- We watched Jim Henson's "Hans My Hedgehog" from "The Storyteller." It was quite interesting. I really want to know if there was some point to the rooster as his mode of transportation?
- Discussed familiar motifs or references to other fairy tales:
- East of the Sun & West of the Moon
- Book of Judges, Jeptha's daughter
- Rash promises
- Beauty & the Beast
- the number 3, everything happening in three's
- sacrificial children
- passing off property from one male to another, marriage
- husband and wife not being able to have children
- monster baby, wanting a baby no matter what it is, how it turn out
"a face that only a mother can love..."
- the house being in the middle of a forest
- "a year and a day..."
- formula (language) - same thing said over and over again
- ugly duckling, black sheep
- Motif of beast/husband
- The bittersweet song that begins with hello and ends with goodbye...
- Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" being the opposite...ugly woman instead of ugly man.
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