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The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen Part 1

from MITM Myths & Stories Volume 3 by Dr. Catherine Svehla

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Andersen lived a kind of fairy tale life, the sort that starts off with the precocious son of a poor shoemaker and ends with a widely esteemed (albeit neurotic) writer of tales to entertain children and princes. In his stories, Andersen reworked older tales and themes from folk traditions and wove in autobiographical threads and personal concerns. The result is both familiar and idiosyncratic.

Andersen wrote this story about a learned man and his independent shadow for an adult audience. It doesn’t include any fairies, thinking toys, magical cloth, or other fantasy beings but there is plenty of mystery and Andersen’s signature humor. I really like the eerie, interior quality of this story.

The track image is by Vilhelm Pedersen.

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from MITM Myths & Stories Volume 3, released June 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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