Week 11 Reading Diary, continued: Celtic Fairy Tales

The second half of this week's reading of Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs was very similar to the first half. I enjoyed reading the story King O'Toole and His Goose because it was so sweet to see the Kings love for hunting and his goose. I feel like this is similar to so many Bible stories where a saint comes in disguised to see how people will treat them when they don't know a saint is in their presence. It was nice to see how the man kept his promise when Saint Kavin restored his goose! I was shocked the story ended so sadly with the goose being killed while it was hunting fish. The story Beth Gellert really caught me off guard! I had a feeling that the greyhound didn't kill the prince's son, but I was in suspense the entire time trying to figure out why there was blood everywhere! It made me so sad to see that the greyhound was trying to protect the son from a wolf, but the prince didn't know that and killed his dog anyway. I could use this for this weeks story telling and maybe tie King O'Toole and His Goose together by incorporating Saint Kavin. I could have the saint bring the greyhound back to life once the prince finds that he saved his son's life! The story called Brewery of Eggshells really stood out to me because it was so different. The entire story I was wondering why the children weren't growing and couldn't figure it out until the very end! I wonder why the goblins decided to switch the mothers children with their dwarfs... it made no sense to me! I also was so shocked to see the mom just toss the children that looked like hers into the lake! I thought the story was kind of funny and might try to use it in my storytelling assignment this week!

(Illustration of Gellert the greyhound. Source: UnTextbook)