Famous Last Words: The Final Week

This week was my last week because I did enough extra credit to end a week early! It's pretty exciting, but looking at the blog posts for next week, I'm actually a little disappointed I didn't skip some extra credit and do those instead. I know I still can do the posts for next week, but I'm just preparing to be super busying preparing for finals.

I feel pretty mixed about this past week. The readings were pretty excellent! I don't know what it is, but the past few weeks have been super interesting and I just flew through the readings for both days. They were super creepy and weird which is always fascinating to me. As for the extra credit assignments, I did extra reading which was helpful, but I had trouble getting through the other ones. It's always the end of the semester where I lose motivation to finish assignments, so it wasn't surprising. The most disappointment for me personally comes with the story I wrote for my storybook. I just feel like it was so subpar. I had a really hard time coming up with how I was going to wrap up all of the conflict that I opened up in the last story. Agh! I know I can do better, and reading over my first two stories, I know I could have improved those too, but I suppose this will have to do. I feel kind of guilty because I don't feel like it's my best work, but I suppose I'll see what the reception is like first.

Going forward, I'm not sure if I'm going to do any more assignments for this class. It really depends on how studying / the final assignments for my other classes go. I'll probably do a revision no matter what though!

Mixed feelings

via Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia Trail: From B1A4 to Ecstasy

For this final edition of Wikipedia Trails, I've decided to start out with the South Korean pop group B1A4 because my friend Sarah is a huge fan of theirs.

B1A4

B1A4 as a band is pretty okay from what I've heard of their songs, but the process by which Korean pop groups like them are created is pretty fascinating. Each group member can come from a variety of different backgrounds, and if they aren't perfect for the group immediately, the company will be willing to invest in them to train them to be the pop idol that they want. Pretty neato!

B1A4 performing on stage

photo credit to 와사비콘텐츠

From B1A4, I decided to read about South Korea's famous capital city, Seoul. 

Seoul

Wow, I had no idea that Seoul was such a population-dense city. I knew they had a lot of people, but they're only second in terms of pop. density to Paris. Crazy!

They also have the world's fastest average internet connection AND free Wifi in public places. C'mon USA, let's get our act together...

From Seoul, I jumped to the article on Muism, also known as Korean Shamanism.

Korean Shamanism

Korean Shamanism, known as Muism, is actually much more of a spiritual ideology. It is native to Korea but has a lot of similarities to other belief systems in East Asian, particularly Wuism in China.

It centers around a spiritual intermediary named the Mu, which can be a man or woman leader.

What's interesting is that there is so much life in this religion, from actual rituals involving dancing and chanting to a set of stories that have been passed down about the divine beings that the believers worship. Pretty neat, and it's still pretty active (several millions still practice in South Korea).

To finish this final trail, I am going to read about Ecstasy (the philosophy).

Ecstasy

Okay, so this article was very, very confusing to me and I'm not really sure what is the agreed upon meaning of this philosophy, but there is general agreement that it deals with experiences that involving feeling outside of yourself. I want to say that this is how you can describe "out of body" experiences, but in terms of the philosophy, I'm not sure at all if that's correct.

Learning Challenge: Time memes

For this week's Learning Challenge, I decided to do "Find a favorite time meme." I found several that I really enjoyed, but these were hands-down my favorite!

Procrastination Flowchart

This one is great because of its simplicity. I love it because this is the thought process that I have sometimes and so it really clicked with me.

Field Guide to Procrastinators

This one is again fantastic because of its relateability. I'm often not just one of these procrastinator types, but several all in one study session. It gets the worst during finals season, so I expect a lot of these roles to come out! 

My favorite type is probably the Cleaner or the Sidetracker because they're my most common excuses for procrastinating. Usually I know what I'm doing is putting off assignments or studying, but if I'm doing something else that is productive (like a future assignment or cleaning up my apartment), then I feel very justified in my procrastination. 

Growth Mindset: Life Lessons from Creative People

Today I decided to watch Julie Burstein's TED talk called "4 Lessons in Creativity."

Unfortunately, I didn't feel as inspired to pursue any creative endeavors or to find ways in which to insert creativity into my life from this talk. It was really interesting to listen to because the stories that she told were about some pretty interesting people, but I found that her "4 Lessons" were kind of vague. She showed how they applied to artists in specific stories, and I could see it, but when she said that they applied to all of us without really explaining what we can do in our lives to add creativity, I was really disappointed.

