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Update #5: ONLY 7 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!
We have one more week to raise the rest of our goal!
If you haven't already,
or you've been waiting for the right time,
or you are strategically planning on waiting until the last minute,
or you forgot,
or you don't want to,
NOW IS THE TIME!
To those who have already donated... a big huge thank you!
Love,
Amia and Miriam
Update #3: Hello from Team BBP
Well friends, it looks like our math is off. When we say 17 days to go, we mean 10!!! Yikes, the end is nigh. Please help us reach our goal of $3,000 in the next week.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP!
Update #2: check it. czech tale.
FROM THE VAULTS: CZECH FOLK TALES REVISTED...
THE WITCH AND THE HORSESHOES
ONCE there was a farmer's wife--I can't tell you which one--who was a witch. Now these folks used to have a feast every Eve of St. Philip and St. James. As soon as they began to burn the brooms she couldn't rest: go she must. So she stripped her clothes off, and, standing under the chimney, she anointed herself with some ointment. When she had finished, she said: "Fly, but don't touch anything." And away she flew in the twinkling of an eye. Yes, that was just how it was.
But the farmhand was watching all this from the stables, and he watched carefully where she put the ointment. So he went in too, stripped his clothes off, and anointed himself. He said: "Fly, but don't touch anything." And off he flew till he came to the place where the witches were having their feast. Now, when he came there, the farmer's wife knew him, and, to hide herself from him, she turned herself into a white horse. But he did not lose sight of the horse. He mounted it and went to the smith with it, and told him to shoe it. Next day the woman had four horseshoes on, two on her hands and two on her feet. And she had to stay like that always!
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barbara on June 6, 2011
Well, yes, that's the medieval version of the story. The modern version is that the farmhand of course did not follow the directions properly, because by mounting the white horse he was in fact touching something. The minute he sat on the white mare, he himself was turned into a saddle. So when the witch came back home later that evening, as a witch, and no longer a horse, she put hte saddle out in the stables. And from then on she enjoyed riding the farmhand, I mean saddle, for many years to come.
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Amia Yokoyama and Miriam Tobin on June 6, 2011
Amazing! I love that version of the story! I just did a drawing of this story, as kind of prep work for the book. I love working with the imagery and thinking through the transitions between the scenes.
Thank you for sharing, Barbara!
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Update #1: Things that are inspiring us...
Just another day in Brooklyn, and we are already noticing signs and omens that we are destined for Bohemia!
We only need $1,745 to kickstart the Bohemian Book Project into action!
Plants! Puppets! and a Czech book on Anatomy and Physiology of farm animals.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 18, 2011.
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Amia is an artist and designer specializing in jewelry making, metal-smithing, and stop-motion animation.
Miriam is a theatre director and writer. She adapts classic plays into highly visual and physical productions.
