I’ve never been to Niagara Falls, but this story caught my eye when I was researching posts for this challenge. The Maid of the Mist legend starts with a woman who is miserable because she lost her husband at a young age. But when she decides to take her own life, she is spotted and saved by a god of Thunder, who takes her to his home where she eventually falls in love with his son. My first reaction to…
Why is it, so often in these stories that the woods symbolize something evil and scary? Why does the wolf have to be the bad guy? How many of you out there have ever dressed up as Little Red for Halloween? I think we should swap it up this morning. Let’s say we take Little Red and have her skipping down the path to her mother’s friend’s house because her mother has sent her there with a basket full of…
I love to swim. I could spend all day in the water, as long as I can see what’s in it with me. Usually, I would prefer a pool because sea creatures kind of freak me out. (My husband is reading this and rolling his eyes because he would argue that even little fishes freak me out, and he wouldn’t be wrong.) Our family recently moved to Florida, and while it has always been a dream of mine to live…
Going in a little bit of a different direction today and we are going exploring in the tale of Johnny Appleseed. It’s funny, but I put my list together of posts for this challenge about three weeks ago and just the other day, my daughter and I started reading this story in our homeschool history class. Pretty cool, coincidence. I think everyone’s pretty familiar with the tale of Johnny’s generosity and love he had for apples. I had thought that…
Some of my favorite kind of heroes in stories are the unlikely heroes, the ones that aren’t bold, beautiful and obvious. Ichabod Crane was a school teacher, and compared by some to a scarecrow that had abandoned his post in the fields. He was not classically good looking, nor was he thought to be particularly brave, but he is the man we learn about in the story of the Headless Horseman. I love Tim Burton’s version of this story, and…