Gettin' Ziggy With It

Russian Fairy Tales  by W. R. S. Ralston (1887); Link The story features two men who were best friends and regarded themselves as brothers They made a promise that whether they were dead or alive the other would invite one to their wedding One grew ill a year later and passed away As the other decided to get married he passed the graveyard where his comrade was burried He asked him to his wedding and arose his comrade from his grave He asked him to have a drink with him and as he did 100 years went by He asked if he would have another and another 100 years went by. And then a 3rd with another 100 years The man finally left and when he turned there was nothing around him He mad his way to a house with a priest inside and he told him of the story of his disappearance and that 300 years had gone by.  Sharing a beer; Link

Russian Fairy Tales  by W. R. S. Ralston (1887) The bad wife is a story about a woman who treats her husband bad. The woman would betray anything the husband asked her to do and would do the total opposite The man found an endless pit under a bush of berries He would trick his wife into falling into the pit  He then threw a rope into the pit and he pulled out a demon The demon was so scared of the bad wife he wanted to be out on earth The demon cut a deal with the peasant that he would torment people and the peasant would save him. They did this to many people until they did it to the boyars daughter The peasant then tricked the demon into thinking the bad wife was back and the demon went back into the hole. The demon; Link

The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales  translated by D. L. Ashliman; Rumpelstiltskin; Link The main characters of the story are the millers daughter, the king, and rumpelstiltskin  The millers father tells the king his daughter can weave straw into gold The king takes the daughter and asks her to fill a room with gold or else he will kill her She cannot do so, but a little man named rumpelstiltskin comes in He weaves the straw into gold three times for the millers daughter in exchange for her necklace, ring, and first born son of her and the king Rumpelstiltskin says he will not take her first born child if she can figure out his name She sends off a servant to find out all odd names he could find On the third day he came across a little man dancing and saying his name the queen (millers daughter) bested rumpelstiltkin and angered him so much he split himself in two I could change the story by changing what the millers daughter can do. Maybe she can ...

  Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest  by Katharine Berry Judson I love all these native american unit stories because it explains things like why wood makes fire when you rub sticks together, or why the frog has no tail.  The coyote in all these stories seems to be the sneaky character but also people trust him and follow him.  The story explains how coyote stole fire for everyone when two hags were keeping it for themselves and wanted no one else to have it. Coyote and all the other animals would make a plan to steal the fire and bring it to the indians.  They passed off the fire from animal to animal explaining what the fire did to each animal.  Fire

Welsh fairy-tales and other stories by Peter Emerson; Link The main character of the story is billy duffy He was a drunk, who sold his soul to the devil just to have another drink He was granted three wishes by a hermit when the devil came to claim his debt he used his wishes to trick the devil I could easily create my own story from this and add different details I would change the wording around to have it make more sense to the reader I want to keep the part of billy tricking the devil but maybe have it where the devil gets revenge after Instead of billy being a blacksmith he could have another occupation Billy Duffys Beer; Pexel

More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs; Link to the story Owen O'Mulready is the main character of the story He wants to have a dream and his master explained to him how to have one I could change what his master tells him to do to have the dream from sleeping in the fire to something more suitable or even more drastic for owen His dream got confusing for me so I could change up his dream some I really want to make his dream different as I didnt find the dream as exciting as I thought it could be.  Owen O'Mulready; source

Johnny Gloke was looking for fame and some how stumbled upon it Luck was in his favor as he defeated the giants when he found them tired and defeated the rebel army out of luck due to him falling off his horse I feel as if I could turn this into a sports related story, I have wanted to do that all semester and havent had the oppurtunity yet.  It would end as victorious for the main character but the way he got their would be similar as to Johnny Glokes path to be king Johnny Gloke by Joseph Jacobs; link to story Giants

The three little pigs is one of the most famous tales I want to keep the beginning of the story the same " ill huff and ill puff and ill blow your house down" After the wolf gets to the third house I can change the story around the wolf gets tricked every time and I could change that around to where the wolf was doing so on purpose The wolf talks about different ways to get the last pig out. I could change the way he tries to get him out of the house. Maybe even spy on the pig to devise a plan.  I don't want to take away from the original story but I feel like I could have some better ideas to make it more interesting.  Joseph Jacobs, Three Little Pigs; Link to reading The Wolf

This story is short and doesnt have a lot of detail but there is a lot of room for imagination and to add detail in. The main character is the man, I could give the man a name and make him more personal Explain why the man was on the rock and how he got there Make the journey back to his wife more interesting I like the way the man kills the coyote but there is not good imagery involved, I could make this more interesting and not so abrupt. Why was the rock which the man was on raised the sky? I could have the rock crumble and somehow the man survived and nursed himself back to life to go on this journey to find his wife that was stolen by the coyote.  Coyote Steals a Mans Wife, Edited by Pliny Earle Goddard; Link to reading Coyote

The main characters of the story are the Thunder Bird and the Mistletoe I could change the names of the two main characters, maybe make the bird a squirrel and change what kind of plant is in the story. I could give a background about kissing under a mistletoe during christmas because birds would meet there and kiss under the mistletoe The bird could trick the mistletoe so that he could constantly have berries to feed on and that is why the thunder bird put the mistletoe in the tree.  If a seed ever made it to the ground the plant would become bad luck and curse whoever ate the berries of the seeds off the grounded mistletoe.  The plant that grows on trees retold by Florence Stratton; link to the reading Image of the Thunder Bird and Mistletoe

 My favorite character in the story was Nothing I don't understand how a man got so rich but was persuaded so easily as Nothing was I could change the story to make at as Nothings idea to switch to see which women wanted him for who he was and who wanted him for his money I also could make it to where after Nothing found his wife she was secretly evil and played tricks on the town Nothing was tricked into stepping out of his house even though his wife told him not to and was killed by Anansi I feel I could change the way Anansi killed nothing or make it where Nothing turned the table and captured Anansi instead or maybe Nothing could fall into a pit of poison snakes I don't understand the last paragraph. I think I would change it to where the village people cooked Nothings wife food and then they would "cry for nothing" Anansi and Nothing by William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair; Link to the reading online Falling into a hole Image from Favim

The story I have chose this week was the "The fox and the goat" I could keep the same plot but switch the characters  I could even change the story around because it a story of distrust The fox is very clever and to not be trusted Anything to do with never trusting a man in difficulties The fox and goat; picture from  wikimedia commons

My favorite story has been about the lion. Specifically Androcles and the Lion. Androcles saves the lion from a thorn but I could possibly change this around from a story of gratitude to a story of revenge. Androcles could get captured and then the lion set on him in the arena and be ravaged by the lion. Or the lion and the the slave could conspire to kill the emperor. Aesops Fables by Joseph Jacobs;  Link to reading Photo of  Lion