The Nixie of the Mill-Pond
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm
A bargain made without understanding its price crosses two generations, until a woman seeks to recover the husband taken by the nixie of the pond.
Symbolic image · Tool
Spinning wheel in the tales
4 tales in the collection where the image of spinning wheel appears. In the app, every symbol comes with its symbolic translation and every tale with four readings.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Tradição popular norueguesa · Noruega
A young woman given to a white bear breaks a promise and crosses the world to recover the enchanted prince.
Rumpelstiltskin
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm
A miller’s daughter is forced to spin straw into gold under threat of death. A mysterious little man helps her three times, each time demanding a higher price, until the final debt reaches her first child.
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Tradição oral russa, recolhida por Aleksandr Afanásiev · Rússia
When her mother dies, Vasilisa receives a doll and an instruction: feed it and ask its advice whenever misfortune comes. Sent into the forest to fetch fire, she reaches Baba Yaga's hut and must fulfil the tasks of the old woman who eats people.
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What the app opens
In Dovor, every tale comes in full, with four readings written for it.
- Psychoanalytic readingdesires, lacks, defences and repetitions
- Analytical readingconflicts, compensations and transformation
- Archetypal readinguniversal images, figures and motifs
- Phenomenological observationearth, water, air and fire
Read in the app
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