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Elisa Pearmain

Putting Down the Burning Coal Transforming anger into forgiveness through story. Through the lens of several folktales, personal stories and case studies, Elisa will illustrate the impediments to forgiveness, particularly looking at the many functions of anger. She will also suggest approaches for shifting our held resentment stories toward those of getting our needs met […]

Elisa Pearmain

Changing Skins: Folktales about Gender, Identity and Humanity

Selected Bibliography for the Show Compiled by Milbre Burch, PhD www.kindcrone.com   Folktales Told in Changing Skins Boas, Franz. “Coyote, Fox, and Panther” in Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, Volume 11. Lancaster, PA: American Folklore Society, 1917 (pp. 75-76). Braid, Donald. “The Lad and the Black Laird” in Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through

Changing Skins: Folktales about Gender, Identity and Humanity

Vasilissa, The Priest’s Daughter or Vasilisa Poponov

Summary: “Vasilissa, the Priest’s Daughter,” is in the Afanase’ev collection. The title character is not at all interested in “womanish” things. She has dressed in male clothes since childhood, goes hunting with the guys and calls herself Vasily Vasilyevich, which means Basil, son of Basil. The tsar hears a rumor that this guy is a

Vasilissa, The Priest’s Daughter or Vasilisa Poponov

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