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sansiena
Unregistered User
(12/7/04 3:44 pm)
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Jamaican fairy tale
I've been reading Nalo Hopkinson's retelling of Bluebeard, "The Glass-Bottle Trick", and in it she references a Jamaican fairy tale in which the three daughters are named Yung-Kyung-Pyung, Margaret-Powell-alone, and Eggie-law. It is, as far as I can tell from a very convoluted German-language site, a story where learning the names of the three daughters allows a man to marry them. But I can't quite tell. Does anyone know about this story? It has something to do with the phrase "What a pretty basket".
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Richard Parks
Registered User
(12/7/04 3:58 pm)
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Re: Jamaican fairy tale
The author reads this site. She can probably tell you herself.
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(12/7/04 6:22 pm)
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Re: Jamaican fairy tale
Hey, as long as we're posting messages for Nalo, I want to tell her how much I love "Shift." I think it's terrific!
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Nalo
Registered User
(12/10/04 10:08 pm)
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Re: Jamaican fairy tale
God, I'm trying to remember where I first read that tale. Mostly I remember the bits I quoted, but I think the German site has the right of what the tale was about. I probably read it in one of Phillip Sherlock's collections of Caribbean folk tales. If I come up with anything more definite, I'll post it here.
And Veronica, thanks for the kind words!
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