Synopsis by William Disbro, created from:
In The Ever After (pp 129-137), by Allan B. Chinen
A son and his new wife lived with his mother and the wife was mean and demanding with the mother because the mother knew that the wife had a forked tongue and was really a snake. While despairing, the mother helped a young girl who in turn sent elves to help the mother. The wife was finally revealed to be a snake but the son was still bewitched and he banished his mother from the house. The Forest-King gave the mother the option of returning to her young life with her new husband but when the mother found out that she would no longer have her son she rejected the offer. At that moment the spell was broken and the snake-wife slithered into a hole and the son re-united with his mother.
Dr. Chinen writes of the necessity of self-transcendence for the mother's success. The mother's altruism benefits all of society. The generativity shown by the mother does indeed go beyond her own self-interest.
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