January Ten

The Twelve Dancing Princesses – GRIMMS

“The Twelve Dancing Princesses” (or “The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes” or “The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces”) (German: Die zertanzten Schuhe) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm’s Fairy Tales in 1815 (KHM 133)The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen, volume 2, in 1815. Their source was Jenny von Droste-Hülshoff. It was originally numbered 47 but appeared as KHM 133 in subsequent editions. In a kingdom lives a king and his twelve daughters. The twelve princesses sleep in twelve beds in the same bedroom, the doors to which their father locks every night. But every morning, the king unlocks his daughters’ bedroom doors to find their shoes worn out as if they have been dancing all night. The king, perplexed, promises that any man who can solve the mystery can marry any of the twelve princesses and inherit the kingdom, but every suitor will be given only three days and three nights to discover the princesses’ secret, or he will be beheaded.

There are many many many versions of this, I still prefer the original. I do love seeing most picture books that are true to the story- READ NOT BARBIE. It is fun to try to find the many adaptations this month.

Anna….. OY.

PART SIX: The frailty of the male ego

mushrooms

Snipe hunting (!!!!!)

Entitlement

Dolly decides to visit Anna! Not Anna A WOMAN on horseback- THE SCANDAL of it alllll…

An important election ..

Zemstvo, organ of rural self-government in the Russian Empire and Ukraine; established in 1864 to provide social and economic services, it became a significant liberal influence within imperial Russia.

Tolstoy trying to be a feminist …. his ideas on motherhood, not so much.

Chloe Gong