So I’ve been doing a deep dive into all this stuff recently, I find it to be fun and interesting. However, I’m having trouble figuring out exactly what all these whistleblowers are alleging. Basically, the idea is that there is a secretive group of USG employees that know what is going on with UAPs and researching stuff, but...
Rep. Robert Garcia has proposed a UAP amendment for the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This will serve as a follow up to the amendment previously passed in the 2024 NDAA....
Following the recent discovery of Panthera DNA on a sheep carcass in the Lake District, a woman from Burton-in-Kendal has sent in a photo of what she believes to have been a big cat in 2008....
Looking forward to next week's #FolkloreSociety online talk on 'Reinventing National History through Conspiracy Theories' by Dr Afrodite-Lidia Nounanaki of the University of the Aegean.
Disney had a lot to answer for. Apart from Ursula. Mermaids are horrible in folklore and mythology. Beautiful woman with the lower half of the body the tail of a fish. They enchant people with their song and lead them to their death by drowning them for shits and giggles. If they do fall in love with a human they drag them underwater as they think they can breath. #folklore#mythology#mythologymonday
Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old programmer who died of leukemia in 2006, is set to be the first millennial saint, according to a new report from the Catholic News Agency Thursday. Acutis created websites documenting purported miracles and has been dubbed “God’s influencer” since his death....
In the late 1800s, Jamaican children would play Moonshine Baby on the night of a full moon. Claude McKay recalled his father telling them that “the making of these moonshine babies was an old African custom and that different villages used to compete in the making of them.” (“Boyhood in Jamaica”, Phylon (1940-1956), Vol. 14, No. 2 (2nd Qtr., 1953), pp. 134-145)
Olive Senior wrote about this game in her poem “Moonshine Dolly”.
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Please define your terms, and differentiate what you are calling fairy tales from myths, legends, folktales, and even wonder tales. If you can't (and we know you can't – no one has been able to), do at least acknowledge the fuzzy, overlapping, organic scope of the concepts.
There is no such thing as a fairy tale. There are, however, many fairy tales. – paraphrasing Jack Zipes (I think) from memory.