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Study 071 - The Elves & Rumpelstiltskin (Patreon)

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2023-12-21 14:00:02
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2024-01
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It's a double-feature of Grimm's Fairy Tales!

First up, The Elves, a tale in three parts, followed by our headliner: Rumpelstiltskin.

Special thanks to our reader, Heather Klinke!

We are reading this month's selections in The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated and annotated by Jack Zipes.

Non-Fifer musical selections: Carnival of the Animals: XIII. The Swan and VII. Aquarium by Camille Saint-Saëns | Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin | It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas by Meredith Willson.

And here's all the info you need on the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index!

Next up: Hansel and Gretel

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Anonymous

I was going to make a joke about the story with the young godmother going missing for seven years as being the source material for Flight of the Navigator, but actually it kind of is! I feel like alien visitation and abduction stories have definitely taken the place of elves and gnomes and such in our modern folklore, and somewhere in the back of our minds is the need to have small mischievous pseudo-magical beings running around behind the scenes of our society who we can blame for the bad or inexplicable things that go wrong with our lives. Also I was just commenting the other day to my partner about how fat and glaring our young son's head and eyes are looking recently so thanks for the tutorial on changelings. I did put some egg shells filled with water on the induction hob but he looked very unimpressed - I guess they're wise to that technique these days.

Anonymous

Weirdly, episodes of three different podcasts I have listened to in the last fortnight (this one, Three Bean Salad and the Socially Distant Sports Bar) have discussed Rumpelstiltskin, all rather dwelling on the matter of him tearing himself in half at the end, a detail which I don't recall scarring my own childhood. On the other hand, growing up we had an LP of Hillaire Belloc's 'Cautionary Tales for Children' in which (inter alia) Jim runs away from nurse and is eaten by a lion, and Matilda habitually tells lies and naturally enough is burned alive - all gleefully expressed in rhyming couplets. We also had Struwwelpeter, another cheery teutonic meisterwerk in which wayward children are variously maimed, incinerated, blown away suspended from an umbrella, or simply starve themselves to death. I wonder if it's a coincidence that most of my siblings and I chose not to have kids....