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Children who are eaten or at risk of being eaten are a recurrent topic in myths, legends, and folktales from many parts of the world. False accusations of the murder and consumption of children were made repeatedly against minorities and groups considered suspicious, especially against Jews as part of blood libel accusations.
The Three Golden Children refers to a series of folktales related to the motif of the calumniated wife, numbered K2110.1 in the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature.The name refers to a cycle of tales wherein a woman gives birth to children of wondrous aspect, but her children are taken from her by jealous relatives or by her mother-in-law, and her husband punishes her in some harsh way.
When she is ready to give birth, Mokete replaces the boy for a deformed child with the face of a baboon. The real son is put with the pigs to be devoured, but "the spirits protect him". Mokete, the new wife, sees the boy survived and asks her husband to kill the pigs and burn down the kraal. She also tries to kill him in other attempts, but fails.
Scholar Kurt Ranke stated that the tale type was a European combination of "two very old stories": the "child of fate" that appears as early as the 3rd century CE in Indian and Chinese literature, associated with the motif K978 ("Uriah letter"); and the hero's journey to the other world bearing questions, a narrative contained in the Avadana ...
Maybe she had children, and wanted to warn them about the wayward world beyond adolescence. Maybe her mother, or her mother's mother, told her the story, and as a child she delighted in its shocking twists and turns. Maybe it helped break up the mundanity of her domestic duties, or the telling of the story felt like a duty in itself.
British fairy tale collections were rare at the time; Dinah Craik's The Fairy Book (1869) was a lonely precedent. According to Roger Lancelyn Green, Lang "was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day" who judged the traditional tales' "unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such ...
Jamie Oliver has apologized after his children's book was pulled from shelves following criticism from Indigenous Australians.. The celebrity chef, 49, said he was "devastated to have caused ...
The European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in a painting by Carl Larsson in 1881.. A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, [1] magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. [2]