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ome and a girl found herself a husband she gave birth to twelve human children and a lion cub in the tale of aluel and her loving father an active and caring father figure appeared next to the wicked stepmother he did his best to keep the stepmother from hurting aluel when she ran away anyway the girl was adopted by the sun and his two wives since they could not have children of their own more than one sun would have been risky for the earth she was raised in the sun s house and eventually returned to her father in the story of deng and his vicious stepmother it was the half brother that helped the hero both boys were named deng but one had a mortal woman for a mother and the other a lioness when the lioness went feral lion deng saved his brother repeatedly they even rescued two children from lions in the story of achol and her wild mother the mother sold herself piece by piece to a lion to help her family until she turned into a feral lion herself her children had to campture her beat her and tame her to turn her human again connections the story of acienggaakdit és acienggaakthii fit the tale type of the kind and the unkind girls although not perfectly the older mean half sister sent her kind little sister away the little sister had broken her favorite gourd and the mean girl insisted it should be repaired with lion hair luckily the little half sister s full sister was married to a lion so she turned to them for help following her loving sister s advice she managed to make friends with the lion and get away with a handful of hair her mean half sister seeing proof of her bravery grew jealous and decided to go on the same quest but of course being rude and brash she never returned where to next chad posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa animals folktales following folktales sudan thursday march 7 2019 the badass grandmas of hungarian folktales a folklorethursday special tomorrow is international women s day i have been working on a feminist hungarian folktales collection and the deeper i dug into out folklore archives the more often i encountered old women who were smart active and all around badass i decided that i would like to highlight them in this year s post so without further ado badass grandmas and aunties of hungarian folktales the ex princess in a folktale by a traditional teller from rozsály a young scythian king makes a name for himself by rescuing a cursed princess her father had punished her because she fell in love with the wrong person when the scythian prince sets her free she promises to repay his kindness one day time flies the king has sons the sons grow up and set out to seek their fortune on the way an old woman joins them not so subtly helping them along she rescues them from bandits and packs the bandit chief s head away in her purse later on when a king promises his daughter to whoever can rid the woods of bandits granny pulls out the severed head and demands the princess for one of the lads the king is not too enthusiastic about the match and orders his servants to toss the prince out of the highest tower at night but luckily the prince falls right into the arms of the old woman who has been waiting around below the tower with her back to the wall to catch him as the story progresses she blinds an entire army secures the match for one brother and finds another princess for the other until all is well in the end once a double wedding is celebrated the cursed princess turned badass grandma turns into a dove and flies away the salty witch you know that story right i love you like people love salt well in a hungarian roma variant the princess exiled by her narcissistic father ends up in the woods and is found by an old woman everyone in the area is scared of granny states that the king is a real piece of work and adopts the princess eventually a young man joins them as a servant one day granny decides it is time to teach the king a lesson and takes the princess home to the palace where they cook an unsalted feast together the king of course learns his lesson about the importance of seasoning and to drive the point home granny starts shaking salt out of a magic bag filling up the room yelling is that enough salt yet is that enough when the king begs for forgiveness the old lady nods good and don t ever make me save your daughter from you again word the dragon slayer in another roma folktale an old man is imprisoned for a crime he didn t commit and his wife is left alone the old woman sets out to rescue her husband walking through a forest everyone warns her not to enter it belongs to a dragon on the way the old woman meets the dragon it has 28 heads she offers it some milk and manages to lull and hum and pet it to sleep while the dragon is sleeping she cuts off her long hair and ties the beast up so thoroughly that when it wakes and struggles it strangles itself once people in town hear what she s done they let her husband go free the smart mother in law this transcarpathian story included in my book is a variant of rumpelstiltskin that is much kinder and all around nicer than the grimm version more importantly it features a dowager queen the king s mother who is on her daughter in law s side from the first moment to cover up the lie about spinning gold day after day she stands in the door of the girl s room spinning stories about why the gold is not ready no one dares question her word so she keeps winning time until the whole situation is resolved the demon hunter hungarian folklore features a type of demonic being known as a lidérc most often it appears as an ugly chicken with magical properties it can bring you whatever you want in great quantities and it will make you rich but the moment it gets bored it takes your soul to hell owners of lidérc chicken have to continuously keep them busy because their soul is on the line in one story a widow finds such a creature but soon discovers that it is impossible to coexist with when it is not piling things into the house it keeps chirping what what what until it is given another task eventually the wise old neighbor woman comes up with a solution for how to get rid of the demon you have to give it an impossible task following the sage advice the widow frees herself and splits the spoils with her neighbor bonus the virgin mary there is a transylvanian folktale that is very similar to bluebeard but has a better ending in this one the heroine helps her sisters escape from the murderer s