girls were playing on a beach with eagle and whale bones

-one decided to marry an eagle, the other a whale

-an eagle came a took one girl to a high cliff

-she took the sinews of the birds he brought for her to eat and made a rope to escape

-she went back to her people where the eagle found her

-they tricked him to spread out his wings and shot and killed him'

-a whale took the other girl deep into the ocean and tied her to the bottom

-her brothers who were nearby built a boat to rescue her

-they got her back and the whale chased them

-when the whale got to shore, he turned into a piece of whalebone

The Fox-Woman

-Labrador Eskimo tale

-a hunter who lived on his own kept coming back to his home to find it cleaned and food ready and waiting for him

-he decided to watch and see who did it

-he saw a fox enter and thought it was about to steal food

-when he entered the house he saw a beautiful woman who was beautifully clothed

-he asked her why she did everything and she said as his wife it was her duty

-she had an odor that the man complained about, so she left

The Woman Stolen By Killer Whales

-Tahltan tale

-a fisherman caught a strange big fish and he had his wife kill it and cut it up to dry for food later

-when she dipped her hands in water to clean them, a killer whale grabbed her for revenge for killing his friend

-the shark offers to help get his wife back 

-the shark rescued the woman and fought the killer whales

The Rolling Head

-a Cheyenne tale

-a solitary-family lived alone

-husband painted the wife's face and body before leaving for hunting

-the woman went to a lake to get water

-met a snake who told her to come out to him and she did and did it every day her husband was gone

-the husband followed her to see what she was really doing at the lake

-the man saw his wife with the snake and killed them both

-he cut up his wife's meat and cooked it and fed it to their children

-the head of their mother chased the daughters

-the girls were taken care of by two panthers and two bears

-their father joined them again, but they regretted what he had done to them, so they made the lions kill him

The Bear-Woman

-Blackfoot tale

-a woman who had 7 brothers and one little sister

-she had many suitors but refused to marry

-mother was dead but she and her siblings lived with their father

-had a bear for a lover, but didn't want anyone to know

-her little sister followed her one day and found out about her lover and told their father

-father went out with other people and killed the bear 

-the elder sister scolded her younger sister for telling on her

-she told her little sister to go and get some flesh from the dead bear's paws

-little sister was upset because a dog's pups kept biting her when she left their lodge

-older  sis offered to paint her to look like a bear and then went to go get the meat

-older sis a powerful medicine woman

-little sis warns bros about big sis being able to turn into a bear

The Bear-Woman (Cont.)

-tricked the elder sister

-younger sister and brothers leave the country

-after killing their elder sister, they decided to live in the sky as stars

Bibliography

Tales of North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929). 

Reading Part B Notes: Brer Rabbit

Brer Rabbit Reading Notes Part B

Brer Rabbit getting the best of Brer Fox. (Source: Deviant Art )

Mr. Fox and The Deceitful Frogs

-picks up after Terrapin has tricked Fox into letting go of his tail, Terrapin is mocking him from water

-teased Fox in terrapin talk

-Frog and Bull-Frog join in

-they tricked Fox into thinking his reflection was another fox and he fell in the water

Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman

-has origins in Europe

-Fox, Rabbit, Coon, Bear, and others are clearing a patch to plant corn

-Rabbit begins to get tired but doesn't say anything because he doesn't want to look lazy

-Rabbit jumped into a bucket from a well

-bucket went down and rabbit got scared- "They ain't been no worser scared beast since the world begin than this here same Brer Rabbit." 

-ague-illness

-Fox followed him and saw Rabbit fall down the well in the bucket

-Fox thinks that Rabbit is actually hiding something in the well

-Rabbit tells Fox he is fishing

-Rabbit tricks Fox into jumping in other bucket and pulling him up

Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again

-Buzzard and Rabbit growing crop together

-Buzzard didn't get his share

-Buzzard tells Rabbit he found a gold mine

-Buzzard carries Rabbit over the river

-Rabbit gets scared and is weak in the knees for months

A Story About The Little Rabbits

-Little rabbits are Brer Rabbits children.

-good children

-Fox wants to eat them but remembers when Wolf got boiled and skinned so is making an excuse to eat them

-"Take your toothies and gnaw it,Take your toothies and saw it,
Saw it and yoke it,
And then you can broke it."

