Myth and Folklore

The Character of a Husband Image from Pinterest There were three young suitors who had each been told of the great beauty of Coral, the daughter of a merchant.   She was extremely pretty, but Coral also held kindness and grace.   Her three suitors all fell for the gorgeous woman, but she could not choose between the three. Her indecision leads to great anxiety until Coral would no longer eat or sleep.   It was not long before she began to wither away.   For many days, the three lovers mourned.   They were devastated by the loss of Coral’s beauty and her gentle heart.   With broken hearts, they each took a different path of mourning. One suitor remained in the cemetery.   He was unable to move on, the grief of Coral’s death haunting him at all moments of the day.   Each night, he would lie down beside her ashes and each morning he would remain seated at her grave with hollow eyes.   The pain of Coral’s death was simply too mu...

The Three Lovers who brought the Dead Girl to Life.   Whose wife should she be? This story comes from Twenty-Two Goblins , translated by Arthur W. Ryder, with illustrations by Perham W. Nahl. In this story, there are essentially seven characters: two as the storyteller and audience as well as the five characters in the goblin’s story. There is the father of Coral, who is extremely beautiful.   Her three suitors feast on her prettiness “like the birds who live on moonbeams.” The three suitors are devastated when Cora just up and dies in some random twist of fate.   They all take three different routes in life: one stays with her ashes, one goes to dip her bones in the Ganges, and the other becomes a monk and wonders the countries. The monk stumbles upon the house of a man who lives with his family.   After witnessing the man’s magic spell that he used to bring his troublesome child back to life, the monk decides to take the book and use it to brin...