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The Storyteller

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The Storyteller	type	TVTItem
The Storyteller	label	The Storyteller
The Storyteller	page	TheStoryteller
The Storyteller	comment	One of Jim Henson's hidden gems, The StoryTeller featured an enigmatic Trickster Mentor and his pet dog, sharing European folk tales with the audience. Wittily told with clever narration and artful animatronics, this short-lived series (thirteen episodes total) remains the best-kept secret of Henson's history.The first set of nine episodes featured John Hurt as the Storyteller and Brian Henson voicing the Dog. Set in a vaguely 16th Century European world, the tales told were rather obscure by American standards not always having the standard "happy ending" modern audiences are accustomed to, and much more mature and darker then what most kids read. The duo were always sitting comfortably by the fire, while the Dog would function as a Greek Chorus asking questions and making snarky comments.
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The Storyteller / int_12ceb248	type	Old Beggar Test
The Storyteller / int_12ceb248	comment	Old Beggar Test: A lesson that the Storyteller learns in "A Story Short", alluded to before he begins telling the story:
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The Storyteller / int_140e849	type	The Problem with Fighting Death
The Storyteller / int_140e849	comment	The Problem with Fighting Death: In "The Soldier and Death." It won't reap him once he's freed it, and neither Heaven nor Hell will take him.
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The Storyteller / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Storyteller / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Greek Myths definitely has a darker tone than the fairy tales. Then again, they are Greek myths!
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The Storyteller / int_18eea79e	type	Anthology
The Storyteller / int_18eea79e	comment	Anthology: Each one of the episodes is a self-contained story. The unifying elements are similar settings (Medieval Europe or Ancient Greece, depending on the series), and the duo of The Storyteller and the dog.
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The Storyteller / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Storyteller / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Death Takes a Holiday because they've been sacked.
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The Storyteller / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
The Storyteller / int_1e1aa82a	comment	The sack in "The Soldier and Death". A beggar gives the titular soldier the sack, which has the power to entrap any creature inside if the owner says something along the lines of "Get in the sack!" The soldier uses this to catch a goose to eat at the hotel, a devil in the mansion so he can ask a favor later, and later Death itself. When Death is released and flees from him, he tries to convince a heaven-bound soul to say "Get in the sack!" to him once on the other side, only it never does because there is apparently no memory in heaven.
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The Storyteller / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Storyteller / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: In the original series, the Storyteller is sitting by the fire with his Dog as he tells each story. In the "Greek Myth" series is more elaborate, the Storyteller is trapped in the Labyrinth for robbing the dead and in between telling myths he keeps searching for a way out.
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The Storyteller / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Storyteller / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Dog often interjects and interrupts stories that he finds disagreeable. In "Sapsorrow" he even argues with the stepsisters, appearing in the scene alongside them. He does it again in "The Heartless Giant," appearing in the scene where Leo seemingly loses the egg down the well. (The other characters are never shown to notice or interact with him, so it could be closer to projecting himself into the visuals only.) Perhaps most notably, in "Hans, My Hedgehog," he thinks the Storyteller is telling the story incorrectly and takes over telling the story for a short time. The Storyteller himself appears inside the story "Hans, My Hedgehog", something that doesn't otherwise happen except in "A Story Short", to read tarot for the king. He smiles at the camera and assures the audience that he's very good at this. (He and his tarot reading abilities would have also appeared in-story in "The Witch Baby" had it been filmed.)
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The Storyteller / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
The Storyteller / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The bottomless pit room in "The True Bride" is a downplayed example. It only comes up twice, but it kills both the troll and the trollop. The sack in "The Soldier and Death". A beggar gives the titular soldier the sack, which has the power to entrap any creature inside if the owner says something along the lines of "Get in the sack!" The soldier uses this to catch a goose to eat at the hotel, a devil in the mansion so he can ask a favor later, and later Death itself. When Death is released and flees from him, he tries to convince a heaven-bound soul to say "Get in the sack!" to him once on the other side, only it never does because there is apparently no memory in heaven.
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The Storyteller / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
The Storyteller / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: The Storyteller himself. While there's nothing explicitly saying he isn't human, those ears and that nose, combined with his overall demeanor, give the impression that he might be some kind of fae.
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The Storyteller / int_22948239	type	A Year and a Day
The Storyteller / int_22948239	comment	A Year and a Day: In "Hans, My Hedgehog," when the king promises Hans the first thing to greet him when he returns to his kingdom, Hans says that he'll collect his reward after this amount of time. The king agrees as he thinks the first thing to greet him will be his dog, as he always does. Unfortunately, fate has a different plan in store for him, and it's not his dog who greets him, but his daughter instead.
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The Storyteller / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Storyteller / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The Wicked Stepmother in "The Three Ravens".
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The Storyteller / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Storyteller / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: The heroine in "The Three Ravens" is accused of doing this.
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The Storyteller / int_283e9f31	type	Not Quite Back to Normal
The Storyteller / int_283e9f31	comment	Not Quite Back to Normal: The dog points out that, despite the curse being broken, the princess in "The Three Ravens" wasn't able to stay quiet for the entire three years, three months, three weeks, and three days. The Storyteller says she was off by three minutes, which resulted in the youngest brother still having one wing in place of an arm, but he says the kid saw no reason to complain.
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The Storyteller / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Storyteller / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Soldier is able to strike fear into any demon, as well as Death himself. Unfortunately, this comes back to bite him when Death refuses to take him out of fear and the demons deny him access to Hell (as well as being too sinful to be allowed into Heaven) when he grows tired of living.
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The Storyteller / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
The Storyteller / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: Daedelus is shown as one of these at the end of the story, spending all his time making toys based upon his lost son Icarus.
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The Storyteller / int_2cfee88	type	Everybody Hates Hades
The Storyteller / int_2cfee88	comment	Everybody Hates Hades: In "Orpheus and Eurydice" Hades is portrayed as cruel and heartless, only persuaded to release Eurydice by his wife Persephone when in most versions of the story (and indeed Greek mythology in general) Hades is stern but not cruel and was moved by Orpheus' song himself. Also Persephone is depicted as hating and fearing her husband when the original myths generally show the two as one of the few genuinely loving and happy couples among the gods.
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The Storyteller / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Storyteller / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: In "The Luck Child", the reason the king wants to kill Lucky is a prophecy that the Luck Child will someday take his throne. His attempts to have Lucky circumspectly killed result in this happening.
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The Storyteller / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Storyteller / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Two examples. "The Luck Child": When Lucky is sent to the palace with a letter from the evil king, he falls into a Thieves' Cave. The little man there, self-proclaimed 'the nastiest,' poisons him with goulash and plans to rob and kill him. Then he reads the letter from the king, which commands that as soon as the Queen reads it, she orders that Lucky be chopped into a thousand pieces. Disgusted, the little man forges a new letter that instead commands that he marry the princess, and leaves Lucky to wake up at the edge of the forest with the palace in sight. "The Heartless Giant": The eponymous Sealed Evil in a Can tricks a prince into letting him escape and proceeds to go on a rampage throughout the kingdom. However, he conspicuously never harms the prince and is actually quite friendly to him even as he knows that the prince is trying to kill him to undo his mistake. Much like the similarly heartless Davy Jones of Pirates of the Caribbean, the giant embodies the Tin Man trope and is presented sympathetically.
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The Storyteller / int_325a15f1	type	Rags to Royalty
The Storyteller / int_325a15f1	comment	Rags to Royalty: Several examples, including Anja in "The True Bride" and Lucky in "The Luck Child." Sapsorrow in the episode of the same name goes from royalty to rags to royalty again.
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The Storyteller / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Storyteller / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The king and the princess from The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was are omitted from Fearnot. Instead of being sent into the haunted castle with the promise of marriage to a princess if he can survive its horrors, Fearnot is taken there by the Canon Foreigner tinker McKay, who agrees to teach him fear in exchange for money, and in the end he marries Lidia, his sweetheart from his home village.
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The Storyteller / int_3587b71c	type	Wonder Child
The Storyteller / int_3587b71c	comment	Wonder Child: "Hans My Hedgehog".
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The Storyteller / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
The Storyteller / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: "The True Bride" uses the word 'trollop' as a term for a female troll but it is also a somewhat antiquated British insult for a promiscuous woman, which fits the Trollop's desire to collect handsome men.
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The Storyteller / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Storyteller / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: The soldier in "The Soldier and Death" winds up immortal because Death is afraid to come near him. As time passes, he discovers the drawbacks of the situation.
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The Storyteller / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
The Storyteller / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: For many stories in the first series.
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The Storyteller / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
The Storyteller / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: The framing device for "The Greek Myths". The Storyteller and the Dog have been chased into Labyrinth for robbing the dead and they spend their time trying to find a way out. They do at the end of Daedalus and Icarus.
