Blake's Mythology Blog

 Richard More was a bright and inquisitive young boy.  While his siblings and masters worked busily to cook and hunt, cut trees and dig holes, Richard busied himself in exploring the new land outside the fort.  His older brother Jasper and his mother often cautioned him about the wolves and the Indians, but John took no notice of their warnings.  As his master, John Carver was governor of the new colony, he was often preoccupied with other matters, and was unable to pay little attention to the wanderings of his young servant.  Richard liked running underneath the great blue sky and would often run for as far as his little legs could take him, while he just stared up at the clouds and the sun. Although he was only 6 years old when he and his family first arrived in the New World, Richard was very keen and often heard the adults talking in hushed voices while he was supposed to be sleeping.  They mostly talked about God and the rumors of the colony, so ...

Well, with a fresh round of fairy tales (quite literally in this case, they all have to do with actual fairies) we learn once again that if you have a good thing going with fairies (i.e. they are hooking you up with free money all the time) you do not spoil that by giving away their secret.  First a man named Robert Roberts (really?) kept digging up gold that the fairies hid for him, but after bragging to his friends about it he never found any more gold.  I guess he deserved that?  The other story was about a pretty girl who walked by herself quite often, and the fairies, seeing that she was alone and pretty decided to have compassion on her and so they put coins along her path.  She figured out that it was the fairies doing this, but after her mom found her gold stash and wanted to know where it was coming from, the little girl told her mother that it was the fairies.  Just like that, no more coins.  That's just what happens. Ok, the next story we have s...

 The first story is called "The Fairies of Caragonan" and has to do with the story of a sick old man and the fairies who cure him.  He has been "witched" by a witch and cannot find any cure until the curious daughter of a fairy queen sees him and entreats her mother to heal the poor man.  This she does, and the man helps to build a fairy circle for them.  It turns out that the fairies and the witch have had a long-standing dispute.  Neither had been able to prevail over the other, and so the fairy turned to the old man to help defeat the old witch. After building the fairy circle, the Queen fairy was able to spy on the witch and enlists the aid of a small boy.  They have a mirror that they set up in order to spy on the witch, but the boy is the one that has to use it.  They trick the witch into changing herself into a rabbit, which the boy chases and kills.  In return for his help, they bless the boy with a wealth of treasure. The next pages ...