Week 14 Reading Notes Part B

This week I read Eve's Unequal Children by D.L. Ashliman.
-This story is over Adam and Eve with a twist

Adam and Eve Source

-Adam worked the field at the house that they built while Eve gave birth to children every year
-Some were beautiful and some were ugly.
-The Lord said he was going to come by for a visit
-Eve hid the ugly children and put on display her beautiful children
-The Lord came and blessed the beautiful children with wonderful futures
-Eve brought in the ugly children to be blessed and the Lord blessed them too
-He blessed the ugly children with poor jobs and futures.
-Eve asked why and the Lord say because everyone has a job to make the world work basically!
-She apologized for questioning his word and the children were stuck with the jobs

Week 14 Reading Notes

This week I read Rumpelstiltskin by D.L. Ashliman

Shrek and Rumpelstiltskin Source

`A man wanted to impress the king so he lied and said his daughter could spin straw into gold.
`The daughter was taken into a room and she cried because she could not do it
`If she did not do it he said he would kill her
`A little man came in and kept striking up deals with her to the point where she promised to give him her first child
`When she had a kid, he came to collect and he said if she guessed his name she would not have to pay.
`after 3 days of not being able to figure it out she got it right and he killed himself.

Week 13:Extra Reading Notes

This week I decided to write over Aschenputtel by Lucy Crane.
This is the Part 2 of my first notes.

Cinderella Source

On the 3rd day Cindy went to her mothers grave again and asked for a beautiful dress.
The bird gave it to her and the prince told everyone that she was with him.
She ran away at midnight and he put sticky stuff on the stairs
Her shoe stuck to the floor and so he picked it up
The mom made the 2 evil stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to fit in the shoe.
The prince saw the blood and said they were not the right girl.
He went back and the father said that he had one other daughter but she was gross
The prince insisted and the shoe fit!
They went off and at the wedding the birds poked out the stepsisters eyes!

Week 13 Reading Notes

This week I decided to write over Aschenputtel by Lucy Crane

Cinderella Source

I chose this story as my ALL-TIME favorite princess is Cinderella. I go to Disney around once a year and no matter how many times I go I still get so excited to meet her.

Aschenputtel-German Cinderella
-Cindy's mom died and she went to the grave all the time
-The new wife had 2 daughters, who were evil and took away Cindy's things
-They made her life so hard
-Her dad went out and she asked for the first twig to hit his hat
-She went to her mothers grave and planted the twig so that it would grow
-A bird would grant her wishes while at the grave
-A dance was among them but she was forbidden to go unless she finished chores
-The wishful bird helped her clean
-Then she had nothing nice to wear
-She went to the grave and the bird dropped her a beautiful gown
-She went to the ball and the Prince fell for her
-She disappeared into the Pigeon House
...To be Continued

Week 12 Reading Notes: Celtic

I chose to read Dogs by Christopher Smart this week. I love dogs and so I thought this was a perfect one to write over!
I personally found these fables hard to read and to understand, but I tried my best!
The first fable is about The Faithful House-dog
Basically a man placed a trap for a dog and tried to bribe the dog to fall for it with food.
The dog was not fooled and he got away
The man asked him inside, hence the house dog.

Personal Photo 2016

The next fable an old dog was loyal to his master and would hunt with him
The dog was so old however that he could not keep hold of the latest kill.

Week 11 Reading Notes Part B

This second story is Henny-Penny by Joseph Jacobs

This story is loosely like chicken little
A hen named henny-penny was eating corn one day and something hit her head from the sky so she went off to tell the king that the sky was falling
she gathered up a lot of other fun named friends along the way
they came up to a fox and he said that they were going the wrong way and to follow him
the fox led them to a cave and said to come in one at a time
he killed all of them
one of them didnt die right away and got to warn henny-penny and so she ran home
she never told the king the sky was falling

Henny-Penny Source

Week 11 Reading Notes

I chose to write over the classic tale of The Three Little Pigs by Joseph Jacobs.

My all time FAVORITE animal is the pig, I have been obsessed since I got some beanie baby pigs when I was 6 months old crying on an airplane. I still have them to this day!
This story is the traditional story of 3 pigs who were set off to survive for themselves

Piglets Source

~One chose to make a house out of straw
a wolf came and said "little pig little pig let me come in"
he replied "no no by the hair of my chinny chin chin"
the wolf blew his house down and ate the pig
~one chose to make a house out of Furze (kinda reminds me of a rose bush with spikes and flowers)
the wolf came and said the same thing
the pig said no and he ate him
~the third pig built a house out of bricks
the wolf came and when the pig said he couldn't come in, he couldn't blow the house down.

The wolf tried to trick him and told him they would go and get turnips at 6
At 5 the pig went and got some turnips which made the wolf mad
The pig ricked him about going to a fair the same way
The pig put a pot of water underneath the chimney and boiled the wolf when he came down
He lived happily ever after

Reading Notes: Native Americans Part B

This week I chose to read Myths and Legends of Alaska told by Inuit storytellers.

