This sounds like a variation of "The Three Sillies" which always involve three
silly people who do "silly things"--- sometimes known as "Jack and the Three
Sillies"--- but usually with a traveler and a task involved. Here are links to
some of the stories:
http://www.authorama.com/english-fairy-tales-4.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/eft03.htm
http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/sillies.htm
Shonda Brisco, MLIS
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Trinity Valley School
Fort Worth, TX 76132
817-321-0100 ext. 410
briscos@trinityvalleyschool.org
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of Aimee Allison
Sent: Mon 3/7/2005 9:59 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] A Folk Tale
Hello everyone,
I have a student looking for a folk tale that I am unfamiliar with. Have any of
you heard of it? She said she did something with this in elementary school. She
summarized it like this:
There was a man who had a very silly daughter. She was always crying because she
was afraid that the axe hanging above the stairs would kill her daughter, but she
didn't even have a daughter. This man wanted to find 3 things sillier than his
daughter, and whoever was sillier than her could marry her. One of the silly
things was guys fishing for the moon (its reflection) in the water.
Any ideas?
Aimee Allison
aallison@cusd220.org
Aimee Allison
Library/Media Specialist
Barrington High School
616 W. Main Street
Barrington, IL 60010
847-842-3463
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