Reading Notes: English Fairy Tales - Part B

The story of chicken little got gruesome. This brings back the lady who swallowed a fly bit of repetition, but also included some death because someone decided it was a good idea to trust a fox. Literally never trust a fox. This giant just likes killing. If you can't tell the difference between three strangers and your own kids, maybe there's a better time to randomly kill three of them. Then again, apparently the girls could've escaped any time they wanted to, so they just wanted to make sure that the giant killed his kids before they left. Another fox is trying to cause problems. Fortunately, someone finally stopped believing him and he was brutally murdered. However, it was just her word against his. She had a severed hand, but that's not a ton of evidence. So this is where the gingerbread man story comes from. This repetition theme is pretty common in these stories. There's a guy who regularly kidnaps and eats children, and everyone acknowledges his existence and keeps going about their day. He also can't tell the difference between a human leg and the leg of a couch, so he deserves to starve.

"I can't wait to get home and smash the first three people I see!" Link





Bibliography: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs. Link

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