Letting go, embracing challenge, pushing limits, and loss - these are all good lessons for us to learn in life, but I think her explanations of the lessons were kind of specific to creative people and not universal in the way I was hoping.

Tilted Spheres, a work by 

Richard Serra (artist discussed in one of Burstein's stories)

via Wikimedia Commons

Tech Tip: Google Reverse Image Search

For this week's Tech Tip, I decided to learn about the Google Reverse Image Search function. I've never actually used it before, but I heard it was possible. As a result, this exercise was a lot of fun!

Here's the original image I searched for:

Small, unknown image

And here's the larger image that I discovered after using Google Reverse Image Search: 

Encounter between Robin Hood 

and the greedy Bishop of Hereford

I highly recommend people check out this Tech Tip!

Reading Notes: Russian Folktales, Part B

The Witch Girl

I have to agree with Mr. Cossack - what the heck kind of question is that? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to stay the night at someone's place who said that to me.

Clever guy.

The Headless Princess

Hmm. I'm surprised that the king believed the priest's son. Clearly he wasn't familiar with the son because he didn't even know he existed, but he believed him about the very strange events that had occurred. Maybe the king knew there was something strange about his daughter - even that she was a witch, like the old woman did?

I really wish the story would have described the horrors that the priest's son had to witness. I think it would have added another dimension to this story and really make the reader feel scared and appreciate the son's task a lot more.

The Warlock

Uh oh. There are a lot of instructions on what not to do, so that probably means that one of the three (probably the third and youngest one) will disobey the orders.

WHAT. Why would they send the second daughter after the first one had been strangled to death????

The Fox Physician

Must be one fairly strong sack!

Well, I mean he probably should have known that his teeth wouldn't be the most reliable way of carrying such a heavy sack...

Oof! That's sad...

The Fiddler in Hell

Three again. What's the obsession with this number?

Haha at the the fiddler jinxing himself..

Weird... another story where a lot of random events not really related to the main narrative happen at the end. Like why did the child need to be born and then abandoned? So strange.

The Two Friends

"It was not to make any difference whether he was alive or dead." - pretty obvious foreshadowing and such an unrealistic thing to be discussed between two friends.

Hmm... sounds kind of like a Futurama scenario, but without the futuristic world. I could see a story where this happens, but instead there is much more description of the world after the man returns to it. That could be fun to write.

The Shroud

I like that this story uses the word "lazybones." I'm not sure why, but I always thought that was a more modern word that wouldn't be used for a story like this one, so it took me off guard!

Well, I guess it was deserved...

This sounds a lot like some sort of horror story that could be modernized to be some teenage girl's sleepover or something, maybe with rich, inattentive parents to add some resentment to the mood.

The Coffin-Lid

Lots of grave/dead/coffin stories in this unit.

Man, the townspeople in these stories are so strange. First they want to kill the man who saved their sons, then they just believe his story right away after calling him a trickster?

The Two Corpses

The Dog and the Corpse

And the dog should be upset! The master easily could have helped him fend off the corpse, but his selfishness shined through.

Oh - that ending.

The Soldier and the Vampire


What a strange form of regeneration this warlock has...

Well, this time the man who cured the unjust death wasn't questioned at all. Was it due to him being a soldier?

A lead coffin

via Flickr user Thomas Quine

Bibliography: Russian Fairy Tales by W.R.S. Ralton. Source.

Reading Notes: Russian Folktales, Part A

The Dead Mother

"He did what was best" - seems odd to me, but I guess this was the culture. Mothers apparently were the domestic figures to the point of the father needing a motherly figure to take care of his child.

Woah, that was a creepy ending! Gotta love it though.

The Treasure

It seems like the old man's fortune is turning pretty quickly. I wonder if it'll stay throughout the story? (Probably not :/)

God, it's disgusting to see the pope's behavior change towards the peasant once he realizes he has money to pay him.

Well, this has certainly taken a turn for the weird. But weird is good.

Yay, happy ending with the bad guy being punished. I wasn't expecting it though.

The Bad Wife

Hmm. Sounds like this "bad wife" is pretty susceptible to reverse psychology.

