Reading Notes Part A- Water and Salt

  Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885).

Water and Salt

When I first began to read this story I thought it would be much like other kings and daughter tales. Though this one took a very interesting turn. Within this Italian tale a king asks his three daughters how much they love him. One replies as much as her eyes, the next as much as her heart, and the last as much as water and salt. He was furious with the last daughters answer and ordered for her to be killed. Though her sisters spared her telling the executioners to kill a dog instead and bring back her clothes. They did this, but her father over the years felt guilty. During those years the daughter lived with a magician, where she found a prince to marry. The day before her wedding she agreed to kill the magician, which left her house covered in gold. The next day at her wedding her father was in attendance. She ordered everyone to have water and salt except her father. He would not eat without those two things. At the end she finally revealed who she was. In this moment he begged for her pardon. 

I think the biggest take away from this story is to never take anything for granted. Little things in life are often overlooked such as the simple things as salt and water. Without these little objects in our life it becomes so hard to live. Especially during this covid life we have begun to relive all the things we took for granted in our ordinary life. I hope moving forward we can appreciate the little things more in life and never take this for granted. We never know when these things can be ripped from our lives. 


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