These stories are from the Celtic Fairy Tales (Jacobs) Unit.
Connla and the Fairy Maiden: Oh, yay! This is going to be the last story in my Storybook
Project. I found it way back at the beginning of the semester when I was still
in the planning stage of the project and I am finally to the unit it is in. I
love this story. It reminds me of The
Lord of the Rings when the elves leave on the boat to their eternal land. I
will make it less magic-centered for my storybook, but I think I will have the
souls go together to their final eternal land, never to be separated again
(similar to the ending of the original story here). Or I might just have them
leave in a boat to be able to be together against their parents’ wishes.
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree: What an interesting Snow White-type story. It is strange to me
that this story had the antagonist as Gold-Tree’s actual mother. In all the
Disney movies, the antagonist takes the form of a stepmother or someone not
actually related to the protagonist. This story caught me off guard when
Silver-Tree desired to kill (and even eat parts of) her own daughter! I was
also surprised that it took so long for someone to figure out that all they had
to do to make Gold-Tree come back to life was to take the poisoned stab out of
her finger! The polygamy was also surprising to me (and certainly not
Disney-like!). Still, the second wife proves to be very useful when she saves
Gold-Tree from her murderous mother.
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| (portrait of a fairy by Sophie Gengembre Anderson, 1869) |
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