Mythology and Folklore KT

The first thing I remember is waking up. When I woke up, I was in a dark room.  Slowly getting out of bed, I felt around for some source of light.  I found a candle and matches on the nightstand next to the bed. As light from the candle flooded the room, I took in my surroundings.  The room was circular, with fine furniture and tapestries hanging on the walls.  I was impressed until I noticed a large layer of dust on everything.  It looked like no one had been in the room in a long time.  Walking around, I noticed a large curtain.  Pulling it to the side, I found a beautiful stained-glass window.  I opened the window and looked out.  I was at the top of a very tall tower, which seemed to be part of a castle.  The land around the castle was barren and brown, and it looked like nothing had grown there in a long time.  Feeling the urge to flee, I frantically looked around the room for the door.  A door was nowhere to be found. I cannot tell you how long I lived in that ro

Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm The Queen Bee I have read this story before, and I greatly enjoy it.  I like the fact that the brother who was kind and considerate was given the help he needed to break the curse.   The Twelve Huntsmen I like the lion from this story.  Having a wise lion would be a good addition to my story. Jorinda and Jorindel It is funny that they have such similar names.  I like how the answer for the problem came in a dream. The Twelve Dancing Princesses One theme that I do not like in all of these stories is the forced marriage.  I understand that it was common among royalty, but women should not be treated as prizes for an accomplished task.  In my story, I will not make this part of it.   12 dancing princess par Arthur Rackham, Source:  Wikimedia Commons

Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm The Frog Prince I like the idea in this story of the prince being cursed.  I want to incorporate a cursed prince into my story; I will probably have him be a frog as well. Rapunzel I am thinking of having the prince in my story run into a girl who is trapped in a tower. Brier Rose From this story, I like the idea of an entire castle being still for a hundred years because of a curse.  I will add this to the curse that I am going to put on the prince in my story.  Maybe the tower that the girl is trapped in will be a part of the prince's castle, and he finds and rescues the girl in the tower while he is still a frog. Die Brüder Grimm by  Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Source:  Wikimedia Commons

I really enjoyed my reading for week 13.  Nursery Rhymes are my favorite, and being able to write a story that included them was a lot of fun.  Being able to incorporate Alice Through the Looking Glass was a thrill as well; it was one of my favorite stories when I was little.    My other classes are going decently well.   I am in mainly engineering classes, so I have not been able to connect what I learn in this class to other classes, but I do enjoy discussing things that I learn in this class with my friends and family.   I read some really great stories this week.  One was really creative, in a sense that it portrayed Greek mythology in a college campus setting.  The names were super creative, and I want to come up with a story like that.  I also am thinking about a story that I read a few weeks ago that was written like a play.  That was super interesting to read.  One is able to communicate with an audience in stead of a reader.   Next week I would like to get everything

The Power of Concentration What is at least one thing that the article CONFIRMED for you that you knew already? This article confirmed in my head the fact that meditation is a good thing. What is at least one NEW thing that you learned that you did not know before? I learned the meditation for a short time a day, every day, can help you concentrate more on something. What is the one thing you are now CURIOUS to explore (i.e. something you want to try in your life, something you want to research and learn more about, etc.) and what are you going to do in order to act on that curiosity? I am more curious now about approaching mindfulness through meditation.  I believe that I am going to find some books on the subject, and attempt sitting quietly for a few minutes every morning, and see if it helps my concentration.  Source:  Wikimedia Commons

f orgetting i s s ometimes h ard c hoosing h appiness i s p ossible When coming up with this acronym, I was thinking of fish and chips.  I played around with some words until I found an acronym that would suit me.  Having regrets is very normal, and forgetting them is not always possible, but you can choose to look past that and focus on what makes you happy. Source:  Wikimedia Commons

My opinion on the daily announcements: I really enjoy them.  They have very interesting things to say, and I like how they have events that are going on around campus as well.  I have never had a professor do something like this for the class, and I wish that more professors would.  I cannot think of anything to add to the announcements, I just recommend that you continue doing them.

"Storybooks are like portals to other worlds,"  said little Julie to her dolls.  "They create another reality.  Maybe they ARE another reality!  Maybe the characters live inside the story.  Oooooh, it is so much fun to read." Julie walked across her room to get another book from her bookshelf.  Her fingers ran over the various books until she stopped on one that read Nursery Rhymes.   "I will read this one again!"  Julie sat down in her favorite chair, arranged her dolls around her, and opened the book.   "There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpense against a crooked stile...."  Julie's head began to nod.  She jolted upright and continued, "He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse....."   Julie's eyes fluttered shut and a when she opened them she was falling through the air!  Julie scrambled for something to hold onto, but found nothing.  Suddenly she landed with a

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carrol I want to do this week's story about a girl who winds up in a Nursery Rhyme book.  I figured looking into Alice would be a good idea, because she gets into a similar situation. Looking-Glass House Alice has theories about Looking glass house, which is like a parallel dimension that is through a mirror that is a mirrored version of her actual house.  It would be fun to write a story about a girl who believes that characters from stories have their own little world within books The Jabberwocky poem is one of my favorites.  It is dark yet silly, and you can only read it while holding it up to a mirror.  Tweedledum and Tweedledee these are actually characters in one of the nursery rhymes Humpty Dumpty he is also a nursery rhyme, but apparently it is also a riddle.  you are supposed to guess that he is an egg. My Own Invention A part that is left out of this story is the Lion and the unicorn, which is

