For my final reading of the semester, I chose Twenty-Two
Goblins by Arthur Ryder. I read a
portion of it when I was in the Myth and Folklore class and really enjoyed it,
so I returned for some more. I’m
honestly not sure if I’m just rereading the same riddles or not, but I enjoyed
them regardless. They’re so fun and
relatively lighthearted. It’s also kind
of fun to try to solve the riddles, although I have yet to get one right. They’re very twisted and seem to focus more
on the moral side of things than the logical side.
For example, there was one riddle that was trying to
determine which brother of three had earned the right to marry the woman that
they had resurrected. In the end, the brother who had slept on the ashes of the
woman was the one who had earned the right to marry her, which by the way is a
little creepy to be doing. He slept on
her ashes in a hut in the cemetery. That’s
some kind of crazy. Anyway, the other
two brothers were acting as a husband and a son, not a lover, so they didn’t
get to marry her. I never would have
reasoned it out to that conclusion.
I would really like to come back to this particular reading
after the semester is over to read the rest of the riddles. I also might us them in some form or another
in the future. It definitely would have
been interesting to incorporate these into my Storybook, but unfortunately it’s
a little late for that! I’m glad I chose it for my final reading though! End
the semester with a bang!
Bibliography: Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur Ryder (1917), Sacred Texts.
Image Info: Old Cemetery. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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