Week 13 Reading Diary: Russian Folktales

Reading Diary - Russian Folktales

• The Dead Mother
• Did the babe die because he couldn’t get real nourishment, or was it a ‘you saw me so now the benefits are null and void’ type thing?
• The Treasure
• That is fantastic
• write a story about why people don’t wear goatskins, perhaps?
• The Bad Wife
• The Three Copecks
• Like, I think you need more than mystical old men and a proclamation to be man and wife
• The Miser
• sure an interesting way to get out of paying a debt
• The Water Snake
• Reminds me slightly of The Frog Prince, but only at the start
• Friday
• Mother Friday will punish you for working on the weekend? Oh, I am SO using that excuse from now on :D
• Wednesday
• The Leshy
• Story idea: love story instead of kidnapping?
• Dnieper, Volga, and Dvina
• People turning into rivers was a common thing? Like, really?
• Emilian the Fool*
• ……. is this what happens when Russian storytellers have an acid trip?
• The Witch Girl
• The Headless Princess
• The kings are always really generous in these things, wonder what it would sound like if they weren’t?
• The Warlock
• ‘If you outwit my cunning, you’ll gain all my riches!’
• ‘But the game is you trying to kill me.’
• ‘And?’
• ‘....... this is so not fair. You’re a terrible dad.’
• The Fox Physician
• The Fiddler in Hell
• Well the Devil Went Down to Georgia
• The Two Friends
• Wow, that’s a crap friend
• The Shroud
• Hair is a really odd thing to leave
• The Coffin-Lid
• The Two Corpses
• Oh look, talking zombies
• ….. only wizards come back from the dead?
• The Dog and the Corpse
• dogs hold grudges
• The Soldier and the Vampire
• …. Vampires make boots?
• and are apparently stupid
• this story is great