Human theme · Power and Boundaries
5 tales in the collection where punishment is present. Tales give no ready answers: they show how the experience has already been lived, told and crossed.
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.
Irmãos Grimm
A boy born under a prophecy crosses abandonment, a sentence of death and hell itself in order to fulfil his destiny.
Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Alemanha
In a time of famine, two siblings are abandoned in the forest. Pebbles, crumbs and a white bird lead them to an edible house hiding a devouring threat.
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.
Hans Christian Andersen · Dinamarca
A poor girl receives a pair of red shoes and insists on wearing them, even after being forbidden to. The shoes make her dance without stopping, along roads, across fields and into a dark forest, and she cannot get them off her feet. A tale by Hans Christian Andersen with strong images and a definitive ending.
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