Evil Within Even in Desperate Times in the Brothers Grimm’s “The Singing Bone” (Clip)
I question the seemingly pure motive of the younger brother, who takes on the destructive boar seemingly purely out of selflessness. LL posits he could be a Christ-like figure. Still, one thing I ta...
20 Jul 20252min
The Brothers Grimm: “The Singing Bone”
A demonic boar ravages the land, destroying crops and livestock, and ripping up the bodies of people. The king offers a large reward, but no one dared go into the forest where the beast lived. Final...
17 Jul 202525min
Von Schonwerth’s “The Scorned Princess”
Von Schonwerth’s “The Scorned Princess” Three soldiers are finished with their tour of duty, and they are camping in the forest on their way home. Having built a bonfire to protect themselves, they ...
11 Jul 20251h 26min
Grimm’s “Cinderella:” Feminine Work and Shaping the Masculine (Clip)
Grimm’s “Cinderella:” Feminine Work and Shaping the Masculine (Clip) Why does Cinderella run from the prince at the end of the dance? Is she trying to get the prince to give chase to open his eyes? ...
10 Jul 20255min
“The Water of Life” by The Brothers Grimm
A king is very sick and this distresses his three sons. In a palace garden an old man tells them the water of life can save him, but it is very dangerous to obtain. The first decides to get it, thin...
8 Jul 202539min
The Poor Brother Gives All in The Grimm Brothers’ “The Turnip” (Clip)
At the story’s beginning, the poor brother throws off his red coat of soldiering and becomes a farmer, a major life transformation that makes him his brother’s opposite. Ian and I contrast these broth...
4 Jul 20259min
The Brothers Grimm’s “Cinderella”
A daughter promises her dying mother she’ll remain good and pious, and does so. Her father remarries and his stepdaughters consign Cinderella to housework. She asks her father for a humble gift – a ...
2 Jul 202539min
The Turnip as the Prince’s Soul in Von Schonwerth's "The Turnip Princess" Pt. 2 (Clip)
The turnip, grown underground, could symbolize the soul, and the prince, whose task is to combine the nail from the cave wall, would recover his self. “He has a place for the thing that he is longing...
30 Jun 20254min
