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he roads so old that when she was born the limping girl still had two good feet 7 in a hungarian version of the seven ravens folktale the girl looking for her twelve brothers stops for a night in the house of the mother of the stars the lady lists all her children and what time they leave home in the evening sánta kata is the last in line leaving at two in the morning to bring food for the others she is also the last one to come home after dawn the mother of stars notes that it is unlikely she would have noticed anything because she keeps tripping and stumbling over ditches and hedges kata repeats the same claim and the girl moves on ask help from other celestial objects which star or constellation is your favorite on the night sky posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 6 00 am 1 comment labels constellations folklore folklorethursday hungarian stars thursday december 3 2015 folklore thursday beware of rainbows today is folklore thursday on social media if you want to find out more follow this link or click on the folklorethursday hashtag on twitter hosted by folklorethursday heads up my book tales of superhuman powers is 3 on kindle within the usa this week it contains 55 folktales that feature superpowers such as invisibility shape shifting super speed or eye beams yes really each story comes with sources notes and a list of popular culture connections taking a break from the peasant bible i am going to spend the next few folklore thursday posts to talk about legends and beliefs concerning natural phenomena and constellations to start us off here are some things you need to know about rainbows according to hungarian folklore 1 if on spring rainbows the green is very vivid that means the harvest will be good that year if the red is vivid it means the wine will be good that year yellow means wind or good wheat in some places 2 rainbow in hungarian is called szivárvány it originates from the verb szívni which means to suck yes we literally named this gorgeous rare natural phenomenon the sucker it is believed that the rainbow always ends in a body of water it comes down to drink alternately it works as a gigantic straw for a mythical being in the sky who wants to drink some water the water eventually falls down again the form of rain 3 occasionally the rainbow can suck up some unsuspecting creatures along with the water for example if frogs or fish fall from the sky during the storm people will say that the rainbow sucked them up into the sky and then dropped them back down apparently the rainbow is vegan cattle might also be in danger 4 every once in a while a human person can also be hoovered up through a rainbow into the sky there are stories about a shepherd girl who got transported to the moon this way and she has been there ever since 5 in some places rainbow was known as the fairy ribbon or fairy cloth fairies had the power to spirit people away especially children into the sky by having them sucked up through the rainbow some of these children would return after 7 years with no memory of their time spent in the fairy realm yes reports of ufo abductions are not all that original supernatural got the idea right 6 legend says that if you pass under a rainbow or if you drink from the body of water that the rainbow is drinking from you will turn into the opposite sex male to female or vice versa this can happen to animals and humans alike there is a transylvanian story about a young girl who happened to be drawing water from the well a rainbow was drinking from and after that she spent her life constantly changing female for one month and male for the next back and forth she eventually got married but her husband divorced her after the first month while this is a short little snippet i would love to do a more lgbt friendly reworking of it or see any other storyteller out there do the same think of all of this next time you see a rainbow approach at your own risk have fun posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 6 00 am 1 comment labels fairies folklore folklorethursday hungarian popular culture rainbow saturday november 28 2015 story saturday what makes you pick up a folktale collection a while ago i announced that i want to turn my 2016 a to z challenge into a promotion for reading more folktales i read a lot of amazing collections with amazing stories in them but for me it comes with the job i really wish more people would pick the up for fun and to learn about other cultures you can read my full reasoning and announcement here i have been asking people to suggest some recently published post 2010 folktale collections that i could review in addition i also created a poll on goodreads asking questions about what is most likely to make people pick up a collection of folktales the poll just concluded and the results are in 41 people answered the poll out of these almost half 18 said that the theme of the collection is most likely to make them pick up the book the second most popular feature 9 was the culture the stories came from cover art and illustrations got 8 votes who doesn t love a gorgeously illustrated book of fairy tales supernatural creatures got 2 votes the rest of the categories number of stories included name of the collector author titles of the tales included having read tales from the same culture before all got 1 vote each what this tells me i am going to be focusing on folktale collections with themes as much as i can i will be selecting books from various cultures around the world to make my a to z as diverse as possible i will be making a special effort to include collections from less well known traditions in my posts i will be noting whether or not the book is illustrated and if it is i will try to post samples i am still looking for suggestions if you have any books in mind that would fit collection of folktales published after 2010 let me know also since so many people were interested in themes and different cultures i am also curious what are some cultures that you have never read stories from before but you would like to here are some that i am considering so far maldives isle of man laos siberian indigenous wales gambia i ll add to the list as i go along i appreciate all input posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 6 00 am 3 comments labels a to z books folktales thursday november 26 2015 folklore thursday little jesus solves bullying with candy today is folklore thursday on social media if you want to find out more follow this link or click on the folklorethursday hashtag on twitter hosted by folklorethursday today i continue the theme of the peasant bible a collective term for hungarian folktales based on biblical topics this story comes from the popular tradition of tales about jesus missing childhood years it is one of my favorites peasant bible folktales to tell and incidentally the only one that ever got me into trouble with religious parents toys and candies the workshop of joseph the carpenter was at the edge of the village one day little jesus decided he was old enough to help his mother mary in any small way he could and volunteered to take joseph s lunch to the workshop by himself carrying the pot very carefully he met a group of older boys who immediately decided to beat him up little jesus could not outrun them with the pot and was not willing to fight so as a last resort he leaned down picked up a handful of dirt and threw it at them the dirt turned into candies and toys the boys stopped to pick them up and