Curiosity Killed the Wives: Punishment and Reward in Myth and Folktales | Odd Salon CURIOSITY 3/7
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2018-02-08

Curiosity killed the cat - er, protagonist.... We tend to think of curiosity as a positive trait. People living during the middle ages would disagree. Nowhere is this fact made more clear than in the fate reserved for curious heroines of myths and folk tales.

Andrey Tselikov: Curiosity Killed the Wives: Punishment and Reward in Myth and Folktales

Odd Salon CURIOSITY: From the cabinets of wonder of the Enlightenment to the collectors of oddities behind them, the roots of the scientific revolution to the question of what exactly killed the cat.

Recorded live 2/6/2018 at Public Works, San Francisco, CA

Curated by Annetta Black
Edit, Camera, Post production: John Adams
Sound: Steen
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