I chose to read the story The Orgins of the Wind

Walrus Source

-A man and his wife had no children
-the man carved a doll out of wood he found from a beautiful lonely tree
-the man made fur clothes for this doll
-they honored the doll and took care of it
-the doll came alive and they saw his eyes move
-the doll went missing
-the doll went towards the light that led the man to the tree
-the doll cut holes in the sky to create wind
-after the doll continued to cut holes to make the wind he went back to the village

Reading Notes: Native American Part A

This week I chose to read Myths and Legends of Alaska told by Inuit storytellers.

Funny polar bear Source

I chose to take notes over the first story: The creation of the Raven

-it sounds like a man basically cracked from an egg?
-His egg was hanging from a Beach Pea vine
-He drank water?
-A raven came and flew to him
- PLOT TWIST THE RAVEN CHANGED INTO A MAN
-The raven is confused as he has never seen someone like him before
-He repeatedly asks where the man just came from
-the raven is the one who planted the beach vine or so he says
-The raven leaves for 4 days and comes back with 4 berries he has made.
-The man eats them!
The raven then makes some mountain sheep along with some reindeer
-The raven then makes some wild reindeer
-The raven then decides that the man will be lonely and makes for him out of clay a beautiful girl.

Reading Notes: Native American Part B

For part B I read The Rolling Head by Stith Thompson.

Holding a pet snake Personal Photo

-A man lived with his wife and 2 kids

-Every morning he would draw her

-She went to fetch water because a snake told her too

-The paint washed off as she went to the lake day after day

-The man stayed back one day and killed the snake and the wife

-He fed her meat to the children

-The wife's head rolled toward the children

-The head told the kids what they did

-the kids went off but were protected by animals

I was not a fan of this story as I was honestly just creeped out by it! I will not write my story off of this one, I will do it off of the story from Monday!

Reading Notes: NAtive American Part A

This story is The Dog-Husband  by Stith Thompson, originally from Tales of the Northern American Indians.


I originally chose this story because it revolves around a dog and I pictured my cute pup as the character! After reading the story not so much LOL!

My dog Jake. Personal Photo 2013

-Girl has a dog best friend that sleeps with her
-In the night the dog turns into a man and sleeps with her
-She falls pregnant
-Her father kills the dog:(
-Her family abandoned her out of shame and left her to die
-A crow took pity and gave her coals between a clam
-When they crackled they led her to a fire
-She gave birth to 5 puppies
-She kept hearing singing so she investigated and found that the puppies turned into humans when she went to work
-She scolded the puppies and forced them to stay human
-She raised them as human children and taught them to hunt
-The boys hunted whales and were really good at it
-Crow came back and saw the whales and told the village
-The village moved back and the boys were made Chiefs

Reading Notes: Africa (Congo) Part B

This week I read The Three Brothers from the African Unit. This story is by Richard Edward Dennett and came out of Congo!

Three Boys Source

 -This story starts off with a woman who gives birth to triplets! (Oh my sweetness!)
-The woman decided she could not take care of them so she sets them in tall grass and walks away (seriously?!)
-The babies somehow survive the newborn stage and as toddlers go exploring for food.
-The come across a bounty of food, including bananas, but are afraid to eat it!
-The are situated next to a river and the River Spirtit tells them that it is okay to eat and that they should.
-The 3 boys eat the food and love it!
-Because they have found food they are able to grow up strong and build houses
-The river spirit gives them wives and so eventually the 3 brothers create a town as they reproduce!
-One day a man stumbled upon the town and PLOT TWIST! ITS THE BOYS FATHER!
-The father runs back to their mother and tells them he found them, but she cannot go the entire way to see them
-The brothers now stumble upon a woman (their mother) and go off to kill her!
-The River spirit saves their butts again and tells them that she is their mother and to protect her and nurture her!
-The boys nurture her and they live together in the town!

-This would be a fun story to write about this week if I wasn't already writing the one I planned for last week! Bummer!

Reading Notes: Africa (Congo) Part A

This week I read How Kengi Lost Her Child from the African Unit. This story is by Richard Edward Dennett and came out of Congo!

-This story starts off with polygamy...off to a great start!
-In all seriousness this story was really sad as 2 women fought over land and the things they grew on it.
-The land was split evenly by the husband in the beginning of the story.

A sweet baby Source

-One day one of the woman, named Gunga, stole some beans from her sister wife, Kengi's, land.
-The woman made an agreement that basically whatever is produced on each respective land is theirs!
-One day Gunga was chilling, Kengi came over to beg fro tobacco as she was addicted and getting sick from not having any!
-While on Gunga's land, Kengi gives birth to a child!
-Gunga says that because it was born on her land, the child belongs to her (kinda makes sense in a very literal interpretation of their agreement)
-They take their cases to court and....
GUNGA WINS!
-this could be made easily into an everyday kind of story as a kid is in the middle of a custody battle!

