I am remembering the time I got dogpiled on the birb site for asking why people insist on romanticizing Hades and Persephone.
If I did another thesis, I would write it on the internet popularity of this couple, and the underlying cultural and psychological reasons... 😄
It continues to baffle and fascinate me that this is the ship people chose as their favorite.
#Kaos #mythology #romance #storytelling
I was struggling with a toddler meltdown on the train when a very helpful (sarcasm) mom walked over with her own kid and yelled at me to "make it stop" and that "her kid never does this".
Gee, lady. Thanks.
#parenting #stressed
So there's this Greek myth that says Zeus was fed by bees when he was born. In gratitude, he blessed them with the color of "shining bronze", and made them immune to cold and harsh winds. These bees lived in Zeus' sacred cave in Crete, and aggressively chased away anyone who tried to steal their honey.
Any #apiarist or #entomology expert out there who could tell me what these bees are by any chance?...
#mythology #biology #nature #folklore #bees
Quote of the day from Hungarian master storyteller Berecz András:
"The audience's sigh comes from a deeper place than their applause."
❤️
#storytelling #quotes #PerformingArts #StorytellingPSA
Kid at the kindergarten saw the blood bank car speeding past with the sirens on, and yelled "It's the blood police!"
(Accidentally inventing a new CW series in the process)
#kids
I dreamed that a friend sold their soul to the devil, and I was going through my roster of folktales to see how many ways the devil can be tricked into undoing the bargain.
I have reached "girl in the chair for monster hunters" level of knowledge 😆
#folklore #folktales #dreams
@34cb1247 yeah it does have its roots in history. Folklore collection started in the early 1800s, around the time of the war of independence from the Habsburgs.
Interestingly though new book stores don't usually have one.
You walk into any used book store in Hungary, there will be a Folklore/Ethnography section. Every time I travel abroad I check bookshops to see if they have one. I am realizing that Hungarians are spoiled in this regard 😄
#folklore #books #bookstodon
I can't believe we already got to the #MinCup23 finals! Zircon gets my folklore vote, strengthened by excellent campaigning by the Time Lord team 😄
What the heck am I gonna read campaigns about for the next 11 months?...
Thank you, MinCup team, you are the best! 😊
@0b4c9443 That's what I figured, I just got confused bc the Hungarian vote is always ahead for the next year (so ppl can plan educational programs and stuff). Thanks! :)
A bunch of cool things are dropping tomorrow:
Folk Tales of the Cosmos by storyteller Janet Dowling
A Kickstarter campaign for a tarot-based #ttrpg from the creators of the Sefirot deck
#GenV (The Boys spinoff)
There's probably more but I'm excited for these
#Books #Bookstodon #storytelling #tarot #TV
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?
#folklore #folktales #storytelling
Today's#MinCup23 vote has my favorite: Rhodochrosite!
#Thread
There's a legend from South Tyrol about King Laurin's Rose Garden. (That part of the Dolomites is actually called Rosengarten).
The legend tells about a Dwarf king who falls in love with a human woman and elopes with her. However, her human relatives decide she must have been kidnapped, and mount a rescue mission.
King Laurin has a famous rose garden in the mountains, planted in honor of a daughter he lost.
#folklore #folktales
The kid has a browsing book with animals in different kinds of habitats. While browsing, I started singing little folk songs for bunnies and squirrels and the like.
So now she thinks Mama has a song for every creature under the sun. She doesn't even care what the song is, but we gotta sing for each and every one of them.
This, your honor, is how ended up singing HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. GIANT ANTEATER at bedtime, thank you.
😆
(And Boogie Wonderland for the penguins.....)
#parenting #animals
@f0e43533 Yeah, you gotta do the lit review so that others can do the lit review...
... and then when my dissertation got published as a book, the first thing the publisher said was "strike the lit review" :D
I just found out that more than 6000 people have downloaded my PhD dissertation on forum-based role-playing games, and my mind is blown 🤯
(I never thought to check)
And more than 17,000 for my master's thesis on #ttrpg in the high school classroom 🤯
I read a lot of theses and dissertations when I research. It's good to see others are getting use out of what I wrote. And I'm glad it's freely available. It should be.
#RPG #gaming #games #gamer #academia #research
Husband: "Didn't you throw screaming fits too when you were a kid?"
Me: "No. I drew little devil badges, and presented the Order of the Devil to my parents in a solemn ceremony to make sure they knew they were Bad."
