Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋I have been looking into the possibility of publishing some Swedish folktales in English translation. A reflective blogpost.
https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/swedish-folktales
#SwedishFolktales #ScandinavianFolklore #Folklore #Folktales
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág#AtoZChallenge of Small Town Legends:
C is for Csíkménaság and Hoopoe Jesus
This one is a legend from Transylvania about a bunch of people who mistook a hoopoe for Jesus... and then tried to capture him
Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/csikmenasag-hoopoe-jesus-small-town.html
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
wolf of the wispThe 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
Game Master's Book Club#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
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
Dark fairy tales
Disturbing fairy tales
Grotesque fairy tales
Horrific fairy tales
Please stop. Folktales are, above all else, entertaining. Fun. Amusing.
Ele Willoughby, PhDSome 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.
earthlingSee 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.
