Two stories, two small things making enormous problems. We have "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Red Shoes". For two stories about young women learning and growing, they contain kind of a lot of dismemberment.

The creature is Striga! And she's the reason to put on that extra loaf of garlic bread and leave pig bones all over church.

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Music:

"Celestial Navigation" by Blue Dot Sessions

"In Passage" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Rabbit Hole" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Babble Babble Brook" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Fissure Forming" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Heavenstill" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Single Still" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Loopy" by Blue Dot Sessions

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Disclaimer

Magical shoes make a girl of, like, 13's feet dance for days on end, so she has to have them cut off by a helpful man with an axe. Then, a few months later, her heart explodes. Because she's so happy. I try to make it as not-gruesome as possible and the act of cutting off her feet is not described in any detail.