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.
Human theme · Fate and the Supernatural
Tales about promise
5 tales in the collection where promise is present. Tales give no ready answers: they show how the experience has already been lived, told and crossed.
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.
The Three Golden Hairs of the Devil
Irmãos Grimm
A boy born under a prophecy crosses abandonment, a sentence of death and hell itself in order to fulfil his destiny.
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.
Symbolic images in these tales
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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