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The Storyteller / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Storyteller / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: In "The Luck Child," when Lucky falls into a Thieves' Cave, the little man there mentions his barbarian sisters that would kill him if he was there when they got home. Later, when Lucky finds him in the griffon's castle, he mentions that his sisters are there too, though it's hard to say exactly where...while nudging a nearby skull with his foot.
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The Storyteller / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
The Storyteller / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Our narrators, and the main character of the series. Such an archetypical example that they're never given any name at all. John Hurt's Storyteller tells stories to his dog in a dilapidated house by a roaring fire, while Michael Gambon's Storyteller wanders around the Labyrinth of Minos as the Framing Device for the stories within the episodes. John Hurt's Storyteller appears in two stories directly, the first being "Hans, My Hedgehog" where he is posing as a fortuneteller and gets thrown in jail for offending the king with his fortune only to be pardoned in celebration of the princess' wedding. The second is his Day in the Limelight episode "A Story Short" where he becomes a royal storyteller but runs out of stories before the last story mandated by his agreement with the King.
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The Storyteller / int_44e0a33a	type	The Oath-Breaker
The Storyteller / int_44e0a33a	comment	The Oath-Breaker: Theseus promised his mother not to leave her side, his father to raise white sails rather than black if he survived his trip to Crete, and Ariadne to take her home with him if she helped him escape the labyrinth. He ends up breaking all three promises.
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The Storyteller / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
The Storyteller / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: True to their many famous sculptures (or at least as true as you can get without pissing the censors off) both Perseus and Theseus get at least one in their respective Greek Myths episodes. Also true to the sculptures, their physiques aren't too shabby either. Also briefly applies to the three brothers in "The Three Ravens" as they're changing into their cursed shirts.
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The Storyteller / int_4623b3bb	type	Why Couldn't You Be Different?
The Storyteller / int_4623b3bb	comment	Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Though he won't admit it, Daedalus wishes that slow and clumsy Icarus was more like his cousin Talos instead.
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The Storyteller / int_46410e0c	type	Win-Win Ending
The Storyteller / int_46410e0c	comment	Win-Win Ending: Downplayed in "Sapsorrow". Sapsorrow is about to marry the prince, the stepsisters mention that their father died, so the law that Sapsorrow marry her father is no longer in effect, and although neither gets to marry the prince, considering they both were worried that they would lose their inheritance if their father got remarried, his passing (with no mention that he managed to marry somebody else) means that they would have gotten whatever inheritance they were entitled to.
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The Storyteller / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
The Storyteller / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: In "The True Bride" trolls are said to be this, and they can't even stand each other.
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The Storyteller / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Storyteller / int_485eb589	comment	"The Heartless Giant": The eponymous Sealed Evil in a Can tricks a prince into letting him escape and proceeds to go on a rampage throughout the kingdom. However, he conspicuously never harms the prince and is actually quite friendly to him even as he knows that the prince is trying to kill him to undo his mistake. Much like the similarly heartless Davy Jones of Pirates of the Caribbean, the giant embodies the Tin Man trope and is presented sympathetically.
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The Storyteller / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Storyteller / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: 'Daedalus and Icarus' sees Daedalus murder his nephew, jealous that the boy has more talent than his own son. In the early myths, the boy is rescued by Athena and transformed into a patridge, but the nephew actually dies here. A bird is later seen mocking Daedalus for the crime, possibly in reference to this.
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The Storyteller / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Storyteller / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "The Soldier and Death" and all of the Greek Myths except that of Perseus.
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The Storyteller / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Storyteller / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: The Princess in "Hans, My Hedgehog" decides to wander the Earth, both to find her hedgehog husband and in penance for breaking her promise.
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The Storyteller / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
The Storyteller / int_505a1021	comment	The Farmer and the Viper: "The Heartless Giant". He lets the imprisoned Giant escape, and the latter goes right back to rampaging and even petrifies his brothers.
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The Storyteller / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
The Storyteller / int_517f8d71	comment	In "The True Bride", the Troll and the Trollop speak in a mix of this and Delusions of Eloquence.
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The Storyteller / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Storyteller / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The first chronological episode of the Greek Myths series was "Theseus and the Minotaur" — in which the Storyteller and the Dog get chased into the Labyrinth and the Storyteller tells how the Minotaur was defeated — and the last was "Daedalus and Icarus" — in which the Storyteller tells how the Minotaur's Labyrinth prison was created, and the Storyteller and the Dog manage to trigger a secret exit and escape.
