Grimm’s “The Three Snake-Leaves:” Bewitched by Beauty

A poor man’s son leaves his large family with great sorrow so he will not be a burden. He joins the army of an emperor and turns the tide of a large battle and is given treasures and the chance to marry the princess.

She has a strange requirement, however: whoever marries her must agree to be buried with her if she dies first. He agrees because she is so beautiful.

She gets ill and passes away, and he is put in the tomb with her. He survives by rationing bread and wine set out, and he kills a snake that slithers in. But another enters and heals it with leaves, and he revives the princess with them. They leave the tomb.

On an ocean voyage, the princess, who has lost her love for her husband, throws him overboard with the help of the skipper. The prince’s servant, however, rows out to him and revives him with the leaves, and they return before the princess and her new consort and tell the king what happened.

When the princess disembarks, she tries to laud the skipper to the king, but their perfidy is revealed to the king. She pleads for mercy but is sent out on a perforated ship along with her conspirator by her father.

In this episode, we summarize the story and then discuss the characters of the poor man’s son and the princess. We talk about its reviving the princess with a serpent, the vanity of the princess, and the earnestness of the poor man’s son to prove himself and protect the group. We also talk about the character of the king, who reminds one of Shakespeare’s Prospero.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:16 Summary of the Grimm’s “The Three Snake Leaves”

08:18 Special Details About This Story

10:18 Devotion, Justice, and Protecting the State

15:33 Poetic Justice

17:33 The Selfish and the Selfless

21:03 Narcissistic Princess

21:51 The Snake in the Tomb

26:47 The King, like Shakespeare’s Prospero

(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Three Snake-Leaves”)

Thank you for watching! Please see below for more in the conversation:

The full video episode:

https://youtu.be/3E0tgtLKZrQ

The Podcast Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T

The Episode Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzm1YK_StPU

For more in this podcast, please go to:

Podbean:

https://benomtad.podbean.com

Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863

YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ

https://x.com/Benomtad

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/benomtad

About our guest:

LL is a graduate of UC Davis. She majored in psychology and has worked for years in mental and behavioral health. She is a metalhead who is now training in accounting and loves almost all things strange to modern man: aliens, cryptids, ghosts, and sacred beauty.

Image Source:

ChatGPT

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

BG Music:

Intro: Doug Maxwell, Media Right Productions

Story Summary:

"Reign Supreme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Thumbnail Photo:

Photo by Alfonso Castro on Unsplash

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(100)

From Alien Invasions to Zombie Apocalypses (Clip)

Vervaeke et. al. trace the progression of secular apocalypses from HG Well's "The War of the Worlds," through the zombie variety. We break down what this progression might mean, and what we can do...

10 Nov 7min

A Personal Apocalypse (Clip)

The Metaphor of the Apocalyptic Disasters: Before the apocalypse in "Revelations," there is a series of disasters, and that can be taken as the mental disorder before the personal "revelation" in spir...

5 Nov 6min

A Little Bad’ll Do You Some Good (Clip)

Hair of the Dog that Bit You: the hair of a rabid dog used to be thought of as a cure for rabies, which seems to operate on the logic of like cures like. In the Brothers’ Grimm’s “The Boy Who Went F...

1 Nov 6min

The Meaning of the Zombie Apocalypse

Ian and I discuss Vervaeke et. al.’s writing on the symbol of the zombie apocalypse. They show that our use of “apocalypse” is a telling transformation of the original Christian one. The modern, sec...

28 Okt 1h 29min

Hamlet & the Boy Who Could Not Shudder (Clip)

These rational characters do not accept what others say, in their fear, and go forth. Hamlet's story continues with his indecision, but this boy is oriented to action. (From a discussion on the Bro...

16 Okt 4min

Sticking Your Head in the Sand (Clip)

Choosing to be Oblivious: Zombies may be a warning from our unconscious. "The danger of the zombie is the danger of unconsciousness to life's problems." --Jordan Peterson The etymology of monster i...

9 Okt 4min

Grimm’s “The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”

Who Do You Think You Are? Anyone interested in the education of the individual might enjoy a few minutes with this light, yet important tale. There is a folktale trope of the dummling who, useless ...

7 Okt 1h 35min