Reading Notes:Myth-Folklore Unit:Russian Folktales, Part B

Cemetery by Pangea

The story that stood out to me this week was “The dog and the Corpse”. I Know exactly how I am going to rewrite this story. I will keep to the plot till the end, but it will be two people instead of a dog and a person. They will both be out for a late-night jog and they will be passing a cemetery and their will be a corpse that attacks them. One friend will fend it off while the other runs off. the one who fight will get away and be very angry at his friend and hold a grudge. He will then attempt to kill his friend for leaving him and be successful. This is where I change the story. He will try to make it look like and accident. Then his friend will haunt him till he confesses to what he has done. Then he will be sent to an asylum for no one will believe his reasoning for even killing his friend. This is what I plan to do for my version of the story.

Bibliography: Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston

Reading Notes:Myth-Folklore Unit:Russian Folktales, Part A

Jester(fool) by Duh Smeha

The story that stood out to me this week was “Emilian the Fool”. I loved the idea behind this story on how he is fool that is given luck and gets everything he wishes to happen happens. I would rewrite this story with similar plot where there is a man that everybody takes for a fool and runs across something that gives him luck. He would be taking care of his brothers’ wives and end up with a millionaire’s daughter. I like to keep happy ending, but I would also include something so that you know what happens to his brothers and wives for the original story had no such part. This is what I would do if I was to rewrite this story and make it my own.

Bibliography: Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston

Week 13 Story: Three Wasted Wishes

Fairy by Peter

There once lived a man who lived in New York. He was on a business trip for his job. This was nothing out of the ordinary for the man. But this trip will end up being the most interesting he will ever have. It starts out with him going about his normal business when he takes these trips for his company. He starts to head home after business has ben conducted and was on a crowded subway platform. He is waiting for the train in subway so that he may make his way to the airport. The train stated to arrive on the platform but instead of slowing down it passes at full speed and the lights start to flicker. As the train passed, in front of him appears a fairy. Nobody else was around. The fairy spoke and told the man he had been chosen for the chance to have three wishes and was told to use them wisely. Then the lights flickered, and the fairy disappeared, and the man was in a crowded subway platform again.

                He made his way home after this event confused and shrugging it off as if had never happened. He arrived back at his home in New York. He came home to his roommate watching tv next to a fire place and sat down. He was watching a show that was showing the most expensive pizza in New York. The pizza was two thousand dollars and had gold flakes on it. The man wished he could try the pizza. Then suddenly, a pizza came down the chimney. The roommate and man open the box to find the pizza they saw on TV and both wondered how then the man remembered what happened on the subway.

                He explained the whole situation to his friend. He said that it really had happened, but his friend refused to believe him. He also ridiculed him for coming up with the story. He asked his friend to stop ridiculing him, but he wouldn’t. he then wished that his friend would just shut up. Suddenly, his friend couldn’t speak. He told his friend that he gets this for ridiculing him.

The friend went to the doctor the next day to see if they could so anything. The doctors were completely stumped. They sent the roommate home with no success. So finally, the roommate went to the man and asked if he would use his third wish to give him his voice back. He wrote on a piece of paper he would believe his story if it came back. So the man wished for his voice to come back and it did. After this the friend believed what had happened. But they both realized through their squabbling that they had wasted three wishes on things that were almost pointless. They learned to never argue over something so obscure but serious at the same time again.

Authors notes: The original story was “the Three Wishes”. In this story a man was a lumber collector who chopped trees and before he chopped down a tree a fairy appears before him and told him he had three wishes. He went home confused and dazed not believing it. Then while at home he wished for black pudding while his wife cooks and it falls out of a fire place. Then the man tries to explain it to his wife and she doesn’t believe him. He wishes his nose to smell the black pudding but they cannot get his nose off of it so he wishes his nose free. This is what I based my story off.

Bibliography: Three Wishes By Jacob Joseph

Reading Notes:Myth-Folklore Unit: More English Tales , Part B

Bagpipes by Wikipedia 

The story that caught my eye this week was “The Little Bull calf”. I am going to tell story in my own way. I am going to make it where the boy owned a goat or sheep. He will have his parents die and become very poor. He will be living in Scotland. His goat will tell him to kill him and make a bag pipe out of his remains. The boy will become a master of the instrument. Then the king will call up anyone who can master the instrument to come play for him. He will choose who ever can play it the best will take his daughters hand in marriage. This is what I plan to write for this story.