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The Storyteller / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Storyteller / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Cook in "The Luck Child". Despite being the self-confessed "nastiest" of a thieves band who he claims would happily slit a sleeping boy's throat, he takes pity on Lucky and helps him out several times with a sanguine attitude and lovable charm.
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The Storyteller / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Storyteller / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Played with in "The Three Ravens". The Wicked Stepmother tries to have the heroine's infant children killed, but they are rescued by her brothers, who have been turned into ravens. Played mostly straight in "The Luck Child". At the beginning of the story, the evil king throws the eponymous baby off a cliff to the crashing waves below, but the blanket snags on a branch on the way down, unraveling and dropping the baby gently and safely on the soft sand, where he's found by a peasant couple. This, like many other developments in the story, is attributed to the boy having supernaturally good luck.
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The Storyteller / int_55a28534	type	Fearless Fool
The Storyteller / int_55a28534	comment	Fearless Fool: Fearnot, who is portrayed as rather naÃ¯ve and frankly a little stupid in addition to being fearless. He sets out on a quest to find out what fear is.
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The Storyteller / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
The Storyteller / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: The Griffon in "The Luck Child". It also shrieks and uses onomatopoeia in an almost comical way. It's interesting to gauge the reaction small children have to it, given that its speech patterns resemble their own and are vaguely lovable, but the creature itself is still Nightmare Fuel.
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The Storyteller / int_5b2efa6c	type	Music Soothes the Savage Beast
The Storyteller / int_5b2efa6c	comment	Music Soothes the Savage Beast: In "Fearnot," the titular character is a fearless fool whose only skill is in playing the violin. This skill saves him from a terrible sea monster whose only goal in life is drowning people; enchanted by the music, the monster leaves his pond and goes in search of Ireland, where the song came from. Much to the joy of everyone who lived near the pond.
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The Storyteller / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The Storyteller / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: In "Daedalus and Icarus", the title characters have been thrown into the Labyrinth, while Icarus is scared out of his wits that he'll be eaten by the Minotaur, Daedalus isn't scared in the least calmly counting the steps to the secret exit.
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The Storyteller / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
The Storyteller / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: This is the first half of the plot in "Sapsorrow", wherein the king tries searching for a bride, but can only marry someone whose finger fits the royal wedding ring: After many failed suitors, Sapsorrow's two wicked sisters try on the ring while nobody else is looking, not because they want to marry their father but because they want to keep their inheritance. They also reason that their father wouldn't want to marry them, so he wouldn't marry anyone, which would be even better. But the ring proves much too big for one sister and much too small for the other. Sapsorrow gets dragged into her sisters' mess and the ring ends up on her own finger, where it fits perfectly. She, her father, and her sisters are horrified, but the law remains: incest or not, the woman whose finger fits the ring must marry the king. Sapsorrow disguises herself as a creature of fur and feathers and leaves her kingdom to avoid this.
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The Storyteller / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
The Storyteller / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: Michael Gambon's Greek Storyteller does this in his first (chronological) episode "Theseus and the Minotaur", or as he puts it "exchanging their coins for smaller valuables" on the Isle of Crete; in Ancient Greece this would've been a grave offense since the dead needed money to pay Charon the ferryman to cross the River Styx and enter Hades. He and the Dog get chased into the Labyrinth by angry locals, setting up the framing device.
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The Storyteller / int_6547ce31	type	Accidental Proposal
The Storyteller / int_6547ce31	comment	Accidental Proposal: In "Sapsorrow," the King, needing a new wife, proclaims that whichever woman's finger fits the late queen's ring will become his bride. His youngest daughter Sapsorrow comes upon her older sisters with the ring, and when they drop it, she picks it up and slips it on her own finger for safekeeping. When her father then arrives and sees that the ring fits her perfectly, the law obligates him to marry her, forcing Sapsorrow to flee the kingdom to avoid having to marry her own father.
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The Storyteller / int_66379327	type	The Girl Who Fits This Slipper
The Storyteller / int_66379327	comment	The Girl Who Fits This Slipper: Twice in "Sapsorrow" - first a ring, which starts the trouble, and later the iconic slipper which resolves it.
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The Storyteller / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Storyteller / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Technically the co-producing companies were British and American, but it definitely counts: One season of 9 episodes, and one season of 4 episodes, and Jim Henson regarded it as his artistic masterpiece. The series was originally supposed to have a full season. Its short run (and limited scheduling over three years) was more due to how expensive it was to produce the show.
