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Don’t they hunt deers at those things? And is it okay to let him go frolic with the “brutal hungers?” This does not bode well…
Oops! Typo. We’ll get that fixed asap. XD
It was a typo? I was thinking it was an unusual way to say hungry animals.
I thought the whole White Hart thing was a bit ominous too.
Dude is about to become a point of contention between Arawn and Pwyll… or chased incessantly by one Arthur and his kniggits.
Bababada? I thought it was sheep at first lol. Do their horns really make that sound? lol.
Didn’t she beg and plead with him not to go out in the book version? It seems weird that shes just ok with it here D:
Wait, he wants to go out while there are hunters out there and she’s OK with this?
Also, I love the art style of this story!
Okay, I’ve never read this story, but I gather from the dialog and facial expressions that she said no many times already. Of course if it was me, I’d just muzzle him for a while. XD
To live dangerously!
One can do only so much to curb it in teenaged boys — focusing it is more prudent.
SWEETIES IT’S NOT WISE FOR A DEER TO GO OUT DURING A HUNT.
This can be interpreted two ways. Either the little brother is a bit cocky and wants to try his hand at evading the hunters for fun, or people once believed that it was in a deer’s nature to lead hunters “on a merry chase”.
It also could be that it used to be a thing where all “able bodied young men” needed to join the king’s hunt to show their strength, and so he wants to show his strength now…
I see this ending badly, though, so badly. I hope I’m wrong, but Grimm’s do NOT have the nicest endings.
Actually, things usually do turn out okay if you’re the good guy. If you’re the villian though, you end up getting punished in horrible and creative ways.
It’s true–for the most part.
People try to pigeon-hole Grimm fairy tales and it’s really not that fair, honestly. My copy of the book has 210 stories in it and the vary widely. You get some harsh stories that end badly. You get others where hardly anything objectionable happens like. You get stories where the villian is punished horribly like. You get others where the perceived villian disappears for much of the story like or is left to go about their business like. I think it’s best to accept each story as it comes.
unless, of course, you’re a mouse married to a cat.
“Arthurian legend states that the creature has a perennial ability to evade capture; and that the pursuit of the animal represents mankind’s spiritual quest.”
… The hart reckons himself impervious to defeat.
SWEETIES IT”S NOT WISE TO DRINK FROM A STREAM THAT WILL TURN YOU INTO A DEER.
I always thought it was somewhat part of the curse. Since the little brother is now a deer, perhaps, against his will, he is drawn to the hunters.
I do feel that this is the equivalent of letting a child play chicken on the railroad tracks though.
She couldn’t keep him from drinking. Perhaps she knows she can’t stop him here.
Of course she can! It’s called the power of opposable thumbs!
That was not very wise of him.
no question her brother is not the sharpest deer in the shed
Oh, she’s done a great deal to make that cottage homey and clean. She’s an industrious, house wifey girl… like most of Grimms’ heroines. Good for her!
apparently, she also gathered firewood and scavenged/gathered/fished for food, without the help of a man.
Perhaps it’s not a deer hunt but a fox hunt. Those are all about the chase and not about dinner.
Why, exactly, would she have to keep the hunters out? i know it’s just a safety precaution, but would hunters really be cruel to a young girl living all by herself? would they drink to the hunt before they left?
Maybe, maybe not, but there would be no one to help her if they were.
This was something even as a kid that always just bugged the crap out of me when I was a kid…..WHY DEER? Why would you want to join any hunt?! I think what bugged me the most was that the story never explained why. The sister would be like, no no brother don’t go. He’d be aaaalright. And then it happen all over again. When she finally says yes I was always thinking…wait what made her change her mind? Cause he said he couldn’t stand it? WAH? I read a short story some time ago that went into detail about why that I really liked. For the brother it was a test to show off his strenght. Because he had a human mind he was able to understand and here what the hunters would say and then he would turn it into a game for him that his sister of course hated. After a while he agreed not to do that because he almost was killed one time. However he discovered that with the king hunt, he didn’t hunt to kill the animal. But to chase and capture. The brother wanted to join in this game of chase and it grew stronger every time the king went to hunt. He was becoming so restless, he was actually starting to break things. Finally the sister agreed he could join in the chase if he agreed not to get close to the king to get captured. While this may not be true for the story it satisfied my questions LOL
Take care little brother…..
also, in the story (as I know it), the big brother does not want to “join the hunt”, he wants to watch it and play dodge with the hunters.
He’s just sooooo bored in the hut.
To those wondering why Brother Deer would want to join the hunt… Here, he’s a white stag, and in fact that’s how I always envisioned him when I read the story, because white stags in particular have a special place in mythology and folklore, especially Celtic myths. They were believed to be messengers – from God, from spiritual realms, whatever, kind of depended on the age of the story and whether or not the one telling it had been converted to Christianity yet. It was believed that white stags led hunters to glory/adventure/important things/etc. They were hunted (at least in folklore) less in the hopes of catching and killing one, and more in the hopes that it would bring enlightenment/joy/etc. So, to make a long story short (too late!), I for one always interpreted Brother Deer’s desire to join the hunt as him giving in to the instincts that would have been thought to go with the animal he was – in this case, the urge to lead the hunters on a merry chase. Similarly, if he’d been turned into a tiger, the folklore would say that he’d likely eat his sister simply because that’s what tigers do (in common belief at the time, that is), and wouldn’t be able to resist. Anyhoo, that’s my two cents, there are lots of other great interpretations too! But anyone who’s interested, read up on white stags – they’re actually part of a pretty cool mythos. There’s even multiple mentions of white stags in Arthurian tales!
To the people wondering about the chase: “You shall become a deer and run away from me.” Perhaps it’s an urge he can resist, but not forever?
This reminds me of an Iranian fairy tale my grandmother told me when I was a kid. Can’t really say how without saying something that might be a spoiler though.
Again, that Tiger Stream is looking like a big problem-solver to me. >_>
Just remember to get a drink at the Deer Stream before coming home… However, since HE can’t hear the water talking, it might take a few tries before he gets to the right one…