Scare the birds away

This is one of the first of the trials of Hercules I decided to work on. A few of the original trials involve killing animals but I though this wasn't really appropriate for children (not without addressing issues surrounding killing animals for food or sport specifically). I changed the story from killing the birds to scaring them away from the farmers freshly sown fields. This is not far away from the original story as Hercules only killed some of the birds and the rest fled. The last three images in this publication depict the simple sensible way to complete the task, I though of a few different ways i could alter the narrative to include the theories from my research:

- The girl completes the trial but it is really easy and she feels no sense of accomplishment. Mixture of emotions
- The girl comes up with outrageous ideas to scare the birds away that all fail and she resorts to the simple approach of a scarecrow

This lead me on to the idea of exploring multiple ideas through imagination (counter-factuals) then thinking about how those ideas would pan out given her own life experiences and knowledge. The ideas could be rested out in the form of a conversation with an imaginary friend.