wolf of the wisp2d ago
The Fiddler and the Waterfall : The Quest for Inspiration in Norwegian Legends of Fiddlers [pdf 10pp] #legends #folktales #ScottishStudies https://open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStudies/article/view/716
The Fiddler and the Waterfall: The Quest for Inspiration in Norwegian Legends of Fiddlers | Scottish Studies

Game Master's Book Club6d ago
#gamemastersbookclub Explores the Genres! Shenmo (Chinese Gods and Devils) #Shenmo #chinese #mythology #folktales #legends #fantasy #books #booksky
The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
The Ghost Bride by Yangze Choo
The Girl with the Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋Mar 19

Dark fairy tales

Disturbing fairy tales

Grotesque fairy tales

Horrific fairy tales

Please stop. Folktales are, above all else, entertaining. Fun. Amusing.

#folklore #folktales #fairytales

Ele Willoughby, PhDMar 17

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

Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋Mar 10

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.

#AmTranslating #SwedishFolktales #Folklore #Folktales

Show threadearthlingFeb 17

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.

#books
#fiction
#NativeAmerican

earthlingFeb 17

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.

#books
#fiction
#AmericalLiterature
#folktales

wolf of the wispFeb 14

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@peterrowlett/116062632331278647

maths meets folklore #folklore #folktales #AbsentmindedProfessor

Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋Feb 11

Reading a wonderful analysis of the stylistics of folktales in terms of musical cadence, in an old form of Norwegian that blurs the line between standard written forms and dialect.

It's hard work. It's worth the effort; I haven't come across such analyses before.

But I won't finish reading it today.

#NorwegianFolktales #Folklore #Folktales #RikardBerge

Dr. Zalka Csenge VirágFeb 10

Today's research rabbithole:

I start looking into a folktale collected from a Hungarian Jewish woman who immigrated to the US in the 1920s.

I find out she was also a poet.

I find out the tale was recorded from her by famous poet May Swenson.

I also find out May and Anca were lovers for many years.

#folklore #folktales #lgbtq #queer #history #poetry