Extra Credit Reading Notes: Indian Fairytales, Part A

I enjoyed the story of the young girl being turned into a fiddle because of her brothers' interference. I think playing with the ending of this story could be interesting, and giving the girl more of a backstory for why she decided not to marry and to stay home could bring the ending together well. 

Plan: 

The story doesn't say why she is the only unmarried child, maybe she doesn't want to get married

Instead, she wants to travel as a musician, but she doesn't not have the means because she needs to take care of her family, since the wives don't cook

Same plot can play out, where brothers trick her and drown her...she grows into a tree and is cut down and made into a fiddle

Yogi can still play music around brothers and they can feel as though they connect with it on some level

Yogi can travel the world playing beautiful music, and she will (in spirit?) travel along with him making the most beautiful music and fulfilling her life dream, while the mean-spirited brothers are left behind without someone to cook for them

There is a lot of story detail to work with, but changing the ending to give the young woman the life she always wanted but couldn't have satisfies the story better. Almost a sort of karma on the brothers for being cruel to her.

Perhaps end the story with a one line moral. Or some neat way of wrapping up the moral of the story.

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Bibliography: The Magic Fiddle by Joseph Jacobs

Image: Statue of a Fiddler, Source: Pixabay