Pa(tel) me about Myth and Folklore

This is my second to last post for this class and I wanted it to be my favorite extra credit assignment, Wikipedia Trails. I started the trail off with the article about Inferno . Not Dante's, but Dan Brown's. I have read the first book, Angels and Demons, in the Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown. Inferno is the fourth book in this series which I am hoping I will be able to read soon. I was curious to see when this book came out because I knew it's been a while but I wasn't exactly sure how long it has been. From there, I went to the article about the Duomo  in Florence, Italy. I was curious about this because I have seen many pictures of it and wanted to know when it was built. I watched this show on Netflix called Medici which is about the Medici family and I remember the Duomo being present during the time period portrayed in the show. I learned that the plan for it to be built started in 1296 and was completed in 1436, almost 140 years later. Duomo in Flor

I finally made it to my last reading notes of the semester! That's crazy. I was honestly thinking about find some shorter stories to read so I could get done quick. However, I'm glad I decided to read Inferno for this last week's reading. As I was reading, I learned that some of the circles have different levels to it which I think is interesting because that just adds even more depth to the entire "inferno" of hell. I got really confused during these part B readings so I had to use Wikipedia to help me figure out what these circles were about. The Seventh Circle is divided by three rings, which house all of the violent people. Dante and Virgil have to first go around the Minotaur from the Sixth Circle to get to the Seventh Circle. First ring: for the people who do violence against neighbors. Second ring: for the people who do violence against self. Third ring: for the people who do violence against God, art, and nature. The Eight Circle of Hell is c

I remember having to read Inferno back in sophomore year of high school. I thought it was cool back then because I used to read a lot back in high school. I wanted to read it again because I forgot almost all of it. The one circle I remember a little more about is the Third Circle because that was the one I had to do a presentation on. The Third Circle is where the gluttonous people reside. They are basically bombarded with rain, sleet, and hail all the time. Cerberus, the three-headed monster, guards the gluttons who are lying in the dirty, tainted water. He claws them and flays them which makes them howl like dogs. And this is basically how the souls in that circle of hell spend their whole time. When Cerberus sees Dante and Virgil, he tries to attack them but Virgil saves them by stuffing Cerberus's mouth with mud. And while Cerberus is busy trying to eat the "food", Dante and Virgil escape around him and go to the next level. Inferno: Cerberus and Pluto . from Da

The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen translated by H.P. Paull The story starts with a prince who says he wants to marry a real princess. He goes around the world and meets so many princesses but he finds it hard to tell if they are the real deal or not. One stormy evening a princess comes knocking on their door. The wind and rain make her look really disheveled so they are skeptical about her being a real princess. The queen decides to test her. She goes and puts a pea under twenty mattresses and the princess was to sleep on those. The next morning they ask her how she slept and she says that she slept awfully because she felt something hard in her bed. That's how they knew that she was a real princess because only a real princess could be that sensitive. So the prince and princess end up getting married and the pea is put in a museum for all to see.  The Princess going to the top. Source: The Squirrel Basket .

The Twelve Huntsmen from Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes I thought this story was really interesting and fun to read.  The story starts off with a prince who is with his beloved maiden. One day he is called to his father's deathbed. The king says that you have to promise that you will marry whoever I name. So the prince agrees to it and afterwards he is crowned as the new king. Then after he was done mourning, he had to go marry the princess that the king wanted him to marry.  When the first maiden found out about, she gets scared and asks her dad to find her eleven other girls that look like her. When the girls were found, she made them all dress up as huntsmen including herself and then she went to her lover and asked him if he wanted huntsmen. The prince doesn't realize that it's his first girl but he still agrees to keep them all. The king had a lion that knew all the secrets. He told the king one day

Rapunzel from Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes I love the story of Rapunzel. From what I know of the original fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, they are not as happy or comedic as the Disney versions. So as I was reading, I knew there was going to be some things that I was going to be kind of shocked about. The Disney version of Rapunzel is called Tangled and so I was comparing and contrasting to that whilst reading this story. The biggest difference in the Brothers Grimm version and the Disney version is the Prince/Flynn Rider.  In the Brothers Grimm version, the guy who "saves" Rapunzel is the prince who hears singing often when he's in the forest. He sees the tower but doesn't know how to get up until he sees Gothel call out to Rapunzel to let down her hair. In the Disney version, the guy who "saves" her is Flynn Rider/Eugene, who is a thief. He actually steals Rapunzel's crown th