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The Storyteller / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
The Storyteller / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: The Griffon in "The Luck Child". In "The True Bride", the Troll and the Trollop speak in a mix of this and Delusions of Eloquence.
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The Storyteller / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
The Storyteller / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: While the Storyteller of the original will usually tell the story normally, occasionally he delves into this territory when responding to the Dog, or when he's getting into the more intense moments of the stories. Like this moment from "The Soldier and Death":
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The Storyteller / int_6d5fb1e0	type	Waistcoat of Style
The Storyteller / int_6d5fb1e0	comment	Waistcoat of Style: John Hurt's Storyteller wears a nice red one under his dressing gown.
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The Storyteller / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
The Storyteller / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: The "heartless" giant.
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The Storyteller / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Storyteller / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Perseus was prophesied to kill his grandfather. Despite everything the man does to prevent this, Perseus bears him no ill will and has no desire to fulfill the prophecy. But it still happens in the end, by pure accident.
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The Storyteller / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
The Storyteller / int_7289b368	comment	Idiot Hero: "Fearnot," who has no idea what fear is and gets into some incredibly stupid situations as a result, triumphing by dumb luck.
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The Storyteller / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Storyteller / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: In "The Luck Child", the Storyteller describes the setting (implied to be Russia) as "ruled by two cold hearts". The first is the King, a cruel and greedy tyrant, and the second is the Griffon, a rampaging monster with a taste for human flesh.
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The Storyteller / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
The Storyteller / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: During the card game in "The Soldier and Death"...
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The Storyteller / int_7842867	type	Vengeance Feels Empty
The Storyteller / int_7842867	comment	Vengeance Feels Empty: The story of Daedalus has this message. After causing the deaths of his son and nephew, Daedalus tried to live a good life, but that was sabotaged by King Minos. Daedalus later takes a terrible revenge on Minos, but in doing so, realizes he's destroyed any chance of happiness/being a good person, and is totally emotionally broken.
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The Storyteller / int_79190971	type	Karmic Trickster
The Storyteller / int_79190971	comment	Karmic Trickster: The Beggar from "A Story Short". He turns up to torment the Cook (because The Cook is an asshole) and the Storyteller (because The Storyteller helped him at the beginning of the story and all that grief made for a fantastic story on a day when the Storyteller was facing execution for not having a story to tell).
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The Storyteller / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
The Storyteller / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: The devils in "The Soldier and Death". After the Soldier beats all of them in cards, they decide to attack him. Luckily, the Soldier uses his magic sack to subdue them.
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The Storyteller / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Storyteller / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The narrator of Greek Myths. The original Storyteller also has his moments, but not as many.
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The Storyteller / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
The Storyteller / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: After her parents died, Anya in The True Bride was taken in by the Troll to be his slave. Later, after she is free and becomes a princess, her husband is brainwashed and taken in by the Troll's daughter, the Trollop. According to a village woman Anya talks to, she likes to collect handsome men and keep them as ornaments, or rather, "ornamen".
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The Storyteller / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Storyteller / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: In "The Soldier and Death", the soldier attempts to trick his way into Heaven by handing his magic sack to one of the souls waiting to enter Heaven, and asking the soul to call him into the sack once he is within Heaven. However, the soldier forgot that all souls entering Heaven lose all memory of mortal life, so once he is in Heaven, the soul has no memory of why he has a sack or what he is supposed to do with it. So the soldier remains Barred from the Afterlife and left to wander the earth without his magic sack.
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The Storyteller / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
The Storyteller / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: "The Three Ravens" has 3 as its primary number: 3 of the four children turn into ravens. To turn them back, the fourth must remain silent for 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days. Over that time, she gives birth to 3 sons, all of whom go missing. Also Played for Laughs at the end: she breaks her silence 3 minutes too soon, meaning that her youngest brother's left arm remains cursed as a raven's wing forever. Not that he minds.
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The Storyteller / int_9818b2ac	type	WanderingJew
The Storyteller / int_9818b2ac	comment	Wandering Jew: At the end of "The Soldier and Death", the soldier has been Barred from the Afterlife: Death refuses to claim him, Heaven will not take him because of his sins, and Hell will not admit him for fear he will take over. After he attempts to trick his way into Heaven and fails, the soldier is left to walk the earth for all eternity.
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The Storyteller / int_9853e107	type	Elective Mute
The Storyteller / int_9853e107	comment	Elective Mute: The princess from "The Three Ravens" must remain silent for three years, three months, three weeks, and three days in order to free her brothers from their curse; she's not even allowed to write.
