J.K. Rowling – The Tales of Beedle the Bard pdf

J.K. Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard Wonderful Digest

Another notable difference between these fables and their Muggle counterparts is that
Beedle’s witches are much more active in seeking their fortunes than our fairy-tale heroines. Asha,Altheda, Amata and Babbitty Rabbitty are all witches who take their fate into their own hands,rather than taking a prolonged nap or waiting for someone to return a lost shoe. The exception to this rule – the unnamed maiden of “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart” – acts more like our idea of a storybook princess, but there is no “happily ever after” at the end of her tale.

Beedle the Bard lived in the fifteenth century and much of his life remains shrouded in mystery.We know that he was born in Yorkshire, and the only surviving woodcut shows that he had an exceptionally luxuriant beard. If his stories accu-rately reflect his opinions, he rather liked
Muggles, whom he regarded as ignorant rather than malevolent; he mistrusted Dark Magic, and
he believed that the worst excesses of wizardkind sprang from the all-too-human traits of cruelty,apathy or arrogant misapplication of their own talents. The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.