Hansel and Gretel are children who must outwit adults and save their little family.  They live in a “time of great scarcity” and are abandoned by their parents, who fear the whole family will starve.  They find their way deep in the woods to a magical bread house which is an evil witch who means to make them her means of sustenance.  Listen for our summary and analysis of this tale which involves role reversals, symbolic killing, birds as ferriers, calculation vs. faith, and of course good versus evil! 

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There doesn’t seem to be justice in this story.  A century passes and things pass by.  Finally, after the world has forgotten, someone comes by and is a catalyst for it all to just restart where it left off in the frozen kingdom.

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Perhaps there is inevitability in the 13th Wise Woman’s Offense and Curse.  She may symbolize the pervasive chance accident set in life always, especially jarring when you get what you want in life.  Then we talk about the eerie pervasive century-long slumber of the kingdom, and LL notices the tone of something unresolved about the story.

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The Brothers Grimm’s “The Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose):” 13 & For the Powerful, Small Actions have Enormous Ramifications (Clip)

Lack of Preparation, Impropriety and Depression. Why doesn’t the king have a 13th plate for his Wise Women guests?  Is this an oversight on his part?  Anyway, it seems that this is the thing that the whole story turns on.  Often in stories a slight against a powerful personage results in disaster.  But keeping in mind the etymology of the word “disaster,” perhaps this is all how it was meant to happen.  Perhaps there even needed to be a curse for the kingdom to balance out the blessing of the child.  Either way, it seems that here, for the powerful, small actions have huge ramifications.  

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We see some parallels between this story and the Lachesis of ancient Greece.  More deeply, we see the traditional work of her sex and wounding in a dense dynamic of maturity, sex and death.  The world of woes comes to the princess despite her parents’ trying to shut them out.

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In a way, there is no justice in this story – the prince seems to come along after a hundred years and so wins the princess, and the vengeful Wise Woman is never punished.  The palace represents a place where all needs are met, and the princess is brought up by “bulldozer” parents, to use modern language.  When the princess goes up to the tower, the details seem to show it was all meant to happen.  It’s almost as if that room at the top has been waiting there her whole life.  

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Grimm Bros.' The Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose) 

The king and queen have difficulty conceiving, but while the queen is bathing a frog comes up from the pond and informs her she’ll have a baby within the year.  For the birth, the king invites twelve of the thirteen of the wise women.  Enraged, the thirteenth interrupts the blessings of her companions to prophesize that Briar Rose will prick her finger on a spindle and die on her fifteenth birthday.  The twelfth softens the curse’s sentence to a century of sleep of the whole kingdom.  

The king and queen attempt to protect their daughter from all ills in the years that follow.  On her fifteenth birthday, her parents gone, Briar Rose explores the castle.  Climbing a tower, she finds a door with a rusty key in the lock.  Within is an old woman at a spindle.  Intrigued, Rose asks to use the unfamiliar device and is immediately pricked and everything falls into a deep slumber.  Even the trees and the wind fall silent.

The king and queen return home and join the others in slumber.  After a century, various princes have failed to make their way through the thornbush walls, but now a prince comes and finds they’ve been replaced by roses.  He makes his way into the castle and kisses Briar Rose, and she and everyone and everything else wake up and continue as if there has been no pause.  The prince and Rose are married and live happily ever after.

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The king and queen return home and join the others in slumber.  After a century, various princes have failed to make their way through the thornbush walls, but now a prince comes and finds they’ve been replaced by roses.  He makes his way into the castle and kisses Briar Rose, and she and everyone and everything else wake up and continue as if there has been no pause.  The prince and Rose are married and live happily ever after.

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After being waylaid by their daughter’s cursing, the king and queen attempt to protect their daughter from all ills in the years that follow.  On her fifteenth birthday, her parents gone, Briar Rose explores the rooms of the castle.  Climbing a tower, she finds a door with a rusty key in the lock.  Within is an old woman at a spindle working with flax.  Intrigued, Rose asks to use the unfamiliar device and is immediately pricked and falls onto a bed and everything falls into a deep slumber.  The servants preparing the feast, the flies, even the trees and the wind fall silent.

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The king and queen have difficulty conceiving, but while the queen is bathing a frog comes up from the pond and informs her she’ll have a baby within the year.  For the birth, the king invites twelve of the thirteen of the wise women since he lacks a cup for the last.  Enraged, the thirteenth interrupts the last of the virtue blessings of her companions to prophesize that Briar Rose will prick her finger on a spindle and die on her fifteenth birthday.  The twelfth softens the curse’s sentence to a century of sleep of the whole kingdom.  

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