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phouka
Registered User
(11/26/05 7:08 pm)
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Prince marries a girl made of flowers..??
Does anybody remember a story where a prince marries a girl made out of flowers, who can't talk for some reason that I'm not remembering......
Edited by: phouka at: 11/26/05 7:09 pm
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Helen J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(11/26/05 7:34 pm)
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Re: Prince marries a girl made of flowers..??
The episode of Bloduedd in the Mabinogion, possibly? You can find a version of it here ...
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(11/26/05 10:32 pm)
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Garner, Oz
Would the Welsh source be what Garner used in THE OWL SERVICE? "She wanted to be flowers, but they made her owls."
There was a girl made of flowers in one of Ruth Plumly Thompson's OZ books .. she may have been a princess. At least, she may have been originally a human girl transformed into a flower girl for a while. But I don't recall her having trouble talking.
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Chris Peltier
Registered User
(11/27/05 11:02 am)
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Re: Garner, Oz
The story of "Math Son of Mathonwy" from the Mabinogion is the source for Garner's Owl Service. In short:
A wizard named Gwydyon had a nephew that had been cursed by the boy's mother. If a woman ever touched his nephew the boy would die.
After three days and three nights locked in his private chambers, Gwydyon made a woman out of flowers - oak, broom, and meadowsweet.
Blodeuedd was the most beautiful woman in the world, and the nephew fell in love at first sight. Blodeuedd, however, ruined Gwydyon's plans by falling for another man, and she and her new man killed the nephew. In his sorrow, Gwydyon turned her into an owl. That is why today all owls sound like a weeping woman.
~Chandra~
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Crceres
Registered User
(11/27/05 6:35 pm)
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Re: Garner, Oz
In the "original" Oz series (meaning, written by Baum
himself), the rose princess shows up in TikTok of Oz. She came from
a place where the people grew on bushes :D
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avalondeb
Registered User
(11/29/05 8:31 pm)
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Re: Garner, Oz
I don't remember if it was in Arabesques I or II, edited by Susan Shwartz, there was a story entitled "The Flower Princess".
A king finds his princess in a flowering tree.
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