Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario

The literary fairytale was born in kingdoms by the sea...

Do you enjoy fairy tales that rattle your bones? I may have a tale or two for you. Bones can be magical in fairy tales - granting wishes, fulfilling your heart's desire, gifting you a really great pair of gold shoes, or even making you Pope! However, bones, particularly human bones, also serve as warning or testimony, sometimes quite literally. A human reduced to bones is a terrible thing. In "The history of Jack and the Giants or Jack and the Giant Killer," better known today as "Jack and...

The truth is, crude humour is socially levelling and there’s a lot of humour around sewerage, pooping, farts, and bottoms in fairy tales.