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Antoninus Liberalis also mentions that on Crete people worshiped Leto the Grafter, a goddess who changed a woman into a man by "grafting organs on him". Just saying.

#mythology #pagan #queer #LGBTQ #folklore #Classics
#lgbtq #pagan #queer #folklore #mythology #classics

So was anyone going to tell me that the "sacrificial virgin rescued from dragon by dashing hero" story existed as a gay love story in ancient times, or was I supposed to just find out from Antoninus Liberalis myself?...

(Alcyoneus and Eurybarus, fyi)

#mythology #folklore #storytelling #Queer #LGBTQ #QueerLoveStories #Classics
#lgbtq #queer #folklore #storytelling #mythology #classics #queerlovestories

This folktale catalog I'm reading has a chapter called "Liquidation of Cosmic Lack"

And it needs to be the name or title of something...

Sound off in the comments 😄

#folklore #folktales #academia #fun
#folklore #folktales #Fun #academia

This gorgeous book by @folkhorrormagpie arrived today 😊
#books #bookstodon #folklore #AmReading
The Bleeding Tree: A pathway through grief guided by forests, folk tales and the ritual year, by Hollie Starling Cover features a blue, white and red drawing image of a tree with red leaves and deep roots
#books #bookstodon #folklore #amreading @Folk Horror Magpie

Hungarian #FolktaleMoment of the day:

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.

#folklore #folktales
#folklore #folktales #folktalemoment

I just saw a meme that said "All panties are edible panties when you are Mothman"

And I needed to share this

🤣🤣

#memes #folklore
#folklore #memes

Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for the last theme of October: Creepy Crawlies. Which stories feature these tiny creatures? Tag us if you're joining for the first time and use #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you Monday! 🕷️🐛🦗🐜

Photograph of a spider by Bergadder

@mythology @folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @noam
#mythology #Folklore #folktale #legend #Storytelling
Close-up photograph of a spider.
#folklore #storytelling #folktale #mythologymonday #mythology #legend @Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág @Jürgen Hubert @Noam writes @folklore group @mythology group @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey

For today's #MythologyMonday pumpkin theme:

Not a myth, but one of my favorite folktales is the Persian tale of Pumpkin Girl (or Melon Girl). It's about a woman who adopts a crying pumpkin and raises it as her child. At school during lunchtime, a girl sneaks out of the pumpkin to eat in secret. A neighbor's son sees her and falls in love with her. The rest is a Cinderella story, and eventually the pumpkin turns into a girl for good.

#folktales #folklore
#folklore #folktales #mythologymonday

#FolktaleMoment

"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
#folklore #storytelling #folktalemoment #representation

#FolkloreMoment : Once, a man encountered a snake who followed him home. He grew very fond of the snake, and one day she told him: "If you were to marry me, you would have no cause for complaints."

After thinking it over, he agreed. Then he took a ring from her tail, and they went to an inn. In the evening, while the other guests were still dancing, the man and the snake went to bed.

Around midnight, the snake turned into a beautiful woman, and the man "found this shape very enjoyable". She kept this shape ever since.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #snake
Digital scan of the Austrian folk tale "Die Schlangenbraut"
#folklore #folktale #folkloremoment #snake #austria

Just found out there is a version of the Iliad where, after the death of Achilles, his mother Thetis turns into a seal and takes revenge by hunting down Helen.

There is an ancient Greek horror story hidden in there somewhere, about Helen being hunted by a vengeful pinniped...

#mythology #folklore #storytelling #FolkHorror #seals
#folklore #storytelling #mythology #folkhorror #seals

Okay, here's a new one: In one folk tale from Styria in Austria, a bunch of villagers try to kill a dragon by throwing quicklime into the lake it inhabits.

