#folklore

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1/ @rorystarr asked me about some ideas for folklore-themed dungeons - specifically, dungeons that are connected to the "Feywild". So I took a look at my repository of translations of German folk tales, and here is what I found.

But first, a word about definitions. German folklore almost never uses the German equivalent of "fairie" ("Fee"). Instead, a more common term is "Geist", which is a direct translation of "spirit" - and can describe almost any supernatural entity.

Thus, in my exploration of this theme I have limited myself to places linked to entities which are (a) not clearly ghosts, and (b) not clearly demons. This is as close as we will get to "fairies", I am afraid...

The painting "Dark thoughts" by Arthur Hughes. A scared-looking man sits on a spiral staircase, while some black bat/cat hybrids are fluttering around near the ceiling.

1/ Since @JohannaMakesGames was curious, here is a thread on assorted "Underworlds" from German folklore. This will be a slow-moving thread since I need to go through my backlog of translated folk tales and put them on my wiki.

One iconic type of "Underworld" is one inhabited by a "Sleeping Ruler" - a former emperor, king, or other leader who is neither dead nor alive, but sleeps beneath the mountain until he is needed once more.


https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Category:Sleeping_Ruler

I've noticed that there are a bunch of other weekly -themed hashtags such as and .

Do these also have "weekly themes" like ? Or do people just post whatever they feel is appropriate?

I have a new game out! Build your map, play on it, and then destroy it as you explore the myths surrounding the surreal landscape of Ireland's Giant's Causeway.

Find out more about Welcome to: The Giant's Causeway via my itchio page or today's TTRPGkids post (see linktree), and happy gaming!

a mock up of Welcome to The Giant's Causeway showing a brochure cover and the interior of the brochure with a hex tile map and game instructions

wants to read European Guilds by Sheilagh Ogilvie (Princeton economic history of the Western world)

Sheilagh Ogilvie, Joel Mokyr: European Guilds (Hardcover, 2019, Princeton University Press) No rating

A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic history

Guilds …

I bought this book as a result of an Internet Argument where one of the posters claimed that the medieval European guilds were in their own way just as horrible as the large multinational companies of the present #LateStageCapitalism (though on a smaller scale) - and they cited this book as a reference.

If nothing else, this book should give me some useful context for my own #folklore research.

1/ I do not have any further -themed folk tales to share for this , but I do want to share the interactive map for German folk tales I am working on at the moment. It can be found on my new installation, and uses the combined power of , , and to dynamically generate maps with the accurate location of the German folk tales I have translated. Please take a look!


https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page