Mythology

  (Clownfish in the Water. Source: CC BY 2.0 ) I particularly enjoyed this picture of this clownfish. I don't know for what particular reason that I found this so fascinating, but it might have been the photography skills as well as the colors that contrasted with each other both of the subject as well as the background. One of the videos that I enjoyed from this week's review was the T-Rex song . I particularly liked this because it was something silly that helped relieve me from some the stress that I'm currently feeling!

 In a village, long ago, there was a wonderful couple living in a small house. Everything was well; they were all loved. Until one day, the lady of the house bore a child. However, the mother died suddenly after childbirth. The husband cried for weeks. What is he to do now? He notices something strange. The baby would cry day in, day out, but would sleep peacefully at night. Alone. As if it was suckled! He decided to stay up one night to see what was going on in the middle of the night. That night, he heard something or someone opens the door to the baby's room. He walked silently to the room. Tip. Tap. Tip. Tap. In the room, he didn't believe what he saw. It was the dead mother, in the same clothes that she was buried in, kneeling over the cradle and tendering for the baby. The next day, it happened again. Day by day, he would invite more people over to witness this miracle. Until on the 10th day, the child died in its sleep. The village was never visited by the dead mother ag...

 Stories derived from Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston The Headless Princess The king has a daughter who was an "enchantress" Usually, I've never read of royalty having any powers at all. Does the King also have powers? If not, why only the princess? The story is odd in terms of the message that it was trying to convey. For the most part, I couldn't figure out if the enchantress was supposed to be the protagonist or the antagonist because it was the priest's son that was peeping. I like how for ritualistic reasons, there are various details .. such as the number of days and the things the characters had to do to prevent from being taken away How did the old woman already know that the Princess was a witch from the start? (The Headless Princess. Source: RTOO )

Stories derived from Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston  Russia: The Dead Mother There is mentioned a certain village but did not specifically mention the name of the village  This can add to the anonymous atmosphere of the story, which creates a good introduction to the rest of the story Mentioned terminology that was specific to the region of the origin of the story In this case, it was the "moujik" which directly refers to a Russian serf -- basically an unfree peasant of Russia This could categorize as a horror story, something that could invoke terror in the readers Mentions the dead mother next to the cradle of the baby, which was something that the reader did not expect because the story started with the dead mother dying after childbirth! Maybe there's an all-encompassing theme to the rest of the story about the relationship between the baby and the mother, which in this case, can expand passed the limited time on Earth (Mother and Her Child. Source: Fairy Tal...