I would like to welcome you to episode 26 of the Symbolic World podcast.

On this episode, I will be playing for you a interpretation of the fairy tale Pussin' Boots.

And so enjoy.

Music. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. And so what I want to talk about is a story that a lot of people maybe find a bit strange.

And it's the story of Pussin boots, the story of the cat who wears boots.

I remember when I was a child, I was fascinated by this story, but at the same time, it seems so strange and so absurd that it was

difficult to understand. And as I started to understand symbolism, I saw that, in fact,

the Pussain Boots story was a very, very, very powerful structure.

And it's a very powerful structure that's helpful for us right now.

If you followed some of my videos, the videos where I talk about,

how a world gets turned back on its feet,

how when something is chaotic and upside down,

how it can come back up out of the water, let's say.

Well, the story of Pustin Boots gives us a great example.

And so I'm going to go through the story and I'm going to show you how it compares to other

traditional stories and hopefully we can pull out of it a, let's say, an understanding of how the end of something can become a new beginning.

The story of Puss & Boots is rather simple.

The miller dies and he has three sons.

He leaves to his oldest son, he leaves his mill.

To his second son, he leaves his donkey or his ass. And to his youngest son, he leaves his mill. To his second son, he leaves his donkey or his ass.

And to his youngest son, he leaves his cat.

And so obviously, if you look at the structure,

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