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The Storyteller / int_99213234	type	Death Takes a Holiday
The Storyteller / int_99213234	comment	Death Takes a Holiday: "The Soldier and Death". Although it's not so much taking a holiday as it is being trapped in a sack.
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The Storyteller / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Storyteller / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The Storyteller himself is the main character of "A Story Short". Aside from a bit part in "Hans, My Hedgehog" he does not directly appear in any other stories.
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The Storyteller / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Storyteller / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Each episode gave their respective protagonists one. A standout example is the ruby-esque whistling (to paraphrase the titular Storyteller) from "The Soldier and Death," which is used both out-of-universe in the musical score and in-universe as the titular soldier's Character Tic.
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The Storyteller / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Storyteller / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Unsurprisingly, this one's all over the various fairy tales: In "Hans, My Hedgehog", the princess must keep Hans's secret for three nights to break his curse. When she fails, he flees the castle and she goes looking for him, wearing out the soles of three pairs of iron shoes before finally finding him. In "The Luck Child", the king tries and fails to kill Lucky three times. In "The Soldier and Death", the soldier meets three old men and gives each of them one of his three biscuits; each of them gives him something back, but it's the third man who gives him the magic deck of cards and magic sack that get him through most of the rest of the story. In "Sapsorrow", the eponymous princess buys time to make her "Straggletag" disguise by requesting three fabulous dresses, then later wears the dresses to three balls to dance with the prince before accidentally leaving her slipper behind. In "The True Bride", the lion accomplishes three of the troll's impossible tasks for Anja before killing him, and gives Anja three gifts with which she bargains with the trollop for three nights with her betrothed. In "The Three Ravens", the princess is forbidden to speak for three years, three months, three weeks and three days to free her three brothers from a curse. This becomes a lot more difficult when she is accused of murdering her three children. And she speaks too soon by three minutes, so her youngest brother keeps a wing.
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The Storyteller / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Storyteller / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: In "The Luck Child," the monstrous griffon goes undefeated, suffering only the loss of its golden feather, which it doesn't even notice.
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The Storyteller / int_a836a9b5	type	Character Witness
The Storyteller / int_a836a9b5	comment	Character Witness: In "A Story Short", the hero is helped out of his predicament by a beggar he aided.
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The Storyteller / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Storyteller / int_a8a04f6f	comment	The eponymous "Heartless Giant" turns Leo's brothers to stone, along with several others. When they are freed it's revealed that they were alive and conscious the whole time and forced to witness the Giant's crimes. It's a factor in their decision to kill the Giant by destroying his heart, despite Leo's conviction that the Giant would turn good if his heart was restored.
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The Storyteller / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
The Storyteller / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: In most tellings of "Orpheus and Eurydice", Hades is touched by Orpheus' music and allows him his request to bring Eurydice back. Here Hades is unmoved by the music and it takes Persephone groveling at his feet to get him to acquiesce.
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The Storyteller / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Storyteller / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: The monster in the pond in "Fearnot" doesn't seem to have a reason for drowning his victims. It's just what he does.
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The Storyteller / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Storyteller / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The Dog in the original, especially when heckling The Storyteller. Greek Myths made him more of a hyperactive Audience Surrogate, but he still had his moments.
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The Storyteller / int_aff1ee2e	type	Small Reference Pools
The Storyteller / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: This series uses this trope to its advantage by dramatizing only the obscure fairy tales. Greek Myths, less so, since most of the tales they covered are relatively well-known among Mythology enthusiasts.
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The Storyteller / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The Storyteller / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Twice over in "The Three Ravens". The same sorceress becomes the evil stepmother to the princess, and later to her husband.
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The Storyteller / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Storyteller / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: The troll is one to Anja in the beginning, from giving her difficult tasks and unreasonable time constraints, to physically beating her with "the contradiction stick." His death is given much celebration.
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The Storyteller / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
The Storyteller / int_b39b94da	comment	Played mostly straight in "The Luck Child". At the beginning of the story, the evil king throws the eponymous baby off a cliff to the crashing waves below, but the blanket snags on a branch on the way down, unraveling and dropping the baby gently and safely on the soft sand, where he's found by a peasant couple. This, like many other developments in the story, is attributed to the boy having supernaturally good luck.
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The Storyteller / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Storyteller / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Describing the lion's movement in "The True Bride":
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The Storyteller / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Storyteller / int_b588a9b6	comment	Too Dumb to Fool: Fearnot's lack of fear also seems to make him extremely foolish, however this also means that when the village bullies pretend to be a "wordle" (twice as bad as a troll!) or Mr. McKay tries to con and then mug him, he totally misses what's going on and therefore cannot be tricked.
