@tellersnetwork.bsky.socialA Hawaiian legend follows Pakaa, keeper of Laaomao's wind gourd, as he learns his true father, travels with a king, and passes the wind knowledge to his son. #Hawaii #Polynesia #Wind #Family #Identity #Duty #Tradition #Legend #FolkTale #Mythology #tellstory Follow me for more
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyOn certain nights, a strange mansion appears on Räderberg Mountain.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/R%C3%A4derberg_Mountain
@tellersnetwork.bsky.socialA Malay folktale about Pak Pandir, whose good heart and backward ways turn every simple task into laughter and trouble. #Malaysia #Humor #Consequences #VillageLife #FolkTale #tellstory Follow me for more
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gySooner or later, even your best efforts to thwart death will fail.
#Austria #folktale #folklore
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Death_of_Doctor_Theophrast
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyIt isn't only zombies who are searching for brains.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/A_Ghost_Searches_for_his_Brain
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyThe Mountain Monk is always willing to help miners in need - but he expects them to keep quiet about him.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #mining
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Mountain_Monk_in_the_Harz_Mountains
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyIf you want to get somewhere in a hurry, just summon the billy goat express.
But mind your manners!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #goat
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Billy_Goat_Riders
@coreyartusimagery.comA new blog post about my endeavors to find inspiration in local/regional folktales that aren't about colonizers post-1850, nor indigenous peoples. And what I'm realizing...
coreyartusimagery.com/blogs/musing...
#artistlife #blog #artblog #inspiration #stories #Folktale #Folklore #art
@tellersnetwork.bsky.socialTwo thieves test each other’s skill, raid a king’s palace, and keep outwitting every trap until one of them wins the king’s daughter and the throne. #Romani #Romania #Cunning #Partnership #Deception #Greed #Destiny #FolkTale #Adventure #tellstory Follow me for more
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyYou'd think a race against a wooden church ornament would be hardly sporting - but one such ornament gave a priest quite a run for his money!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Race_for_the_Sacrificial_Money
@tellersnetwork.bsky.socialThe Flat River ballad of Jack Haggerty, a river driver whose love is turned away by the girl he hopes to marry. #UnitedStates #Love #Loss #Work #Tragedy #FolkTale #tellstory Follow me for more
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyIt is easy to be virtuous if you are rich.
But for others, poverty can even deny a peaceful stay in the afterlife.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Burial_Gown
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyIf you want to start a side hustle in the field of animal control, you'd better know what you are doing, or else it is going to end badly for you.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #snake
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Snake_Catcher
@tellersnetwork.bsky.socialTia and Ngātoroirangi travel through the Taupō country, claim the land, and leave behind the names, fire, and mountain legends that still shape it. #NewZealand #Exploration #Naming #Mountains #Lakes #Ancestry #Legend #Mythology #FolkTale #tellstory Follow me for more
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyWhy work hard at tilling the land, if you can kidnap and torture a dwarf into building you a better plow?
#Germany #folktale #folklore #dwarf
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Lightweight_Plow
@tellersnetwork.bsky.socialMerah Silu, a powerful ruler of Samudera, hears the teaching of Islam, accepts the new faith, and becomes Sultan Malik al-Saleh. #Malaysia #Faith #Leadership #Transformation #Historical #FolkTale #tellstory Follow me for more
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyThe shape that night hags don to haunt sleepers is ephemeral. Even if it is grievously injured, no body is left behind.
#Germany #folktale #folklore
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Cutting_a_Walrider%27s_Throat
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyThe magical tomes known as "Characters" give their owners the power to achieve anything they want.
But, sooner or later, the owners come to a bad end.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Charakter
@birdwriterwrites.bsky.social
@capecodfairytales.bsky.social