little jesus got safely away this story is as adorable as it is short and it resonates really well with children parents have complained before that it is not in the biblical canon they probably missed the folktale part of the intro but the way i see it the messages of this short little tale are actually pretty applicable 1 if little jesus himself can get bullied that means you don t have to do anything wrong for people to pick on you 2 little jesus could probably have called down fire and brimstone on all bullies but he didn t 3 it is okay to run and it is okay to tell your parents also smarts win over force posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 6 00 am 3 comments labels bullying children folklorethursday folktales jesus peasant bible saturday november 21 2015 timeless tales collected from syrian refugees book review i first heard about this book at the federation for european storytelling conference in greece this summer from jack lynch the irish storyteller who revised the english translation it immediately grabbed my attention we spent a lot of time at the conference talking about the refugee situation timeless tales is the result of a joint project between the swedish cultural heritage without borders fabula storytelling and members of the the hakaya network arab education forum al barad theatre arab resource collective for popular arts al jana in 2014 syrian researchers gathered more than 250 folktales from displaced people in refugee camps in syria and lebanon they selected and transcribed 21 of them and published them in january 2015 in a high quality english arabic bilingual book this was the book that showed up in my mailbox two weeks ago courtesy of peter hagberg from fabula storytelling i was going to save it for my a to z challenge theme in april but recent events made it very timely so i decided to talk about it today update the book can be downloaded in a free pdf from this website in addition to being a very important project for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage this book is also a very enjoyable read it is shorter than it looks the english half amounts to about 95 pages with illustrations in between but it is very well organized each story is marked with the name age city of origin and current residence of its teller often with footnotes explaining where the city is and what kind of a region it belongs to additional notes explain names and cultural terms the translators and editors even noted where the tales have been altered from their original format this is how you know the book was created by professional storytellers the tales themselves are delightful and run a wide range of genres there are tricksters wise fools tragic lovers man eating ogres which seems to be the generic term the translators used for ghouls wise women just kings and camels that lay golden eggs and then marry princesses some of the stories will ring familiar there is a version of love like salt two different versions of the animal husband one with a camel and one with a horse s head this latter takes the cake in the category of unlikely there is even a variation of the three little pigs without pigs but with the addition of a ghoul all the tales carry nuggets of wisdom and good advice one of them is a very well known inspirational story that has been making the rounds on the internet but the rest read like classic folklore i especially liked the stories that involved women in difficult family situations one getting away from an abusive home by wit and luck one saving her daughters from the jaws of a ghoul and one giving advice to her husband on how to become wealthy there is even a story in here about how a husband s own distrust and meanness turns his wives to erratic behavior which he blames them for until his own fault is pointed out while not all the tales are kind to women they have clearly been selected with a professional storyteller s eye to what would appeal to wider contemporary audiences in the end i was kind of sad that out of the 250 collected stories only 21 made it into the collection i hope to hear or read more of them in the future the illustrations are pretty and fun and the entire layout of the book is clear professional and visually pleasing all in all the volume does justice to the tales and to the people who tell them i would like to quote the closing thoughts of its preface stories are what we are made of and if we lose our stories we risk losing touch with our humanity and our identity we strongly believe that through the enhancement of this thousand year old heritage of storytelling the hakawati project has a potential to bridge ethnic political and religious divides and hopefully build better understanding between people strongly recommended read for all storytellers story loving people and people following the news on the refugee debate posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 6 00 am 6 comments labels books folktales refugees review story saturday syria thursday november 19 2015 folklore thursday archangels have problems with bureaucracy today is folklore thursday on social media if you want to find out more follow this link or click on the folklorethursday hashtag on twitter hosted by folklorethursday continuing the theme of the peasant bible hungarian folktales based on biblical themes i think this week s selection says a lot about the hungarian mentality concerning authority rules and commands the most often used phrase is we ll solve this smartly which usually means bending the rules going outside the rules under the counter through family connections etc this seems to be the principle adam and eve operate on since they were clearly hungarian duh this story probably also has roots in the relationships between tenants and their landlords in the last century the three archangels adam and eve ate the forbidden fruit and god was furious he commanded that they shall be exiled from the garden of eden forever he summoned archangel gabriel handed him a flaming stick and ordered him to remove the couple from the premises adam saw the archangel approaching and panicked the judgment of god is upon us we will be exiled from the garden eve looked up too don t fret my love he s hungarian we ll solve this smartly eve quickly set about making lunch and by the time gabriel descended he was greeted with a table loaded with delicacies eve offered him the best seat fed him poured him drinks petted his hair treated him like a beloved guest the archangel grew uncomfortable this is not why i came he protested the lord ordered me to exile you from paradise immediately for breaking his commandment come on now eve purred do you really have such a callous heart we greeted you we fed you we treated you well look at how content we are would you really ruin this perfect happiness she talked and she talked and finally gabriel returned to heaven without completing his mission is it done asked god oh please lord don t punish me gabriel pleaded those two are so happy and content together they were like a pair of doves i didn t have the heart to exile them god sighed i see i shall send somebody else he summoned a romanian archangel peter and ordered him to go and exile adam and eve from paradise adam saw peter descending and panicked again the lord is sending another archangel what shall we do don t fret eve waved i know exactly what to do peter landed in the middle of the garden and eve hurried to meet him good day good day archangel peter what can we do for you today god commands that you leave the g...