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Another hedgehog related piece from An Argosy Of Fables: A Representative Selection From The Fable Literature Of Every Age And Land. This time it is a fable by Henri Richer (1685-1748), a French lawyer turned author. The Snake And The Hedgehog Soon as he felt the winter frists begin, The below African tale is taken from An Argosy Of Fables: A Representative Selection From The Fable Literature Of Every Age And Land, and is one of a few tales featuring a hedgehog present in the book. The Hedgehog and the Dog were formerly good friends, and cultivated bananas together. When the bananas were full-grown, [...] It’s previously been posted about hedgehogs and the idea of them sucking milk from cows, both here and here. Earlier today I came across two notes regarding the hedgehog, the first mostly stating the same as has previously been posted regarding the hedgehog’s alleged relationship with the cow. Hedgehogs Sucking Cows (6th S. vii. 309 ; [...] I spent a few hours at the library over the weekend and while doing so came across a reference to a Jinn taking the form of a hedgehog and I couldn’t resist the temptation to post. Below is some of Carol Rose’s entry for Djinn from Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia, also known as [...] For a number of days, prompted by some interesting reading as I continue my way through Nine Lives – The Folklore of Cats, I’ve been collecting stories regarding cats and their use in healing. There’s more than a fair bit of material to wade through on the subject and as Briggs notes in her book, [...] While continuing hedgehog lore research, I came across more references to it being highly regarded for it’s ability to predict the weather. In Lewis Dayton Burdick’s 1905 Magic and Husbandry, the Folk-Lore of Agriculture, there are a number of such references, including the recently posted rhyme from Poor Robin’s Almanack, although here Burdick attributes it [...] Previously I’d posted a bit about and the tale, ‘Hans-My-Hedgehog‘. Like ‘Hans-My-Hedgehog‘, ‘The Hedgehog, the Merchant, the King, and the Poor Man‘ is Tale Type 441, Hog Bridesgroom, where a maiden is forced to marry a hog or hedgehog. This Hungarian tale was published in Jeremiah Curtin’s Myths And Folk Tales Of The Russians, Western [...] I love Google Books! A quick simple search for something unrelated turned up the below… Below is an entry concerning the hedgehog. I’ve previously posted about some of what is said, but thought the rhyme interesting and is something I don’t recall coming across before. The entry comes from Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult [...] I realized how long of a break I took from blogging about folklore I was reading when I found this draft from April 21st, 2006, sitting about in the queue of drafts. Oh my! A few very helpful hedgehog references have come from the Physica list… “In a Bosnian legend, the origin of hedgehog is connected to [...] I happened across a brief mention of an unlucky encounter with a hedgehog in ‘Some Folk-Lore on Trees, Animals, and River-Fishing, from the North-East of Scotland ‘ (The Folk-Lore Journal, v7 n1, p 42.). The account is as follows:
The Hedgehog. Mr. [...] |
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