Bibliography: More English Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Reading Notes:Myth-Folklore Unit: More English Tales , Part A

Fairy by Peter

The story that caught my eye this week was “The Three Wishes”. I would love to rewrite this story with my own touch. I am going to keep the stories plot the same where a man is told he has three wishes but does not believe it. I will apply it to a modern situation where maybe he comes home from a business trip rather than from the woods. He will meet the fairy in a sub way who gives him the wishes. He will go to his home and wish something ridiculous that doesn’t really mean anything and realize it happens. I will also stick it where his friend see it and doesn’t believe it. He will end up wishing for his friend to shut up then it will happen. He will have to waste his finally wish to undo this. This would be my plan for this story.

Bibliography: More English Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Week 12 Story:The forbidden Love

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There was once a lady name Jess, who lived in New York City, and who fell for a hansom rich looking guy. This guys name was Jacob. Jacob always took Jess on fancy dates though out Manhattan Island. They would always end their dates at Jess’s house though. After many wonderful dates jess started asked if Jacob would like to go to his house after each date, but he would say no. But Jacob would describe his house to her so that she would have an idea of what the house looked like. He even gave her the address. This satisfied her for a while.

One day while knowing Jacob was away on business Jess hoped into a cab and headed to Jacobs house. When she arrived, it was greater than she had ever expected. The house outside was fantastic with gardens of flowers on either side of the yard. She wanted a look at the inside, so she found a window that was open and went to look inside. It was just as Jacob described but she saw a room she had never heard Jacob describe. She opened the door to see inside a room covered in plastic wrap and a table in the middle with medical tools.

                A few moments later she saw head lights pulling up and then the front door started to creak open. She couldn’t make it to the window where she entered before Jacob entered in the house. She hid in a storage closet that had a line of sight on Jacob. She saw him struggling to bring something inside. She finally realized it was a person. She looked really close at the persons face and it was the man she saw on the news the day previous for the murder of three children in a park. The man was struggling, and Jacob punched the man in the face and his teeth went everywhere. Jacob got the man in the mysterious room and closed the door. Jess then waited a few minutes and came out of the closet. She grabbed one of the teeth as proof she was there and as she left, she heard screams of bloody murder come from the room.

                The next day Jess and Jacob had a date. Jess acted normal though the whole date until they reached her home. Once they were inside, she took Jacob to her living room. Then she confronted him about what happen last night. Jacob tried to deny it at first but when she showed him the tooth, he knew he would have to come clean. He told her that he was a man that killed those who raped or murdered others that the law could not catch or got away with it. He said that what he did was wrong and would face judgement one day but until then he would help those who didn’t have help. Jess sat and thought long and hard about what she had just been told. She then decided that she wasn’t going to do anything. She loved Jacob and what he did was technically for the good of the people. She made a few rules for Jacob though. She said that he was to hold no more secrets and they were to spend time at his house. He agreed to this.

                In the end the Jacob continued what he did, and Jess knew what he was doing. They ended up getting married and moving into Jacobs house. They had three kids together. Jess made Jacob move his so-called hobby to outside for the children’s sake. They ended up living happily ever after.

Authors notes: The original story was “Mr. Fox”. There was a maiden in love with the man Mr. Fox, but they never went to his castle. I kept this part of the story. One day the maiden when to his castle and found a room full of bodies. She also saw Mr. Fox come home and cut off the hand of a dead person he was dragging inside. She took the hand and went home. I did this but with a twist on the room and used teeth. When Mr. Fox Visited the maiden confronted him and he denied it but when she show him the hand her brother and her killed him. I changed the end to where she accepts him to put a dark twist in the story.

Bibliography: Mr. Fox by Joseph Jacobs

Reading Notes:Myth-Folklore Unit:English Fairy Tales , Part B

bloody by Blogspot

The story that caught my eyes was “Mr. Fox”. I liked this story for it is a dark tale of a love betrayed with out the lover who was betrayed dying in the end. I want to rewrite this story with an even darker twist though. I want to inter mix the story with the idea of an old show I never finished but had a great concept. I want to make the maiden fall in love with a murderer who kills murderer and people who have done wrong. I would also make the setting a little more modern to accompany with the idea. Also the dark twist would be that the maiden still accepts him for what he is and they live happily ever after. This would be my plan for my story.

