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Folktales for Election Time
There are many elections happening around the world, so I thought it was timely to collect some folktales on the topic. They can be used to spark discussions on leadership, democracy, choices, and social responsibility.
Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2024/10/folktales-for-election-time.html
#election #elections #election2024 #politics #folklore #folktales #storytelling #leadership
#mythology @mythology @folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites
I am just proud that I could remember all the stories (out of 206) they chose 😅😅
#folklore #folktales #school
A caterpillar infestation hit the vineyards one year. When all else failed, people formally summoned the caterpillars to court, threatening them with legal prosecution.
When that failed too, women exposed themselves in the vineyards, hoping that the caterpillars would be so scandalized they would leave on their own.
Organic agriculture. No pesticides.
😄🐛
#folklore
Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2024/09/girl-in-chair-storyteller-and-bateleur.html
#folklore #folktales #nature #animals #storytelling #birds
*Native bird name* = Pidgeon
*Native songbird name* = Blackbird
*Native raptor name* = Eagle
*Native antelope name* = Deer
*Native name for jackal* = Clever Fox
*Native name for any feline* = Tiger
🤦♀️
#folklore #folktales #storytelling #translation
You can find many of the stories on my blog:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/p/gemstone-folklore.html
#storytelling #geology #folklore #folktales
However, my vote goes to Rhodochrosite because it reminds me of the German legend of King Laurin's Rose Garden. Laurin was a Dwarf king of the mountains called the Rose Garden, and all of their mineral treasures. That always reminded me of Rhodochrosite (lit. a rose-colored mineral).
For Turquoise legends, see here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-is-for-iranian-turquoise-gemstone.html?m=1
#folklore #folktales #legends
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.
🤷♀️
#folklore #folktales
When the couple ran into financial trouble the mermaid wanted to work as a courtesan but wasn't very good at it. Then they remembered that eating mermaid flesh is said to grant immortality. Not wanting to actually sell flesh, the couple opened a "Mermaid Licking Shop" instead where people could lick the mermaid for a few extra healthy years.
They grew rich and lived happily ever after.
#folklore 🧜♀️
It features into some of my favorite folktales and legends:
- The City of Brass (1001 Nights), where djinn are captured in copper vessels and adventurers explore a magical city
- The Copper Forest, a Hungarian folktale where one of the stereotypical three princesses is actually in love with the enemy king, and finds a way to marry him in the end
#folklore #folktales #storytelling #minerals
#StorytellingPSA #storytelling #folktales #folklore #books
If you source the folktales in your book as "Aboriginal", "Native American" or - my personal favorite - "African", you immediately tell me that you have done zero research on any of them.
Do better.
#storytelling #folktales #folklore #books
#folklore #dogs #dogstodon #InternationalDogDay #MythologyMonday
My family has running folklore that you get your personality from your first childhood dog. 😄 I was born alongside a litter of puli puppies so I am a fast learner and super high strung 😅
(I imagine this applies to other pets too?)
#folklore #dogs #dogstodon #InternationalDogDay #MythologyMonday
Not a myth, but kinda Bible-related? There is a Hungarian legend that says the first puli dog was created by Jesus Christ to help out a kind shepherd who could never successfully corral his sheep.
Jesus clearly had a knack for fancy design, making these adorable barking mops.
#dogs #DogsOfMastodon #folklore
Hispanic Snow Whites do exist.
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/01/hispanic-snow-whites-do-exist.html
#folklore #folktales #storytellingPSA #Disney
This is your seasonal reminder that you are Folk.
Folklore did not stop evolving 100 years ago. Or with books. Or with television. Or with the internet.
Your own culture's folklore is yours to cherish, preserve, update, reimagine, play, live, and pass on better than you found it.
#folklore
I don't think my publisher would go for it, but now I want to work on it anyway...
(* no, not THAT way, just in terms of violence or complexity.)
#folklore #folktales #AmWriting #books #nature #animals
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.
😆
#FolktaleMoment #folklore #folktales
"Old man cheats crocodile by playing on its ignorance of agriculture."
#folklore #folktales #animals #FolktaleMoment
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
#folklore #folktales
Quaint and adorable explanations for horrifying natural phenomena.
So far I have had cicadas growing "little umbrellas" (parasitic fungus) and a wasp rewarded by God with grubs turning into his children (wasp that puts eggs in live grubs). 😬 😬
#nature #animals #folklore #folktales
Folktales are expensive y'all
#folklore #folktales #publishing
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
She was a calico cat raised by a poor old woman. When they ran out of food, the cat turned herself into a beautiful geisha to earn money for the old lady. She enchanted everyone with her marvelous singing and dancing.
However, when a ship captain spied her true form (eating fish heads), she chased him in a dark cloud and kidnapped him from his ship.
🐱 💃 ⛈️
#cats #folklore #folktales #Japan
The tale of the Nisan shamaness (Manchu)
Ocy-Bala (Altai)
Hi'iakaikapoliopele (Hawaii)
Queen Bertha (France)
Manasa (Bengal)
Chandravati's Ramayana (Bengal)
Umesiben Mama (Manchu)
Repunnot-un-Kur (Ainu)
Nne Mgbaafo (Igbo)
Ashima (Yi)
Juliana (Anglo-Saxon)
Sirin Mama (Sibe)
Note: this list doesn't include the stories I could not find a translation for (see earlier toots for that list)
#epics #folklore #women
Daughter 1: Harvest grandmother (= goddess)
Daughter 2: Administration and criminal law enforcement
Daughter 3: Keeper of prisons
Daughter 4: Orchard grandmother
Daughter 5: Keeper of storehouses
Daughter 6: Government office grandmother
Daughter 7: Outer chilseong of the fields
Mother: Inner chilseong of the house
#mythology #folklore #MythologyMonday #Korea
(See thread for how they came to be gods, and mind the content warnings!)
As it happens I just finished reading the Bengali epic of Manasa, the Snake Goddess. She is an accidental daughter of Shiva. She spends the entire epic trying to gain recognition among the gods, and then among mortals.
She is supported all the way by her sister Neta, who is the perfect balance of intelligence and calculation to Manasa's flares of fury and power. They made a great duo 🐍
#sister #women #mythology #epics #folklore #WomensEpics
A king pissess off the goddess by destroying her altar, so she sends an army of snakes against him. Surrounded by serpents he flees into a haystack to hide - and comes face to face with a chameleon.
The chameleon just shakes its head, and the king breaks down crying. That was the last straw.
Such a fun moment. 🐍🐍🐍🦎
😄
#epics #WomensEpics #folklore #storytelling
- Catakantaravanan: a Tamil epic that elaborates on the Ramayana, but in this story, it is Sita who fights a demon king
- Matabagka Seeks the Deity of the Wind: epic from the Philippines about a girl's heroic journey (this one has an English translation, but only in a thesis manuscript in the UP library)
#WomensEpics #epics #folklore #women #WomensHistory
#reading #bookstodon #epics #folklore #WomensEpics
#epics #folklore #translation #translator #AmReading #bookstodon