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[JoeUser]

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[JoeUser]

The garbled part:

[rowan]

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[JoeUser]

OK, so he says:

[rowan]

[JoeUser]

Hey, something!
After doing some searches, I found another story:

[JoeUser]

OK, I'm not having any luck on the search for the story.

What Jung and Campbell talked about was that there were commonalities in all myths (Jung's collective unconscious and archetypes). Campbell compared myths from different cultures and found parallels.

Campbell also believed in the "monomyth," the "one true story" that all myths are based on.

I don't know what we're supposed to be looking for though! The story of Cinderella and Psyche both fit the story pattern described, and I've tried going backwards to find earlier Cinderella-type stories.

Rhodopis from Egypt, Yeh-Shen from China, but no new keys.

I'm also not sure how Lovecraft fits in with this either.

Any ideas? I appear to be stuck at the moment.

[vidstudent]

I can make a guess at what they're asking for, but Google isn't helping me (and I don't know nearly enough about Mr. Lovecraft's works).

Think about it this way: If all stories are based on one story, then there are many, many different ways of doing it. The question thereupon posed is, "What would H.P. Lovecraft's version of a Cinderella story be?"

...the closest I can get is some Call of Cthulhu supplement entitled, "Dreamworks", and I can't get any farther than that. (I can't even find the Cinderella quote mentioned by the Google link.)

[Daedalus-XIII]

As I'm into Lovecraft and the Call of Cthulhu-RPG a bit deeper, I can maybe give you some info. The Dreamlands are a plane of existence, that you visit in your dreams. A "clone" of you lives there, and as soon as you dream, you slip into this other "life". When you wake up, you live your own life here, while your dream-self follows it's own ways in the Plane of Dreams.
The most famous story about this is "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath". The setting of this world is a kind of twisted medieval and pre-medieval world. Unforutnately, don't have any idea though, where there's a story with a Cinderella-theme.

There is some RPG-Supplement for CoC named "Die Froschkönig-Fragmente" (The Frog King Fragments) but it seems, it has been published only in German. This Adventure is based on the stories of Grimm-brothers and not based on anything HPL wrote. But never played or bought this one.

Lovecraft was fascinated and influenced mostly by the Grimm fairy tales, E.A. Poe, 1001 Nights and Jules Verne, but I think I never read any story that would fit the cinderella-scheme. The one that comes next to this may be "The Dunwich Horror"

Here's a very good compilation of Lovecraft and mythos-related subjects:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/

[rowan]

I've also found reference to a poem called "Cindy: Scrub Lady in a State Street Skyscraper" which sounds like it could be a Cinderella reference, but I haven't been able to find the text for it (and couldn't get any keywords out of just the title).