The Nursery Rhyme Book by Andrew Lang Jingles: cock a doodle do, my dame has lost her shoe To market to Market to by a fat pig Love and Matrimony: Jack Sprat Did you see my wife, did you see Natural History: IN the month of February, When green leaves begin to spring, little lambs do skip like faries, birds do couple, build and sing Lady bird, Lady bird, fly away home Mary had a pretty bird, with feathers bright and yellow Little Girl, little girl, where have you been, gathering roses to give to the queen Accumulative Stories: Little Miss Muffet What are little boys or girls made of? Little Miss Muffet, Source:  Wikimedia Commons

The Nursery Rhyme Book by Andrew Lang My idea for my story is to have my main character land in a word of nursery rhymes and meets all of the characters.  so my notes will be mainly around the main characters and their situations Tales: the man in the moon babes in the wood DIED WHAT??  They were stolen and died.  Why is this a nursery rhyme?? the crooked man, who had a crooked house and cat and mouse Simple Simon The lion and the unicorn were fighting fro the crown.  It seems the lion won.  Tom the piper's son stole a pig, ate him, and was beat for it My lady Wind set the house on fire Taffy was a Welshman, and he stole things Litttle Jack Horner Solomon Grundy, the poem makes it seem like he lived only a week Proverbs: The characters need to speak in the nursery rhyme proverbs Monday's Child is one of my favorite poems.  I definitely want to include it in my story For want of a nail, aka a kingdom can be lost over the smallest detail March wind

I will tell you a tale about the land of Faeries.  This is a time of magic.  In this land there lived a Duke and his daughter, Brita.  Brita was an only child.  Because of this, her father provided her the best schooling and training that he could, both in how to be a lady of the court and how to be a knight.  Brita spent many years training to be the best fighter in the land.  However, she never had any interest in going on quests.  One day, Brita was poking around the vast library in her home. She found an old, dusty book labeled “Prophecies.”  Intrigued, she opened the book up to the table of contents.  She scanned the chapters until she saw one that said “True Love.”  “This could be interesting,” she thought, and, ignoring the warning label next to the title of the book, she flipped to the “True Love” chapter.  She picked a prophecy at random and started reading outloud; “Your true love is close at hand, You must travel to another land. Rescue your love from th

The Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod These are some random ideas that I had while reading this story.  I want to include most of them in the retelling. Sir Guyon I like how when the knights in this story fight, it is more to test strength than to defeat the other.  It is a "show me what you got" thing. How Britomart Fought with Six Knights The idea of having a villian have people pledge allegiance to her would be an intriguing addition to a story. Britomart in Castle Joyus Britomart and the Knight are not impressed by lavishness. Malecasta is a fun name. The Magic Mirror Britomart has been trained since birth to fight. A prophecy instead of a mirror would be a good way to get a hero to go on a quest.  Prophecy book, that has many different prophecies, and what you read will come true. The Cave of the Magician Merlin Merlin should make the Prophecy book Britomart's Quest Britomart is apparently tall. And apparently she is not the first noble Princess to

The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1855 Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather Nokomis points west, and tells Hiawatha about the great Pearl-Feather, guarded by serpents.  Apparently the great Pearl Feather killed her father.  She wants him to avenge her father.  Hiawatha agreed.  He killed the serpents when they did not let him pass.  When he arrived, PF told him to go back, for he will kill him like Nokomis's father.  They battled.  A woodpecker told Hiawatha told him where megissogwon was vulnerable, and that he should shoot there.  3 arrows.  PF was killed.  Hia put some of the blood on the woodpecker as a thankyou, and woodpeckers have red feathers to this day. Hiawatha's Wooing Hia still loves Minnehaha.  Nokomis wants him to marry from his own people.  Hia went to go get Minnehaha.  He proposed; she accepted.  The headed Home.  Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast Pau-Puk_Keewis was asked to dance at the wedding.  Chibiabos was asked to sing. Iagoo boasted of

The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1855 This story is a poem, which I have not read before in this class.  Maybe I could write my story in poem form as well.  It is free verse (does not rhyme). Because it is a poem, I am going to write what is happening in the story so I can take my favorite parts from it later: The Four Winds Mudjekeewis cam home with the sacred belt of wampum, which he stole from Mishe-Mokwa.  He stole it by creeping close while the monster was sleeping.  He could feel the monster's breath.  Then He kit Mishe-Mokwa on the head with a club. Mishe-Mokwa is a bear.  They just used the phrase "whimpered like a woman," which I did not appreciate. Mudjekeewis (hereafter known as Mud) taunted the bear, saying that he is not brave.  He says that the bear is cowardly.  He then killed Mishe by breaking his skull. Mud is now known as the West-Wind. New character, Wabun.  East Wind.  He brings the morning, wakes the village, is called t