How Did Self-Injury Enter the Stiltskin Family?A Poem by Evyn Rubin a made up story to explain something factual Sun, Dec 18 at 1:00 PM How Did Self-Injury Enter the Stiltskin Family? Once upon a time and long ago Sarah Stiltskin of the forest Stiltskins saved her life by hitting her own self hard with her own hand on her face and head in the castle in the midst of a big fight with Margaret Princess who was making false accusations bizarre and outrageous but had Sarah slapped instead the lying mouth of Margaret Sarah's death would have been immediate and Gimpel Stiltskin followed suite smashed his own foot through the floor in the midst of the same fight saving his life for had he kicked the throne his death would have been immediate Margaret's throne a fountain of lies in the castle royal fountain of edicts Margaret surrounded by guards with pikes loyal to their instruction to kill immediately anyone who touches without invitation any member of the royal family or even their property and these guards with sharp pikes had done so before Shosha Chana daughter of Sarah and Gimpel was witness to this event all that lead up to it and its aftermath Shosha Chana always claimed to have seen vividly a spirit grab her mother's hand holding it restraining it knocking it against Sarah's own head then grabbing the foot of Gimpel preventing its outward kick pushing it toward the floor and through the floor according to Shosha Chana a spirit which no one else had seen had saved the lives of both her parents But down through the ages an echo of this incident lingered and recurrently among their descendants someone would harm themselves in a fit of rage not directing it outward not the master of it to calm it but against themselves a peculiar and puzzling behavior whose origin is revealed here © 2023 Evyn Rubin |
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Added on December 23, 2022 Last Updated on April 2, 2023 Tags: fairy tale, self-injury, injustice, trauma Author
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