Myths and Folklore with Karissa

The Unnatural Mother Background: Swazi tale Tradition among the Kafir - stay with bridegroom's mother for a year after marriage b/f they got their own home Each would work the land (separate patches) - hoe, harvest Calabashes, maize, sugar-cane and pumpkins Wife made beautiful food for husband to eat after coming home from work Mother jealous of these meals Use of inanimate object to represent her Put on son's clothes - deceiving others while she ate Plan to catch thief Confession from mother Son: mother has "sinned against nature" (woman's nature?) Mother not to return until she has found water in which no animals live found pools: frogs, silver fishes a new land - describe like it is a cityscape (foreshadowing) water - "glittered like the moon" Animals: Warn mother about King who rules over the land and water in the absence of the Lion, others were asked to help the mother: Elephant Giraffe Tiger/Leopard R...

Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife I like the repetition in this story The noise the bird makes and the thing it says Stayed inside bc of the warnings eventually ventured out wall between maiden and others awoke with doors filled with precious things 40th door - Bey  Fan for forty days = find her kismet Fallen from maiden to cook gifts: patience-stone and knife Bey's journey to find them Used them to tell her life's story Bey saw and knew the truth - she was his rightful wife The Soothsayer: An ultimatum  A prank take chief-soothsayer wife's ring, hide it and find it happy ending - from artisan to chief soothsayer  How'd his wife feel about this? Image information: Illustration by Willy Pogany in book: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales Bibliography: Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife ; Story source: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos, with illustrations by Willy Pogany (1913). The Soothsayer ; Story sou...

Fear: Quest to understand what fear is Little journeys along the way to figure out what fear is I could explore a different emotion Fish-Peri Father ashamed of his profession Son did not know what to do  - saw father's fishing net resolved to be a fisherman caught magical fish that did housework threw maiden's skin in fire Padishah wants to marry maiden - gives youth impossible tasks the Arab - grants the wishes of the youth and maiden Bibliography: The Fish-Peri ; story source: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos (1913) The Fish-Peri (cont.) ; story source: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos (1913) Fear ; story source: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos (1913) Image information: Illustration by Willy Pogany in book, Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales