Monday, December 8, 2008

Hans My Hedgehog

So here are some of the Motifs found in Hans my Hedgehog

  • rash promise (Jeptha's daughter)
  • transformation of the beast
  • number 3
  • sacrificial child
  • passing of property
  • husband and wife can't have children
  • monster baby
  • desperation
  • innermonster
  • parent hating child
  • lost in the fores found mysterious house
  • year and a day (language formulas)
  • isolation (black sheep)
  • relationship with human and animal
  • beast husband (marriage)
  • Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife.

Here is a link to the song by Jimmy Soul that fully embraces this theory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9ZZgDqzAg

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