#folktale

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7/14 Self promotion day! Show us what you're proud of.

I'll take a moment to feel good about this story I wrote a while back. Based on a true history but embellished.

Also one of my stories that got published. I just learned how to play the folk song that goes with this (MacPherson's Rant, I enjoy the Old Blind Dogs version). Alas, few epic highland folk songs sound very majestic on a ukulele.

https://corbystories.wordpress.com/jamie-macphersons-fiddle/

CW: suicide depiction, slurs

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.