-"Sifter hold water same as a tray,If you fill it with moss and dob it with clay;
The Fox get madder the longer you stay—
Fill it with moss and dob it with clay."

-"Spit in your hands and tug it and toll it,And get behind it, and push it, and pole it;
Spit in your hands and rear back and roll it."

-A little bird sang solutions to the problems that Fox gave them

Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear

- goober- peanut

-cute- "acute"

-Rabbit got caught in Fox's trap

-told Bear he was making money being a scarecrow for Fox

-Rabbit tricked Bear into taking his place and told Fox he was stealing from him

-Fox beat him with a stick- "blip"

Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength

-all animals went to Miss Meadows to make molasses 

-all are given jobs to do

-Miss Meadows said they weren't allowed to play tricks or fight each other and hung up a flag of truce at the gate

-rocking in chair repetitive

-terrapin says bear cant pull him out of a puddle

-got the rope and tied it to a tree root

The Story of The Deluge

-"way back yonder"

-not  a beer rabbit story, but flood story

-Lion was king

-Rhinossy-hoss- Rhino

-elephant stepped on a crawfish and squished it

-Crawfish burrowed down into the earth and released water from the earth flooding it

Plantation Proverbs

Bibliography: 

Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (1881).

Reading Week 9 Part A Notes: Brer Rabbit

 Brer Rabbit Notes Part A

Artwork by Kenket. (Source: Deviant Art )

The Calamus Root

-Southern Accent sounding

-descriptive in how Brer Rabbit looks

-third-person
-"looking just as plump, and as fat, and as sassy as a Morgan horse in a barley-patch."
-"mending his licks"-

-"confab"- conversation

-"holler from where you stad"

-"ain't"

-"calamus root"

The Wonderful Tar Baby Story

-Brer Fox mixed up tar and turpentine and made a contraption called a "Tar-Baby"

-"Brer Rabbit pacing down the road — lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity — just as sassy as a jaybird"

-How does your symptoms seem to segashuate?" says Brer Rabbit, says he."-means "how are you?"

-"but Tar-Baby ain't saying nothing."- repetitive sentence 

-Brer Rabbit hit the tar-baby and got stuck

-Brer Fox laughs at Brer Rabbit

Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace

-intro brer possum and brer coon

-"just as sociable as a basket of kittens"

-Brer Possum fell over like he was dead in front of the dog

-"skaddling through the woods like it was shot out of a musket."

-Brer coon calls brer possum a coward

-"And down to this day, Brer Possum's bound to surrender when you touch him in the short ribs, and he'll laugh if he knows he's going to be smashed for it."

How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox

-Brer Fox plans to barbeque Brer Rabbit

-Rabbit repeatedly tells Fox not to fling him in the brier patch

-Because Fox wanted to hurt Brer Rabbit as badly as possible he flung him by his back legs into the brier patch

Mr. Fox is Outdone by Mr. Buzzard

-Buzzard was supposed to be guarding the tree where Rabbit was at

-Rabbit escaped and Buzzard tricked Fox into cutting down the tree still'

-"I done been tampered with till plumb down to the sapsucker'll sit on a log and sassy me."

Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure

-proverbs

-gossip about how Rabbit tricked Fox

- "they sort of palavered on"

-Wolf tricking Rabbit by saying Fox died

-"tear out the house like the dogs was after him."

Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin

-"terrapin"- turtle

-"you don't know what trouble is"-repetitive 

-tricks Fox into letting him go in the water

The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf

-Folks what's always pestering people, and bothering about that what ain't theirs, don't never come to no good end.-life lesson

-"What you doing now, Brer Rabbit?" -repetitive

Bibliography:

Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris (1881).

Reading Part B: Japanese Mythology

 Japanese Mythology Part B

Picture of the underside of a Japanese Umbrella (Source: Pixabay )

The Labors of Yamato: The Grotto of Love 

-Benten- sea kami (goddess) one of the Seven Lucky Gods of Japan

-Yamato got bored with his wife Princess Tacibana

-he went hunting to stop his boredem 

-Enoshima 

-jumped from a cliff into the sea and found a grotto filled with emerald light

-"Upon a couch of coral bowered mid glittering sea-blooms, reclined his lost siren, singing softly the whiles she gently fingered a gold and amber lute."

