Myth-Folklore

I finished the second half of this week's readings of Twenty-Two Goblins translated by Arthur Ryder . As I said in the first set of reading notes, this story is amazing! I will definitely be doing a re-creation of it for this week's storytelling assignment. The end had an interesting plot twist, which gave me a million ideas. I also started to think of ways I could incorporate this story into my semester-long project. Now that I have read the rest of the story, I know the monk's intentions. It did not really surprise me that he was a deceptive character since it is such an odd favor to ask...I do not know about anyone else, but I would not go out and bring a corpse back to some stranger that brought me fruit with jewels; that would be accessory to murder after the fact. Of course, maybe with the story set in the middle ages that favor was not uncommon...? I kind of wanted to know more about the monk's story. What could one do with the power of becoming king of the f...

Twenty-Two Goblins, translated by Arthur W. Ryder  is a collection of stories where a goblin, a mythical creature that inhabits human corpses, tells riddles to a King, who made a promise to a monk. The king must be truthful and tell the answer if he knows it, but if he does not know the answer the goblin will tell another riddle. The issue is that when the king gets the answer right the goblin transports back to the sissoo tree and the king has to turn around, get the dead corpse with the goblin and start the journey again. So far in the story, the king knows all the answers to the goblin's riddles. I like every bit of this story, so much so that I cannot help but continue to the second set of stories. What I like so much about these stories is how there is a goblin (an evil-trickster character, which is my favorite) and the riddles that he tells. (I also like that I can listen to the audiobooks.) One of my favorite things to do is try to figure out the ending of a...