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“Rumplestiltskin” by Anne Anderson from Anne Anderson’s Old, Old Fairy Tales. Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1935.<\/p><\/div>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.7″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.8″ custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
In fairy tales the world over, the \u201clittle people\u201d\u2014the ants, the birds\u2026 the barnyard animals, wild bunnies, or wolves\u2014help the innocent, magically-protected, sweet, kind, and noble hero or heroine. They sort out and accomplish the impossible tasks assigned the beleaguered and persecuted protagonist (stand-in for the magically-potentiated Everywoman\/man) by the oppressive tyrant, evil king, inhuman ogre, goblin, or dragon lord.<\/p>\n
They would spin the masses of wheat into golden threads\u2014they would count, sort and quantify the towering heaps and innumerable grains of wheat or barley (notice that their \u201cimpossible\u201d tasks often involve the tabulation or transformation of the harvest into wealth), or guess the name of the misanthropic woodland gnome by overhearing the gloating creature\u2019s rantings from the corners, shadows, and eaves.<\/p>\n
Conversely, they could cooperate to bring down the evil monarch or abusive tyrant oppressing the heroic protagonist and\/or their noble quest which, often\u2014in fairy tales\u2014is simply to remain safe or unmolested by those who hold power over them. The small creatures, like servants in a great house or peasants in the fields, are invisible to those who hold and wield power, and can work undetected behind the scenes for truth, justice, magical recompense, or grace.<\/p>\n
Buckingham palace staff are now speaking out about what kind of power the defrocked prince wielded over them. He was the most abusive, least popular royal of them all. His nickname among the palace staff and courtly servitors was \u2018\u201dthe Cunt.\u201d He was disrespectful and cruel to everyone under him, by innumerable accounts, with not one testimonial to his credit, asserting otherwise. He seems to have been universally hated by \u201cthe little people\u201d who had the misfortune to have to serve him.<\/p>\n
This is Virginia Giuffre\u2019s description of his treatment toward her also\u2014that she was less than a \u201cthing\u201d to the depraved prince, Epstein, and Giuffre\u2014designated merely for sexual use.<\/p>\n
Investigators expressed bewilderment that the supposed \u201cfinancial investments advisor\u201d had no such files on his clients, had rendered no financial consultations, hadn\u2019t billed them for billable hours nor services, nor made any investments on their behalf. Yet tens of thousands, nay\u2014millions\u2014of dollars poured into his shady network of accounts monthly. Mainly because he held scores of receipts, just like the one he snapped of the disgraced prince, Maxwell, and Giuffre (nee Roberts) on the bedroom floor of Maxwell\u2019s London townhouse that night.<\/p>\n
OF COURSE the photo of the Windsor disgrace is authentic. THAT IS WHAT EPSTEIN DID. He got powerful men into dire compromise, then recorded it, took photos, kept correspondence about assignations between the men and young girls he trafficked to them\u2014names, dates of rapes of minor girls in his properties, on his island or the so-called \u201cLolita Express\u201d\u2014and banked them.<\/p>\n
A former member of the palace security police has pointed out that the Office of Royal Protection would have known about, recorded, and billed protective services for every single trip the prince has ever taken\u2014who he was with, where he was staying, and any security risks involved. Of course. The Office of Royal Protection knew and maintained records on every single time Andrew stands accused of being with the trafficked teenager\u2014in London, New York, and Epstein\u2019s private island\/pederastic sex enclave, Little St. James. How not?<\/p>\n
The French model agent who was charged with securing girls and young women for Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday in his Paris prison cell, where he was being held pending multiple charges of child rape and child sex trafficking. Jean-Luc Brunel, 74, was found hanged by his bed sheets in his cell around 1:30 a.m. local time at La Sante prison. \u201cBrunel, who ran Karin Models in Paris, and later formed MC2 Model Management with Epstein, was awaiting trial on charges of sexual assault and rape. He was also being investigated for trafficking minors, including girls as young as 12 years old, according to French news reports.\u201d (CNN) In point of fact, as a matter of public record, Epstein once bragged to his \u201cgirls\u201d and associates about the 12-year-old girl Brunel had lined up for him.<\/p>\n
Brunel died in circumstances eerily similar to Epstein, whose death also came about just as he was in prison while awaiting trial for multiple sex crimes against minors, with all of the depositions, disclosures, exposures, investigations, records seizures, and knock-on criminal charges that would entail.<\/p>\n
Scores of internationally prominent, wealthy, powerful men will have slept easier last night, and will no doubt continue to do so since Brunel\u2019s unfortunate death while in custody, having breathed a private sigh of relief. If involved, in any way, with their procurer\u2019s surprise demise, they will no doubt count any recent dings on their private fortunes as money well spent. If the problem Brunel\u2019s arrest represented for them was \u201chandled\u201d by a private, royal, or secret security service, all the better.<\/p>\n
But they\u2019re all forgetting about the little people\u2014so often deemed invisible, inconsequential and overlooked\u2014and the fact that there are eyes everywhere. There are and always have been witnesses everywhere\u2014in the corners, the margins, shadows, fissures\u2026 in the cracks that are opening up in their non-disclosure agreements with employees and their entitlements, their old-boys\u2019 legal protections from accountability\u2026<\/p>\n
They\u2019re forgetting that, in the Age of Information and\u00a0#metoo, every snippet of information can be publicized, often rendering a potent form of protection by public disclosure, and can certainly be monetized in excess of legal costs to complainants in well-furnished civil suits. There\u2019s all manner of trauma and abuse, short of and including actual assault or rape, that is now deemed actionable.<\/p>\n
Andrew should never have been so \u201crude, arrogant and entitled\u201d\u2014not to mention so downright disgusting, bullying, and mean\u2014to all those palace \u201cants.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Yvonne’s publications have mainly\u00a0focused on representations of women in art and the “unsung” women creators in art and culture. She is the author of many original and re-written folk legends and fairytales, as well as non-fiction works on the spiritual and imaginative sources of traditional lore. Her works on folklore and cross-cultural narratives include The Journey of the Bard<\/i> (1996) and The Cup of Mari Anu<\/i> (1994). She has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in three scholarly books, and a full-length art history text,\u00a0Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: the Witches and Femme Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien<\/i>\u00a0(Bloomsbury, 2020). She also writes on art and cultural criticism, exploring contemporary post-humanist discourses in art, literature and new media. She is co-Editor of an anthology of essays titled\u00a0Trans-Disciplinary Migrations: Science, the Sacred, and the Arts<\/i>,\u00a0forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"