Week 15 Reading Notes B: Lang's European Fairy Tales II

In my reading notes B I read about the European fairy tales because I wanted to see if they were different from the ones I would hear as a child. There was one story that stood out to me the most which was the story about the rooster that looked different from all the other roosters. In this story there was a rooster that was born and looked different from all of its siblings. It was regarded as ugly and different from all of them. The mother would worry about the rooster because she thought it would never grow to be a strong or powerful rooster. The rooster was a trouble child and would be mean to everyone even its mother. He would not listen to her and would be rude all the time. When they would go on trips he would leave the pack and wander by himself. When he would do this everyone would go and look for him because they were all worried sick. He decided one day to go to the king because he thought he would get a better life there. When he was on his way he encountered a stream that need his help since it was clogged but ignored it. He then encountered a fire that was almost put out but ignored it. He then encountered the wind that was struggling against tree branches but ignored it as well. They were all asking him for help but he decided that he needed to get to the king and all of these things could wait. Once he got to the palace he was put in a pot filled with water and fire boiling it. When the rooster asked for help the water and fire denied him any assistance because when they needed it he did not help them. The cook decided to throw him out and the wind started to carry him. The rooster asked the wind to stop but the wind said the same thing the water and fire did. He then was thrown on top of a roof and was planted on top of it. I think the purpose of this story was that the rooster denied all these things help and had to pay for it. Whenever you look up on a roof you will see the rooster. This story like a lot of old stories explains why certain things are the way they are.

Lang's European Fairy Tales II

Rooster on top of house, Source

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