Echo and Narcissus for himself, echoing the manner in which Echo did earlier. A while later his body is gone, and in its place is a narcissus flower. The pale flower is still found near river banks so that it can be reflected in the water. Echo and Narcissus Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", a Latin mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the myth of the mountain nymph Echo into the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who rejected sexuality and falls in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention. Ovid's version
Falling in Love With Hominids of the French folktale, Bluebeard. Hopkinson has another short storie about Blue beard,"The Glass Bottle Trick"; it's published in "Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root" Hopkinson draws on inspiration from many places for these stories, including classic literature, folklore, and Afro-Caribbean culture. "Shift" retells stories of Caliban and Ariel from The Tempest from Caliban's conflicted point of view, while "Flying Lessons" is about a small girl in Trinidad who draw parallels of her own life to the novella The Little Prince. "Men Sell Not Such in Any Town" is a salute to Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti. Falling