Bibliography: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Reading Notes:Myth-Folklore Unit:English Fairy Tales , Part A

The Magician By eiChi

The story that caught my eyes was two today. They were “The Old Woman and Her Pig” and “The Master and His Pupil”. I loved both of these stories. If were to rewrite the first one I would keep it basically the same but with different inputs. This can be very fun because each piece of the story leads to another. I would more than likely start out with a sack of potato that an old man needs help getting up stairs and build on the story from this point. Now second story would also be fun. I would start of with a great and powerful wizard that is trying to teach a pupil the ways of magic. One day ignoring the rules of the wizard the pupil would practice magic while the wizard was not around and loose control of everything. I almost want to write like Fantasia with Mickey, but I will make my own story instead. This is my plan for these stories if I so choose to use them.

Bibliography: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Story Week 11: A Man and His Rabbits

Rabbit by Martin Owens 

There was once a man roaming the plains. He was hungry and willing to kill anything to eat even if It was a cute fuzzy rabbit. He soon came upon a burrow in the middle of the plains. He looked to see if anything was inside. He soon realized there was nothing inside. He stepped on the entrance and making the burrow inaccessible. He sat and waited until what lived in the burrow came home.

                Soon a family of rabbits came looking for their home and saw the man sitting at the entrance. The man explained to the rabbits that he had accidentally stepped on the entrance. He told them he would help take care of them this evening and help to build a new burrow tomorrow. The rabbits agreed to his generosity.

                The man soon got a fire going with the grass and twigs he could find around him. While gathering these items he also found a rock that he would use to strike the rabbits. While the fire the fire was going the rabbits would dance around it and so would the man. He would occasionally hit one of the rabbits in the head with the rock and then explain that the rabbit must be tuckered out but should wake in the morning. He did this until there was one rabbit left. This rabbit noticed the rock and tried to run but the man threw the rock this time and hit it.

                The man after killing all the rabbits skinned them and left their meat to dry out in a nearby tree. He returned to his fire and fell asleep. Later in the evening a few vultures saw the meat hanging in the tree and came to take the meat. They took all the meat except and especially small piece from the smallest rabbit.

                The next morning the man awoke and went to get his meat. He climbed the tree and the first piece he saw was the smallest piece and he threw it down thinking it was to small to care about. he continued to climb until he realized all his meat was gone. He soon climbed down to find the small piece he threw in the dirt. It was all covered in dirt, but the man was starving and ate the piece whole.

Author notes : I made this story for “Coyote Kills Prairie Dogs”. I change coyote to a man and I changed Prairie dogs to rabbits. It the story coyote told the prairie dogs to lock their doors so when they realized he was killing them they couldn’t go back home. I made it where the man made no entrance to their home and they had to follow him. In both stories the weapon of choice is a rock. In the original the prairie dogs realize their being killed but have nowhere to run but in mine they are all killed until one is left. In the original and mine the meat get stolen except for the smallest piece which get tossed aside and then they are forced to eat it because that is all that is left.

bibliography: Coyote Kills the Prairie Dogs By P. E. Goddard

Reading Notes:Myth-Folklore Unit: Apache Tales, Part B

Rabbit by Martin Owens 

The story that caught my eye today was “Coyote Kills the Prairie Dogs”. This one caught my eye because in all the stories I read coyote missed out on his chance at something. In this one he misses out at a meal chance. When I rewrite this story, I would make the coyote a man that deceives some rabbits. I would have him destroy the entrance to their burrow. But then be nice and offer to take care of them for an evening until the next day where they could make a new burrow. Then I would have him make a fire and kill them while they danced and celebrated his help. When they realize he is not helping they would have nowhere to go. I would then have the man cook them and hang them high in a tree while he slept the rest of the night away. Then I would have a vulture come and take all the rabbit’s meat except the smallest one. The next morning the man would reach up for the meat and find that one and throw it away saying its to small. But after realizing the meat was all gone he would have to eat the small one he threw in the dirt.

Bibliography: Apache Tales by P. E. Godard