This week I have selected the Celtic Fairy Tales Unit for my
reading selection. I decided to read
this unit based on the unit description.
Also, I have consistently been reading fairy tale selections throughout
the course of the semester and comparing the different fairy tales is rather
interesting. Each culture can be
observed through the fairy tales and the means by which the stories are told.
The first half of this reading unit was a really fun
unit. There was actually a story that I
recognized from elementary school in it.
The Field of Boliauns. I was read
this story in elementary school on St. Patrick’s day a long time ago. The premise of the story is a young man finds
a leprechaun and captures him. He forces
the leprechaun to lead him to his gold.
When they arrive at the location he needs a shovel, so he ties his scarf
to the location and goes to fetch the shovel.
However, when e returns he can’t find his scarf and he spends the
remainder of his time digging up an entire field hoping to find the gold.
The story about Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree was also a really
good story. The story was the Celtic
version of Snow White. They are
basically the same story, but it was cool to see how the different aspects were
constructed for this version.
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| Leprechaun Image from Wikipedia |
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