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Princess is sad >> Everyone else is sad to be respectful >> No one is spending on entertainment on vices >> People are saving a lot of money >> People are giving a lot of dowry and inheritance to their kids >> King is taking in a lot in taxes and bureaucratic fees.
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The hero of the folktale finds out that the king he works for used to be the King of the Land of Eternal Youth. He was exiled from his kingdom by spiders because he was cruel to them and wanted to kill them off.
So now the Land of Eternal Youth is ruled by friendly spiders.
#folktales #folklore #animals
It is about a centipede and a slug running a race to a shrine. Obviously the centipede gets there first, but when the slug arrives, centipede is still taking his sandals off, so slug enters the shrine first.
😆
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"Old man cheats crocodile by playing on its ignorance of agriculture."
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One of those folktales where someone has to make a princess laugh, except this time the suitor is a well built blacksmith from Gascogne, and he walks in and the princess immediately smiles
👸 😄 Edit: the blacksmith's helper is a nicotine-addicted tobacco-farting rat
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According to a Lepcha folktale, bats are the only creatures that don't have to pay taxes 😄 That's because the King of the Birds and the King of the Rats couldn't decide who should tax them.
"So that is why the bat is free from all taxation. Everybody in the world pays some sort of revenue, even we human beings, but the bat is free and doesn’t."
I guess the bat took the "tax" out of "taxonomy"...
😄 🤷♀️ 🦇
#folklore #folktales #nature #animals
The Russian tale "Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Grey Wolf" has been translated to English in the 19th century by Edith Hodgetts as
"The Grey Wolf and the Golden Cassowary"
And now I can't not imagine the prince trying to wrangle
A damn FLYING CASSOWARY
(This is why you double check translations, people)
😬 😆
#folklore #folktales #storytelling #animals #birds #nature #FolktaleMoment
E.g. cooking a sparrow is a few minutes, cooking a rabbit is half an hour, cooking a sheep is one hour, etc.
(Honestly, genius)
Now I am wondering what the modern equivalent of this time keeping system would be... 😄 "Alright, I'll see you in two quesadillas and a pop tart!"
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The Greek army sailing to Troy stopped on the island of Delos. The king of Delos, a son of Apollo, foresaw that the Trojan War will only be won 10 years later.
So, he invited the Greeks to spend 9 years in his kingdom partying, instead of fighting.
They declined.
Imagine, they could have saved 9 years of war on a technicality...
#GreekMythology #FolktaleMoment #storytelling
Reading a legend about how emperor Franz Joseph's wife was a witch who used to turn him into a horse and ride him every night.
As a reminder that traditional storytellers often used everyday spoken language, here is what the wise advisor says when the Emperor confides in him about the matter:
"F*** hell, Joe..."
:D
#folklore #folktales #StorytellingPSA
A man sets out with a sword and encounters a sleeping 7-headed dragon. Not wanting to kill it while it is asleep, he lies down and snuggles it. The dragon wakes up later, sees the sleeping man, and decides to not kill it while asleep either.
(They do fight later on.)
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"E693.2. Woman reborn as bedbug to take revenge on husband."
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Is it just me, or would this be a great premise for a supernatural romance story 🤣🤣
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I now want to see a modern retelling of this were the youngest sister is a Twilight fangirl and is all like "oooh he must be a vampire!!!"
And then boom, tortoise 🐢
#SayItBella
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I'm digging into the story of Euthymus, a legendary (but real) Olympian boxing champion from the 5th century BCE. The story says that he defeated a ghost-zombie-werewolf monster in a boxing duel.
The monster was the ghost of one of Odysseus' sailors who violated a maiden in Italia and was stoned to death for it. His vengeful revenant kept demanding a tribute of virgins - until Euthymus showed up and banished him
#MythologyMonday #FolktaleMoment #mythology
Echo had a daughter (with Pan) who used her knowledge of magic to take revenge on Hera for her mother's death.
It's the revenge sequel no one talks about...
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I'm Csenge, professional storyteller and author from Hungary. I post about #folktales, mythology, storytelling, RPGs, and general nerdy stuff.
Things I usually post:
#FolktaleMoment: snippets of tales I am researching
#StorySpotting: blog posts about folktales spotted in popular media
#StorytellingPSA: comments of the life of a professional storyteller
#GirlInTheChair: research help for all your folklore needs :)
#ToddlerDnD: Adventures in nerdy parenting
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Jesus Christ, while walking the earth, encounters some mean and greedy people. And he punishes them by turning all ears of corn in their fields into horse d***s.
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"Murmeltier" (Marmot) is a tale from the earliest Grimm collection that seems to be a retelling of a French fairy tale by Mme de Villeneuve (famously the author of Beauty and the Beast).
Murmeltier is a "Frau Holle" type tale, with a heroine who has a magical emotional support beaver. It also features a miller who marries a male earth spirit and lives with him in domestic bliss, raising their son together. It's quite the fun story.
#storytelling #representation #folklore
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I'm reading South American indigenous folk stories.
In the "fire theft" legends of the Mocoví the villain who hogs all the fire is the viscacha.
Usually in these legends the fire-hogging creature - that a clever thief has to outwit - is a giant, or a monster, or a predator of some sort.
But the Mocoví decided to go with this guy.
(And honestly, he looks so done with everyone's BS, I can see why)
24 brothers (12 sets of twins) come across a castle with 24 enchanted princesses. They try to break the enchantment but ultimately fail. The youngest brother moves on, marries a merchant girl, and has 24 sons.
When the 24 boys grow up they return to the castle, break the enchantment, and marry the princesses 😄
#folklore #folktales #storytelling #FolkloreThursday
Just read a Hungarian Roma folktale where the villain is "the wolf with the naked butt."
Least threatening villain ever? 😆
(No, the naked butt is never explained)
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