Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Reading Notes: Brothers Grimm (Crane), Part B

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Lucy Crane and illustrated by Walter Crane (1886).

The Six Swans
What if the king had refused to marry her once he was out of the woods?

So the inward shudder feeling came true... she did have ill intentions for the children.

Her patience not to say a word is incredible. I know I would not be able to.

Is the new wicked stepmother the same one who turned her brothers into swan?

Did she get the 6th brother's swan wing turned back into an arm eventually?

King Thrushbeard
Good riddance to her if she was so judgmental of every person.

That ballad-singer definitely got more than he bargained for.
Ballad-singer with his new wife
Source: Wikipedia


So King Thrushbeard is the most powerful man in her new land.

What kind of work will she succeed at? Even the selling didn't end well because of the drunk horse-soldier.

So King Thrushbeard was her husband all along? He simply wanted to humiliate her into not being so stuck up?

At least she understands the error of her attitude now.

The Three Spinsters
How embarrassing to have the Queen stop by and ask what you are beating your child for.

What a way to avoid ever having to use a spinning wheel by saying the spinsters were her relatives. I can only imagine her bridegroom's face when she told him of it.

Snow White
Seems that most stories had some form of evil stepmother. I wonder if that was a common fear of people.

The poor huntsman who was tasked with killing Snow White. Luckily his heart wouldn't let him.

The dwarfs were kind to allow her to stay in their home instead of forcing her out.

Instead of an apple, she was strangled in the original version?

Snow White seems to not learn her lesson very quickly.

Okay, so now the apple makes an appearance.

It's neat to see all the variations that Disney made from the original.

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