Caitlyn's Blog for Myth-Folklore Fall 2018

Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins, Part B (The King fighting the Thief: Illustration by Perham W. Nahl ) Twenty-Two Goblins , translated by Arthur Ryder The second part of this unit was just as interesting as the first, if not more. I noticed it previously, but there seems to be a similar naming convention for most of the characters. Many of them are named something that I assume is meant to describe them, whether by personality trait or physical. I took the most interest in some aspects of The Girl and the Thief out of this section of stories. I liked that the thief was a different character than most of the others that were meant to end up with the beautiful woman in the end. I also liked the girl from the story, Pearl, for similar reasons. She seemed to speak up more about what she wanted or did not want than many of the female characters from the other stories. The Conclusion was also interesting. I did not expect the monk to be shown as a villain in the end, and I think...

Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins, Part A (The King and the Goblin: Illustrated by Perham W. Nahl ) Twenty-Two Goblins , translated by Arthur Ryder I chose to read from this unit since the stories sounded different to me than other things I have read. I was not disappointed by these readings. I very much liked the continuity between each story, and the style in which that was achieved. The goblin telling other stories from the back of the King was interesting. I felt myself invested in both the first story with the goblin and each new story that was told within that. Many of the stories involved sudden things that shocked me. For example, the sudden suicides that occurred in The Girl, Her Husband and Her Brother . I felt changes in the stories like this came from nowhere, but it makes sense considering these are other stories being told by the goblin. Some of these sudden changes made sense soon after, like the child being thrown into fire in The Three Lovers , though initiall...