Folktale Heroines Aarne Thompson a tale type index revised by Thompson folktale motifs a single element idea in a story not the full story its when a character or thing from a different culture appears in a story examples include a wicked witch or a magic carpet Motif Index of Folk Literature defined and classified by Stith Thompson and Anti Aarne folktale types the type of story stories that can be found in different cultures example would be the dragon slayer AT Tale Type 720 also called My Mother Who Killed Me My Father Who Ate Me consists of The Juniper Tree The Crow s Nest and The Rose Tree Aarne Thompson folktale motif 720 The Juniper Tree German Culture the first wife was buried under it the second wife killed the first wife s son by slamming the chest with the apples on his head and beheading him the wife and Marlinchen chopped the boy into pieces and made him into black puddings the bird leaves the tree and then the brother s bones are gone too The beautiful bird sang a song describing what actually happened to the brother the bird kept singing the song to people in exchange for a gold chain shoes and the millstone Gave the chain to the father the shoes to the sister and dropped the millstone on the mothers head killing her and bringing back the brother Marlinchen The daughter She tapped her brother s ear making his head come off causing her to think she was the one to kill her brother her mother told her to help chop him into pieces and make him into black puddings so nobody would know it was her who killed her brother very sad about her brothers death The Crow s Nest Hungarian culture ate the son as stewed cabbage the crow represents the son the crow gets a cloak a stick and a millstone kills the wife with the millstone The Rose Tree English Culture in both the mother hated the first child from the other wife the son buried the daughter under the rose tree and cried every day over her death they ate the daughter s heart and liver the bird sang a song of what happened over and over again in exchange for little red shoes a gold watch and chain and a millstone the wife always thinks a storm is coming when the bird comes to their house and sings the song And the millstone kills the wife AT Folktale Type 425 also called The Search For the Lost Husband stories include Cupid and Psyche The Singing Soaring Lark and Tale of Tulisa and example of Aarne Thompson folktale type monster as husband disenchantment of monster loss of husband search for husband and recovery of husband wife only sees husband at night live in a castle together wife goes on a journey with hard tasks in order to find her husband and help save him from the monster that is holding him captive Cupid and Psyche African Culture an embedded narrative monster is Venus Cupid s mom Cupid intervenes with the tasks that Psych must complete by helping her Psyche opens the box she retrieved from the underworld and when she does so she falls into a deep sleep and collapses Cupid is now recovered from his burn and awakens her by stabbing her with one of his arrows Zeus helps them by making Psyche immortal so Venus can t mess with them They are now able to be together forever Cupid He is the Roman God of love and falls in love with a human princess named Psyche they live together in a caste with invisible magical servants he only visits Psyche at night so she never is able to see him Psyche a beautiful princess who marries Cupid her parents were told that she was destined to marry a monster when Psyche s sisters came to visit her they reminded her of this and convinced her to see what he looks like since she can t see him she brings an oil lamp with her to bed one night She realizes that he is not a monster but he is the god of love she was distracted by how handsome he is and drops hot oil on him by accident making him fly away furious at her she tells her sisters who then go to the top of the mountain hoping to find Cupid and marry him themselves The jump off the mountain and die she must overcome several obstacles to find him again Venus the god of love and beauty is jealous of how beautiful Psyche is instructs her son Cupid to kill her but instead he is distracted by her beauty and falls deeply in love with her makes Psyche perform tasks to prove that she is worthy of being Cupid s wife Lucius Apuleius author of the story Cupid and Psyche wrote the story as an embedded narrative The Singing Soaring Lark German Culture The father made a deal with the lion monster in order to get the youngest daughter a lark and in exchange he had to give up his daughter who ended up marrying this lion The youngest daughter s husband was a lion by day and a handsome price at night A ray from a candle or torch touched him instantly transforming him into a dove for seven years she lost track of her husband as a dove and went to the sun moon and wind to ask if they have seen a white dove In exchange she received a casket an egg and a nut The south wind told her he saw the husband and he has turned back into a lion and is at the Red Sea the husband was about to get married to a princess until his wife found him and instead they left in the middle of the night and went home to their child monster holding him captive the dragon Tale of Tulisa Indian Culture Tulisa was the woodcutters daughter who married the man India Tale of Tulisa where the folktale is from Basnak Dau s mom is the monster Tulisa only saw her husband at night time three old women kept asking her about things about her husband and persuaded her to find out these things in order to help her husband regain his power she must do many impossible tasks the green snake died and Tulisa and her husband regained their power and returned to the castle Nur Singh woodcutter gave consent to the wedding because the daughter s future husband promised him wealth this wealth made his neighbors envious and falsely accused him before the king who sentenced him to death Basnak Dau Tulisa s husbands name his mother had tricked Tulisa into asking her husband his real name knowing it would transform her son into a snake but in return she would recover all her strength and become well again King of the snakes His mother is queen of the snakes and if he says his real name she regains her power and he becomes king of the snakes Sarkasukis tricked …
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