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The Fairy Tale Heroine's Journey 13

In all the best fairy tales, the Heroine gets to where she is going and transforms her story with the help of a magical object of some kind: a skein of thread, a ball, a key. Often it’s an everyday object that might change her fortune; think of the girl in the Grimms’ story of Mother Holle who drops her spindle down a well. The journey to recover it tra…