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katkrause
Unregistered User
(9/11/02 1:22:41 pm)
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Cat Eyes
I am looking for a particular tale--eastern European--two elderly sisters--fireplace--and a bowl containing a pair of cat eyeballs.....does this strike a chord with anyone?
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Janeyolen
Unregistered User
(9/11/02 11:03:47 pm)
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Variant?
Hmmmm...sounds like a variation on the three old sisters in Greek myths (Grachae maybe~? Am far from home and my research library) who share a single eye.
Jane
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Judith
Berman
Registered User
(9/12/02 6:22:54 am)
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eyeballs
The Graeae (grey ones)? The hero steals the eyeball so they can't see and are forced to help him...
It's not eastern European, but there is a NWC story or stories about the hero being offered a bowl of berries by a supernatural being, berries that are really the eyeballs of drowned men.
Judith
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katkrause
Registered User
(9/12/02 8:40:31 am)
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Cat Eyes
In the story I'm looking for, the woman/women put the cat eyes in their own eye sockets and change into a cat. When the bowl falls and breaks, they can't change back to human form. Does this sound familiar?
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Jess
Unregistered User
(9/12/02 10:55:50 am)
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reference?
I found this website referring to the tale:
www.twilightshowcase.com/simmonscats.htm
Perhaps you could contact the author for the source. Then let us
know.
Jess
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