Mythology and Folklore (Spring 2021)

  What is always dreaded but also highly anticipated? Takes months to happen but finishes within two hours? Covers many pages of text in a few?                                        Answer: A final exam (Yay!) I can write thousands of words and not make a lick of sense. I can cover miles but never move more than a couple inches. When I am the color red, I mean error. But any other color can be just for fun. What am I?                              Answer: A pen ( One pen can write thousands of words, but they don't necessarily need to be coherent. A pen can be used to write many random words not relevant to each other. The ink in a pen can write for the equivalent of miles, but the pen itself stays within a small area. In school, we are used to red pen marks marking our mistakes and correcting them. But any other color of pen has no major significance.)

 Grimm (Librivox): Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm Clever Elsie A girl, Clever Elsie, was to be married A man came to woo her, Hans, and said that she should be really smart if he was to marry her Said if she wasn't actually smart, then he wouldn't marry her At dinner, her mom asked Elsie to get some beer from the cellar She got a chair so she didn't hurt her back As she left the beer running into the pitcher, she saw a pick-ax the masons had left She thinks that if she and Hans were to have a kid, then the pick could fall and kill their son, so she began to weep A servant was sent down to find Elsie when she had not come up for a long time The servant heard Elsie screaming and weeping, and when Elsie explained why she was doing so, the maid began to weep with her, saying how clever she was A boy sent down and the same thing happened And then the same with the mom Then the father, and once again the same occurred Hans finally makes his way down there and Elsie explains th