407 - Heather Pollington - Rapunzel and the Evil Witch

📖 RAPUNZEL AND THE EVIL WITCH IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE: https://rapunzelbook.com/<br /><br />Heather Pollington and I are thrilled to share our brand-new storybook with you, 'Rapunzel and the Evil Witch'! Following 'Snow White and the Widow Queen' and 'Jack and the Fallen Giants', this third fairy tale feels like the culmination of our work so far. With this book you’ll begin to notice the different threads connecting across the series. Heather has created stunning illustrations that weave medieval and Byzantine influences into a style perfectly suited to the fairy tale world. <br /><br />In this episode, we walk through the process behind the book, the symbolism of Rapunzel’s story, and what's unique about our version of the story. We show many of the book's illustrations. I can't wait to hear what you think!<br /><br />YouTube version: https://youtu.be/aEWgHif0NS8<br /><br />Timestamps:<br />00:00 - Announcement and opening<br />01:36 - Intro music<br />02:02 - Introduction<br />03:41 - Heather's journey to Rapunzel<br />06:40 - Critiques of fairy tales<br />07:46 - Tangled<br />10:12 - Exploring Rapunzel imagery<br />10:24 - Early sketches<br />12:14 - Iconography and Palekh fairy tale tradition<br />15:54 - Frontispiece<br />17:51 - Green flowers<br />20:12 - The witch's garden<br />22:59 - The dark exchange<br />25:48 - The circle of protection<br />28:55 - A sense of freedom<br />30:43 - The moon tower<br />35:04 - The haunting melody<br />37:40 - Love in the tower<br />41:47 - The dream<br />43:27 - Flax into gold<br />46:02 - Rain from heaven<br />53:43 - The wooden throne<br />56:28 - Order<br /><br />💻 Website and blog: http://www.thesymbolicworld.com<br />🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanpageau <br />🔒 BECOME A PATRON: https://thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe <br /><br />NEW COURSE: Jubilees and the Nephilim, by Fr. Stephen De Young<br />- Register now: https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/courses/jubilees-and-the-nephilim <br />- Course Length: 6 Weeks, 12 Hours<br />- Dates: Live classes are on Tuesday at 7 - 9 pm Central Time, starting August 19th through September 23rd, 2025<br />- Participants will be given access to lesson recordings.<br />- The course is hosted on the Symbolic World Circle Community platform. Sign up as a free member before making your purchase. <br />- Price: 180 USD, Involved patrons qualify for 10% discount.<br />Step into the strange and revelatory world of the Book of Jubilees, an ancient retelling of Genesis that shaped ancient Jewish thought and still echoes through Christian tradition. In this course, Fr. Stephen De Young guides students through the book’s expansion of biblical history, unveiling the significance of the fall of the angels, the rise of the Nephilim, and the heavenly origins of the feasts of the Old and New Testaments. Along the way, he'll explore how Jubilees reinterprets creation, demonology, and the prophetic structure of time, and why these themes mattered not only to Second Temple Judaism, but to later Christian understandings of the unseen world.<br /><br />Our website designers: https://www.resonancehq.io/ <br />My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson: https://matthewwilkinson.net/<br />