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 · Growth and Transition
Tales about transformation
4 tales in the collection where transformation is present. Tales give no ready answers: they show how the experience has already been lived, told and crossed.
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.
The Little Old Woman with Five Cows
E. A. Khudyakov / tradição oral Sakha
A plant gathered by an old woman becomes an extraordinarily beautiful maiden. On the way to her wedding, she is killed and replaced by a monstrous impostor, but a speaking horse preserves the truth.
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.
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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