Elizabeth DiSalvatore - Myth-Folklore

I had so much fun reading through Italian Fairy tales! I read several from The Pentamerone. Most of them involved animals, which is an element that I really enjoy! The She-Bear    was a fun read! A dying queen begs her husband to only remarry if the women is as beautiful as she was. After many years the King decided that he could only marry his daughter because only she was as beautiful as his first wife. The daughter did not want to marry her father so an elderly woman gave her a chip of wood that was suppose to change her into a bear. When she was summed to marry her father she ate the piece of wood. While the daughter was in the woods, she met a prince who was astounded by her gentleness and he took her home. One day, the daughter took out the piece of wood and the prince saw her and fell in love. The princes mother did not understand why he loves this bear, and ordered the bear to be killed. However, the servants were also taken with her gentleness and released her into...

For my project I think I am going to go the Portfolio route. I am interested in too many different areas to narrow my scope. I am excited to read about many different cultures and write my own stories! I love studying other cultures and will probably write a story based on a different culture for each post. Below are the four topics that have caught my eye. I have studied abroad in Italy twice now, and my family is very Italian. Therefore, I think I would enjoy writing at least one of my stories based on Italian culture. I have found several of the Italian Popular Tales interesting! I think it would be fun to combine several of the popular tales into one story! I had so much fun writing Trickster stories that I would like to include another one of those in my project. For this story I think I will base it off of S tories from the Congo.  As I said last week, I have been very interested in that region since I recently watched a movie based in that region. I would enjoy researc...