Subj : English folklore
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Gleb Hlebov
Date : Wed Jan 15 2025 09:25:30

Hi Alexander,

Mon 13 Jan 2025 at 11:08, you wrote to All:

 AK> In Russian folklore we have a beast with three heads. In England there
 AK> are probably ones which have head and three bodies:

"...which have one head and..."

 AK> The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so
 AK> full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard
 AK> and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently
 AK> lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained
 AK> faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she does not speak, we know
 AK> what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom,
 AK> and the pain is gone.
 AK> [...]

This short passage feels quite like a piece of poetry, you may think of it this way. However, there seems to be a certain logic to that: only one head at a time that she'd lay her hand on, hence a singular "our head".

The same with "our cheek", too, probably.

As with turning "our little tear-stained faces up to hers", it is an immediate action that can be performed simultaneously by all of the partakers, no matter how many or few. Well, assuming it's not a single-head-multi-face type of monster.


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