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(Alcyoneus and Eurybarus, fyi)
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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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Photograph of a spider by Bergadder
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is an ancient Greek horror story hidden in there somewhere, about Helen being hunted by a vengeful pinniped...
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Ultimately it doesn't work, but they do get points for ingenuity.
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https://archive.org/details/mythenundsagenau00krai/page/168/mode/2up?view=theater
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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)
Art: Uke Mochi, the goddess of food in the Shinto Religion, by Soragami:
https://www.deviantart.com/soragami/art/Contest-Entry-Uke-Mochi-424503938
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“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
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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)
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 😄
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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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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 😄
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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
https://edition.fi/kalevalaseura/catalog?fbclid=IwAR0zUQr8Ou8WUR0OsL_yCjqPtTydE74IYqZWWLq9ZF1NTuLfRmjY83YBwws
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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!
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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...
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Art: Two Trees of Valinor by Roger Garland
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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.
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Also, I love witch heroes! More here:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-badass-grandmas-of-hungarian.html
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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
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
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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
More here
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/f-is-for-fire-opals-gemstone-folklore.html
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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
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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
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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)
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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.
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http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/r-is-for-ruby-revenge-gemstone-folklore.html
Happy voting everyone!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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