READING A:
Tom Tit Tot
This story certainly did remind me of Rumpelstiltskin. The differences were that instead of spinning gold, the girl had to spin skein (which I originally thought was skin, which creeped me out a bit, but it was actually just a ball of yarn. That should not have been too hard.) and the little creature wanted to own her instead of her firstborn child. Also, she was already married to the king. The little rhyme that went with the name was cute as well.
This story felt like a Cinderella story gone wrong. The stepmother manages to kill the daughter of the family, and yet, the husband doesn't even bother asking what happened. The younger stepbrother didn't bother telling his father his sister was murdered either.
That story was quite repetitive, yet, I liked it. The old woman went through so many troubles just to get her pig to move when she could have done it herself instead of asking both animate and inanimate objects to do one thing or another.
The younger sister came back as a spirit it seems since the harper used her hair and breast bone to make an instrument. That also sounds weird since why would you use human parts to make an instrument?
I wonder why the cat is referred to as the Mouser in this story. The story itself eventually led to the mouse being eaten, unfortunately.
That was a really cute story. One thing I didn't like was that the dance dragged on for three days until we got anywhere. "Rarely liked" sounds like "really liked." Is that the word before it became modernized?
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
I couldn't tell if that was a happy story or a savage one because the pig ended up eating the wolf in the end. I guess it just sounds weird because we eat pigs and if they're eating other things... then that would be kind of gross.
The Master and His Pupil
I want to know the words that cast away Beelzebub.
The Master and His Pupil
I want to know the words that cast away Beelzebub.
The pupil and Beelzebub.
Source: UN-Textbook.
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