29. M'Titsman (Make. Birds. Immortal.)

Hello and welcome to this episode, featuring stories that Max might describe as a "single massive Yike!" This week, Max will tell you all about "The Bloody Ricotta" and finally explain why so many people were obsessed with being milk-white and blood red. Janey will tell us the CERTAINLY not-depressing story of "The Happy Prince," and then we'll wrap it up with some thoughts on why these authors were hellbent on making us all sad.  YIKE!

Janey’s Sources - The Happy Prince

• “Folk and Fairy Tales - Fifth Edition” edited by Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek 
• Free text of “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde

Max’s Sources - The Song of the Bloodied Ricotta

• “The Pomegranates: and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales” translated by Cristina Mazzoni, from the Oddly Modern Fairy Tales collection edited by Jack Zipes 
• "Red as Blood, White as Snow, Black as Crow: Chromatic Symbolism of Womanhood in Fairy Tales" by Francisco Vas da Silva 

Chapters

• 3:52 "The Song of the Bloodied Ricotta" (Max)
• 41:14 "The Happy Prince" (Janey)