castle and finds a new life for herself as well however her evil ex husband eventually catches up to her kidnaps her and drags her back home by the hair on the way the scene is noticed by the virgin mary who stops the man and demands to know what is going on when the man claims that he has the right to punish his runaway wife the virgin says no you don t you are a devil and you have no claim on any woman and with that she turns the man into stone and escorts the woman back home happy international women s day to all real life badass grandmas aunties godmothers and other legendary elders posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 2 comments labels ageism feminism folklorethursday folktales hungarian representation women women s day monday march 4 2019 land of life and death following folktales around the world 101 egypt today i continue the blog series titled following folktales around the world if you would like to know what the series is all about you can find the introduction post here you can find all posts here or you can follow the series on facebook folktales of egypt hasan m el shamy university of chicago press 1982 a classic collection from a great series egyptian folklorist hasan el shamy has done incredible work for the collection and preservation of egyptian andarab folktales at the start of his research in the 1960s mere dozens of tales had been collected he started a campaign to record and archive oral tradition all over egypt including copt nubian and berber communities this book contains 70 of the more than 2000 tales that have been preserved there is a long foreword about egyptian storytelling from american folklorist richard m dorson and a shorter introduction from the editor from the latter we learn a lot about egyptian oral tradition and the role of storytelling in everyday life such as wonder tales were almost always told by women and that by the 1960s there were no professional tellers working in cairo before each story we learn about the storyteller and get a short note with information about the cultural elements of the tale at the end of the book there are ample notes and references for each tale and even the thematic chapters come with their own introductions this book really contains all the information the reader could ever need about a folktale it is a great example of folklore publication highlights bishari youth among many stories of wisdom my favorite was the liver of the wise and the liver of the foolish a king wanted to eat the livers of a wise and a foolish man this was the only cure for his illness for a fool he caught a bishari tribesman and for a wise man he caught a judge except the bishari soon proved that he himself was very wise and the judge only had mindless book knowledge and then got two other victims for the king the vizier and a poet i also liked the story of sultan hasan who had been exiled from his realm and got married to a divorced woman it was supposed to be a legal loophole marriage but they fell in love and refused to get divorced again among the religious legends i really liked the stories about azrael the angel of death in one he talked a man out of suicide but later when the man tried to cheat his way out of death azrael tricked him anyway from another legend we also learned that azrael does cry laugh and feel fear sometimes there was also a story where injustice prevailed a judge and a baker stole a roasted duck later when the duck s owner took the baker to court with all the other people the baker had wronged the judge decided every case in the baker s favor until the last man decided not to complain at all too afraid to get fined a very realistic ending to a tale another story told about reasons to beat your wife or rather reasons not to in it a man with a great wife was constantly told by his friend that he should beat her anyway just for good measure and that he should manufacture a reason to do so the clever wife however avoided the beating until her husband reconsidered his friend s foolish advice connections in the introduction i encountered a tale about a sultan who was turned into a woman then back a story type i have only encountered so far apart from tiresias in scotland the same type repeated twice in the story of the grateful fish among better known tales there was a clever maiden sesame seed here she was the wife s sister giving advice to her brother in law on how to fulfill the sultan s impossible wishes a magic flight combined with rapunzel louliyya morgan s daughter magician s apprentice the maghrabi s apprentice and another silent princess tricked into speaking by dilemma tales and some jealousy the royal candlestick after greece i once again found the story of the man who tried to fix the dripping fountain of his luck but accidentally managed to stop it up for good i also found one of those stories where three men do some excellent detective work finding a one eyed camel in this case they also had to figure out which mohamed should inherit after their father antar after serbia i once again encountered the story of the land of darkness it is a part of the alexander al iskander epic where alexander the great sets out the fountain of immortality in the end it is his counselor el khidr who accidentally finds it and bathes in it and becomes an immortal who shows up whenever stories are told about him the legendary arab hero antar ibn shaddad also made a brief appearance from beyond the grave in one of the legends and to add to the lineup of famous men saint george mari girgis figured into several coptic tales including the famous dragon slaying one which is tied to nile fertility rites i found out that egyptians also have the concept of changelings here it is the djinn who change the babies for their own abu nawwas among the trickster tales there was a classic top and bottom of the crops story between a lion and the mouse resolved with another classic the race between animals among famous human tricksters we had goha and abu nawwas a court poet of harun al rasheed the latter won a contest in laziness by not even entering about goha there were multiple stories in one he faked his own death to prove a point to his wife in another he was really dying but trying to trick azrael out of taking him there was also the classic tale about applying pepper to a donkey s ass a story i first learned from my grandfather who swore up and down it happened in our own village there was even a collection 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