Listen! This was a signal for the little ones to crowd around grandmother in her story-telling sessions, looked for with zest. She dwelt on themes from folk tales, the epics, and other lore—of heroism, adventure, fantasies of strength, folly of passion, irredeemable love, jealousy, wiles, perfidy and nemesis, tragedy of conceit, mighty confrontations, triumph of nobility and virtue, doctrines of conduct, devotion and defiance of even death, frolics of Gods, ...