Reading Notes: Japanese Fairy Tales

For this week I read The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die by Yei Theodora Ozaki from Japanese Fairy Tales

-This story starts off by a man Sentaro whose name means millionaire, has no care in the world because he inherited an amount of money so he does not worry about a job or anything else
-He wanted to live for a very long time and so he was going to live frugal
-He went on a hunt to find some hermits who had Elixir of Life

Elixir of Life Source

-Nobody would tell him where to find this Elixir of life and so he went to a shrine and prayed for 7 days
-I would like to focus on these hermits with a Elixir of Life and talk about how they got it in the first place
-Maybe they could be super old too, but look very young and be kept in a cool basement or something in hiding?
-Ohhh maybe I could do a story of the town he goes to where nobody ever dies! That would be cool to tell of the people who live there!

Reading Notes: Jakata Tales part B

This week I am reading Jakata Tales with the original story, Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie L. Shedlock.

How the Antelope Was Caught

A wild antelope Source

- I loved this story!  I would choose to write this story for my story time.

- An antelope was super jumpy and a king asked if it could be caught.

- It was caught as the antelope was greedy and was bribed with honey

- The king made everyone aware that greed is what is going to ruin men forever for that antelope.

- I could easily make this story my own as I could change it to a cow or pig and it could be bribed into  a slaughterhouse or something...although that would be very sad. Maybe a dog into a cage!

- The story was about greed and I would have to keep this consistent as that is what struck a cord with me and what made this story so special.

Reading Notes: Jataka Tales part A

This week I am reading Jakata Tales with the original story, Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie L. Shedlock.

 The Hare that Was Not Afraid to Die

Wild Hare Source

-I really enjoyed this story as the meaning was very inspiring!

-I would do a story about the meaning and maybe use different animals and a different situation

-The story of sacrificing would be the same where the pig gave up his own life

-While I really enjoy this story I am having trouble decided how I could change it to make it my own

-I could possibly talk about it from the mans point of view as his fish were stolen and he followed the otter into the woods to find out what he was doing with them and he stumbled upon the 4 friends!

Reading Notes: Turkish Fairy Tales (part A)

Fourty- Four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos

The Fish- Peri

Beautiful Bicolor Parrotfish Source

-Basically a magic fish!
-So a man's parents died and they kept hidden his fathers occupation of a fisherman
-He found his fathers fishing net and decided to use it, as he was poor.
-He caught a fish so beautiful he couldn't bare to eat or sell it and it cleaned his house when he was away
-He secretly watched and found out that it was a secret maiden and threw the shedded fish skin in the fire
-News of her beauty spread and the king demanded to see her...cinderella-esque!
- The king wanted her to be his wife and struck up a deal with the man, if he could build a palace with jewels and gold in 40 days he could have her back... I would end the story here on a cliffhanger possibly!

Reading Notes: Cupid and Psyche, Part B

Part 2 of Cupid and Psyche

The story that interested me most is Venus and Psyche 

My all-time FAVORITE princess is Cinderella. I seriously have loved her even since I was a toddler and so this story made me super excited as it related to her, as you said.

Venus Source

-Venus as beautiful as she may seem above abuses Psyche and her swollen and pregnant belly as she says no man will want her!

-Similar to Cinderella she tells Psyche that the only way a man will want her is if she works and proves herself!

-Ants come and pity Psyche, they do the task for her and disappear!

---One way to change this is to keep it back then but instead of the ants leaving possibly make them be friends and keep them constant throughout the rest of the story?

---The theme of love is huge throughout this story (shocker with Cupid and Venus being in it) but that theme needs to stay constant or else it will lose its power so the ants can't be the main part of the story! 

Reading Notes: Cupid and Psyche, Part A

Psyche's Beauty and the Anger of Venus by Tony Kline
Link to Story

Cupid and Psyche Source

-Instead of using the girl as kidnapped and set back in time, what if a mother was reading her daughter this out of a children's story book before bed?
-Psyche is the most beautiful girl ever seen by most and Goddess Venus was basically abandoned
-Venus' son is Cupid!
- Told Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the worst man alive basically and someone way below her beauty and moral standards
-The story continues but I think I would like to stop at just this story and continue into her having a dream and marrying a man that IS her standard and see what kind of life they could have and continue the story from there.

Reading Post: Ovid's Metamorphoses , Part A

 Ovid's Metamorphoses 
By Tony Kline



Pheathon

The Sun God, Phoebus. Source

-Child of the sun,nobody believed his father was Phoebus, asked for proof
-So cool, he went to the west and went to his fathers "office" surrounds by the seasons
-as proof  pheathon asked for his chariot
Could Possibly turn this tale into one of celebrity in the set of Beverly Hills?
-could use like LA highway as the track is super dangerous and he is not ready for it

Pheathon's Ride
 can continue the story into this story?
-Out of everything he could have asked for he asks for the most dangerous thing possible!
He is begged by his father not to take it but he does so he is warned, kinda like a real father might do.
-Says to not go too high or too low, like maybe the next town over as one part is sketchy or something
-He loses the track and starts going too high as he cant control the horses or reins...
-He lights the world on fire, and Earth asks what she has done to deserve this. Maybe he could hit a pedestrian that survives to tell the tale or it could be told from his father point of view??
Could possible crash and be in a fire as he is surrounded by it...

 The Death of Pheathon
Not sure to include this into the story...but not sure how to finish up the other without it.
-Basically Jupiter blows him out of the sky to save the earth but that can't be done without being super gruesome in the city story!