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Many folktales throughout different cultures feature a heroine being given the impossible task of sorting through grains/seeds– whether that be picking them from the ashes, from between each other, or from their rotting counterparts.

In this task, she often does as much as she can before submitting to a higher power, whether that power recognizes her virtue or she directly asks for help varies based on the culture and tale.

Featured are eight such tales, most of which can be categorized into “Snake Bride” (ATU 425) type tales or “Cinderella” (Both often ATU 510 in the folklore index– Cinderellas are specifically ATU 510A)

The circle puts them in no particular order, as “origins”  and lineages are muddied, and many of the current incarnations have been influenced by each other, though Ye Xian is the oldest known “complete” version of Cinderella.

Snake Brides:

Psyche, Eros and Psyche (Greco-Roman)

Sukkia, The Snake’s Bride (India)

Donan Sampakang Tale about Gansaļangi and Donan Sampakang (Indonesian)

Cinderellas:

Aschenputtel (German)

Tam, Tấm and Cám (Vietnam)

Unnamed Heroine The Wonderful Birch (Finish & Slavic)

Ye Xian (Chinese)

Neither (ATU 480B– Stepmother and Stepdaughter)

Vasilisa, Vasilisa the Wise (or Beautiful) (Slavic)

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Fungi. Mushrooms : how to grow them. 1891. Cover detail.

Internet Archive

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flawed logic babey

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synthesis; expressions of nature

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David Lynch Oh Darling Please Come Home Lithography on RIVES (watermark)

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Trans-Ili Alatau, Kazakhstan by Greg Bedenko

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November - Brendon Burton

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Foggy webs

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by Iosune de Goñi

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Alaska was purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2) on March 30, 1867, by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.

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Mathieu Bernard-Reymond.

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Chasing the moss somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

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by Konstantin Shishkalov

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Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

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