Ultimately it doesn't work, but they do get points for ingenuity.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #dragon #quicklime
https://archive.org/details/mythenundsagenau00krai/page/168/mode/2up?view=theater
Digital scan of Austrian folk tale "Der Lindwurm von Oberwelz"
#folklore #folktale #dragon #austria #quicklime

#FolktaleMoment
#folklore #mythology #folktales

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)
Photo of a viscacha, an animal similar to a rabbit, with grey and beige fur, long droopy whiskers, and sleepy-looking eyes. The entire animal looks exhausted and done with everyone's sh***.
#folklore #folktales #mythology #folktalemoment

Teaching an online workshop in a few weeks 😊

“I never liked that story anyway”: Tinkering with folktales that don’t click

Do you have a folktale you’d love to tell, but parts of it just don’t click? Have you ever said “it would be a fun story, but I am not sure about the part where…”? Or is there a story you have always disliked, but you can’t quite put a finger on why? Bring it to this practical, hands-on workshop!

Register here:
https://storycrossroads.org/AllThingsStory/?amp=1

#folklore #folktales #storytelling

All Things Story – Virtual Workshop Series

Learn and develop storytelling skills in all areas – professional, performance, and applied. This is a monthly series with a certificate after each time that can be used for professional deve…
storycrossroads (Story Crossroads)
#folklore #storytelling #folktales

Another Hungarian Roma #FolktaleMoment

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
#folklore #storytelling #folktales #folklorethursday #folktalemoment

#FolktaleMoment of the day:

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)

#folklore #folktales #storytelling
#folklore #storytelling #folktales #folktalemoment

I dreamed that a friend sold their soul to the devil, and I was going through my roster of folktales to see how many ways the devil can be tricked into undoing the bargain.

I have reached "girl in the chair for monster hunters" level of knowledge 😆

#folklore #folktales #dreams
#folklore #folktales #dreams

You walk into any used book store in Hungary, there will be a Folklore/Ethnography section. Every time I travel abroad I check bookshops to see if they have one. I am realizing that Hungarians are spoiled in this regard 😄

#folklore #books #bookstodon
#books #bookstodon #folklore

Some 'folklore' books are of questionable value. The one I just read was, I quite literally could have achieved more material in a ten minute web search

#folklore #werewolf #writing #rpgdesign
#writing #folklore #werewolf #rpgdesign

Today in #MinCup23 I am hoping rhodochrosite will win.
I posted about the Roses in the Mountains legends here in the last round:
https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/111073175038609971

Vote for underground rose gardens full of rhodochrosite flowers, and legendary Dwarf kingdoms 😄

#folklore #folktales #legends #minerals

Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág (@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social)

Today's #MinCup23 vote has my favorite: Rhodochrosite! #Thread There's a legend from South Tyrol about King Laurin's Rose Garden. (That part of the Dolomites is actually called Rosengarten).
ohai.social
#folklore #legends #folktales #minerals #mincup23

Note, the ATU catalog (3 volumes) is available for download here (ending decades of anguish for researchers):
https://edition.fi/kalevalaseura/catalog?fbclid=IwAR0zUQr8Ou8WUR0OsL_yCjqPtTydE74IYqZWWLq9ZF1NTuLfRmjY83YBwws

#folklore #folktales
#folklore #folktales

A note on tale types:

Tales in the oral tradition exist in many versions across cultures and centuries. These have the same basic plot but very diverse embellishments.

Folklorists have numbered the plots in what is generally known as the ATU (Aarne-Thompson-Uther) tale type index.

E.g. every tale with a jealous queen, an exiled princess hiding in the company of outlaws, fake death, and resurrection is ATU 709 - Snow White.

Some cultures have their own indices, however!

#folklore #folktales
#folklore #folktales

Today in #MinCup23 I'm voting for quartz.

I already shared one legend about it (read here: http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/q-is-for-quartz-crystals-gemstone.html ) but there is also the legend from the Cairngorms about a giant, brilliant smokey quartz crystal on a cliff over Loch Avon. People can see it from afar, but no one can locate it...

#folklore #folktales
#folklore #folktales #mincup23

Hi, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: #Trees. Which myths feature trees? Write up a story & tag #MythologyMonday with your tree lore tweets. See you Monday! 🌳

Art: Two Trees of Valinor by Roger Garland

@mythology @folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey

#mythology #Folklore #folktale #legend #Storytelling
Artwork of three trees, one with two stems intertwined and a golden hue, the other with a singular stem and silvery hue.
#Trees #folklore #storytelling #folktale #mythologymonday #mythology #legend @Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág @Jürgen Hubert @folklore group @mythology group @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey

Today I'm voting for bischofite because it's Permian sea salt evaporate, which is pretty cool.

