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Oct. 6th, 2011 10:02 pmThe Better Myths blog did a fairytale today - the Armless Maiden - that I knew a variant of, so I decided to look it up on wikipedia to see if I could find the one that I read as a child. Alas, I did not. However, pretty much every fairytale page on wikipedia contains at least a synopsis of the fairy tale and at least four links to other, related fairy tales.
I have now read several Armless Maiden stories, about 16 different versions of Catskin/Cap o' Rushes/Allerleirauh, five Snow White variants, and have now ended up in a clump of those stories where the woman is pregnant, her husband goes to war, she gives birth and sends him a message but the message is intercepted and changed so he thinks she's given birth to a monster, so she and her child end up living at the bottom of a well or something. I keep thinking, "Okay, one more story and then I'm going to stop and go to bed," but there are links and links at the end of the pages and every page ends with five or so new tabs open and I am so very easy for fairytales.
It's kind of a problem.
I have now read several Armless Maiden stories, about 16 different versions of Catskin/Cap o' Rushes/Allerleirauh, five Snow White variants, and have now ended up in a clump of those stories where the woman is pregnant, her husband goes to war, she gives birth and sends him a message but the message is intercepted and changed so he thinks she's given birth to a monster, so she and her child end up living at the bottom of a well or something. I keep thinking, "Okay, one more story and then I'm going to stop and go to bed," but there are links and links at the end of the pages and every page ends with five or so new tabs open and I am so very easy for fairytales.
It's kind of a problem.
