Gettin' Ziggy With It

Russian Fairy Tales  by W. R. S. Ralston; Link There is a soldier who gets sent him to his family As the soldier walks by a grave yard and corpse begins to chase him He runs into a chapel  In the chapel the soldier sees another corpse and hides in the corner The first corpse comes and the second one awakens and asks what he is doing her The corpse said he was here to eat the solder The second corpse tells him he would eat the soldier The two corpses began to fight all night until both fell "dead" again The soldier went home and thanked god for saving him.  Corpse; LINK

  Europa's Fairy Book  by Joseph Jacobs; A visitor From Paradise;  Link The story starts as a women mishears a man who says he is from Paris and thinks he is from Paradise She believes that this is where her late husband was and asks the man if he knows him The man realizes she is bit senile and plays along She gives the man some of her late husbands things and he also takes a horse They go looking for the man and end up coming across thieves. The thieves get spooked by them and they take all the loot they had and live happily ever after Image from Link

The story I have chosen for this week is The Gold Giving Serpent by Joseph Jacobs The poor farmer and the serpent are the main characters of the story I especially liked the serpent, he was clever and also was not to be messed with He taught the farmer a lesson about greed The farmer tried to betray the hand that fed him I could change the story to were the serpent was immortal and played dead and began to seek revenge on the farmer I could change it to a huge battle of the boy and the serpent for all the gold The snake lets the man be free after killing his son, I could re write that and have the snake take revenge on the farmer and kill him as well.  Photo from Wikimedia