Sunday, October 12, 2008

Hans My Hedgehog


-Children are never lost...Nothing is Ever LOST!!!

Motif's we've heard before:
1) East of the Sun West of the Moon
2) Book of Judge
3) Jeptha's daughter
4) Rash promises
5) Beauty and the Beast (transformations of the beast
6) The number 3 (3 shoes, 3 promises, 3 nights.)
7) Sacrificial child for father (the passing of property)
8) Demeter and Persephone
9) Marriage is abduction
10) Husband and wife can't have children
11) Monster baby
12) Wife doesn't care what she has
13) Relationship between father and child (Oedipus stories)
14) One year and one day or "formulas"
15) Isolation (the black sheep)
16) Relationship between human and animal
17) Beast marriage

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