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Mother figure in fairy tales is presented as a fairy or a witch. Giants are almost exclusively male.

No, daughters are not described as 'small giants' The story doesn't deal with that. Their function is just to be killed instead of the boys thanks to the giant's stupidity. The story teller also didn't want to make them to close to the audience because the sympathies for Thumbling (Hop o' My Thumb) would be diminshed.

Giants are mostly male. When they ahve wives in fairy tales, they are often portrayed much smaller, without the attributes typical to giants. The focus of the story is on him, she is just a 'footnote'.

Additionally, I ponder about a conversational scenario among an Irish person, a Scots-Irish person and a Scots person.

What language would the Scots-Irish person speak?

Would there be such a thing as Scots-Irish Gaelic?

(Why would they be called Scots-Irish instead of Irish-Scots?)

Thank you!

Now I ponder a conversational scenario between an Irish Gaelic speaker and a Scots Gaelic speaker.

Would it be difficult or easy for them to understand one another?

Thank you!

Free coffee, free tea and free water sound so accommodating to drop-in and passerby visitors.

Would the tea be as bags, as bags and leaves, or as leaves?

The 7th example, King of Golden Mountain, contains in its first sentence the characterization as a "less-known fairy tale by the Grimms."

Is it known why some fairy tales get known and others go on being not so well-known? For example, the plot here lends itself to filming ;-D!

(And might the Grimm Brothers have had their ranked preferences?)

The museum display will be a whole article. The museum outlines the entire settlement of the outback around Cunnamulla in pictures. A mock sheep station, a time tunnel, and old artefacts like singer sewing machines exist. An old musical organ and a meteorite landed in a paddock. Lots of food for thought there.

Ha ha - there is tea, too! I think it is free coffee tea, water and bikies.

Francis works well at subjects that he likes, was another comment.so being a dreamer has its drawbacks, though I am happy to be one and would be nought else.

Another comment came when my mother spoke to the head teacher, who told her that the younger one, my brother, was doing well, but that I was deep and would take a slower path.

Any. I like them all

The place of Aramaic writings in the New Testament is uncertain, but we do believe that the Gospel of Mark had an Aramaic prototype that was translated into Greek.

Damaged is the wrong word. Some tin was closer to the surface, but as the years went by the miners had to go deeper

The Nazis took the Channel Isles in 1940. They were recovered in 1945 when Germany surrendered.

That is interesting, and it is something about which I had never heard. Thanks.