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.
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Three in the tales
5 tales in the collection where the image of three appears. In the app, every symbol comes with its symbolic translation and every tale with four readings.
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.
Beauty and the Beast
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
A lost merchant finds a palace where everything is served by unseen hands. A rose taken from its garden costs nearly his life, and Beauty chooses to take his place before the Beast.
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.
Fitcher's Bird
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm
A sorcerer disguised as a beggar carries young women in his basket to a splendid house and gives each an egg, a key and a prohibition. The third sister changes the order of the test and turns every instrument of captivity against him.
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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
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