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The Storyteller / int_b5c70c26	type	Tin Man
The Storyteller / int_b5c70c26	comment	Tin Man: The title character of "The Heartless Giant" claims to be "heartless", but shows plenty of emotion and even falls into Even Evil Has Standards.
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The Storyteller / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Storyteller / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: The princess in "The Three Ravens" must not say a word for three years, three months, three weeks, and three days, or else her brothers will remain cursed. As hard as that is at first, it gets even worse when she learns her new beau's stepmother is the same Wicked Stepmother that cursed her brothers and murdered her father. If she tries to warn anyone, her brothers will suffer; if she keeps quiet (as she tries to do), her new loved ones (including her own children) will suffer and she'll get the blame for it.
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The Storyteller / int_c190165	type	"How I Wrote This Article" Article
The Storyteller / int_c190165	comment	"How I Wrote This Article" Article: In "A Story Short", the eponymous storyteller is forced to tell a new story every day. On the last day, due to an outlandish series of events, he doesn't have time to think up a new story, so he tells the story of why he couldn't.
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The Storyteller / int_c9d80884	type	Scheherezade Gambit
The Storyteller / int_c9d80884	comment	Scheherezade Gambit: "A Story Short" has the Storyteller himself challenged to give the king a new story every day for a year, with food, lodging, and a gold piece for every day he succeeds, and death by boiling oil if he fails. It's only on the final day that he finally runs out of stories, but a friendly beggar he had helped get fed in the opening act gives him a fantastic dream vision for a final story.
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The Storyteller / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Storyteller / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Storyteller and his dog count, but across all nine of the original series stories, the number of characters that have names barely cracks double digits: "Fearnot" has the most at 3: the title character, his sleazy but good-natured companion Mr. McKay, and his lover Lydia. "Sapsorrow" has 2: the title character (who also goes by Straggletag for a time) and, barely counting, her wicked sister, Princess Badsister. "Hans, My Hedgehog" has 2: the title character and W-W-Wagger, the royal dog who's only seen in shadow. The deuteragonist princess has a unique title (Princess of Sweetness and Cherry Pie) but not a name. "The Heartless Giant" only has the protagonist, Prince Leo. "The Luck Child" only has the title character, Lucky. "The Soldier and Death" has...Death. YMMV if that counts. "The True Bride" only has the title character, Anja. "A Story Short" features the storyteller, his wife, the beggar, the cook, the king, the queen, and the prince. None of them have names. "The Three Ravens" has the king, his deceased wife, his three sons, his daughter, the wicked witch, the prince, his father, and the princess's three sons. None of them have names.
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The Storyteller / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
The Storyteller / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: The eponymous "Heartless Giant" turns Leo's brothers to stone, along with several others. When they are freed it's revealed that they were alive and conscious the whole time and forced to witness the Giant's crimes. It's a factor in their decision to kill the Giant by destroying his heart, despite Leo's conviction that the Giant would turn good if his heart was restored. Used for good in the myth of Perseus, who uses Medusa's severed head to petrify Atlas, allowing him to hold up the sky without straining. Then used for revenge against the king.
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The Storyteller / int_d5dc7c27	type	Pajama-Clad Hero
The Storyteller / int_d5dc7c27	comment	Pajama-Clad Hero: John Hurt's Storyteller is always wearing a patchwork dressing gown.
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The Storyteller / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The Storyteller / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The Storyteller: Greek Myths.
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The Storyteller / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
The Storyteller / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Sapsorrow, in the episode of the same name.
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The Storyteller / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
The Storyteller / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: The Minotaur in "Theseus and the Minotaur" is portrayed as one, which much more focus on his human side than his animal side.
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The Storyteller / int_e4d079c1	type	Greek Chorus
The Storyteller / int_e4d079c1	comment	Greek Chorus: Occasionally, the Dog will pipe in with sarcasm, observations, and banter with the Storyteller.
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The Storyteller / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Storyteller / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The griffon in "The Luck Child" insists that it is a bird.
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The Storyteller / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Storyteller / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: The Princess in "Hans, My Hedgehog" wanders the Earth until three pairs of iron shoes have been worn down to nothing and her hair has turned snow white.
