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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 Another tale with the sun, this one involving it being extinguished. The tale is taken from The Dawn Of The World Myths And Tales Of The Miwok Indians Of California. How Cha’-ka The Tule-wren Shot Out The Sun A Tale of the Olamentko Indians of Bodega Bay Personages Cha’-ka [...] 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. 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 [...] The below tale is taken from The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay by Franz Boas, from the section ‘Tales From Cumberland Sound’. I’ve included the entire tale, which continues below the cut. In this variation, to ward off the Disemboweller (Ululiernang), the visitor in the tale is instructed to do what sounds like giving [...] While flipping through Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures (Katherine Briggs), I did a double take when I thought I saw an entry for ‘Dunny’. Being a fan of Kidrobot’s Dunny line of designer toys, I flipped back to the entry. ‘Dunnie’. Close, but not the supernatural vinyl toy I’d hoped for! [...] As I work on my hedgehog folklore/fairy tales book, I’m always looking for valuable sources of information that are available online. While I’ve made great use of Google Books, I appear to have overlooked The Internet Archive’s Open-Access Text Archive. After finding myself returning to the site a number of times today, I decided to [...] |
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