A tailor's apprentice became lost in a forest. At night, he saw some light and followed it to a hut.
An old man lived there and, after the tailor begged, let him stay for the night.
In the morning, a fight between a great stag and a bull woke him.
He watched. When the stag won, it bounded up to the tailor and carried him off in its antlers. It let him down before a wall of stone and pushed him against a door in it, so that the door opened.
Inside, he was told to stand on a stone, it would bring him good fortune. He did so, and it sank into a great hall, where the voice directed him to look at a glass chest, which contained a beautiful maiden. She told him to open the chest to free her, and he did so.
She told him she was the daughter of a rich count. After her parents died, her brother raised her. One day, a traveler stayed the night and used magic to get to her in the night, to ask her to marry him.
She found the use of magic repellant and did not consent. He turned her brother into the stag, imprisoned her in the glass coffin, and enchanted all the lands.
They emerged and found the brother once more a man. The bull he had killed had been the magician. The tailor and the maiden married.
[source wikipedia]
Well ! here we are again! 2011, welcome!
Above tale, is a nice illustration, of Jungian thought,[containing all the 'thema', of the structure, and dynamics ,of the 'Psyche', in symbolic form!]
but the real question? what was? the glass chest/coffin? [Glass slippers? Glass ships in cases?, like Melville's!, or a,'looking' Glass?, ie fragile, transparent? and very hard to transform without great energy!]
Coffins make a lot of appearances in 'Moby Dick', also! [hah haah!], too many examples, Coffins are indicative of 'confinement', 'solitary', etc. Marie Von Franz ,goes into great detail in 'Alchemy'.
The story is a variant of , 'Sleeping Beauty', and this, in turn, is another variant of , 'Aurora Awakening!', ie, a new dawn![coniunctio, Sol y Luna, etc , etc.] , in Sleeping Beauty, the maiden's name is Talia.
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