I loved the story of The Goat and the Wolf. I like how the wolf is conniving and very good and weaseling to get the upper hand in the situation without having done any real work himself. But I like even better the fact that he gets his "come-up-ins" in the end and is outsmarted by the mama goat!!
Okay, The Wolf-Aunt was a FANTASTIC story!! A man and his family have a difficult time eking out a living. One day he happens upon a woman who "claims" to be his sister. He, of course, believes her. She asks them to move in with her and she will take care of them. However, when they get there, they eat so well they come back from their emaciated states and discover, inadvertently, that the "aunt" is really a werewolf who is only fattening them up to eat them. When the wife tells her husband this, he does not believe her (silly husbands). The wife and children flee in the wee morning hours one day, but the husband stays. He confronts his sister about this and the next morning she comes to eat him, asking him "shall I eat you from the head down or the feet up?" (shiver) Great Story!!!!
Reading Diary B:
The Hemp Smoker's Dream is craaaazy!! I had a hard time keeping the character's straight as they were Chinese-type names. Additionally, since it was being translated, I think a bit was lost in translation. But if I get the gist of the story correct, a man who enjoyed smoking hemp (ha ha) got really baked and fell asleep under the barber's hands. He had a dream of ordering the King of China to give "hemp-boy" the King's daughter for marriage. He finally wakes up when he smacks the barber and realizes it was all a dream. SERIOUSLY, NUTSO! but good. I chuckled quite a bit.
In The Story of the Wolf-Bride a man had enough money to obtain a son. So he did. But he was told that his son would be torn apart by wolves. So the father dug out an underground chamber. The boy was educated and when it was time he was procured a wife, his cousin (of course). The celebration of the wedding lasted 7 days and 7 nights. When the man and woman were left in the underground chamber alone, the new bride turned into a wolf and tore him to pieces. Then the bride turned back into a woman and sat there until morning. When the women came the next morning and saw the boy's body, they asked the girl what had happened. She said she did not know. All she knew was that she turned into a wolf, tore the boy to pieces, and then turned back into a girl. The moral of the story was, whatever fate has in store for us, it cannot be avoided.
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| Wolf - Photo by Arturo de Frias Marques |
Is it obvious from my notes above that I love wolves? Well, I didn't used to. My daughter adores wolves she has so much wolf paraphernalia in her room she could open an exhibit at the Smithsonian. It is through her that I have learned to appreciate and love wolves.
Bibliography:
The Wolf and the Goat. Web Source: Wolf v Goat
The Wolf Aunt. Web Source: Wolf Aunt
Reading Unit: Persian Tales. Web Source: Persian Tales
Wolf Image. Web Source: Wolf Image
The Hemp Smoker's Dream. Web Source: Hemp Dream
The Story of the Wolf-Bride. Web Source: Wolf-Bride
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