Week 15: Reading Notes B: The Little Lamb and the Little Fish


The lamb and the fish: Source

I have never heard of this story, so I was curious to see what it was about. I have noticed that a lot of household tales have a character who has a deceased parent and a stepmother who is evil. This has made me realize that because of this, a lot of stepparents are often seen as hateful in real life. I was worried that this story would end badly, but luckily it had a happy ending! A brother and a sister are happily playing one day outside, and the evil stepmother turns them into a lamb and a fish by using witchcraft. The stepmother tells this man to kill the lamb for them to eat, but then the lamb starts to talk to the fish, which is her brother. The man realizes that they have been bewitched and does not kill the lamb. They end up going back to their human forms. 

Bibliography: The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales translated by D. L. Ashliman (1998-2013). 

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