Subject: Re: Feet
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 10:27:14 EST
I was thinking about the significane of feet as anchors, holding safe,
and it occurred to me that there are lots of folk stories which engage
with feet.
* The proud little girl who steps on the loaf for her mother so as not
to get her feet wet and is turned into stone and sent to hell until
somebody feels pity for her.
* The red hot dancing shoes which never stop dancing.
* The Breton myth in which a sailor curses a girl who snubs him not to
slepp until he next omes into port: first she and then he is haunted by
"a pretty little dancing thing" and I think in the end he dances over
the cliff.
These stories suggest that there is something special about feet which
demands they engage with reality. They can be turned into the worst
sort of curse if not used properly.
Love, Lucy-Ruth
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LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk
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