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Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
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Jul 07, 2020 04:40AM
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Doreen wrote: "A rather unique story involving witchcraft."Ooh, looking forward to this one!
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Hahaha, this reminds me of the Cinderella story turned on its head! Pumpkins for a head instead of a carriage; witches for a fairy godmother; rags to riches...but in this case its back to rags again. This was quite different.
Hannah wrote: "Hahaha, this reminds me of the Cinderella story turned on its head! Pumpkins for a head instead of a carriage; witches for a fairy godmother; rags to riches...but in this case its back to rags agai..."😄 Now that's a fascinating comparison!
I had heard where some of the New England authors, as they were trying to come up with their own great American Lit and epics, found inspiration in German tales. Do you know if Cinderella was a German story? I feel like that would explain why it's so fairytale-esqeu.
Hannah wrote: "I had heard where some of the New England authors, as they were trying to come up with their own great American Lit and epics, found inspiration in German tales. Do you know if Cinderella was a Ger..."That's true. Many went to study in Germany too, including Longfellow. But I just looked up the origins of Cinderella and it seems to be an ancient Greek story!
Hawthorne mentions it being a tale he heard at his grandmother's knee. I wonder if it really was something passed down in his family or if it was entirely from his own ingenious mind!
Thank you Meg for the article! I look forward to reading it!Ha, I wonder if it was a case that his great-grandfather the judge was involved in and passed the strange story down into the family - and then Hawthorne just embellished it.
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