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The Storyteller / int_e7f9c214	type	Barred from the Afterlife
The Storyteller / int_e7f9c214	comment	Barred from the Afterlife: In the episode based on "The Soldier And Death", a soldier became Enemies with Death... and "won", putting it in a bag but eventually releasing it. Because of this, Death was too afraid to reap him, Heaven would not take him for his sins, and Hell was afraid he'd take over.
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The Storyteller / int_e957f245	type	Grimmification
The Storyteller / int_e957f245	comment	Grimmification: Averted; the stories are about as dark as their un-bowdlerized originals, and neither add nor subtract grimness.
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The Storyteller / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Storyteller / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: The titular Soldier from "The Soldier and Death" captures Death in a magic sack, and is convinced to set him free after seeing aging men in the streets waiting for death that will never come. Only problem? Death is so traumatized from being trapped in the sack that he refuses to come near the Soldier. Then both Heaven and Hell refuse to accept him after he gets sick of life.
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The Storyteller / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Storyteller / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In "The Three Ravens," the witch is about to burn the princess at the stake, but then her brothers fly up and begin attacking the witch, causing the witch to light herself on fire.
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The Storyteller / int_ed371675	type	Til Murder Do Us Part
The Storyteller / int_ed371675	comment	Til Murder Do Us Part: In "The Three Ravens", after the Wicked Stepmother curses the princes into ravens and the princess flees, the King's fear and grief overpower the love enchantment she cast on him. Annoyed, she kills him and starts over with a different king, whose only offspring is already an adult.
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The Storyteller / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
The Storyteller / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": When the dog was interviewed for Muppet Magazine, it was revealed that his name is Dog. In "Sapsorrow", when one of the bad sisters attempts to marry the prince and appears to fit the slipper, she says to call her "Princess Bad Sister."
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The Storyteller / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Storyteller / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Sapsorrow's prince. He forced her to kill and cook her geese friends, for pity's sake.
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The Storyteller / int_f62b27b7	type	Stone Soup
The Storyteller / int_f62b27b7	comment	Stone Soup: Appears in "A Story Short" but with the Broken Aesop that rather than learning the value of cooperation, the cook is infuriated at being deceived and humiliated and demands that the Stone Soup makers be executed for stealing. In the end, though, he changes his ways.
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The Storyteller / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
The Storyteller / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: Rather subtly done in "The Three Ravens", when the Wicked Stepmother leads people to the conclusion that the princess killed her own babies, largely by planting seeds of doubt. In reality, she was the culprit.
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The Storyteller / int_f95baed	type	Not Staying for Breakfast
The Storyteller / int_f95baed	comment	Not Staying for Breakfast: Theseus pulls this on Ariadne and tragedy results.
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The Storyteller / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The Storyteller / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Daedalus murders his nephew Talos in a brief fit of madness fueled by jealously and anger over his wishes that Icarus was more like him.
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The Storyteller / int_fe938414	type	Sympathy for the Hero
The Storyteller / int_fe938414	comment	Sympathy for the Hero: The poisoner in "The Luck Child" genuinely feels sorry for what the protagonist will suffer should the king's orders be carried out, so he changes them.
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The Storyteller / int_ff992d2c	type	Honorary Princess
The Storyteller / int_ff992d2c	comment	Honorary Princess: In The True Bride, Anja was a poor orphan all but enslaved to an abusive troll. When the Thought Lion appears to help her fulfill the troll's impossible demands, the last one he grants is building a castle in one day, including a room with a bottomless pit that the troll falls into. Now free, Anja lives in the castle where she is provided everything she needs (nice dresses, food, servants) and is considered a princess by the neighborhood, to the point that princes travel to woo her.
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The Storyteller	hasFeature	All Trolls Are Different / int_2e16cd09
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The Storyteller	hasFeature	Barred from the Afterlife / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	British Brevity / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Death Takes a Holiday / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Everybody Hates Hades / int_f77bb929
The Storyteller	hasFeature	False Innocence Trick / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Fearless Fool / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Framing Device / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Friend to All Living Things / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	"How I Wrote This Article" Article / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Music Soothes the Savage Beast / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	News Travels Fast / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Old Beggar Test / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Please Shoot the Messenger / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Posthumous Collaboration / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Spiders Are Scary / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Sword and Sandal / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	The Girl Who Fits This Slipper / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Vengeance Feels Empty / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Villainous BSoD / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Wicked Stepmother / int_2e16cd09
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Yuki-onna / int_2e16cd09
TheStoryTeller	sameAs	The Storyteller
The Storyteller	hasFeature	Flying Dutchman / int_2e16cd09

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