Reading Notes (Extra Credit): English Fairy Tales Part A

In this weeks extra credit reading, I decided to go ahead and read the unit on English Fairy Tales. The great thing is that a lot of these stories I grew listening to and reading about, so I have a lot of background knowledge on them. One in particular was "The Story of the Three Little Pigs" and how the wolf tried to blow down all the houses, but couldn't blow the brick house down. In Joseph Jacobs version it goes on a little bit further and tells the tale of how the wolf cunningly tried to get the pig to go outside the house so he could eat them. If i retold this story I would make the pigs the bad guys and the wolf the victim. Another story was "The Old Woman and Her Pig" which mimicked the familiar story of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly". It was told as a nursery rhyme. In "Cap o' Rushes", there is a girl who is thrown out of her home for doing something small. She covers herself in mud and other nasty stuff and goes on to find herself a new home. There are three dances that are thrown, but the girl doesn't want to go and instead stays home. Eventually she gets ready for the final dance and ends up meeting her master's son. He finds out her true identity and they live happily ever after. It sounds a lot like a Disney tale to me. 

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, link to online reading

(Three Little Pigs, Source: Gathering Books)