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No specific #folklore for it, but it reminded me of a Colombian folktale about a boy who carries salt for a chief, and gets caught in a rain that washes he salt away. The boy prays to the god Bochica, who takes him on a journey, shows him the hidden riches under the earh, and on a beach teaches him how to create salt pans to collect sea salt.
#MinCup23 #folktales
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-13
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-13
As marine geophysicist I vote Bischofite the Permian evaporite sea salt, because it comes from the sea - and also because it’s used in compresses to treat arthritis.
#MinCup23
I don't have a folktale for it specifically, but it is a lead ore, so let me introduce you to one of my favorite Hungarian folktale villains:
The Lead Monk
Sometimes also called "Snotty Lead Monk" (🤷♀️ ), this supernatural entity can cover the landscape with lead, has superhuman strength, and can turn people into stone. It would make a great #DnD villain.
More here:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/l-is-for-lead-monk-wtf-hungary-weird.html
#folklore #folktales
L is for the Lead Monk (WTF Hungary - Weird Things in Hungarian Folktales)
Welcome to this year's A to Z Challenge titled WTF Hungary - Weird Things in Hungarian Folktales! You can find all other participating blogs...multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com
Mineral lab classic and reliable lead ore #Galena is against the structurally-intriguing #Perovskite and all its possibilities.
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-12
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-12
And amazingly useful as a geochemical and isotopic tracer of processes and time.
And best of all, an almost unparalleled complexity in crystal forms. In Goldschmidt's Atlas der Krystallformen, plates 3 to155 *just cover calcite* - this is just one of them🤩 🤯 🥰
#Geology #Mineralogy #Calcite
More here
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/f-is-for-fire-opals-gemstone-folklore.html
#MinCup23 #folklore #opal
The Holy Roman Emperor's crown used to have a big white opal, the Orphan Stone. The 12th century German romance of Duke Ernst tells the origins of the stone.
Ernst, stepson of the emperor, is exiled from his home and heads to the Holy Land. On the way he gets lost, and goes through a series of Sindbad-like adventures, featuring bird-headed people, giants, griffins, and a Magnetic Mountain. He finds the opal in a magic cave.
More here
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/w-is-for-weise-stone-gemstone-folklore.html
#MinCup23 #folklore
#Calcite can form very well-defined crystals but sometimes also looks a bit plain and beige. All samples from mineral exhibition at Uni Münster.
Calcite reminds me of a story from Costa Rica. A chief called Nandayure owned a magic wand that could make disappear anything that contained calcium. One day he saw his people dancing, wearing lots of white body paint, and grew so angry at the decorations he aimed the wand at them. You know what else has calcium? Bones. Oops.
(He managed to reverse the spell by destroying the wand)
#folklore #folktales #minerals #gemstones #thread
#Calcite vs #Opal
One fights on, the other is eliminated for 2024. Eek!!
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-11
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-11
We’ve hovered near a tie long enough to send the admins diving into code to check & recheck tallies & charts and into site traffic to monitor potential ballot-stuffing, but the tie is real!
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-10
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-10
The mercury mines in Idrija, Slovenia have a legend about a mine gnome called the perkomandelj. In one story a miner encounters it alone in a shaft, and they work side by side for a whole month without a word. At the end of the month the miner decides to split his pay evenly with he gnome, down to cutting the last coin in half.
The perkomandelj rewards him for his fairness (and silence) with all the money, and good fortune.
#folklore #folktales
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-9
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-9
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/r-is-for-ruby-revenge-gemstone-folklore.html
Happy voting everyone!
#folktales #folklore #MinCup23 #thread
Later a princess declares she wants the ruby for her necklace (to inspire people to rid the land of the monster). A prince finds a way to kill the monster and take the gem.
#folktales
#folklore
#MinCup23
#thread
In this one, a king receives a priceless ruby that turns into a baby boy in the queen's treasure chest. The Ruby Prince kills a monster and wins a wife, but tells her never to ask where he came from. When she inevitably does, he disappears.
She later finds out that he lives with the King of Snakes now. She takes dance lessons, enchants the king with her dance, and wins her husband back.
#folktales #folklore #MinCup23 #thread
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2020/11/storyspotting-rubies-and-royalty-crown.html
This is also the origin story of the (in)famous Mogok ruby mines. It features a Naga princess who falls in love with the Sun, and three magic eggs, one of which bursts in Mogok and fills the land with rubies.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #thread #StorySpotting
StorySpotting: Rubies and royalty (The Crown)
StorySpotting is a weekly or kinda-weekly series about folktales, tropes, references, and story motifs that pop up in popular media, from TV...multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com
In the meantime, the goose gets away, and the turtle dives into the pond with both rubies.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #thread
The woman then dresses up as a policeman and joins the king's forces. She defeats a monster, earns favor, and solves the case of the men's disappearance, bringing justice to the evil merchant.
#thread #folktales #folklore #MinCup23
The grateful beggar asks the king to blow his nose. When the king does, a ruby larger than a hen's egg falls into the handkerchief: a magical (though a bit gross) reward for the king's kindness.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #thread
The king and his sapphire-laughing minister betray the two other friends. Those two take revenge with the help of the fourth lucky fruit. In the end the minister is cursed like Midas: whatever he tries to eat turns into sapphires.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23
*Cracks knuckles*
I'm voting corundum, because folklore (and because as a kid I had a book on gemstones, and padparadscha seemed so magical).
I'm going to make this a thread, because rubies and sapphires figure into a whole bunch of tales and legends.
🧵
#folklore #folktales #mythology #gems #minerals #thread #corundum
the industrial sweetheart and standard for Mohs hardness 9 #Corundum grinds against the index mineral for high pressures and low temperatures #Lawsonite. Both are tough, but only one hard rocker can survive this battle!
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-8
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-8
Round 1 Match 8
It’s a hard knock life, but one of these minerals has what it takes!Mika McKinnon (Mineral Cup)
By Alfred Petrov 2006
#MinCup23 #Vivianite
https://www.mindat.org/article.php/137/A+Scientific+Study+of+the+Absorption+of+Evil+by+Vivianite
But look at this 🤩: #Vivianite pseudomorph after shell from Kerch, Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine (size: 5.6 × 4.6 × 2.7 cm). #MinCup23
📷 Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com
It’s ever-darkening #Vivianite vs vanadium-blue #Cavansite!
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-7
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-7
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-6
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-6
It's supposed to be fun and you don't have to know anything about minerals to participate. If your favorite color is blue, vote for the blue mineral. If you like the shape or the name or if it reminds you of your favorite cartoon, band (insert anything here), vote for it!
Some of us geek out a bit about mineral details (seems like a lot of us are on Mastodon lol) but we all love to hear what motivated you to pick a mineral. Silliness is also welcome!
Stibnite is also known as kohl, used as an eyeliner since Ancient Egypt.
There in an Egyptian folktale where a dervish puts magic kohl on the eyes of a young man, rendering him invisible so he can sneak into the king's palace to see a princess.
A wily old woman catches the trespasser by burning buffalo dung - the rancid smoke makes the guy tear up, and the tears wash the magic kohl from his eyes. Oops.
#folktales #folklore #minerals