@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoWhat is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?message-square68fedilinkarrow-up173
arrow-up173message-squareWhat is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoIsn’t there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?
minus-squareDojanlinkfedilink6•1 year agoRumpelstiltskin. Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”
Isn’t there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?
Yes, that’s where it’s from.
Rumpelstiltskin.
Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”