The #AtoZChallenge continues!
Today's legend takes place in the era of the Tatar invasions, and tells of a fortunate escape due to healthy snacks.
Bágy: Walnut Body Armor
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/bagy-walnut-body-armor-small-town.html
Here we go!
The A to Z Challenge has begun. My theme this year is Small Town Legends: weird folklore from villages and small towns in and around Hungary.
First up: some very strange geese.
Ács: Zombie Goose Shenanigans https://share.google/Aa9plXTmBYbUrUPXM
#AtoZChallenge #SmallTownLegends #blogging #folklore #folktales #legends
Dark fairy tales
Disturbing fairy tales
Grotesque fairy tales
Horrific fairy tales
Please stop. Folktales are, above all else, entertaining. Fun. Amusing.
Some Irish folklore this St Patrick’s Day: the Sídhe, the Aos sí, the fair folk, the good people, or the people of the shee from Irish folklore, who live underground. You may know the banshee, or Bean sídhe or woman of the sídhe. In fact the very word Sídhe is the term for earthen mounds like the one in my #linocut and the Aos sí are “the people of mounds.” The Sidhe evolved from a mythological people known as 🧵
#printmaking #folklore #Sidhe #fairyMound #folktales #mastoArt
Well, just how the hell am I supposed to translate this, then? "Svenska Folk-Sagor och Äfventyr" Swedish folktales and folktales? Swedish folktales and adventures? What is the difference, in Swedish, between a saga and an äventyr?
I fell at the first hurdle, it seems.
See also:
Native American Folktales by Thomas A. Green, 2009
#Folktales are at the heart of Native American culture. Prepared especially for students and general readers, this book conveniently collects 31 of the most important Native American folktales. These are drawn from the major Native American cultural and geographical areas and are organized in sections on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural.
The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates, 2017
Collected for the first time, these nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.
Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The New Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume.
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
wolf of the wisp
Game Master's Book Club
Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋
Ele Willoughby, PhD
earthling