What folktales or fairy tales would you nominate for a Folktale of the Year bracket?
What's your favorite tale?
Which one do you think would make a good Folktale of the Year for 2024?
Which one would be fun to campaign for in a vote?
Which one would you enjoy reading other people's opinions about?
Give us a title, a summary, or a type (see toot below for explanation of tale types) 😄
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?
I was asked to do a series of books of animal folktales. I am in early planning stages, and musing what would be the best system to organize the series by... any input?
Jesus Christ, while walking the earth, encounters some mean and greedy people. And he punishes them by turning all ears of corn in their fields into horse d***s.
Working on revising my "Spin the Globe" #storytelling program this week. It's a program where I let the audience spin an actual globe and point somewhere, and I tell them a folktale or legend from that place.
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(Yes, if they point at the ocean, I am prepared for that too.)
If anyone wants to try, spin and point, and I'll tell you what story I chose 😄
I am reading this Icelandic folktale where a prince cursed into being a dog is saved when another prince lets him sleep in his bed on his wedding night.
Bought this book during Traveller Pride Week, and it is an absolutely marvelous collection of folktales. Written and illustrated by Travellers, first of its kind. I highly recommend it. 🥰
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 😆
Reynard the Fox was a prominent figure in medieval European folktales, a trickster and everyman. He would bedevil various other anthropomorphic animals, frequently satirizing the nobility and clergy. However, Reynard main enemy was his uncle, the wolf Isengrim.
🎨 Ernest Henri Griset #FolkloreSunday#folklore#folktales#literature#medieval#animals
Reading a legend about how emperor Franz Joseph's wife was a witch who used to turn him into a horse and ride him every night.
As a reminder that traditional storytellers often used everyday spoken language, here is what the wise advisor says when the Emperor confides in him about the matter:
Sparrow wants to make beer, roasts 1 grain of barley and drops it into a pond. He offers animals a drink from his beer pond.
The mouse and the dog pretend it's beer because they don't want to disappoint the sparrow.
The cat pretends it's beer hoping to eat the sparrow. The horse tells the sparrow the truth, but still drinks.
The sparrow decides to use two grains next year. 🍺
24 brothers (12 sets of twins) come across a castle with 24 enchanted princesses. They try to break the enchantment but ultimately fail. The youngest brother moves on, marries a merchant girl, and has 24 sons.
When the 24 boys grow up they return to the castle, break the enchantment, and marry the princesses 😄
I'm a bit late for #MinCup23 but topaz is moving on to the next round anyway 😄
There is a Spanish folktale about a princess visited by a gorgeous green bird that turns out to be an enchanted prince from China. She falls in love with him, and breaks the enchantment with the help of a clever washerwoman.
The bird transforms from bird to man by bathing in water in a bowl made of topaz.
A man sets out with a sword and encounters a sleeping 7-headed dragon. Not wanting to kill it while it is asleep, he lies down and snuggles it. The dragon wakes up later, sees the sleeping man, and decides to not kill it while asleep either.
I heard that Stats Canada had to cancel their participation in "Casual Fridays" in their offices because someone once spelled it wrong as "Causal Friday" and correlation and causation became hopelessly intertwined for the day. Quite a mess.
Not a myth, but one of my favorite folktales is the Persian tale of Pumpkin Girl (or Melon Girl). It's about a woman who adopts a crying pumpkin and raises it as her child. At school during lunchtime, a girl sneaks out of the pumpkin to eat in secret. A neighbor's son sees her and falls in love with her. The rest is a Cinderella story, and eventually the pumpkin turns into a girl for good.
The hidden folk at #Yuletide. I retell two related #folktales and speculate about what they say about contemporary society.
I recorded the episode and mentioned the then current state of the pending #VolcanicEruption in #Iceland. While I was doing so, an eruption started. I added a note on this before I uploaded it to Patreon. Now that I am releasing it for everyone, the eruption seems to be over.