Can you recognize the fairy tale I’m signing?

Back to normal posts tomorrow, hopefully.  I’ve been a little snowed under — especially as I’m taking a hypercompressed ASL class at Gallaudet at the moment.  So, for now, can anyone guess what fairy tale I’m (trying) to recount in this video from my homework?

I needed to tell some story with not-too many characters that would give me the opportunity to contrast the different temperaments of the people in the story.  For some reason (my fever, maybe?) my first plan was to tell the story of Oedipus, inspired mostly by the fact that we’ve been covering ‘family’ vocabulary and possessives, so saying “Oedipus’s father — his wife, Oedipus marry.”  Plus, I knew how to contrast the temperaments of Oedipus and his father when they met and refused to give ground, since I know the signs for “stubborn” and “angry.”

I realized this was ultimately a bad idea before I got up to the bit about “Oedipus — his mother, now his wife, she stabs her eyes.”  But that part definitely would have been good practice with possessives!

Note, this is from Day 3 of ASL 2, so my signing isn’t particularly good or representative of what fluent ASL looks like.