#folklore

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Apr. 23 – Have fairy tales influenced any of your creative work?

If you count , I've written a Ballad of retelling with her as a trans woman! https://corvidqueen.com/stories/a-maidens-war-lj-lee An older prose short also starring transfem Mulan (the idea so nice, I wrote it twice!) has a crucial fantasy element inspired by warnings/prophecies in fairy tales.

4/21. Does the change of seasons affect your writing at all? If so, how?

Doesn’t affect me that much but it does affect my characters. My protagonist is prone to making comments on other people’s dress sense, usually in a derogatory manner. Often pointing out the people who tend to discard their clothes when the weather’s good are usually the one’s you definitely don’t want to see in a state of undress.

Whilst it’s not directly connected to the seasons my novels revolve around the pagan wheel of the year with auctions of magic artefacts taking place on, or near, the date of the various festivals.

Hey folks,

I'm struggling to find early collected tales about that reference the chicken-leg house. I know there is a collection in the 70s with it, but I have a couple collections of Russian folklore that make no references in any of her tales.

Whats the earliest collected reference to her chicken leg house?

2026 or fairy tale inspired challenge progress:

One of my books details a search for a Grim, a type of black dog from folklore. In it I reasoned although there’s little in the way of proof either them or big cats existing, the dogs are more likely to. As no excrement has been found from a big cat, the black dogs may be out there as you wouldn’t necessarily expect to come across the spoor of an incorporeal supernatural beast.

Stealing from the dead is generally considered to be unwise.

Especially if you've seen the dead person in question wandering around.


https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/A_Dead_Man_Searches_for_his_Gown

The continues!

Today's legend takes place in the era of the Tatar invasions, and tells of a fortunate escape due to healthy snacks.

BĂĄgy: Walnut Body Armor
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/bagy-walnut-body-armor-small-town.html

Route 666 (now mostly renumbered 491) was an American highway that wound through Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Due to the associations of 666 with the Antichrist, the route was rumoured to be cursed. The road was said to be haunted by a phantom 1930s car that forced drivers off the road, a demonic smoke-and-fire-belching truck, and skin walkers, dangerous creatures from Navajo myth. There were also accounts of a ghostly female hitchhiker and UFOS, which allegedly created timeslips - meaning drivers could disappear then reappear miles down the road not knowing what had happened to them. Much of the road's mythology might have come about thanks to its high accident rate - its renumbering in 2003 coincided with safety improvements.

Two signs attached to a lamppost next to a busy road beneath a dark, cloudy sky. One reads '491' and the other 'Former 666'.