What is it?
The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats
Who wrote it?
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Where can it be
found?
in The Annotated Brothers Grimm
Edited by Maria Tatar
Edited by Maria Tatar
Adaptation?
Recorded by the Grimms
My thoughts in
exactly 10 words:
The Wolf slept as deep as general anaesthetic – I wish!
Extended thoughts:
Ever wanted to fall asleep and be able to sleep so heavily
that you could sleep right through the night, no birds or other noises wake you
up? I guess you just need to live in a fairy tale.
But that is a side note. I should be talking about this
fairy tale. Seven kid goats, mother goes out and warns against the wolf. The
wolf tricks his way in on the third attempt and eats six of the kids, not
finding the one hiding in the clock case. He wanders off and falls asleep. Mum
comes home, finds six of her kids missing and goes to find them. Wolf so asleep
he doesn’t notice as she cuts him open to free her children, fill his belly
with stones and stitch him back up again.
Favourite Quote:
After the baker covered his paw with dough, he ran to the
miller and said: “sprinkle some white flour on my paw.” The miller thought: “I
bet that the wolf is planning to trick somebody,” and he refused to do it. But
the wolf said: “If you don’t do it, I’ll gobble you up!” The miller was
terrified, and he made the paw white. Well, yes, that’s just the way people
are.
Is it annotated?
Yes
Most interesting
thing I learned from the annotations:
It was fascinating to read about the similarities and
differences between this story and the Greek Myth of Cronus. The male figure consuming
and regurgitating children, and the differences in connotations between the
two. One being inside the family and being seen as birthing them, and the other
being outside the family and being a purely male threat.
Moral of the story in
my own words:
Mother, with sewing implements, saves all.
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