I wonder why she keeps calling him thief... maybe it is the reason she disobeys every order her husband gives?

Okay, surely there's some sort of trick. Maybe the bad wife is actually this demon?

Huh! I was pretty sure that the peasant was going to get punished for leaving his wife - even though she was labeled as bad - in the pit, but it turns out he's the hero of the story. Surely people will find out his secret the next time someone gets sick though?

The Three Copecks

Wow, greed and money is such a huge factor in these stories. I wonder if that's because poverty has played such a huge role in Russia especially?

That was a very strange story. It seemed to shift perspectives all the time and lead down pointless paths to get to where the story was headed. I guess that's maybe the point?

The Miser

I'm glad the wife is enabling her husband's terribly greedy plans. I guess she's just obeying though...

Wow... I don't like that Marko got away with not paying the poor man, but I guess that's what happens sometimes..

The Water Snake

Uh oh, something tells me that this poor girl is going to have to marry that snake.

That's simply terrifying. I can't imagine one snake crashing through my window, much less a whole troop of them.

Another strange, random ending. Are the birds symbolic or something?

This story wasn't about money per se, but it did involve deception.

Friday

Okay that escalated quickly. What a horrible thing..

I'm not sure what the meaning of this story is. Is Friday something special in Russian culture?

Wednesday

Strange, I guess Wednesday is the complete opposite of Friday in the minds of the old Russians who wrote these stories..

I was pretty surprised everything went according to plan.

The Leshy

I like how casually time passes in these stories. "Three years went by."

It's interesting that the girl was so aware of her situation - that escape wasn't on her mind, but only that the Leshy was needed to provide her with food and drink for survival. I wonder how long she was on her own? It also could have just been brainwashing..

Dnieper, Volga, and Dvina

Emilian the Fool

I wonder why he couldn't just wish for wood to make its way to the home? Seems a lot easier than going yourself.

Oh, well no harm done then I suppose.

Pike

via Wikimedia Commons

Bibliography: Russian Fairy Tales by W.R.S. Ralton. Source.

Famous Last Words: A Week of Much Needed Laziness

I guess I'll actually cover two weeks of review, since the week for this class actually spanned 2 weeks.

This week I went really hard on the assignments and extra credit because I wanted to put myself in a good position to finish out the semester a week early. Well, I did that during the week leading up to Thanksgiving break. This week, I planned on doing all of my assignments + extra credit before the break but that didn't happen.

It also didn't happen anytime during the break even though I stayed away from my family. Instead, I spent a lot of time playing video games with my friends and just relaxing. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was a little upset that I didn't do any homework, but then I realized that just doing nothing productive for a few days actually was really nice.

I should be able to finish out this semester pretty strongly. I don't have any major projects, just three midterm exams to finish up. Oh! And the final story for this class, which should be challenging but fun to write. Which, to be completely honest, is probably going to haunt me all week. I have NO idea how I'm going to finish the story... and I upped the ante majorly in story 2 by bringing a more sinister element into Miles' adventures. I honestly don't think it was the right decision from a story perspective because it completely changed the tone of the blog and was pretty difficult to write. Anything with a more darker, complex narrative takes a lot more time and pages to turn into a good piece of writing, so I'm not exactly optimistic about my ability to turn this one around (and still be satisfied with the result).

For the rest of this class, I'm going to try to finish up the extra credit assignments for the week (minus the reading) and hit tomorrow pretty hard. The goal is to finish everything except for the Project story by Friday, which should leave me plenty of time to mull over how I'm going to decide Miles' fate.

Image from GoodFreePhotos

Wikipedia Trail: From San Jose Sharks to George W. Bush

To start this Wikipedia Trail off, I decided to read about the NHL (National Hockey League) team the San Jose Sharks.

San Jose Sharks

The Sharks are a relatively new team to the league, starting in 1991.

They struggled a bunch early on in their franchise career, and they still hold the record for most losses in a season with 71.

However, they outsold every other NHL team in merchandise sales in 1992.

They actually made the playoffs and put up a pretty good fight in their next year, which is pretty good for such a new team.

From the Sharks article, I found a link to Seek & Destroy, a song by Metallica.

San Jose Sharks logo

ti's fvia Flickr user PMell2293

Seek & Destroy

Wow! I've listened to Metallica a bit in my day, but I had no idea that this song was such a historic one for them. It was the first song that they EVER recorded in studio, and to date it's their third most played song of all time. That's pretty cool!

