Dropping the table of contents (see attached toot) for my illustrated electronic (.epub) advent calendar of Norwegian folklore. Ready for editing. Available some time in late October.
#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #trolls #Christmas2025 #fairytales #bookstodon
#rabisquarta Mapinguari!
Desde que vi um programa sensacionalista na TV quando era criança, que apresentava o Mapinguari como uma criatura real, sou fascinado por essa lenda. Na época achei assustadora a descrição da criatura, e o relato das pessoas que supostamente escaparam de um encontro mortal com o críptico folclórico.
Como se não fosse o bastante ser do tamanho de uma preguiça gigante, ter garras enormes, apenas um olho e uma bocarra no meio da barriga, os entrevistados narravam que a criatura é capaz de soltar um gás nocauteante pela boca, fazendo com que as vítimas desmaiem, pra em seguida serem devoradas por inteiro.
Nosso folclore é fascinante! 👀
I think I found the funniest version of "The tortoise and the hare" tale type just now 😄 From Japan.
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.
😆
New instance, new #Introduction !
My name is Jürgen, and I translate old German folk tales into English - not just tales from the Brothers Grimm, but from the hundreds of other 19th century German folklorists out there.
To date, I have translated more than 600 tales. You can learn more about my project here (and you can get a free ebook version of my first book if you subscribe to my newsletter there):
In Mesopotamian mythology, the demigod King Gilgamesh was a tyrant, so the gods sent the wild man Enkidu to defeat him. Though Gilgamesh won, he was impressed by Enkidu's strength and tenacity. Because of his love for the wild man, Gilgamesh became a good king.
🎨 Ludmila Zeman
#FolkloreSunday #BookChatWeekly #31DaysofHaunting #Folklore #MesopotamianFolklore #BabylonianFolklore #Mythology #MesopotamianMythology #BabylonianMythology #Literature #Mesopotamia #Babylon #Gilgamesh
Legends from Arctic Norway, by Regine Normann, is now available on Amazon and Lulu. Further platforms forthcoming (I'll update the linked page as the details become clear).
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/legends-from-arctic-norway
#Bookstodon #NorwegianLegends #folklore @folklore #RegineNormann #selfpublishing
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds, & the Paranormal
Scotland’s Darkest Folklore
Currently available on BBC Sounds: exploring tales of selkies, kelpies, & the ancient figure of the Cailleach. Maddy & Anthony's guest today is Donald Smith, founding director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, & a storyteller who has written & lectured widely on the folklore of Scotland.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0l2hncz
#Scottish #literature #folklore #supernatural #myth #paranormal #storytelling #Scotland
What Is Serendipity?
We often credit unexpected events to serendipity. But who amongst us knows The Three Princes of Serendip, the tale from which the word derives?
By: Emily Zarevich
https://daily.jstor.org/what-is-serendipity/
The Three Princes of Serendip:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Princes_of_Serendip
Fairy tale food
Challenge, transformation, risk: the role of food in fairy tales
Poisoned apples, magic porridge pots, peas you can feel through 20 mattresses, and of course that fantastic gingerbread house - food plays a significant role in literature, and fairy tales are no exception.
by Beth Daley
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/fairy-tale-food?mtm_campaign=EuropeanaNewsletterReg-July2025
Fairy tales at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/131
Belle Stewart (1906–1997) – singer, storyteller, tradition-bearer – was born #OTD, 18 July, in a bow tent on the banks of the Tay at Caputh, near Blairgowrie. She ranks alongside Jeannie Robertson in the roll of the finest Scots ballad-singers.
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The Secret Commonwealth
30 June, online – ticketed
Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart looks at The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies, compiled in the 17th century by minister, Gaelic scholar & folklorist Robert Kirk (1644–1692 – unless he’s still alive…)
Anima Celtica: Ella Carmichael as scholar, activist & muse in the Scottish Celtic Revival
Ella Carmichael (1870–1928) was born #OTD, 9 Aug. Abigail Burnyeat talks about Ella Carmichael & her role in the Scottish Celtic revival. The first female student of Celtic at Edinburgh University, Ella Carmichael was also founder of the Celtic Union & the journal The Celtic Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVzPDYfsoQ
#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #folklore #CelticStudies #CelticRevival
That August night
the Perseid shower rained
on moor and lily-loch, on a frightened world –
on us, in a roofless shieling
with all our tat…
—Kathleen Jamie, “One of Us”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
