GLOSSARY To be fitting or suitable BESEEMING


BIERS BLITHE BRITTLE


CLOD


The Baker’s Wife tells herself that her actions in the woods are not beseeming.


A structure that is used to hold up a coffin before burial


Rapunzel’s Prince tells of how he cries on a princess’s biers.


Joyous Rapunzel’s Prince describes Rapunzel as blithe.


Having a rigidity or hardness The Wolf refers to Granny as brittle.


Someone who is considered stupid; something of lesser value


Florinda calls Cinderella a clod when she pulls her hair too tightly.


DELETERIOUS Causing mischief The Mysterious Man describes himself as deleterious. PITCH MALICE MANTICORE MOLLIFIED DOLT A dull person


Jack’s mother says that only a dolt would trade a cow for beans.


The intention or desire to inflict harm upon another


Cinderella believes that the prince laying pitch on the stairs is more than malice.


A monster in legends that is said to have a man’s head, horns, the body of a lion, and a dragon’s tail


The Baker suggests that the footprints on the ground could be those of a manticore.


Softened in severity of feeling or temper


The witch was still not mollified after the Baker’s father apologized for stealing the witch’s greens. Substance used for paving, similar to tar


Cinderella sings of how her prince put pitch on the stairs in order to prevent her from running away from the ball.


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