Saturday, November 24, 2018

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



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



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

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

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

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

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

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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




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

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

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

Monday, November 5, 2018

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


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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 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