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Thank goodness they do not live in the 1940′s. The wicked stepsister could just cover her missing eye with her hair, as seen here; it was fashionable to do that back then.
Not sure if optionally corporeal ghosts were a thing in the 1940s though.
OMG!
She is dead?!?!
I thought the stepmother had just sleep her or something like that… =(
Poor girl.
It’s in the author’s note on page 23…
Wow I love the colors here!
I just realized we haven’t seen Boy/Deer in a while.
Where the hell is he? He might have been helpful when that whole murder thing was going on…
He was at the hunt, probably. He likes to go on those things. But he’s back now; check out the second panel again.
Oh! I was thinking the same thing too, but thanks for pointing that out C:
You could see his antlers in panel 2 just now.
Poor Jane :c
This story is getting better and better. I have a book of the Grim fairy tales and was trying to find this one in it cause I’m curises(sp) about what is going on. Is the story’s name Brother and Sister in the Grim tales? Just wondering.
Yes, it is called “Brother & Sister” in the original Grimm tales. ^_^
Brother and Sister
That site is pretty cool. It’s got all those footnotes and stuff.
The part about her death is interesting and depressing. Because I saw the heater/fire deal in a corner of the room on the previous pages rather than under the tub, I’m gonna assume and hope that Sister just suffocated as opposed to being boiled alive in her bathwater at the same time.
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I’m sorry, but I thought that was pretty clear. Where else would that link lead? And the spoilers are not rampant. If you read that there are annotations to the story and then the entire story is posted then you can infer that there are things on the site that you don’t know and can then choose to stop reading.
Thank you Mary for posting the link. It’s an interesting read!
Okay I have to add another comment here. Is anyone else besides me how she’s able to pick up something solid (the baby) while she’s not a solid entity?
You’re pondering that, but you’re not pondering how a boy can be turned into a stag by a bewitched spring or how an evil step-sister can be guised in her dead step-sister’s image?
She’s a special ghost.
There are a number of folkloric ghosts that are capable of interacting with matter.
Oh sweetie, that is a common misconception. You see, we ghosts are not merely of another plane of existence, but of a higher status than those of a physical nature. We can will ourselves tangible to the living and physical material, just as we can will ourselves intangible. It the physical, such as you adorable mortals, that have no say in the matter.
Also, magic…
There is also one version of the story that explain the stepmother used her witchcraft to make the Queen a ghost and see her baby to torture her, knowing she can never have him again.
Yeah, just because a ghost can pass through solid matter doesn’t mean they can’t interact with the world around them if they want to. Look at poltergeists for example, which tend to knock things over and throw things.
To be sure, there are ghosts who can’t. There’s a tale, I believe in Grimms’, where a little girl can’t rest because she stole a coin she was supposed to give to a beggar — and she can’t take it from the hiding place, either. It’s not until her parents figure out she was going to the hiding place, found the coin, and gave it to a beggar that she was able to stop walking.
Heh, it’s been interesting seeing the story at its roots. The last time I remember seeing an adaptation of this was Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics, and it was REALLY different in the second half of the episode O_O
Yeah, I was actually disappointed that they left out the part with the one eyed sister.
you know, have to wonder at the step-sister (or anyone in these types of stories who take on someone else’s form to take over their lives), how she can sleep so soundly and happily when her life is probably going to wear her down unbelievably. What must it be like to know that every smile, every kiss, every word of adoration is for the person whose life you stole and that the ‘love’ you’re receiving from the other person is not for you?
Well, in that case, the daughter of the witch just wants all the gold and jewels for herself. She doesn’t care about the king or the child, she didn’t steal the sisters role for the love or the admiration.
Uh, you _do_ remember that the stepsister is of the opinion that this life and attention and happiness is rightfully _hers_ rather than of her well-begotten stepsibling? That’s the reason she took over: to make things as she feels they should have been in the first place. Which _is_ quite how royalty works.
When is the last time you read Shakespeare’s “Richard III”?
Once you’re that self-centered, it’s hard to see things clearly.
So THERE’S Mr Deer-Brother! I had been wondering about him.
I don’t think I like this fairy tale. It makes me sad in my fuzzy-warm places. :C
Patience, my friend. This story is one of my favorites for how it resolves itself.
It’s not another downer like The Little Shroud :)
brother sleeping next to Baby. Lovely.
Weird though, that he did not recognize that the Queen is not his sister anymore. Since she was the only one who could hear him talk.
Visit one. Whom will you tell, Nanny?
He was probably kept away from her like the king was so he hasn’t had a chance to really tell it’s not her.
I hate to say this, but if I was Jane right now, I’d probably go haunting my stepsister and stepmother for all their cruelty. However, she’s much better than that, and intead embraces her baby. Aww.
Shouldn’t the brother notice something?
Aw, so sweet and sad :) – :(
Darn! The Sister was my favoritfe character. I hope the wicked stepmother and sister get stoned or something. Or the brither findes out and runs over them…literally. :(
I don’t know of many fairy tales where the antagonists get run over by deer. I think that would be a great punishment.
someone should write a fairy tale like that! That would be an instant classic :P
“Stepmom got run over by a reindeeeeeer . . .”
We look forward to your version.
So, should we now call him “Uncle Buck” ?
I love that you asked that!
I’ve been thinking of that myself. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that.
I love the lines of her hair. so beautiful