Folk Tales - Tumblr Posts
christmas music in the us: nothing better than building snowmen and waiting for santa as a family :)
christmas music in france: and so the THREE POOR ORPHANS who have to PICK UP THE REMNANTS OF THE HARVEST TO SURVIVE get LOST in the deserted fields and it's DARK so they ask the local butcher for shelter and HE SLAUGHTERS THEM LIKE PIGLETS AND PUTS THEM IN THE SALTING ROOM FOR S E V E N Y E A R S until the nice st. nicholas comes along and asks the butcher for shelter and a meal but then he refuses the ham he's offered and instead asks for the meat that's been in the salting room for seven years and the butcher cries for mercy and THE SAINT RAISES THE ORPHANS FROM THE DEAD but actually death was fine because they thought they were in heaven all along :)
The Black Horseman Galloped past Her- from Vasilisa the Beautiful – by Ivan Bilibin
I thought to bring this in this morning, but hap-hap/iyayraykere for this years earlier.
Here is an online archive of Chiri Yukie’s collection of yukar, available for free.
i’m sorry, ‘dating’? movie night?? coffee-and-get-to-know-each-other??? what is this. bring me the three heads of the chimera terrorising my kingdom with famine then answer an impossible riddle as a symbol of your official courtship of the crown or get the fuck out of my DMs
Has anyone heard tails of Jenny Greenteeth. She lurks just below the water of pounds and rivers often hidden by duckweed and algae she will grab at people who wonder too close to the water's edge, dragging them down to their deaths. I've been told she particularly goes for small children and the elderly
Anahit: The Queen Who Made the King Get a Job (Armenian Folk Tale)
Full entry (with footnotes) here. Book here. Patreon here. Art notes and whatnot after the cut - but real quick:
Yes, she already has her own animated princess movie. It’s not in English. It was posted in full by the animation studio here, so I hope it’s okay to embed it:
This version seemingly takes some liberties. Her uncle is in league with some shadow demon, there’s a talking dog, and her horse turns into this fiery magic flying creature…? I don’t know.
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yeah I knowwww the witch said to only eat one of the roses but like. theyre soooo good you guys no no like it tastes soooo yummy
what do you mean “would I love my son if he was a worm?”
Absit Omen, 2012, 12 x 8 7/8 inches (plate); two-plate, two-color etching. Much to my regret, I only ever printed one of these with this beautiful torinoko chine-collé. I pulled 3 with an okawara chine-collé, but those prints are not as rich and crisp as this one.
This is the only artwork I've ever dreamed into being: in my dream, I had completed the dark border of cawing crow-heads and was working out a sketch for the central image (though it was far less resolved than the woman sitting primly on the ruins' stairs shown in the final print). The dream was intensely and minutely visual. In my waking life, I had been reading darkly comic Slavic folk tales and regularly hiking past the so-called Witch's Castle in Forest Park, which no doubt inspired my subconscious. (The ruin began its life in the 1930's as a public toilet, a fact that makes its colloquial name charmingly absurd.) This and other prints are included in an online exhibition presented by UPFOR through March 17, 2021. Go take a look at bit.ly/birdsong-stories.
Thousandfurs / Allerleirauh
Loom - from a little painting series I did for a high school project last year. this one was a bit rushed because assessment deadlines but i still think there's somethin cool about it!
bro wdym you “want to see me more”?? how do you think i got the reputation of being a cryptid? i’m literally a woodland creature that inspired folktales.
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later
mine were Harry Potter and Land of Stories