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Some musings on the upcoming movie:

Well, changing folk tales to suit new audiences is a well-established tradition, and something done by the Brothers Grimm themselves - so I can't fault for that.

However, I am getting tired of Disney

(a) retreading the same ground over and over again, and

(b) shoving all this pro-Monarchy propaganda down our throats. I am extremely leery of portrayals of monarchs as "good people", especially nowadays that people like the loons seem to actually gain major political influence.

Coincidentally, there are quite a few German folk tales about "good kings and emperors" who sleep beneath a mountain somewhere and would return in "Germany's hour of greatest need". This reflects the time these tales were written down in - after the Holy Roman Empire was shattered during the Napoleonic Wars at the start of …

For I illustrated the Slavic Vasilisa the Beautiful with the skull lantern. Before her mother’s death, she gave Vasilisa a wooden doll & told her to keep it secret & with her always & whenever she needed help or comfort to offer the doll food & water & seek her help & the doll would provide. The doll helped her with her grief after her mother’s death. 🧵1/n

My Lino block print of Vasilisa the Beautiful as a young woman with a long braid holding the skull on a staff lantern with Baba Yaga’s chicken leg hut with bone fence and forest in the background. Vasilisa is in a red dress with belt, red flowered white blouse and has a long golden braid. The skull lantern glows with yellow light. The hut is brown with glowing windows. The forest is green with black trees and scattered red and yellow mushrooms.

quoted Schlesische Sagen 1 - Spuk- und Gespenstersagen by Richard Kühnau (Schlesische Sagen, #1)

Richard Kühnau: Schlesische Sagen 1 - Spuk- und Gespenstersagen (1910, B.G. Teubner)

...A barber once hanged himself here. And when people step into this small forest at 12 o'clock at noon or after the evening prayers, they will be grabbed by invisible hands, forced to sit down on a tree stump, and be lathered and shaved against their will.

— Schlesische Sagen 1 - Spuk- und Gespenstersagen by  (Schlesische Sagen, #1) (Page 507)

Ghosts have little respect for personal boundaries. #folktale #folklore #ghost

quoted Schlesische Sagen 1 - Spuk- und Gespenstersagen by Richard Kühnau (Schlesische Sagen, #1)

Richard Kühnau: Schlesische Sagen 1 - Spuk- und Gespenstersagen (1910, B.G. Teubner)

The irrlichts (will-o'-wisps) were often seen in the Alt-Seidenberg area, and frequently led the carters astray. There was also a larger irrlicht, which was called "The Great Shining One". It frequently approached from the direction of the Röhrborn near Alt-Seidenberg, and made a curve around the village until it reached the Küppen Forest. While the common irrlichts swayed up and down and were significantly smaller, the Great Shining One moved in a steady course.

— Schlesische Sagen 1 - Spuk- und Gespenstersagen by  (Schlesische Sagen, #1) (Page 384 - 385)

A boss monster will-o'-wisp!

Or worse, a manifestation of Cthugha...

#ttrpg #folktale #folklore #CallOfCthulhu

commented on Mecklenburg's Volkssagen - Vierter Band by Albert Niederhöffer (Mecklenburg's Volkssagen, #4)

Albert Niederhöffer: Mecklenburg's Volkssagen - Vierter Band (German language, 1858, Verlag von Heinrich Hübner) No rating

Der vierte und letzte Band einer Sammlung von Sagen aus Mecklenburg.

The fourth and …

I have translated the folk tale "Das verwünschte Schloss Mecklenburg bei Fürstenhagen, unweit Feldberg" (*"The Cursed Castle Mecklenburg near Fürstenhagen, close to Feldberg"):

www.patreon.com/posts/accursed-abodes-97229842

#Germany #folktale #folklore

commented on Harzmärchenbuch by August Ey

August Ey: Harzmärchenbuch (German language, 1862, Fr. Steudel) No rating