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Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
I liked this book a whole lot, it's thoughtful, complex and has well drawn characters. I wrote in a recent post that within the Rapunzel story was a retelling dying to get out here about a narcissistic overprotective over entitled adoptive parent, and this is pretty much it. It tells the story of a woman (who is just known as "Mother") who was ( Read more... ) -
Rapunzel's witch
The matriarch in the Rapunzel stories is almost always described as a "wicked Enchantress" or witch and is often depicted visually as being a classic witch/hag figure
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Rapunzel
I really love stop motion animation which is why I posted the previous entry but I really don't like that version of the story at all. I hate that it skims over the reason rapunzel was in the tower, In all the versions I've known the story starts before Rapunzel was born with her mother and father, I think taking them out of the story takes away ( Read more... ) -
Part of being human
But there are somethings we shouldnt forget and mostly they add up to where we came from and how we got here and the stories we told ourselves on the way. But folklore isn't only about the past. It grows, flowers and seeds every day, because of our innate desire to control our world by means of satisfying narratives.
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Angela Carters the courtship of Mr Lyon
For those of you in the UK or who otherwise have access to BBC iplayer Angela Carter's rewriting of beauty and the beast is available to listen to until Friday -
Still piping
I'm still thinking a lot about the pied piper,about who he is and where he comes from and what that story means, what it did mean, what it can mean.
The pied piper seems to be a trickster archetype, he is very often depicted as a jester figure:
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meanwhile in another universe...
Because stories are important ( Read more... )
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