by Sara C. Snider | Apr 4, 2014 | A to Z Challenge, Fairytales and Folklore
“Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden” is a lovely Tewa story that reminds me a lot of the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice, which has been a long-time favorite of mine. The story In this tale, Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden are two beautiful, talented...
by Sara C. Snider | Apr 3, 2014 | A to Z Challenge, Fairytales and Folklore
“Crack and Crook” is an Italian folktale of two thieves who find each other by trying to steal from each other. They then team up and break into the king’s treasury and make away with much of his riches. Flummoxed by this, the king consults a thief in his...
by Sara C. Snider | Apr 2, 2014 | A to Z Challenge, Fairytales and Folklore
“Boggan?” “Foul little men that like to steal children, sometimes leaving a basket of leaves in its place. Quite fond of shiny things, though. Where I’m from, superstitious wives will leave a coin or silver spoon in the crib so that should a boggan arrive it...
by Sara C. Snider | Apr 1, 2014 | A to Z Challenge, Fairytales and Folklore
This post marks the beginning of the A to Z Challenge! In case you missed it, I’m doing a theme that I like to call A Bestiary of Mythological Creatures (and People). If you’d like to know more about the theme, you can read the post I wrote about it....
by Sara C. Snider | Mar 21, 2014 | A to Z Challenge, Writing
When I first read about the A to Z Challenge and how the goal was to blog nearly every day for a month, I was like, “Oh, hells no…” I mean, I blog once a month, sometimes twice a month if I’ve got my act together. Blogging nearly every day seemed like a masochistic...
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