Give Us These Retellings, Stat!

La Llorona (Mexican/Central American/Southwest USA Legend)

La Llorona, similar galore people shade tales, is that of a grieving mother. With roots successful Precolonial Mexico, La Llorona is said to beryllium a vengeful tone who haunts unsafe bodies of water. La Llorona supposedly drowned her ain children successful a acceptable of rage, and she appears arsenic a wailing pistillate successful white. She is considered an omen, oregon warning, depending connected however you person her presence. One mentation of the communicative states that La Llorona is based connected La Malinche, the Nahua pistillate who acted arsenic Cortés’s interpreter during his conquest of Mexico and aboriginal became his mistress. According to this story, La Malinche murdered her kid aft Cortés returned to Spain. The archetypal recorded communicative of La Llorona appeared successful 1550 successful Mexico City. The communicative of La Llorona continues to circulate arsenic a people fable and regularly inspires TV, film, and novelizations similar The Haunting of Alejandra and Paola Santiago and the River of Tears. I’d emotion to spot a humanities fabrication instrumentality connected La Llorona oregon thing that leans adjacent much into the horror/ghost story.

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Thor’s Fishing Trip (Norse Mythology)

According to Norse mythology, Thor, deity of thunder, and Jörmungdr, the monolithic oversea serpent, are sworn enemies whose last conflict volition culminate successful the apocalypse, oregon Ragnarök. The sportfishing travel story features Thor and Hymir, the giant, rowing retired to sea. Thor takes clasp of Jömungdr and attempts to propulsion the serpent to land, causing large waves and destruction. Jömungdr spews poison and Hymir cuts the sportfishing line. Thor throws his mighty hammer aft the serpent, but it’s excessively late. In different versions, Thor kills Jömungdr with his hammer. This communicative is simply a fashionable motif successful Norse art, with immoderate images dating backmost to the 8th century. Neil Gaiman covered this story successful Norse Mythology, but I’d emotion to spot an expanded novelization of this story.

Three Sisters (North American Legend)

Different versions of this cultivation fable beryllium passim the Americas, via Indigenous nations. The simplest mentation of the communicative is astir 3 sisters who were precise antithetic from each other. One was gangly and pale, 1 was accelerated and small, and 1 was abbreviated and plump. They learned to enactment unneurotic to structure and instrumentality attraction of each other. Their harvest was bountiful and warm. The sisters, of course, are corns, beans, and squash. Some versions of the communicative diagnostic a lad bringing the sisters to his home, to amusement the antithetic times for harvest. This fable is good preserved arsenic an oral tale, but hasn’t been fictionalized.

Tulisa, The Woodcutter’s Daughter (Indian Fairy Tale)

This beloved fable was archetypal published successful the 11th century successful an annex to the Kathāsaritsāgara. Similar to different carnal bride/bridegroom stories, this communicative follows Tulisa who hears a dependable successful a fountain. The dependable belongs to the Prince of Snakes, asking for her manus successful marriage. The Prince promises riches to Tulisa’s father. Tulisa weds the proprietor of the voice, show unseen. Tulisa is forbidden from leaving the palace oregon receiving visitors. When an aged pistillate comes to the doorway for help, Tulisa lets her in. The aged pistillate advises Tulisa to inquire for her husband’s existent name. When his existent name, Basnak Dau, is revealed, helium turns into a snake and slithers distant into the river. The palace disappears and Tulisa indispensable instrumentality to her father’s home. To reconstruct the Prince to his throne, Tulisa indispensable execute 3 tasks. Filled with magic and clever animals, this is simply a Disney-esque communicative ripe for retelling.

The Cowherd and Weaver Girl (Chinese Myth)

Variations of this celestial story beryllium crossed Asia, and person been told astatine slightest since Han Dynasty. In the Chinese version, Zhinu, the weaver girl, is successful emotion with cowherd, Niulang. They are represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively. A simplified mentation of the communicative is that Zhinu, a goddess, fell successful emotion with the mortal Niulang portion visiting earth. Zhinu and Niulang had 2 children earlier Zhinu was called backmost to eden to resume her weaving duties.

Desperate to get his emotion back, Niulang disguised himself successful an ox pelt to question to heaven. The goddesses banished Niulang to different broadside of the heavenly river. The lovers were granted a once-a-year reunion, connected the seventh time of the seventh period erstwhile magpies signifier a bridge. The Cowherd and Weaver Girl story, and different people tales enactment to explicate celestial phenomena, but wherefore is Barry Hughart’s 1984 caller the lone novelization? Can we get a humanities romance?

Starlight (French Fairy Tale)

We are up to our corporate ears successful Beauty and the Beast retellings, truthful there’s country for different French fairy tale. The archetypal communicative begins successful a kingdom perpetually astatine war, the prince having fallen successful emotion with an enslaved girl, Starlight. The king and queen person the miss imprisoned, with lone a talking achromatic feline for company. Starlight confides successful her cat, and the feline reveals herself arsenic a fairy. The feline gives Starlight magical gifts and a informing earlier leaving.

Starlight sets retired to find the prince, they are reunited and find refuge with centaurs. When they acceptable sail for home, a deadly tempest separates Starlight and the prince. The prince yet arrives location to find some his parents dead, and becomes king. Meanwhile, Starlight ends up successful a faraway kingdom, lone to beryllium betrayed by her rescuers. Using the acquisition the fairy-cat had fixed her, Starlight is capable to reunite with her archetypal emotion and they marry. Starlight was archetypal published successful 1753 successful a publication of fairy tales, by Marie-Madeline de Lubert, with fewer adaptations since.

How the Stallos Were Tricked (Sámi Fairy Tale)

This peculiar communicative was published successful the 19th century, but past buildings passim modern-day Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia are attributed to the mythic giants. The Stallos are expected large, humanish creatures with a hunger for quality flesh. Their clumsy quality and debased quality marque gathering their preferred nutrient difficult. In this story, a radical of neighbors set unneurotic to instrumentality the giant, avenging the decease of their loved ones. As a fearfulness caller oregon thriller, this acheronian communicative of revenge would nonstop shivers down your spine.

Dionysus (Greek Mythology)

If immoderate Greek deity is inactive missing a novelization, it’s the deity of vino and theatre. Dionynus, lad of Zeus, is regarded arsenic 1 of the earlier members of the accepted Greek pantheon. The myths of Dionysus are afloat of decease and rebirth, far-reaching travels, and discovery. With aggregate root myths and appearances successful different fashionable myths, this enactment deity is acceptable for his ain clip successful the spotlight.