Day 14 - She Knits Until He Falls Asleep

I have learned oodles of fascinating things about fairy tales during this art challenge (because fairy tales are my theme, of course), and one of those things is that THERE ARE EXACTLY 1.2 JILLION-GA-DRILLION  FAIRY TALES.  Seriously, it's like finding out that there are 484 kinds of wine I've never heard of: Confusing and exciting, all at the same time.

One of the new wines - which is really an old wine - involves a whole school of tales in which somebody marries someone who's not quite human.  The bride/grooms don't realize this, of course, because the new spouses are able to appear perfectly human, depending on the time of day.  So maybe your bird husband only visits you at night, when he seems like people, or your witch wife looks human all day, but after you fall asleep at night, she sneaks out to do her witchery.

This is definitely the scenario in Boo Hag, an American folk tale in which the wicked wife never gets to say a word in her own defense.  Her husband goes and assumes she's going to hurt him, and then he kills her.  It's really not nice at all.

Here she is, chatting with him and knitting in her chair while he falls asleep.

This is not available in my shop, because I will be listing it in the auction that will run from February 1 - February 8.  (More details and a link as soon as I have it!)