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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Today's #MinCup23 match is corundum vs lawsonite.

*Cracks knuckles*

I'm voting corundum, because folklore (and because as a kid I had a book on gemstones, and padparadscha seemed so magical). 

I'm going to make this a thread, because rubies and sapphires figure into a whole bunch of tales and legends.

🧵 

#folklore #folktales #mythology #gems #minerals #thread
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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There is a Gujarati folktale about four friends that go out to seek their fortune. They accidentally eat magic mangoes that determine their fate: one of them becomes king, one can laugh sapphires and cry pearls, and one goes to prison.

The king and his sapphire-laughing minister betray the two other friends. Those two take revenge with the help of the fourth lucky fruit. In the end the minister is cursed like Midas: whatever he tries to eat turns into sapphires.

#folklore #folktales #MinCup23