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
#folklore #folktales #mincup23

Entirely possible :D
Also, I love witch heroes! More here:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-badass-grandmas-of-hungarian.html

#folklore #folktales

The Badass Grandmas of Hungarian Folktales (a #FolkloreThursday special)

Tomorrow is International Women's Day. I have been working on a Feminist Hungarian Folktales collection, and the deeper I dug into out folkl...
multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com
#folklore #folktales

Fun fact for today's #MinCup23: Galena was Mineral of the Year in Hungary in 2019!

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
#folklore #dnd #folktales #mincup23

There is a legend about the origin of opals from the Wanggumara people in Australia. It tells of a pelican who undertakes a dangerous journey, carrying water in its beak, hoping to find a place where it turns to gold. However, the pelican is mortally wounded on the way; the water spills and turns to gold, and the pelican's blood turns into fire opals.

More here
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/f-is-for-fire-opals-gemstone-folklore.html

#MinCup23 #folklore #opal
#folklore #mincup23 #opal

As for opals

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
#folklore #mincup23

Greetings, myth lovers! For yesterday's #GrandparentsDay your host @AimeeMaroux is asking: in what myths do #grandparents play a major role?

Tell us the #myth in a toot and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts! If you are participating for the first time, best tag us too so we won't miss your toot! 💖

🎨 Grandmother Spider by @amethystmoonsong@deviantart.com:
https://www.deviantart.com/amethystmoonsong/art/Grandmother-Spider-290923821

#mythology #folklore #folktale #legends #Storytelling
@mythology @folklore @folklorethursday @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood
#folklore #legends #storytelling #folktale #mythologymonday #mythology #myth #grandparentsday #grandparents @Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág @Jürgen Hubert @Erotic Mythology (hire me) 🥂 @folklore group @mythology group @folklorethursday group @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood

Today's #MinCup23 match is calcite vs opal. This'll be a thread.

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
#thread #folklore #folktales #minerals #mincup23 #gemstones

Today's #MinCup23 match is mercury vs sepiolite.

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
#folklore #folktales #mincup23

End of thread! For more ruby-related folktales, and sources, check out my Gemstone Folklore blog post here:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/r-is-for-ruby-revenge-gemstone-folklore.html

Happy voting everyone!

#folktales #folklore #MinCup23 #thread
#thread #folklore #folktales #mincup23

The Magic Ruby on the Snake's Head is a tale from Thailand. It tells about a magician that finds out that he can enchant a snake, and make it grow a priceless ruby on its head in 1000 years. The magician doesn't survive that long, but the snake grows into a giant man-eating monster.

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
#thread #folklore #folktales #mincup23

Another exciting folktale is The Ruby Prince from the Punjab.

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
#thread #folklore #folktales #mincup23

By the way, I blogged about the Myanmar legend about the origin of rubies here:
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
#thread #folklore #folktales #mincup23 #storyspotting

In another folktale from India a clever turtle saves a goose from a fowler with rubies and trickery. He offers the man a ruby for the goose. The man asks for two rubies. The turtle brings a second ruby from his pond, but then says "let me see that first one, to make sure they match."

In the meantime, the goose gets away, and the turtle dives into the pond with both rubies.

#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #thread
#thread #folklore #folktales #mincup23

In a folktale from Simla, a man is exiled with is father and 4 wives. The youngest hides some valuable rubies in bread. Later she gives one to her father-in-law to sell, but he falls into a greedy merchant's trap - and so does his son.

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
#thread #folklore #folktales #mincup23

One of my favorite ruby stories is a legend recorded by King Sancho IV of Spain. It tells about an English king who gets lost while hunting in the winter. He encounters a naked beggar, takes pity on him, dresses him in his own clothes, and carries him to shelter.

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
#thread #folklore #folktales #mincup23

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