How Rome killed polytheism (medium.com)
Miscellaneous Myths: Loki Nearly Kills Everybody (Again) (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2253076...
History-Makers: Iceland's #1 Menace, Snorri Sturluson (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2183944...
'Zeus made night from mid-day': Terror and wonder in ancient accounts of solar eclipses (www.livescience.com)
For millennia, solar eclipses have inspired awe, wonder and fear. After all, it’s not often that twilight descends in the middle of the day. And just as we plan for and anticipate their occurrence — like the total solar eclipse that will be visible to millions of North Americans on April 8 — ancient cultures across the...
Potato charms: people throughout history have kept and even stolen wrinkly old vegetables for their health (theconversation.com)
In 1897, one Mr Burgess, the Clerk of Works at Oxford University, donated two shrivelled potatoes to the Pitt Rivers Museum. He usually kept them in his pockets. They were the ultimate “jacket” potatoes....
Folktales like philosophy startle us into rethinking our values | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
Festival with 1,000-year history succumbs to graying population (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Getting Started with Folklore & Folklore Studies — H Y L D Y R (www.hyldyr.com)
Folk literature - Wikisource, the free online library (en.m.wikisource.org)
February and Roman gods (godsip.club)
Happy Grundsaudaag! The ancient Germanic history of Groundhog Day (www.bbc.com)
Bigfoot: If it's there, could it be a bear? Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations (zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
The Golden Bough (godsip.club)
I’m glad I discovered this Lemmy community!...
Sacred-Texts ISTA - Internet Sacred Text Archive (sacred-texts.com)
How to Revive Wassailing | History Today (www.historytoday.com)
You've heard of Santa, maybe even Krampus, but what about the child-eating Yule Cat? (www.npr.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12039449...
Ancient Persian Mythology (www.worldhistory.org)
Myths and Legends of Cornwall (worldsensorium.com)
Why Tolkien and C.S. Lewis explored the flat-Earth “absurdity” (bigthink.com)
The legend of the cock egg (www.muranochickenfarm.com)
Episode 33: Fairytales and their social and political implications with Dr. Jack Zipes (www.youtube.com)
Multilingual Folk Tale Database: 10k folk stories from all over the world (www.mftd.org)
Roud Folk Song Index - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
The Loch Ness monster and the story behind the mysterious water beast theories - 90 years since first photo (news.sky.com)
Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots (www.bbc.com)
