A collection of folktales, from the West Indies as well as the United States.
A lot of beast tales, including some recognizable variants on fairy tale types-- some fairy tales, not too many. Heavy on trickster tales. Some distinctly bawdy.
ding-dong the witch is dead -- The first one at any rate. I comment on her body first, but then I elaborate on the breaking of her spells.…
The heroine has brought another character back to life. (Ah, the luck you (sometimes) have in fairy tales!) Then it struck me that later in the…
The muse is often so busy chasing after bright ideas that she misses the obvious. So, if the story is rife with ghosts, AND the brothers of the…