The first story in this reading is about the son of a king disappearing with a fairy woman! It is a good story and reminds me of snow white due to the apple element. The son only ate this one apple that kept regrowing for an entire month!
The next story is about leprechauns! A man meets a leprechaun that tells him his beer is made with heath and that it is a family secret. Tom, the man, tries to get the beer but can't and instead spills it all over the place. The leprechaun tricks him then by taking him to a place where his gold is supposed to be, but it is not!
The third story is about witches who trick a woman into letting them weave and scare her family. The woman receives help from the Spirit in the Well and saves her family. She also scares the witches away and creates enchantment to keep them out the next time they try to come in. It appears that tricks and magical creatures are a large part of the Celtic Fairy Tales.
The next two stories are about a man who marries a lake deity and a tailor. The marriage story has the woman marry the man, but will leave if he hits her three times for no reason. He ends up accidentally hitting her three times and so she leaves. The tailor story is about a tailor having to sew a pair of trousers in a graveyard as a dare by a lord. He wins the bet and receives the award, but he had to sew while a great scary spirit tried to keep him distracted and even chased him all the way back to the lord's castle!
The sixth story is a cumulative tale, which was interesting to read. It builds on itself and every time the man is looking for something new he adds it to his list. I liked this style, and might try to include it in another storytelling!
The last story in this part of the unit is a Celtic version of Snow White about Silver-Tree and her daughter Gold-Tree. It has a lot of the same elements but was fun to read because it shared another narrative style on the classic story!
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| Silver-Tree trying to poison her daughter from sacred-texts |
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