Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:11:21 EST
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Adapting Grimm's Fairy Tales...


Your mention of this story took me aback. I thought I had truly read all of  
Grimm; I even have the book in German. Please give us the title of this story. 
 It reminded me distantly of "Penta the Handless" -- hope I got the title 
right--  from the Pentameron. Young maiden is wooed by her own brother,  who 
admits that he finds her hands are her most beautiful attribute. So she has  her 
maid cut off her hands and deliver them to him in a dish. Penta escapes  and 
has many adventures. In the end, of course, she gets new hands. It  is certainly 
one of the most amazing stories I have ever read. Probably one that  can 
never be made into a puppet show in these politically correct times, much  like 
"The Hobyahs," which involves the mutilation of a brave little dog.
Cheers,
Alice 
 
 
In a message dated 1/26/2009 12:40:21 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
creaturiste-AT-primus.ca writes:

In one  particularly gruesome story, an innocent maiden lets her loving 
father cut  off her arms to spare him the fate of being taken away by the 
devil. Which  he does! Later she asks someone to strap her arms to her back, 
just in  case she finds a way to reattach them  someday...

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