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Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins, Part A

These notes are from Twenty-Two Goblins: The Three Delicate Wives translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1917)



  • Since this story is a frame tale, it has the usual goblin and the king. 
    • If I rewrote this story, maybe I could give it a different setting/ narrator
    • I've been wanting to do teen tales, so maybe I could do a halloween type story
      • I could keep the goblin, maybe have the background be teens in a graveyard, doing dares when they run into trouble. Then they die/disappear if they answer wrong
  • Anyway- here is the riddle
    • King has 3 wives 
      • Crescent, Star, Moon
    • He goes to a magic garden and drink a magic type wine (blood of Love?)
    •  Crescent is the first wife to fall
      • a lotus-petal falls and wounds her
      • she faints until a servant fans her with water to wake her up
      • king wants on her
    •  Now, Star is injured
    • While sleeping moon beams burn Star
      • There are blisters on her skin
      • Servants dress her wounds
    • Moon is next! 
      • She is walking down the hall
      • Hears a noise, and gets bruises on her hand
      • Again, the servants help her--they cover the bruises on their hands
    • In this story, delicacy is a virtue! So, while it is inconvenient, it's a good thing for the wives 
  • The riddle question: Which wife is the most delicate?
  • Moon--she had no contact with the petals, she heard only the sound
  • I'm thinking about making this a halloween type story--so maybe I can make everyone monsters and change the riddle to be a bit more gruesome--like which monster is the most viscous or bloodthirsty   
  • I'll have a group of teens try to solve the riddles, and each one will disappear when they get the riddle wrong. It'll be cool!  





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