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“Mutzmag,” a new movie by Fauquier filmmaker Tom Davenport, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 26 in The Theatre at Washington, Va., part of the Sunday movie series sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC).
“Mutzmag, or The Girl who Killed the Cannibals, an Appalachian Folktale,” is set deep in the Appalachian mountains around 1920.
The heroine is a plucky 12-year-old girl named Mutzmag, whose mother dies early in the story, and her two teenaged sisters decide to leave their tumbledown shack and “seek their fortunes” elsewhere. Mutzmag tags along, acting as a servant girl to her abusive siblings.
The girls lose their way in the forest and end up at the cabin of a wicked witch and her brutal but simpleminded giant husband. Quick-witted Mutzmag saves the day with nothing but a pocket knife and a ball of string.
For centuries the lives of young women have been defined by what they could not do. “Mutzmag” is about a girl realizing what she can do against overwhelming odds—set in a fantastical backwoods world where its lesson is readily available to children.
The folktale was collected in Richard Chase’s wellknown book “Grandfather Tales” and is related to an
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