3: Jack And The Beanstalk
Chosen because it’s the local big panto this year, Jack And The Beanstalk is the one where a poor boy is talked into selling the family’s cow for some magic beans, but they’re real magic beans so that’s okay, and they grow a giant beanstalk that could provide enough beans to be the basis of a revived farming business but instead he climbs it all the way to a castle above the clouds where he robs the giant owner, escapes back down and cuts the beanstalk down so the giant falls and he can keep the loot, including a talking harp.
It sounds really weird when laid out like that..
It’s adjacent to the various Jack stories about an underdog trickster type, this Jack does win with a bit of trickery but a lot of luck.
Castles in the sky are a classic fantasy motif, and magic items like fast-growing vines and animated musical instruments as well.
What I most wonder is who just sold him a perfectly good magic bean?
The Magic Merchants
Disguised godlike types giving gifts to the kind and punishments to the guilty? Or just getting by on the barter economy?
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