# Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s Coolest Dungeon Hides a Secret Tribute to a Beloved Classic

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/zelda-ocarina-of-times-coolest-dungeon-hides-a-secret-tribute-to-a-beloved-classic/
- Published: 2026-11-09T21:05:21+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T06:11:30+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/zelda-ocarina-time-forest-temple-little-women/
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Gaming

## Key points

- The Forest Temple’s Poe Sisters echo *Little Women*.
- Their names are Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.
- The reference appeared in the 1998 original.

## Summary

The Forest Temple in *The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time* includes a reference to Louisa May Alcott’s *Little Women*: its four ghostly Poe Sisters are named Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. The detail connects the eerie dungeon to the novel’s March sisters and remains in Nintendo’s Switch 2 remake, giving players a small literary Easter egg to discover.

The reference was also present in the 1998 Nintendo 64 original, so it is not a new addition in the remake. In that version, Jo was called Joelle; the other names and the sisters’ birth order match the novel. The article notes that *Little Women* has been adapted many times, including Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film.

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