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| Blogger yours truely comes a cropper in the wild wood.... |
"Never stray from the path", and
always be home in time for supper... (2)
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| don't tell where grandma lives.... |
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| or stray from the road... (the Korean update of Grimm "Hansel & Gretel" (2007)) |
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| American Gothic: Edward Gorey's take on Red Riding Hood |
Where it all begins: As a child I was scared rotten by my father's rendition of two favourite tales; Hansel and Gretel AND The Tinder Box. I had no idea what a tinder box actually was but I was sure scared silly by the dog "with eyes as big as dinner plates!" That is the monster the brave soldier has to face in order to get to the promised gold. What thrills for the imagination of the young!
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"The soldier struck the tiderbox twice and bade the dog with eyes like soup plates to bring the Princess to his house..."
from Beauty & the Beast and Other Stories illustrated by Louise Brierley |
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