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   Gleb Hlebov to Alexander Koryagin   
   English folklore   
   15 Jan 25 09:25:30   
   
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   Hi Alexander,   
      
   Mon 13 Jan 2025 at 11:08, you wrote to All:   
      
    AK> In Russian folklore we have a beast with three heads. In England there   
    AK> are probably ones which have head and three bodies:   
      
   "...which have one head and..."   
      
    AK> The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so   
    AK> full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard   
    AK> and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently   
    AK> lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained   
    AK> faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she does not speak, we know   
    AK> what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom,   
    AK> and the pain is gone.   
    AK> [...]   
      
   This short passage feels quite like a piece of poetry, you may think of it   
   this way. However, there seems to be a certain logic to that: only one head at   
   a time that she'd lay her hand on, hence a singular "our head".   
      
   The same with "our cheek", too, probably.   
      
   As with turning "our little tear-stained faces up to hers", it is an immediate   
   action that can be performed simultaneously by all of the partakers, no matter   
   how many or few. Well, assuming it's not a single-head-multi-face type of   
   monster.   
      
      
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