Fairy Tale: The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch

[tessagratton]

Some day I'll grow weary of using the cannibalism tag, but until then, you get another cannibalistic fairy tale.

"The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch" is a story from North Africa. I read it first in Andrew Lang's Grey Fairy Book. Under the cut is the synopsis from Wikipedia,

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[femfataleatron]

ummm, Shrek?

[tessagratton]

:p~~~~~~~

[clevermanka]

I know there are more kind ogres, but I can't think of any right now. Female monsters, though, are always bad. I don't remember ever reading about a good ugly creature--unless she's ugly by magic and just under a spell.

[tessagratton]

I'm having trouble thinking of any good, ugly, female anythings in faerietales. Sometimes witches aren't all bad. Sometimes. Um. Hmm. I have a mission now.

[clevermanka]

Good luck. I can't think of a one.

Female ugliness = evil.

[apocalypticbob]

In his own way, Rumplestiltskin is kind. I mean, the miller's daughter accepts what he offers, and agrees to his terms, and then she welshes on the bargain! Then, he kindly gives her a second chance to keep her baby, which he clearly doesn't have to do. And then, when she guesses his name, he doesn't curse her or the baby or anything cruel. He just leaves. She breaks the contract, and he is the one painted as the bad guy. That always bothered me as a kid, and still kind of does.

Edit: Okay, he's not exactly an ogre, but in the books I read he was described as monstorous, so that's the best I've got, at the moment.

[tessagratton]

No, no! I love this. He's only bad from the selfish human POV. He's totally lenient and forgiving, especially for a faerie. Sweet!