The Dead Mother: I thought I would do notes on this story because it is not the typical type of story you think of when you hear "fairytale" or "folktale". It is about a mother who dies after having a baby. The baby cannot stop crying, except for at night. The family cannot figure out why, but they hear someone coming inside the house every night and the baby becomes quiet. The family stays up and catches the person...it is the mother's ghost coming in a breast feeding the baby overnight. It was a pretty grim story and not a typical one you would tell to your children, like you would other folk stories.
Friday: This story, I'm assuming, tell of the importance of disrespect. A woman disrespects Mother Friday and pays the price. Mother Friday comes in the middle of the night and shoves dirty into the woman's eyes so that she cannot see. The woman wakes up in a panic and begs Mother Friday for forgiveness. She is forgiven and gets her sight back, never disrespecting Mother Friday again. For me folktales and fairytales are those stories that you tell your children. This story was a little gruesome and cruel, in my opinion, for a child so I thought it was an interesting one to write notes about.
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