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“‘But,’ said the snake, ‘I’m afraid the dog will bite me. You couldn’t tie him up, could you?’”
Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales, 135. Cannelora, trans. George Martin.

Bethany & Mother should both go to Booker the mabari & thus reunite with Samantha.

Champion Sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ahmaZ94hM

“Finally, having established his worship throughout the world, Dionysus ascended to Heaven, and now sits at the right hand of Zeus as one of the Twelve Great Ones. The self effacing goddess Hestia resigned her seat at the high table in his favour; glad of any excuse to escape the jealous wranglings of her family, and knowing that she could always count on a quiet welcome in any Greek city which it might please her to visit. Dionysus then descended, by way of Lerna, to Tartarus where he bribed Persephone with a gift of myrtle to release his dead mother, Semele. She ascended with him into Artemis’s temple at Troezen; but, lest other ghosts should be jealous and aggrieved, he changed her name and introduced her to his fellow-Olympians as Thyone. Zeus placed an apartment at her disposal, and Hera preserved an angry but resigned silence.”
Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, Volume One, Chapter 27 Dionysus’s Nature and Deeds, k. 

Britney Spears Remix feat. Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha — Till the World Ends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NQAIgmnBhM

“I went on, pulling up more tough shoots from another tree, searching for the cause, however deep it might lie, and the dark blood flowed from the bark of this second tree. With my mind in turmoil I began to pray to the country nymphs and to Father Mars Gradivus who rules over the fields of the Getae, begging them to turn what I was seeing to good and to make the omen blessed, but after I had set about the spear-like shoots of a third shrub with greater vigour and was on my knees struggling to free it from the sandy soil (shall I speak? Or shall I be silent?) I heard a heart-rending groan emerge from deep in the mound and a voice rose into the air: ‘Why do you tear my poor flesh, Aeneas?’ it cried. ‘Take pity now on the man who is buried here and do not pollute your righteous hands. I am no stranger to you. It was Troy that bore me and this is no tree that is oozing blood. Escape, I beg you, from these cruel shores, from this land of greed. It is Polydorus that speaks. This is where I was struck down and an iron crop of weapons covered my body. Their sharp points have rooted and grown in my flesh.’ At this, fear and doubt oppressed me. My hair stood on end with horror and the voice stuck in my throat. This was the Polydorus the doomed Priam had once sent in secret with a great mass of gold, to be brought up by the king of Thrace, when at last he was losing faith in the arms of Troy and saw his city surrounded by besiegers.”
Virgil, The Aeneid, Book III The Wanderings, trans. David West, lines 32-53.

“‘If that be the case,’ replied the king, ‘I must this very moment get the dragon’s heart.’”
Giambattista Basile, The Pentamerone: The Story of Stories, The Enchanted Doe, trans. J. E. Taylor, 1634 [Canneloro & Myrtle].

Snow — Champion Sound [don’t you know Daddy me]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxglPtKd_hU

“Once a king whose wife bore him no children issued a decree, stating:
Whoever can advise the king and queen
How to have children
Will become, after the king,
The richest man in the land.
But whoever proves wrong
Will be beheaded out of hand.”
Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales, 135. Cannelora, trans. George Martin.

Samantha might choose Ferelden & to provide offspring to queen Anora.

“‘Scaoil amach an deabhailín,’ she said with a wink. Let out the little divileen.”
Hugo Hamilton, The Sailor in The wardrobe, Harper Perennial, 2006.

miss A — Hush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp0F18FFCTE

“Having visited Mount Sipylus and dedicated to Temnian Aphrodite an image made of green myrtle-wood, Pelops tested his chariot by driving it across the Aegean Sea. Almost before he had time to glance about him, he had reached Lesbos.”
Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, Volume Two, 109 Pelops and Oenomaus, g.