Blood-red is the foam of the wave... Lithuanian folk tale Egle the Queen of Serpents

Blood-red is the foam of the wave... A Lithuanian folk tale Egle the Queen of Serpents... more

by Ausra Huntington nee Paulauskaite

Title

Blood-red is the foam of the wave... Lithuanian folk tale Egle the Queen of Serpents

Artist

Ausra Huntington nee Paulauskaite

Medium

Photograph - Photo- Digital Modification

Description

Blood-red is the foam of the wave... A Lithuanian folk tale Egle the Queen of Serpents
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This digital modification of my photo was created to illustrate a Lithuanian Folk tale "Egle The Queen of Grass-snakes (Serpents)"
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Here are the lines from the tale that this image illustrates:
"Zhilvine, Zhilvinel,
If alive you are, milk white is the foam of the wave,
If dead you are, blood-red is the foam of the wave!"
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And here is a story itself in brief:
This Lithuanian folk tale tells a sad love story about the fisherman's daughter who married a serpent (prince under the bad witch's spell). She and her husband lived in the sea palace happily for many years, Egle was missing her family very much and kept begging her husband to let her and 4 of their kids to go visit them.
After a long period of trials Egle's wish came true. She was allowed to go but had to keep in secret husband's name and the way to call him when they come back to the sea shore.
Egle and older boys kept their dad's secret well but not the little girl....
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The above is just a very short summary. For full text visit: http://www.comenius-exeuwa.eu/egle-the-queen.html
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Story available in English, German, Spanish , and of course Lithuanian.

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January 17th, 2012