Day Eighteen

first i would like to say sorry for being behind in my blogs but for some reason we couldn't access the internet at the hotel in Wichita.

the three folktales i have chosen are The Iron Chest, One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes: A Hutzul Tale, and King Bluebeard

the summary for The Iron Chest. in this story a poor peasant was in the woods and talked to a woman who gave him a chess of money he had to keep it a secret, when he got home he told his wife and she told the neighbor, it finally made it to the king and the king summoned the peasant and told him that he stole the money and that he knew everything about it, so the peasant told the king that his wife was crazy, the king gave the peasant two weeks, within the two weeks the peasant made his wife think things were happening that weren't really happening, when the wife and peasant were summoned the king thought the wife was crazy and sent them home, the peasant spent the money in little amounts and bought land, overtime he became one of the wealthiest people.



the summary for One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes: A Hutzul Tale. there were three sisters one with one eyes, one with two eyes, and one with three eyes. the sisters with one and three eyes always picked on the sister with two eyes, the sisters got a goat and made two eyes go to the meadows with it so it could it and an old woman cam e and gave her a charm to say, when she said the charm food appeared, then her sisters found out and got rid of the goat. the old woman appeared she gave two eyes a seed and it made a silver leafed gold apple tree that her sisters could never get, a knight saw the tree and asked for an apple the two eyed sister gave him an apple and they lived happily ever after.

the summary for king Bluebeard. a man had everything he wanted and when he left for business trips, he told his wife's not to open a certain closet and when they did they found his ex-wife's which he had killed. when he got back he would kill them if the opened the closet, the last wife he had, did the same thing as everybody else and he was going to kill her too he gave her one hour to prepare to be killed so she whistled for her brothers, just as King Bluebeard was going to kill her, her brothers showed up and killed him. when the brothers found out what he did they burned down his castle and took their sister and they lived happily ever after


the significance of the folktales are that you should never treat people wrongly, and do what your told. the folktales seem to focus on two aspects King Bluebeard and The Iron Chest focus on do what your told, whereas One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes: A Hutzul Tale focus's on you should never treat people wrong, the stories do teach lessons like do one to others as you would want them to do to you, and always do as told,