Reading Notes: Indian Popular Tales, Part B

Story source: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885).

I honestly wasn't a huge fan of these stories. They were so negative and someone is usually eaten for no good reason at all. I think if I were to rewrite one of these stories I would make them more reasonable. They do not necessarily have to be perfect fairytales. But so many of the characters are back-stabbing. Again the number three was prevalent in the stories. It would be fun to talk about this occurrence at the beginning and maybe give a reason why three is used so often. Many of the stories were repetitive and were not very enjoyable to read. I found myself skimming over them. I would probably rewrite those with a similar idea but cut out the repetitiveness. There is usually at least one very forgiving character that deals with a bunch of selfish people

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