I am still mulling over the idea of doing a folktale bracket for October... Have people nominate their favorite tale types and find some fun stories for each type, maybe. What say you all?
@SimonRoyHughes@TarkabarkaHolgy@folklore@SoniaSulaiman@juergen_hubert@neilphilip
I quite enjoyed Naomi Novak's modern take on the Glass mountain (I've read a version involving an eagle, maybe a George Macdonald retelling) in her novel "Spinning Silver". Didn't like "Uprooted", but thought dragons in the Napoleonic Wars was "fun".
The eagle dug its sharp claws into the tender flesh of the youth …
the boy saw that he was close to the apple tree, and drawing a small knife from his belt he cut off both the eagle’s feet. … he drew out the claws of the eagle’s feet that had remained in his flesh and put the peel of one of the golden apples on the wound, and in one moment it was healed and well again.
@SimonRoyHughes@TarkabarkaHolgy@folklore@SoniaSulaiman@juergen_hubert@neilphilip The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder tales
THE GLASS MOUNTAIN by Hermann R. Kletke.
Also
Grey & Yellow Lang's Fairy
Marion Florence Lansing, Fairy Tales Vol 2
The Swedish Fairy Book
Two Grimms volumes
Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars, Jerimah Curtin
About 30+ other PD hits in my Calibre Library
Most likely are in Gutenberg
I'm not sure which version I read recently.
@juergen_hubert@germany@folklore
In one of Joan Aiken's books she suggests the Wends settled in Wensleydale to make cheese.
OTOH, she has James III of England and the Hanoverians as the bad guys as well as a 19thC Channel Tunnel.
@juergen_hubert@germany@folklore
In reality William was a usurper (via James' daughter Mary) and invader. The Glorious revolution was an English Civil war fought in Ireland then Scotland.
The English talk about the Civil War as if the only one involved Cromwell. Before Brexit (a social civil war) they really had four.
In #JapaneseFolklore Urashima Taro is a #folktale about a fisherman who saves a turtle and journeys beneath the sea to visit the palace of the Dragon King. He spends a few days there but returns to shore to find that 300 years have passed. A poor choice to open a mysterious box turns him into an old man. The full tale is on my website ( https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/07/urashima-taro.html ) but in this thread I want to share some Japanese #ukiyoe prints depicting scenes from this famous tale. #folklore#Japan@folklore
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@eugeneparnell@curiousordinary@folklore
Seaweed suggests a sea turtle?
The sometimes wrong Wikipedia:
"The minogame (蓑亀), which is so old it has a train of seaweed growing on its back, is a symbol of longevity and felicity. A minogame has an important role in the well-known legend of Urashima Tarō."
@SimonRoyHughes@folklore@folklorethursday
In 1879 he sold his large collection of zoological specimens to the Natural History Museum (Ireland) for £300. This collection includes specimens of Brisinga endecacnemos, possibly collected during his biological survey of the Hardangerfjord in the 1850s.
—Wikipedia.
I wonder why Ireland?
@SimonRoyHughes@folklore@folklorethursday
Whoever wrote it up did hedge with "possibly" :D
I looked up the entry to see what it said of his personal life. Which was zero. Didn't expect the Irish connection, though decades since I visited anything in Dublin.
@jonberger@juergen_hubert@germany@folklore
My goats once ate the buttons off my shirt on the washing line. Didn't tear it.
Really they only ate grase if there was nothing else. Ate the neighbour's roses and all our vegetables (two different days).
First volume now at close to 900 pages, making publication on a POD site impossible. Second volume just over 500 pages. Third volume <200 pages. This gives me cause to consider compiling volumes two and three in a single binding.
Volume one is a pain, though. I'm either going to have to increase the paper size or shrink the type.
@SimonRoyHughes@folklore@folklorethursday
or Part 1 & Part 2
Amazon POD is the worst. Really deranged margin limits compared to https://print.24bookprint.com or lulu.
There is a good company in Germany who won't deal with anyone outside Germany, otherwise they seem best.
US is a problem for Ireland and last time I looked, Amazon will only ship proofs from USA. Other problems too since they rebranded CreateSpace.
Hello, myth lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: Time Travel. Which myths feature time traveling? Write out a story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday. See you soon! ⏱️⏱️⏱️
@JamesPadraicR@curiousordinary@folklore@mythology
it's a common trope in societies that had less freedom for women.
Mulan, Sailors in Scotland, England, Ireland, Soldiers.
Isaac Bashevis Singer might never have known the Japanese & Chinese tales.