Caleb's Myth-Folklore Assignments

The Cookie Jar There it was. The great golden egg. The container of dreams. The genie's bottle. The cookie jar. Cookie Jar Clip Art from Pixy Mom had put it up on top of the fridge last week after she caught me with my "grubby little hands" inside, fishing around for the holy food. Well, it slowed me down. It wouldn''t stop me. It's simple really. I'm a child. That jar has cookies. Children eat cookies. I was going up there to get that jar. I went into the garage to grab the ladder. It wasn't there. I looked outside for it. There it was leaning up against the wall, wet with the day's earlier rain. No climbing that. So, I went to get a towel, to dry off the ladder, to climb to the cookie jar. For some reason the towel cabinet was locked. I went to dad for the key to unlock the cabinet, to get the towel, to dry the ladder, to climb to the cookie jar. Dad said he'd only give me the key if I brought him a cup of tea. So, I went to make a cup of tea...

 For part B of the celtic tales section, I decided to take notes on Brewery of Eggshells. Illustration from Celtic Fairy Tales by John D. Batten (1892)  Plot This story is pretty short and simple. A mother has twins. She is one day called away to visit a neighbor rather far away. Although she doesn't want to, she leaves her children alone at home. She rushes back as soon as she can. She rushes even faster under worry when she sees a pair of "old elves of the blue petticoat" in the street. Her children were fine in their cradle. Over time, however, the twins did not grow. Their father proclaimed that they were not their children. Distressed, the mother went to the Wise Man of Llanidloes. He told her to cook and egg shell and offer it as dinner to the reapers (I'm not sure if this is the children or someone else). If the children say weird stuff for a child, toss them in the lake. If not, leave them be. The mother does so and the children say a weird rhyme: Acorn before...

 For week 12 part A, I am taking notes on the story of Munachar and Manachar. Because of the nature of the story, these notes are a bit different than my usual notes. Illustration from Celtic Fairy Tales by John D. Batten (1892) "Plot" A manachar and a munachar go out to pick raspberries. As soon as Munachar would pick a berry Manachar would eat it. This pissed Munachar off and he wanted to kill Munachar. So, he decided to find a rod to make a gad to hang manachar. This began a sequence of requests. Rod needs axe to cut him Axe need flag to edge him Flag needs water to wet him Water needs deer to swim in him Deer needs a hound to hunt him Hound needs butter Butter needs a cat to scrape it Cat needs milk from cow Cow needs a whisp of straw from threshers Threshers need cake from miller Miller needs water from river Munachar tries to get the water with a sieve but it doesn't work. A crow comes by and "duabs". Munachar thanks the crow and daubs the sieve with clay ...