Hey! So today I've got a cold so I decided to start a blog. Because it seems like fun.
Anyway, I've been reading some of the original fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Aesop lately, and it's quite interesting. The original fairy tales are a lot more gruesome than there Disney and children's book counterparts. For example, in Cinderella, to make the shoe fit, one stepsister cuts of her toe and the other cuts off her heel. And the Evil Queen eats a bear heart thinking it's Snow-white's heart!
One of my favourites at the moment is Mother Holle. I like the story and the ending. It's about a beautiful girl who works a lot. She lives with her evil stepmother and ugly, lazy stepsister. She gets her blood on the shuttle and tries to wash it in the well, but she drops it. Her stepmother forces her to fetch the shuttle from the well. When the woman does this, she is transported to a beautiful world. She takes some bread out of the oven, shakes some apples out of a tree, and finds an old lady. She works for the lady and has a great life with her, but she grows homesick. So the old lady (Mother Holle) give the woman the shuttle and sends her home in a shower of gold. The evil stepmother wishes for the sister to be showered and gold, and sends her to the world in the well. The ugly stepsister is lazy, so she does not take the bread out of the oven, or shake the ripe apples from the tree. Instead she heads straight to Mother Holle's house. She works hard for the first day, but is lazy once again on the second and third days. So when she is sent home by the witch, she is accompanied not by a shower of gold, but of pitch.
Okay, so right now I'm doing a fairy-tale inspired piece of art that I need to get back to.
Toodles.
