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Sleeping Beauty? the Tale of Briar Rose

from MITM Myths & Stories Volume 1 by Dr. Catherine Svehla

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Western culture has a love-hate relationship with fairy tales. They are trivial entertainment, guilty pleasures left over from childhood, and they are cultural dynamite we attempt to defuse with a range of feminist critiques and socio-psychological commentaries. We long for the “happily ever after” and also deride this sweet and simple view of life. Fairy tales trouble us. That is one of their cultural functions, and our endless reworking and revising tells us something about our hopes, tensions, and fears.

In this program I tell the fairy tale Briar Rose, collected by the Brother’s Grimm. It’s an older version of Sleeping Beauty that I find puzzling and fascinating. There is a beautiful princess, a spindle, and a long period of sleep, but this is not a romantic tale of “true love” and a powerful kiss from a handsome prince.

The track art is "The Rose Bower" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones,

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from MITM Myths & Stories Volume 1, released April 1, 2015

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Dr. Catherine Svehla Fort Collins, Colorado

Storyteller, scholar, artist, & desert activist with a PhD in mythology & depth psychology.

Myths & stories contain the wisdom of the human race. I want to know how we can keep the mystery in life alive? How can myths connect us to a larger sphere of being & meaning?

Many of these tracks are Myth in the Mojave programs that first aired online on Radio Free Joshua Tree.

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