From here, I decided to read about Clear Channel, which later turned into iHeartMedia.

iHeartMedia

I haven't heard of this before, but Clear Channel actually was a public company for a long time (35 years!), but in 2006 it actually sold its investors shares (with their permission, of course) and became private. I guess $26.7 billion really talks.

This article actually wasn't as interesting as I was hoping it would be. It just goes into detail about the different types of programming that the station has done over the years and some of the typical controversies that every major company seems to face at one time or another.

To end this Wikipedia Trail, I will read about the former US President George W. Bush.

George W. Bush

It's funny how opinions change about someone, particularly public figures. Bush was beloved when he first took first office, but it seems that it was only because of the 9/11 attacks. I've heard the same thing said about Rudy Giuliani, specifically because of his fervent support of Donald Trump in the 2016 election.

Tech Tip: Google Timer

I'm so glad that this Tech Tip is available, because it's actually super useful. I use it all the time. Not only can it be used for popular timed work session techniques like Pomodoro, but it's also great for everyday things, like laundry or an oven timer. The best part is you can just have it in your web browser while you're doing something else, like homework, playing video games, or just general web surfing and it will still alert you when you need to do something.

It's also super easy, you can just time in the address bar (if you're using Chrome) or in Google web search "timer 20 minutes" or however long you need it for. You can also pause and reset the timer, which are pretty useful.

It would be cool if they let you add the task that you need the timer for, just in case you have multiple timers or if you're REALLY sleep deprived and need to be reminded (I know this has happened to me on occasion!)

All in all, it's a great tool!

Learning Challenge: I would vote for a political candidate who ran on the platform of "Reading Day"

For this week's Learning Challenge, I've decided to look through a bunch of the reading images on the Learning by HEART site because I want to remind myself to pick up a good book today. 

Especially in times of great stress or weakness, like I sometimes feel towards the end of the semester, reading seems to be such a good way to relieve my woes. 

I like this one in particular because of how amazing I think that would be! Not that it would be enforced, of course, but who knows, maybe we all could use a full day of reading in our lives? I know for sure that if any of the presidential candidates were in favor of a National Reading Day, this year's ballot would have been a lot easier to cast! 

Reading motivational poster from

the Learning by HEART website

Growth Mindset: Motivation for the end of the semester

For my growth mindset this week, I decided to watch Dan Pink's TED talk called "The puzzle of motivation." I figured it would be pretty applicable to me because I always find my motivation towards schoolwork much lower during the end of the semester.

The talk was funny and Dan Pink is a great speaker, but the advice was very business-focused. He used a lot of good examples based on research that had been conducted on motivation and performance of certain tasks which were very convincing and insightful. The main point that he tries to make is that if you want people to be creative, don't incentive them with external rewards (like bonuses, vacation, promotions). These rewards seem like they would motivate people, and they do for very clear, easy to follow tasks, but not for tasks that require a lot of critical thinking or creativity.

I found all of this very interesting, and if I were running a business, I would definitely try to apply these principles, but as a student, it wasn't super motivating. Schoolwork sometimes aligns with my personal interests and passions, but not always. Studying for final exams is definitely a soul crusher.

So what if it doesn't apply? What can I learn from this and apply it to my own life?

Another big point that Dan Pink brought up was the idea that workers need autonomy in their lives to have motivation. Well, how could I create that? What if I came up with new ways to study for exams, or studied with new people? I think there are ways to do it, and I've just got to try things out and see what works.

Motivation

image by Flickr user Jeff Djevdet

Reading Notes: Grimm Brothers (Crane), Part B

The Six Swans

Hmmm... While I understand that the step-mother was pretty cruel turning the sons into swans, I can also understand her anger at the King for hiding the children from her. That kind of dishonesty in a marriage isn't healthy.

That's an interesting arrangement..

Ah, beauty is such a curse! Couldn't they see she was on a mission??

What the heck? People in this time are so scheming it's crazy.

Yay! Happy ending!

I really like the idea of transformation for some reason, so it's cool to see it appear in so many stories from this time.

King Thrushbeard

Well that's not very nice. She should ridicule people like that!

