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CLT3378 Final Study Guide Branscome Tuesday Thursday Folktale Heroines Summaries Arne Thompson Tale Type 720 My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me o The Juniper Tree German folktale by the Brothers Grimm A man and a woman have a son After the mother dies the father remarries The father and stepmother have a daughter named Marlinchen the story s heroine The evil stepmother kills the son and puts him in black pudding which she feeds to the father Marlinchen takes her brother s bones and remains and ties them into a handkerchief which she buries under a juniper tree A bird comes out of the tree and flies around town singing a song As a reward for singing the song to them different shop owners give him a chain red shoes and a millstone The bird flies back to the house and sings the song and the evil stepmother knows the bird is the son she killed The bird drops the golden chain on the father s neck drops the red shoes for Marlinchen and drops the millstone on the mother which crushes her o The Crow s Nest Hungary o The Rose Tree England While a daughter leaves home to run some errands her mother decides to cut up her son and put him in stewed cabbage She feeds the stewed cabbage to the father The daughter buries the bones and remains of her brother under a tree The tree opens and a crow the boy comes out The crow flies around singing and gets a cloak stick and millstone from shop owners The daughter gets the cloak the father gets the stick the millstone is dropped on the mother and she is crushed An evil mother kills her daughter and makes stewed heart and liver from her which she feeds to the father The son takes what s left of the daughter and buries it under a rose tree A bird comes out of the tree It get shoes a watch chain and millstone from different shop owners for singing a song The shoes are dropped at the son s feet the watch chain is given to the father and the millstone is dropped on the mother and crushes her Arne Thompson Tale Type 425 The Search for the Lost Husband o Cupid and Psyche Roman Psyche is a mortal woman who is so beautiful that people stop worshipping Venus the goddess of sexual desire Venus is jealous and wants to humiliate Psyche so to punish her Venus sends Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a horrible ugly commoner Cupid touches Psyche with his arrow and she sees him and falls in love with him then Cupid accidentally touches himself with his arrow and falls in love with Psyche Cupid and Psyche get married on a mountaintop although Psyche cannot see Cupid Psyche is only with her husband at night never during the day Psyche s sisters are jealous and tell Psyche to take o The Singing Soaring Lark German a candle with her at night to try to see her husband because they ve heard rumors that Cupid is a monstrous snake But when Psyche brings the candle she sees beautiful Cupid Cupid flies away and Psyche jumps out the window after him their beautiful palace falls away Venus sets impossible tasks for Psyche to recover her husband and Cupid helps her do the last task himself After Psyche recovers Cupid she is deified and becomes one of the Olympian gods A father with 3 daughters is going on a trip and asks them what gifts they would like him to bring back They ask for pearls and diamonds and the favorite daughter asks for a singing soaring lark When the father finds the lark in a tree and goes it get it a lion jumps out and says he can have the lark if the father gives the lion whatever he sees first when he gets home He agrees and when he gets home the first thing he sees is his favorite youngest daughter who asked for the lark She is sent to the lion s palace Eventually she wants to see her family The lion is actually an enchanted prince he is a lion during the day and a handsome prince at night The daughter only sees him at night when is a prince The prince tells her that if the sunlight hits him he will become a dove The sunlight hits him and he turns into a dove for 7 years To find the prince the sun gives the daughter a box and tells her not to open it until she really needs it The moon gives her an egg and instructs her to open it when she needs it The winds tell her they saw a white dove that has become a lion The lion is battling a dragon that is actually an enchanted princess witch They tell her to help the lion defeat the dragon while she rides a griffin The daughter is reunited with her lion prince and they defeat the evil witch o Tale of Tulisa India Tulisa marries a prince she doesn t get to see during the day after an bodiless voice proposed to her at a well She lives in a palace with her prince Tulisa is lonely and an old woman who is actually a demon convinces Tulisa to let her up into the tower of the castle The woman asks Tulisa if she s ever eaten with her husband but she says no The husband only pretends to eat Another old woman is let up and asks Tulisa if she s every chewed a leaf with her husband Tulisa asks him to but he refuses A third old woman is let up and asks Tulisa if her husband ever told her his name Her husband begs her not to make him say his name but eventually he takes Tulisa to a river and says his name is Basnak Dau He turns into a snake and disappears into the river Basnak Dau s evil mother is behind all this and the old women were her demon friend Sarkausis Tulisa has to go through impossible tasks to recover her husband One of the tasks is that she has to make jewelry out of seeds squirrels replace the seeds with precious stones She has a special egg when it hatches a bird comes out of it and kills the evil serpent Sarkausis around Basnak Dau s evil mother s neck Tulisa and Basnak Dau live happily ever after Terms Aarne Thompson folktale motifs o o o 2 different guys who created a tale type index that many folktakes fit into single element idea in story e g magic ring idea that originally sky and earth were one Motif Index of Folk Literature o By Stith Thompson o Index of different folktake motifs folktale types type of story e g the Dragon Slayer o o Arne Thompson have many different tale types Arne Thompson Tale Type 720 My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me o o The Juniper Tree The Crow …


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