-handmaidens of the siren Benten spread out a feast before Yamato

-"Grant me thy love, sweet siren- else I shall surely die."

The Labors of Yamato: The Golden Apple

-Benten tells the story of Jofuku who traveled and got a golden apple

-"Prince! If thou wouldst be my lover, that Enchanted Isle discover, Bring me back the Golden Apple, thy devotion thus to prove! Then in joyance beyond measure, in a round of ceaseless pleasure, Thou shalt dwell with me forever in eternal youth and love."

 The Labors of Yamato- The Demon Boar 

- very similar to the labors of Hercules 

-asked all the servants, sailors, and fishermen about the Golden Apple but no one knew anything

-depressed- "A lethargy of despair"

-boar in the forest of Hakone

-Ise- high priestess 

-the priestess tells Yamato that only the sacred sword can kill the boar and that he is only vulnerable in his tail and runs like the wind

-search brought them high into the mountains

-killed by cutting off tail and driving off a cliff

The Labors of Yamato- The Grass- Cleaving Sword

-Suruga 

-Sagami

-Princess Tacibana saves Yamato and men from  raging fire

The Labors of Yamato- The Sacred Sword

-Yamato starts thinking about Benten again and tells Tacibana to go home and hide herself till her hair grows back and her burns heal because he says she is hideous in his sight

-Benten trying to trick Yamato for the Sacred Sword for Susa-no-wo

-she got him drunk and made him pass out and she stole the Sacred Sword

-lost in the forest

The Labors of Yamato- The Sacred Sword (Cont.)

-Kwannon- the merciful, goddess of mercy and love

- told Yamato that the sword is in the horns of a stag

-made a lance from bamboo

-goddess lent Yamato her hounds for the hunt

The Labors of Yamato- The Dragon

-norito-an ancient exorcism to protect the faithful from serpents, sprites, and goblins

-Tacibana was "the goddess more beautiful than Benten whose love was greater than her own,"

-Susa-no-wo the dragon- "His head was like a camel, his horns were like a stag, and his eyes were glowing coals of fire. Scaled like a crocodile, he brandished a tiger's paw, armed with the talons of an eagle. 

-Yamato's wife died just like Hercules did in the story of his labors

The Jewel of Heart's Desire: The Land of Morning Calm

-Emporer Chiuai- son of Yamato

-the Empress had a vision from Amaterasu and the Emporer doubted it and was killed by the goddess

-the Land of Morning Calm

-jewel of heart's desire

Bibliography:

Romance of Old Japan by E. W. Champney and F. Champney (1917). 

Reading part A: Japanese Mythology

 Japanese Mythology Part A

The Kyoto Path in a Shinto Temple in Japan. (Source: Pixabay )

Izanagi & Izanami

- Kajiki-Den

-Izanagi- God of Heavens

-Izanami- Goddess of Love

-"ere yet were heavens or earth, sun or moon, or the multitudinous waters, all was gloomy chaos"

-"floating upon a sea of silent space"

-Taka-ma-no-hara (High Plain of Heaven)

-Flowers that bloomed were the sun and moon

-Izanagi- all-powerful god of the air 

-Izanami- fair goddess of the clouds

-800 deities

-"Floating bridge of Heaven- vast, aerial arch 

-8 Islands of Japan-

    -Yamato- the flowery isle of the dragon-fly 

    -Tsukushi- the white sun youth

    -Iyo- the passing fair princess

    -Tsushima- the stepping stone

    -Ahaji- the isle of grieving 

    -Shikoku- the pearl of the inland sea

    -Oki- the islet of the white hare

    Lado- gold maid of the north

Izanagi & Izanami (cont.)

