Kissing the Witch

From the book Kissing the Witch I would say my favorite story was the Tale of the Handkerchief. This tale to me represents a symbol of karma. Only because at the begging of the story the little girl started of as the maid and at the end she made the princess become the maid and the maid took the princess position. At the end of the tale we learn that the prince who she is going to get married to might die, and then she again will have to start from the beginning to look for another crown to her own. What I’m trying to get at is that she got what she deserved for taking the crown of the princes karma got her back by taking the husbands life and she not becoming anything important.

The tale of the needle is what captures the situation of women today. Because women are sometimes told the word no but, what do women do not listen and they go ahead and do things they weren’t supposed to do thus, leading to either positive or negative outcomes. In the tale we see how the parents of the little girl would tell her she was not allowed to go near the tower and what did she do she went in and up the tower, just to find herself pricking her finger with a needle. When women are put down in our society today, women achieve what they were told it wasn’t possible that is why I relate the story with women today. Women have lots of power in my opinion.

The author titles the book Kissing the Witch because all of the stories are related to the last story in the book. The witch who was in the cave was never a real witch only people who would think she was and though of all the miracles she did when in reality she didn’t do much. The last person to go visit her gives the witch kisses and that is all, therefore I think this is the reason why she titles the book like that.