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Bushy Bride : Norwegian Fairy Tale
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(Included in the Red Fairy Book)
Yet another good/bad stepsister story, where the good girl is rewarded for her kindness with gold coming from her hair if she brushes it, and more gold coming from her mouth if she speaks, and the badly-behaving girl is rewarded with unpleasant things including a bush that grows from her forehead and ashes coming from her mouth when she speaks. (this is like, the 4th or 5th time I have come across this sort of thing as I make my way through Andrew Lang's Fairy books)
At least this time the good girl has a brother, who the stepmother drove away from home due to her cruelty, but who is reunited with his sister in the end and they live happily ever after (and the sister marries the king, too)
Yet another good/bad stepsister story, where the good girl is rewarded for her kindness with gold coming from her hair if she brushes it, and more gold coming from her mouth if she speaks, and the badly-behaving girl is rewarded with unpleasant things including a bush that grows from her forehead and ashes coming from her mouth when she speaks. (this is like, the 4th or 5th time I have come across this sort of thing as I make my way through Andrew Lang's Fairy books)
At least this time the good girl has a brother, who the stepmother drove away from home due to her cruelty, but who is reunited with his sister in the end and they live happily ever after (and the sister marries the king, too)
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Phrodrick wrote: "Given that few of these stories were ever written for th ekids, or that kids were exactly a protected specie, in the sense we have now, How many of these stories get openly violent , or the women g..."I have read 3 of these books so far. Few of them have the woman having a child (other than a standard beginning of "A king and queen had a baby, etc..."
I wouldn't say the kids are a protected species, many of them are abused by evil stepmothers, a few are pushed down wells, sent out in the cold with almost nothing on, are poisoned, etc...
I do know some of the stories are cleaned up, I make note of differences I come across if I have read the same story elsewhere.
I get it.That there are so many variations , IMHO emphasizes that these stories circulated in the oral form and were written down first locally in the local version.
For what ever reason it tickles me that the original way the witch or step mother which ever she was figured out that someone else was climbing Rapunzel's hair, was that the girl's dress was getting tight.....
Phrodrick wrote: "I get it.That there are so many variations , IMHO emphasizes that these stories circulated in the oral form and were written down first locally in the local version.
For what ever reason it tickle..."
Oh yes, I recall that :P
That is are these cleaned up versions or original?