-Amaterasu- "the great august kami (god) who shines in heaven"

    -Shinto religion

    -sister of Susanowo and Tsukuyomi

-Amaterasu rule over Takama-no-hara 

-Moon god- morose, turbulent, sinister 

-Izanami gives birth to God of Fire and Water and dies

The Miraculous Mirror

- Amaterasu fled, God of laughter tricked her out of her cave with a mirror

The Eight-Forked Serpent of Koshi

- Kushinada-hime (Wonderous-Fair Princess)

- Serpent- "eyes as red as ripe mountain cherries, a noisome blood-inflamed body, armed with 8 fearsome heads and 8 forked tails."

-"its back is all overgrown with firs, cedars, and pines, and it trails its tortuous coils over 8 valleys and as many mountains"

-"thine august name"

-crone brewed a sake of 8 times the strength of regular sake

-after slitting tail of dragon, Susa-no-wo discovered the sword Kushanagi (herb-queller)

The Heaven Descended

-Amewaka (Heaven-Young Prince)

-Princess Shita-teru-hime (Princess Nether-Shining)

-Na-naki

-cassia tree

-Ama-na-sagu (the Heaven spying woman)

-Necklace of Jewels, Sacred Sword, Miraculous Mirror

-Uzume- Goddess of Mirth

The Heaven Descended (cont.)

- giant's name is Saruta-Hiko (diety of the field paths)

-Ninigi married both Ko-no-hana and Iha-naga-hime

-Ninigi wanted nothing to do with Iha-naga-hime, so now children (all of man) have short brief lives

The Fortunate Fish Hook

-Ho-wori (Prince Fire-Fade) was a famous hunter (younger brother)

-Ho-deri (Prince Fire-Flame) was a famous fisher (older brother)

-switched talents

-Ho-wori lost Ho-deri's fish hook

-Shiko-tsutsu (the old man of the sea)

-Wata-tsumi

-cassia tree

-Ho-wori wed Toyotama (Peerless Jewel)

The Fortunate Fish Hook (cont.)

-"broad of fin and narrow of fin" repeated 

-Court-of-seaweed

-lost fish hook found in the gills of the Tai 

-Ho-wori lived in the palace beneath the icean for 3 years

-Jewel of flowing tide

-Jewel of Ebbing Tide 

-Toyo-tama had a son

The Labors of Yamato 

-"youth of comely mien, great of stature, strong and fearless and skillfull in the use of arms"

    mien-a person's look or manner

-Strand- shore of a sea, lake, large river 

-mermaid in dream

-Suminoye

-married Princess Tacibana

-"black waves of death surged over his soul"

The Labors of Yamato (cont.)

-Takeru- infamous outlaw, lord of caslte the princess was brought too

-Yamato took the sacred sword of Susa-no-wo to defeat him 

Bibliography

Romance of Old Japan, Part I: Mythology and Legends  by E.W. Champney and F. Champney (1917).

Reading Notes: Sinbad, Part B

 Sinbad Reading Notes Part A

Sinbad and the Legend of the Sevens Seas Theatrical Release poster. (source: Wikipedia )

Fifth Voyage Notes

-built his own boat for the fifth trip, so he could go where he wanted when he wanted, and invited other merchants to go with him

-Found an inhabited island

-they found a roc's egg they saw hatching. The merchants cut it open and killed the young bird and cooked it, although Sinbad thought it was a bad idea. 

-Parent rocs came after them with huge stones to throw at the ship

-one rock smashed through the boat and Sinbad floated on some debris to another island

-"a garden of delights"

-he saw an old man who wanted him to carry him across a river on his back

-the old man wouldn't get off his shoulders and stay on all day and night.

Fifth Voyage (Cont.)

-Sinbad grabbed a dried up gourd and pressed grapes in it and left it in a fork in a tree, came back for it later when it was wine and "had the satisfaction of a draught of excellent wine so good and refreshing that I even forgot my detestable burden, and began to sing and caper."

-the old man took the gourd of wine and drank so much his legs loosened and Sinbad threw him to the ground where he never got up again. 

-"The crowns of the cocoa-palms were all alive with monkeys, big and little, which skipped from one to the other with surprising agility"

-got the monkeys to throw done the coconuts for them from tall slippery palm trees

-was able to gather pepper, aloeswood, and pearls

-repetitive again, gave a share to the poor, and rested

Sixth Voyage 

-"It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shipwreck and unheard of perils, I could again tempt fortune and risk fresh trouble. I am even surprised myself when I look back, but evidently, it was my fate to rove," 

-repetitiveness in the beginning again by mentioning his restlessness 

-ship was taken in a storm and blown into the side of a mountain the rose out of the sea

-saw all the treasure from ships that had wrecked on the island before

-"as I was born under a lucky star,"

-left on a raft he made on the river into a cave 

Sixth Voyage (Cont.)

-Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good."

-the men he met took him to their king to tell of his amazing adventures

-"Nay, Sindbad. Heaven forbid that I should covet your riches; I will rather add to them, for I desire that you shall not leave my kingdom without some tokens of my goodwill."

-tales were written in gold into the kingdom's archives 

-"for this was the place to which Adam was banished out of Paradise."- the top of the mountain that was in the center of the island 

-"I pray you give these to the Caliph Haroun al Raschid, and assure him of my friendship."

Sixth Voyage (the end)

-the king of the island sent goods, rubies, diamonds, pearls, and a slave girl with Sinbad for a present for his leader

-Sinbad gave the letter and presents to his king and told him of what he saw

-very good detail 

Seventh and Last Voyage 

-Sinbad chosen by his king to bring the king of the island a gift and letter of friendship, even though he wanted to not voyage anymore 

-on the journey back to Bahgdad, they encountered pirates 

-Sinbad sold as a slave to a rich merchant by the pirates

-killed an elephant for his new master

Seventh and Last Voyage (Cont.)

-hunted elephants for the master for 2 months

-elephants took Sinbad and carried him off

-they brought him to an elephant graveyard.

-"you must be under the special protection of Heaven"

-returned home with a caravan, because the sea made him nervous 

Bibliography:

Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).

Reading Notes: Sinbad, Part A

 Sinbad Reading Notes Part A

Theatrical Release Poster for the movie Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. (Source: Wikipedia )

First Voyage

- First-person Point of view 

- telling stories to an impoverished man also named Sinbad

-inherited wealth from parents

-stopped voyage at a small island to rest, but was really the back of a whale

-Sinbad got left behind while leaving the "island"

-he drifted to another island on a piece of wreckage 

    -Mihrage-king of the island Sinbad floated too

First Voyage (cont.)

-Cassel- tiny island owned by Mihrage

    -supposedly inhabited by a spirit named Deggial

-found the captain of the ship from the beginning of the voyage 

Second Voyage 

- got left behind after falling asleep on an unknown island

-"a white ball of immense size and height....marvellously smooth and soft"

-"fifty paces round"

-whate ball was really roc's egg

-roc- a huge fiercesome bird 

-tied himself to the leg of the roc with his turban 

-stranded in valley of diamonds

Second Voyage (Cont.)

-camphor trees

-bound to a piece of meat to escape valley of diamonds by being carried out by eagles

-"my first action was to bestow large sums of money upon the poor"

Third Voyage 

-repetitiveness in the beginnings and ends of each story

-giant with one eye

-"He was as tall as a palm tree, and perfectly black, and had one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead. His teeth were long and sharp and grinned horribly, while his lower lip hung down upon his chest, and he had ears like elephant's ears which covered his shoulders, and nails like the claws of some fierce bird."

-passed out at the sight of the giant 

-similar to odysseus 

-more giants

-Sinbad escaped on a raft with 2 others

-the giant snake on the next island crushed and ate one companion and ate the other 

Third Voyage (end)

- built tent made of reeds to protect from huge snake 

-repetition again because he found the captain of his ship at the start of the voyage 

-bought land and gave money to the poor

Fourth Voyage 

-violent hurricane 

-savages on the island who ate the rest of the crew 

-Sinbad went with other men he found on the island who were exploring and gathering up peppers

-he pleased their king by making saddles, stirrups, and bridles for their horses and entertaining them with stories. He was rewarded greatly 

Fourth Voyage (Cont.)

-King ordered him to marry a girl there and stay

-Sinbad still had plans to leave the newer country asap

-spouses are buried together on the island when one dies

-Sinbad was buried alive with his dead wife 

Fourth Voyage (end)

-found a way out of the cavern with the many treasures he took from the dead

-found a ship to take him home

Bibliography:

Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).