52. Dirty Fairy Tales

Dirty Fairy Tales are focus today, here at the House. Debauched burdens may harness you, until your demise... if you let them. Today's topic = "Monkey on the back." An anniversary of sacred strength, is celebrated, while mingling "Stoned Herstory" with Aesop, Sinbad, and Red Shoes {Karen}, too.
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NOTES:

ERROR: I meant ANGELA CARTER, writer, rather than Angela Walker. (I frequently mix "Angela Carter" w/ "Alice Walker" subconsciously, because I love their writing). My apologies. Angela Carter is my intended reference.

"Carter "deconstructs the arguments that underlie The Bloody Chamber. It's about desire and its destruction, the self-immolation of women, how women collude and connive with their condition of enslavement. She was much more independent-minded than the traditional feminist of her time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Carter
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Aesop. Writer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop

Library of Congress website, Aesop tale is "The Monkey & the Dolphin" -

http://read.gov/aesop/074.html#:~:text=Now%20it%20was%20the%20custom,with%20him%20toward%20the%20shore.
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1001 Nights.

"The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central and South Asia, and North Africa. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Egyptian, Indian, Persian, and Mesopotamian[3] folklore and literature."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights

Sinbad the Sailor. "The Old Man of the Sea"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor
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The Red Shoes

by Hans Christian Andersen (1845)

"Karen received the shoes and wore them for the first time on the day of her mother’s funeral. They were certainly not suitable for mourning; but she had no others, and so she put her bare feet into them and walked behind the humble coffin."

http://hca.gilead.org.il/red_shoe.html
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