Husband, who is a kindergarten teacher: 😐😐😐
#parenting #childhood #IBlameThePassiveAggressiveGrandma
@34996c05 Reminds me of the time there was a big money hunting expo in Budapest, and a storyteller friend of mine, who does environmental education, was told from high up she can't tell any tales where wolves are not evil, because it might affect the expo's reception.......
Thinking about last year when my grandpa passed away, and grandma was alone in a house for the first time in her 83 years.
Her neighbor, who is blind, found out she was worried. From then on until she was gone, he left the lights on in his house so she could see someone was home nearby.
#kindness
#FolktaleMoment of the day:
Exploding pears
I read a Hungarian Roma folktale today that featured an evil dragon woman trying to kill a man by cursing him with hunger, and planting an enticing pear tree in his way.
Luckily a girl knocked the pear out of the man's hand. The pear screamed so loud it made trees snap. Had he eaten it, she says, he would have exploded from the sound.
#DnD writers take note 😂
#folklore #folktales #ttrpg
Thb this entire folktale is pretty wild. It begins with a young wizard falling into a wolf trap. Sometime later a dragon, carrying a kidnapped princess, also stumbles into the pit. The wizard pulls his knife, dragon falls on it and dies, princess is thus rescued. The dragon's mother, however, swears revenge. Cue the exploding pears.
🐲 🍐
#folklore #folktales #FolktaleMoment #dragons
Today I'm voting for bischofite because it's Permian sea salt evaporate, which is pretty cool.
No specific #folklore for it, but it reminded me of a Colombian folktale about a boy who carries salt for a chief, and gets caught in a rain that washes he salt away. The boy prays to the god Bochica, who takes him on a journey, shows him the hidden riches under the earh, and on a beach teaches him how to create salt pans to collect sea salt.
#MinCup23 #folktales
The award for most badass grandparents in Greek #mythology goes to Odysseus on his mother's side for
Mestra - Daughter of King Erysichthon. She demanded shapeshifting powers from Poseidon, and used them to flee when her abusive father sold her.
Autolykos - Son of Hermes, legendary thief and trickster. No one could ever catch him.
Imagine that love story 😄
#MythologyMonday
Best moments of the Roman festival:
Emcee, in a news anchor voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you to the blood sacrifice event."
Romans: *struggling with setting up the ballista for the battle*
German warrior: "Should we come back later?..."
"Dad, are these the bad guys?"
"No, they are Gepids."
Emcee: "But! Alas, the barbarians have an even more shocking hostage... um... no they don't, they can't seem to find her."
😂 I love reenactment events.
#Romans #reenactment
Doing some #storytelling today at the Aquincum Amphitheater in Budapest 😊 Two-day Roman festival, gladiators, battles, living history, all kinds of fun.
I have two sets of stories, one of little known Greek and Roman myths (such as an alternate version of Achilles' heel), and one of Caucasian Nart sagas (since we have Sarmatian reenactors on site). My little archeologist heart is happy 😊
#Rome #Romans #LivingHistory #reenactment #Budapest #Aquincum #archaeology #histodons
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Today's #MinCup23 match is mercury vs sepiolite.
The mercury mines in Idrija, Slovenia have a legend about a mine gnome called the perkomandelj. In one story a miner encounters it alone in a shaft, and they work side by side for a whole month without a word. At the end of the month the miner decides to split his pay evenly with he gnome, down to cutting the last coin in half.
The perkomandelj rewards him for his fairness (and silence) with all the money, and good fortune.
#folklore #folktales
The Magic Ruby on the Snake's Head is a tale from Thailand. It tells about a magician that finds out that he can enchant a snake, and make it grow a priceless ruby on its head in 1000 years. The magician doesn't survive that long, but the snake grows into a giant man-eating monster.
Later a princess declares she wants the ruby for her necklace (to inspire people to rid the land of the monster). A prince finds a way to kill the monster and take the gem.
#folktales
#folklore
#MinCup23
#thread
The Magic Ruby on the Snake's Head is a tale from Thailand. It tells about a magician that finds out that he can enchant a snake, and make it grow a priceless ruby on its head in 1000 years. The magician doesn't survive that long, but the snake grows into a giant man-eating monster.
Later a princess declares she wants the ruby for her necklace (to inspire people to rid the land of the monster). A prince finds a way to kill the monster and take the gem.
#folktales #folklore #MinCup23 #thread
Another exciting folktale is The Ruby Prince from the Punjab.
