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golistan
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(12/5/05 8:59 pm)
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motif: tears of jewels/pearls
Greetings!
I am new to this forum and am happy to be here!:)
One of my courses at the Unregistered Useriversity of Washington is "Folktales Along the SilkRoad" (a great class!). Our final project is to take a folktale of that region and find a way to classify it in Anter/Thompson's "Type of the Folktale" classification and compare it to other stories with the same motif. The story I have chosen is a tale from Uzbekistan called "The Golden Girl" in which a girl has been granted the ability to cry pearls, as well as flowers bloom when she laughs and gold paves the way of where she's walked. Other stories I have found with similar motifs is a Kurdish folktale called "Gulkhandaran's Flower", an Afghani tale called "The Golden Necklace" and finally, a Brother's Grim story called "The Goose Girl at the Well".
Anter/Thompson classifies these stoires under "tears of pearl" and mentions Cuba - does anyone know of any other tale with these motifs - particularly a Western tale?
Thanks so much in advance!
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midori
snyder
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(12/6/05 5:19 am)
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Re: motif: tears of jewels/pearls
I'll need to hunt down the stories, but there is a string of good girl/bad girl narratives where the heroine is gifted with pearls, flowers and gold everytime she opens her mouth and her "bad" sister winds up spitting up toads and insects everytime she speaks.
(Jane, didn't you do a version of this tale? I can almost see the illustrations?)
Sheesh...should have checked Surlalune first! Try it under Diamonds and Toads
. Heidi has provided an abridged version from Lang..but checking the left hand column there is a list of variants all under AT 480 Kind and Unkind Girls
Edited by: midori snyder at: 12/6/05 5:26 am
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kristiw
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(12/6/05 1:31 pm)
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The Girl Who Cried Flowers
(I'm obviously not her, but) Jane Yolen did a lovely story called "The Girl Who Cried Flowers." :)
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Judith Berman
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(12/6/05 2:17 pm)
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She who spits gold
There are some Native American stories with this motif, but I'm not sure that some of them are not of European origin. One of them has the girl with the above name, which itself suggests Europe (native luxury goods would be copper nuggets or pearlshell or the like). You could check the abbreviated motif index at the back of Stith Thompson's book on North American Indian Tales (not the exact title, but close).
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Earthbeat
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(12/6/05 11:04 pm)
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Re: She who spits gold
"Les Fées" (Fairies) by Charles Perrault.
It is the story of a good girl who is enchanted by a good fairy, so every time she opens the mouth to speak, diamonds, pearls, precious stones and roses come out, while her bad sister is cursed to spit forgs and snakes.
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