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Week 13 Reading Extra Credit: Filipino Tales

The Wicked Woman's Reward

Once a king had five women, two of which he loved most because they could have children.  He said whichever bears him a baby boy will be his wife.  One bears a girl, the other a boy.  The one that bears the girl is jealous and kills her own baby and steals the other woman's child.  She replaces the child with a cat.  When the king finds this, the woman who bore a boy is commanded to be drowned and she is killed.  When the other woman presents him with the baby boy she stole, he marries and loves her dearly.  Soon, the water the dead woman was drowned in started smelling sweet.  Her body washes up and is growing sweet flowers.  Anyone who tries taking the body is pecked at by birds.  When the king hears of this, he goes to her body and feels remorse upon seeing her.  The dead body leaps up, tells the king about the corrupt wife he married, and in his rage he throws his wife out a window and kills her.  The king commands for the woman who actually bore the boy child to be buried among the noble dead.  The child grows to be a wonderful prince and king.

Flowers in Water (body not included)
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I liked the weird plot twist of this story.  It was strange to me the whole flowers growing on the dead body thing.  I guess it was just a cool representation of how she was actually a good person.  I personally would have added the detail that the other woman when dead starts to smell like manure or something of that degree.  I would like to place this story into a more modern context! I feel like it would make for a very interesting story!

Bibliography:
Filipino Popular Tales by Dean S. Fansler

Week 13 Reading Notes Part B: Celtic Fairy Tales

A prince named Llewelyn had a dog named Gellert.  One day the prince called all the dogs at his place and all came except Gellert.  He goes on the hunt without him.  When he comes back, Gellert's mouth has a bunch of blood on it, and the prince fears that his new baby might have gotten eater.  He runs to the nursery to find the cradle filled with blood.  In a panic, he looks everywhere but can't find the child.  Convinced of wrongdoing, the prince kills Gellert.  But in Gellert's final breaths, he hears his child crying under the cradle, alive, with a dead wolf next to him.  He feels terrible.  RIP Gellert.

Dead wolf sourced via Wikipedia

This was SO SAD oh my god.  I can't believe this horrible sad ending!  I haven't written a sad story before and this story inspires me to do just that!  I really liked it and it was well made even though it was terrible and sad!

Bibliography:
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Week 13 Reading Notes Part A: Celtic Fairy Tales

The Shepherd of Myddvai
A shepherd sees three maidens rise from a lake. 

Lake sourced via Wikipedia

He offers them bread but they start singing to him, saying his bread is hard and they run away.  He comes back the next day with bread that is softer, but the maidens say it is too soft and run away again.  He comes back again and this time the bread is good enough for one of the maidens.  She says that if he comes back the next day and can select her out from her sisters she will be his wife.  He is successful and she tells him she will always be his as long as he doesn't strike her three times without cause.  Years pass and everything is okay, but one day she asks for gloves to ride a horse.  When it is time to ride and she stands there not moving, he taps her on the shoulder to go and she tells him that is strike number one.  Another time, they are at a wedding and she starts to sob.  He taps her on the shoulder asking what is wrong and she tells him that bad things are upon them and that that was the second strike.  The next is at a funeral and she starts bursting into laughter.  He taps her on the shoulder asking what is wrong and she tells him that's the last straw and leaves him.  She takes all the animals with her and the only other time she is seen again is when she comes back to see the grown up children she had with the shepherd.

I thought this story was odd and actually really funny in a way.  It was a little twisted and manipulative that the maiden could be so heartless, but it was also really amusing.  I would love to do this except in like a child romance way like in grade school where a fifth grader's girlfriend says something like he can't touch her hand but he keeps accidentally doing it or something.

Bibliography:
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs