An extended comparison between this story and the Little Golden Book Tootle the Engine ends Bruno Bettelheim's analysis of it in The Uses of Enchantment. In a French version of this story, the protagonist is presented with a choice between the path of pins and the path of needles by a bzou (b'ZOO). (15[1])The earliest (15[1])precursor to this story, which appears in Egbert of Liège's Fecunda ratis (feh-KOON-dah RAH-teess), was the (15[2])basis for the (10[1])last of the three adaptations of this story that end Angela (10[1])(*) Carter's (-5[1])The (10[1])Bloody Chamber. (10[2]-5[1])Parallels (-5[1])are (10[1]-5[1])often drawn (-5[1])between Loki's responses (10[1]-5[1])to Thrymr's questions about (10[1])Freyja (-5[1])in the Thrymskvida (THRIMZ-k'VEE-dah) and a section of (10[1])this story that abruptly ends (-5[1])Charles Perrault's (10[2])(sharl peh-ROH's) version. The Brothers Grimm include (-5[1])the (-5[1])savior figure of the (10[2])huntsman (10[1])in, for 10 points, what European fairy tale in which (0[1])the title character's grandmother (10[5])is eaten by a wolf? ■END■