I know it seemed a little weird, the plot line of Adalind digging up her mother, dissecting her mother, "drinking her mother." Just a random plot idea to gross us out?
Maybe but after talking about the rape/forced relationship and how close that is to the situation of a real Hapsburg princess in 1810, the time period of the Grimm Brothers, I started adding up all the similiarities and it dawn on me why Adalind "drank her mother".
I wrote it here and don't want to double post, so you can click now or I can give you a real rough idea.
https://howtobeagrimm.wordpress.com/nicks-bedroom/
Without going into details Marie Louise was forced to marry her hated enemy Napoleon Bonaparte in order for him to produce an heir. Yes this is a case where only the baby is the reason for the marriage. She was surrounded by French politicans and courtiers that had survived the reign of terror, mostly because they had participated in it. Meaning they had sent her favorite aunt, Marie Antonette to the guilotine. Imagine having your aunt's crimes "dissected" in casual conversation before you at a state dinner table. Or being asked to join in a toast to Marie Antonette's death. "Drinking her own mother" is a metaphor for having to drink a toast to her family's murder.
Maybe they are using some biography of the events as their source for this "tale". They haven't quoted anything yet, but it's pretty clear they are following some storyline of Napoleon-Josephine-Marie Louise in their Nick-Juliette-Adalind story in season 4/5.
Maybe but after talking about the rape/forced relationship and how close that is to the situation of a real Hapsburg princess in 1810, the time period of the Grimm Brothers, I started adding up all the similiarities and it dawn on me why Adalind "drank her mother".
I wrote it here and don't want to double post, so you can click now or I can give you a real rough idea.
https://howtobeagrimm.wordpress.com/nicks-bedroom/
Without going into details Marie Louise was forced to marry her hated enemy Napoleon Bonaparte in order for him to produce an heir. Yes this is a case where only the baby is the reason for the marriage. She was surrounded by French politicans and courtiers that had survived the reign of terror, mostly because they had participated in it. Meaning they had sent her favorite aunt, Marie Antonette to the guilotine. Imagine having your aunt's crimes "dissected" in casual conversation before you at a state dinner table. Or being asked to join in a toast to Marie Antonette's death. "Drinking her own mother" is a metaphor for having to drink a toast to her family's murder.
Maybe they are using some biography of the events as their source for this "tale". They haven't quoted anything yet, but it's pretty clear they are following some storyline of Napoleon-Josephine-Marie Louise in their Nick-Juliette-Adalind story in season 4/5.