Didn’t know this had gone to paperback! Little piece of mine that was used for this cover a while back. Always nice to see some of my work in the wild! #book #bookcover #coverart #folklore
#folklore
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To my readers who are interested in #folklore , #mythology , and so forth:
Please follow @mythologymonday for weekly myth- and folklore-themed posts. These weekly folklore-themed events were a big part of what made Old Twitter great for me, and it would be nice if it gets the same traction here on the Fediverse. Personally, I try to participate whenever I am able (today's theme is "candles, torches, and lamps", so stay tuned!)
Oh, and follow the organizers @independentpen and @AimeeMaroux , while you are at it!
Icelandic Yule Lads
These are characters from #folklore who have become #Iceland's version of #SantaClaus.
Originally depicted as being pranksters, they are said to be the sons of the trolls Grýla and Leppalúði. They are often depicted with the Yuletide Cat, which used to eat children who didn’t have new clothes for #Christmas.
In modern times the Yule Lads put small gifts (or potatoes for a naughty child) into children's shoes placed in their window the thirteen nights before Christmas Eve.
Many jurisdictions treated werewolves as a type of witch.
Which included subjecting suspects to the infamous "water test".
#Germany #folktale #folklore #werewolf #witch #witchcraft @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-big-teeth-31962001
A question: Can anyone recommend any good, academic works that analyze "moral panics" through the ages?
From the "Witchcraft Panics" of early modern Europe to the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s to the modern anti-trans panic and TERF movement - I could use some good scholarly analysis of their psychology and how they propagate.
I eventually want to write a book about witch tales from German folklore, and it may be useful to compare the witchcraft panics of the past with more modern variants - so that I can show that while the context changes, the basic phenomenon is still with us.
#history #psychology #folklore #witchcraft #SatanicPanic #TERF
In the 3 eerie tales discussed by David Robb above, James Hogg explores the quirks, possibilities, & dark undercurrents of human psychology
👻 Mary Burnet
👺 The Brownie of the Black Haggs
👿 Strange Letter of a Lunatic
9/10
Download the free ebook here:
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/the-devil-i-am-sure/
#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #shortfiction #shortstories #gothic #romanticism #folklore #supernatural
To James Hogg’s contemporaries, he was best known for his poems & for his stories – especially his supernatural tales, which often drew on Scottish folklore. Dr David Robb discusses Hogg’s “Mary Burnet”, “The Brownie of the Black Haggs”, & “Strange Letter of a Lunatic” at our 2017 Schools Conference
8/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhIQyrJU8c
#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #supernatural #folklore
New favorite #FolktaleMoment form Iran:
A princess really wants a pet donkey but her father refuses. Her magical aunt finds a way to convince the father (with some clever spells) to allow the donkey anyway.
When princess kisses the donkey on the nose, it turns into a handsome prince. Turns out he had been cursed.
In return for saving him, the princess asks the prince to buy her a new donkey.
A Kickstarter board game from ages ago just came in 😊😊
Scottish Folklore: Beithir 🐍
Blog post: https://blairtales.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/beithir/
#beithir #folklore #scottishfolklore #scotland #myth #myths #mythology
“The Cat and the Mouse,” a brief Norwegian folktale by Rikard Berge.
https://norwegianfolktales.net/folklore/the-cat-and-the-mouse
#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #christmas #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon
A translation, with a couple of annotations, of “Old Christmas Customs” by Th. S. Haukenæs.
https://norwegianfolktales.net/folklore/old-christmas-customs
#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #christmas #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon
![On Lussinotti [Lussi night], the longest night of the year, it was thought that “Lussi” came to the farm as an ugly, foul woman. Others knew to tell of the Lussiferd [Lussi’s wake], a dangerous procession of flying creatures, halfway between dragon and human. This, however, was probably the same as the Asgårdsreie, just that the notion of these as two different objects has become obscure and confused.
Image of the Oskoreie, by Peter Arbo. Depicted is a host of flying people, some on horseback, some with winged helmets. At the rear, a group of women waving their arms and dressed in pastels.](/images/status/88ca5b30-93c8-4323-a31b-d7be79769b57.png "On Lussinotti [Lussi night], the longest night of the year, it was thought that “Lussi” came to the farm as an ugly, foul woman. Others knew to tell of the Lussiferd [Lussi’s wake], a dangerous procession of flying creatures, halfway between dragon and human. This, however, was probably the same as the Asgårdsreie, just that the notion of these as two different objects has become obscure and confused.
Image of the Oskoreie, by Peter Arbo. Depicted is a host of flying people, some on horseback, some with winged helmets. At the rear, a group of women waving their arms and dressed in pastels.")