I don't know about that sort of punishment, but she definitely shouldn't have people lining up to try and marry her if she's such a rude person.

Oh no, not menial labor! What a terrible thing to have to do! It's really hard to feel bad for this character...

Huh. I actually didn't expect that ending, but it's good to see that a character be given a second chance to right their wrongs. Hopefully now she will be more appreciative of her life in royalty.

The Three Spinsters

Oof. First the mother lies to the queen, then her daughter does the same. This can't end well...

Uh oh, here's another opportunity for the daughter to mess up! She better remember to invite them to the wedding..

Oh wow, she got away with it! That's actually crazy and a nice twist on the narrative I was expecting.

Snow-White

Okay, hold on a second. The queen wanted to EAT Snow-White's heart??? That's really insane, but kind of cool.

A lot of similarities to Goldilocks actually in how she first interacts with the Dwarves' house. Pretty neat.

That's an interesting way to try and kill someone. I've never heard of being laced to death!

Snow-White is pretty dumb. I guess she is a child though...

I wonder if the queen had hunted down every woman who was deemed more beautiful than her by the mirror, or if this was the first time.

The ballad-singer

via the UnTextbook

Bibliography: Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm translated by Lucy Crane and illustrated by Walter Crane. Source.

Reading Notes: Brothers Grimm (Crane), Part A

The Fisherman and His Wife

Well, that was quite the sudden end. I'm not sure that I liked it. I guess I expected the wife to be punished or something for being too greedy, but I they were only returned to their former state. Hm.

I really liked how the weather/ocean got more intense as the extravagance of the wish grew more and more. It was a good, although obvious form of symbolism. Additionally, it was cool for some reason to see the wife want to be the dominant, traditionally "male" role (king, emperor, pope) despite the fact that she was female.

I could see a story idea being modernized like... a kid asking parents for increasingly more expensive or more advanced form of technology, until he/she asks for something that is too demanding and loses it all!

Aschenputtel

Huh, so that's where the name "Cinderella" comes from. I like that the translation was kept close to the original name, even though the Disney version didn't include the parts about ashes.

Oh, I didn't fully comprehend the part about Aschenputtel being forced to pick lentils out of the ashes. That's actually horrible.

It's not like the step-mother is even giving her useful things to do! She's making it obvious that she doesn't like Aschenputtel and doesn't want her to go to the ball and enjoy herself. So cruel.

So the father is Aschenputtel's father? It seems weird that he would want to cut down the tree even if it wasn't his daughter in it! Crazy.

What the heck?? That's some desperation... You would think she would at least wait until the bleeding stopped.

Also I never thought about this before, but it's crazy to think testing every woman's foot in a shoe was a good plan. The chances that the shoe would only fit one woman would be so low. Also - could they really just not recognize her?

Okay birds... I don't really think that was necessary!

The Robber Bridegroom

Another talking bird who attempts to advise a human. A Grimm Brothers favorite, apparently.

This story moves very quickly. And creepily.

Hmm. That story was kind of lame, honestly. Nothing really exciting happened after the initial shock of the house of cannibals.

The bride of the Robber bridegroom

via the UnTextbook

Bibliography: Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm translated by Lucy Crane and illustrated by Walter Crane. Source.

Week 12 Review: Happy Birthday, Neil Gaiman!

Well, this past week sure was a full one! And in all the craziness, I missed a birthday of one of my favorite writers: Neil Gaiman!

I know I already wrote about Neil Gaiman this week, but  I really feel like he deserves to be known! His writing is so interesting, so dark and yet somehow very human as well, despite the fact that he pulls from all sort of magical and mythical inspirations.

The last book I read by him was Anansi Boys, so I think it's about time I read some more of him, at least in honor of his birthday this week.

Link to the post.

Neil Gaiman's signature

Famous Last Words: Bouncing Back

This week

This past week, I found out that I did pretty terribly on one of my midterm exams. It's the only midterm for that course too, so the blow hit me pretty hard. I'd done pretty well on the homeworks, but I will admit that my class attentiveness wasn't as good as it could have been.

I felt so embarrassed, even though I will be the only person to ever see it. I don't want to face my instructor in class next week, and I didn't really feel good about myself at all. Instead of just accepting it, I felt my face flush with heat and I got a lump in my throat. This doesn't usually happen to me, and even when I do worse than expected, it usually doesn't hit me this hard.

