Jack and the Beanstalk

[Iona]

[Penny]

[hvered]

[Rocky]

Oyster has an etymological connection with 'bone' too, perhaps fortuitously. The shells were crushed and used as building material apparently. The Romans were very into oysters as well as concrete.

[Rocky]

[hvered]

[Stuart]

The 'wound' in the Sleeping Beauty story is a pricked finger, so unusual (unique?) in a fairy tale that one suspects the real meaning is hidden, or Hermetic as Boreades says. It reminds me of blood brotherhoods and oaths, generally associated with secret and underground societies.

Pedauque is an architectural term, French obviously so presumably familiar to master masons, most of whom seem to have been French. The symbols in this fairy tale, especially the death that isn't dying, could be pointing to a masonic allegory a la Magic Flute.

[Marko]

[Boreades]

[hvered]

Pedauque or goose-foot was a measuring instrument used by the cathedral builders. Not just a tool of the trade but an instant sign of recognition like a doctor's stethoscope, lawyer's wig etc.