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I’ve read a fair amount about the sun in regards to folklore and mythology today, but by far my favorite thing I’ve come across is below, if for no other reason than it feels like it could be true right now! Take from Oxford’s A Dictionary of Superstitions. SUN, pointing at I have created a ‘Free Kindle Book’ section in the site’s Amazon Store and added 43 free books dealing with folklore and mythology. I think it’s only fair to warn potential readers that these books, being free, will likely have poor formatting and may not include linked table of contents. But, they are free! As Amazon [...] The Salt Lake Tribune has an interesting article concerning folklorist William A. Wilson and Mormon folklore. The article, Mormon myths: From hero fantasies to cautionary tales, includes, at the end, a number of short Mormon tales. The below tale is taken from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts And Fairies. I’ve been reading a lot about charms lately and am interested in the “special medicine” and prayer used to keep away the supernatural beings. A Wonderful Medicine PRINCE CHEUNG had been First Minister of the land for thirty years. He was a man just [...] Over the weekend, I came across discussion of ‘castration magic’ in regards to marriage and a groom in Edward Muir’s Ritual in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History). Referred to by the French as aiguillette, the particular form of magic involved the tying of a string, sometimes to an object to represent the [...] In searching for marriage customs and folklore I found that there was certainly no shortage, so much so that I was not really sure where to start. So I thought next I would start at the beginning, with the determining of a future husband. Oddly (perhaps not?), in all of the accounts of this practice, I [...] Inspired by my brother’s upcoming wedding, I’ve started looking at wedding/marriage customs and superstitions this morning. There’s enough information out there that one could easily blog about the topic alone seemingly without end so I’ll post more about this over the next few days (and hopefully develop better posts than the one kicking it off!) To [...] While reading on the Dismeboweller, I came across an Inuit tale involving a gnome, or rather an atliarusek, who, according the Hinrich Rink, are “probably identical with the ingnersuaks, were a sort of elves or gnomes, supposed to have their abodes within rocks along the sea-shore.” Not much was to be found in regards to [...] In Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Vol XII, 1899, the following summary can be found of the various tales thus posted in regards to the Disemboweller: In Greenland she is called ‘Erdlaveersissok’ (’the entrail-seizer’). Residing on the way to the moon, she tempts people to laugh by her dancing and grimaces, and if [...] The below Inuit tale, recorded in 1884, is taken from The Central Eskimo by Frank Boas (via Michael Drake’s The Shamanic Drum). In this variation of the story, the Disemboweller (Ululiernang) is the Man in the Moon’s wife and rather than feeding on the entrails herself or feeding them to her dogs, she is said [...] |
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