In this one, a king receives a priceless ruby that turns into a baby boy in the queen's treasure chest. The Ruby Prince kills a monster and wins a wife, but tells her never to ask where he came from. When she inevitably does, he disappears.
She later finds out that he lives with the King of Snakes now. She takes dance lessons, enchants the king with her dance, and wins her husband back.
#folktales #folklore #MinCup23 #thread
The Magic Ruby on the Snake's Head is a tale from Thailand. It tells about a magician that finds out that he can enchant a snake, and make it grow a priceless ruby on its head in 1000 years. The magician doesn't survive that long, but the snake grows into a giant man-eating monster.
Later a princess declares she wants the ruby for her necklace (to inspire people to rid the land of the monster). A prince finds a way to kill the monster and take the gem.
#folktales
#folklore
#MinCup23
#thread
By the way, I blogged about the Myanmar legend about the origin of rubies here:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2020/11/storyspotting-rubies-and-royalty-crown.html
This is also the origin story of the (in)famous Mogok ruby mines. It features a Naga princess who falls in love with the Sun, and three magic eggs, one of which bursts in Mogok and fills the land with rubies.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #thread #StorySpotting
Another exciting folktale is The Ruby Prince from the Punjab.
In this one, a king receives a priceless ruby that turns into a baby boy in the queen's treasure chest. The Ruby Prince kills a monster and wins a wife, but tells her never to ask where he came from. When she inevitably does, he disappears.
She later finds out that he lives with the King of Snakes now. She takes dance lessons, enchants the king with her dance, and wins her husband back.
#folktales #folklore #MinCup23 #thread
In another folktale from India a clever turtle saves a goose from a fowler with rubies and trickery. He offers the man a ruby for the goose. The man asks for two rubies. The turtle brings a second ruby from his pond, but then says "let me see that first one, to make sure they match."
In the meantime, the goose gets away, and the turtle dives into the pond with both rubies.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #thread
By the way, I blogged about the Myanmar legend about the origin of rubies here:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2020/11/storyspotting-rubies-and-royalty-crown.html
This is also the origin story of the (in)famous Mogok ruby mines. It features a Naga princess who falls in love with the Sun, and three magic eggs, one of which bursts in Mogok and fills the land with rubies.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #thread #StorySpotting
In a folktale from Simla, a man is exiled with is father and 4 wives. The youngest hides some valuable rubies in bread. Later she gives one to her father-in-law to sell, but he falls into a greedy merchant's trap - and so does his son.
The woman then dresses up as a policeman and joins the king's forces. She defeats a monster, earns favor, and solves the case of the men's disappearance, bringing justice to the evil merchant.
#thread #folktales #folklore #MinCup23
In another folktale from India a clever turtle saves a goose from a fowler with rubies and trickery. He offers the man a ruby for the goose. The man asks for two rubies. The turtle brings a second ruby from his pond, but then says "let me see that first one, to make sure they match."
In the meantime, the goose gets away, and the turtle dives into the pond with both rubies.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #thread
One of my favorite ruby stories is a legend recorded by King Sancho IV of Spain. It tells about an English king who gets lost while hunting in the winter. He encounters a naked beggar, takes pity on him, dresses him in his own clothes, and carries him to shelter.
The grateful beggar asks the king to blow his nose. When the king does, a ruby larger than a hen's egg falls into the handkerchief: a magical (though a bit gross) reward for the king's kindness.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #ruby
In a folktale from Simla, a man is exiled with is father and 4 wives. The youngest hides some valuable rubies in bread. Later she gives one to her father-in-law to sell, but he falls into a greedy merchant's trap - and so does his son.
The woman then dresses up as a policeman and joins the king's forces. She defeats a monster, earns favor, and solves the case of the men's disappearance, bringing justice to the evil merchant.
#thread #folktales #folklore #MinCup23
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
One of my favorite ruby stories is a legend recorded by King Sancho IV of Spain. It tells about an English king who gets lost while hunting in the winter. He encounters a naked beggar, takes pity on him, dresses him in his own clothes, and carries him to shelter.
The grateful beggar asks the king to blow his nose. When the king does, a ruby larger than a hen's egg falls into the handkerchief: a magical (though a bit gross) reward for the king's kindness.
#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #ruby
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
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
@eacbb7d4 I think it's very genre specific. Writing historical fiction, it requires a whole lot of research that directly influences the plot. So it either has to be completely plotted in advance, or it's mostly gonna be useless.
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