I can still pass the class, but I really need to step up my game and work hard to ace the final exam. Though I don't pride myself on being a grades person, this really hit me hard.. The culture is so ingrained in me that it's tough to shake, and this time I was the one shaken up.

The future

When you're a senior, everyone expects you to have it figured out. Classes should be easy because I've taken so many of them, so when something like happens I can't help but feel badly about myself.

For the next few weeks, I'm really going to hit the books hard. I don't want to just pass all my classes, or just do the minimum in order to get the grade that I want, but rather I want to decimate the rest of the semester. I want my teachers to question whether or not it was me putting forth an assignment because the quality is just so damn good. That is the way I should approach everything, but it's really hard. That doesn't mean I can't do it. I'm going to. 

Basketball player rebounding

Growth Mindset: Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address

Wow. I always knew Neil Gaiman was a pretty incredible writer, but I didn't know he was such an inspiring speaker. I'm not nearly as artistic as I want to be, but I don't think his advice was only for the artists. I think when he says that we just need to "make art", he really just means that no matter how bad things get, the best thing to do is to keep doing something.

This is so powerful because so many times in life we feel as if something we encounter is insurmountable, that we're failures and won't ever succeed, that we're not living up to our potential, but these are all really mental things. If we continue to just do things instead of trying to think our way out of situations, we're be able to heal better as a result.

I really connect with this because I'm in a difficult point in my life: searching for a job. It's frustrating, and when you receive no response for a while, it makes me feel really bad about myself and my accomplishments. However, Gaiman's advice will help me carry on into a better future.

Neil Gaiman, image from Flickr user Stanislav Lvovsky

Learning Challenge: Audiobook Experience

I've used audiobooks a lot in the past. I started using them pretty regularly when I was in Europe, because I had to pack lightly and couldn't bring physical books around. I really got used to them because of all of the downtime that comes with travel, like long train rides or even just walking to the grocery store. They're super convenient, but I will admit sometimes I would get distracted and forget to pause the tape.

I hadn't tried Librivox before this semester, and I think overall it's a pretty good resource because it has so many audiobooks available. My only gripe is that sometimes the audio quality isn't very good, so it's hard to listen to or understand the story. If you don't have this problem, then Librivox really is great!

Audiobooks by Flickr user Nicola Einarson

Tech Tip: Add an HTML Box to Sidebar

For this week's Tech Tip, I decided to add an HTML widget box to my sidebar. In this box, I added one of my favorite quotes, by the American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson. It's one that a lot of people have heard before, but you should check it out anyway!

Reading Notes: Turkish Fairy Tales, Part A

Fear

The concept of this story is really interesting. Though fear is something natural, this story presumes that it is learned by showing how a young person goes on adventures in search of fear, but is able to not even notice situations where others would have been shaken with fear.

I wonder what else could be done in this way? A lot of things are taught, so it would have to be something that we just feel naturally.

Hm! I wonder what so significant about that fear that caused him to become afraid. Maybe it was more just surprise than actual fear, because I assume that the other things that happened to him (like the hand in the cemetery) were also shocking.

The Wizard-Dervish

Woops, guess Pops didn't tell his son about the Dervish! That must be pretty startling.

Interesting! This Dervish guy has some strange practices.

"...who was a witch." uh oh...

I wonder how hard it was to follow the instructions of the maidens. Clearly, this has been done before, otherwise how would she know what the son needed to answer in order to earn one of the daughter's hands in marriage?

How strange! I guess this is the kind of arduous test you need to pass in order to marry into a magical family.

A dervish 

via Wikimedia Commons

The Fish-Peri

Mahomet - that's the name of my hometown! I wonder how the French name for Mohammed got in this story...

Typical power-hungry king trying to take from his subjects...

That ending was weird.

The Crow-Peri

A lot of stories have similar events (father dies - son is born without knowing his occupation), (three birds - turn into maidens), (40 days to accomplish a task), etc.

The Parishah is also very demanding of the boy. A lot of these stories center around young people who are able to do great or seemingly diffucult tasks. Story: society ruled by adults, but have children that have supernatural abilities who do all of these ridiculous tasks for their parents / elders.

Huh, I didn't think that magical creatures could get sick.

Bibliography: Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos. Source.