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m curios where this is going to lead posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 2 comments labels ballads harlots love stories storyspotting tv saturday july 20 2019 storyspotting moon landing special storyspotting is a weekly or kinda weekly series about folktales tropes references and story motifs that pop up in popular media from tv shows to video games topics are random depending on what i have watched played read recently also there will be spoilers be warned today s post is a little bit different from the usual but it had too great a topic to miss where was the story spotted today is the 50th anniversary of a human being first setting foot on the moon what happens a human being walks on the moon also a pop culture connection i am a big fan of the changeling the dreaming role playing game where july 20th 1969 marks the resurgence the moment when so many people experienced wonder at the same time that the gates of the dreaming opened again and magic and belief returned to our world what s the story since the whole moon landing is the culmination of millennia of dreams and stories i decided to celebrate today by spotting some of my favorite tales about people or occasionally animals visiting the moon the prince of the dolomites a prince raised by his widow mother dreams about going to the moon from an early age one night he sees a princess in the moonlight and falls in love with her after that he becomes prince moonstruck and admires the moon every night wishing to travel there to meet the princess luckily he befriends a group of dwarfs who help him ascend to the moon but they warn him that if he stays too long he will go blind prince and princess fall in love but when the prince starts to lose his sight they decide to move back to earth to ease the princess homesickness the dwarfs paint the dolomites with the shining colors of the moon and they have been like that ever since shooting the moon a yao folktale about how long ago there was a fiery burning moon in the sky the archer ya la and his wife ni wo worked together to assemble a magic bow and arrow to shoot it down when chipping stars off the fiery moon was not enough they shot up ni wo s embroidery that covered the moon s surface and cooled it down but it also sucked the wife herself up to the sky not wanting to live apart from his wife ya la called to ni wo who let her long braid down so that her husband could climb up to her ever since then they have been living on the moon in a little hut with a cassia tree and a flock of sheep all of which you can see in the dark shapes on the surface matanako and the moon a folktale from tuvalu about a boy who has a special connection to the moon as a baby he only sleeps in moonlight and when he learns to talk he says he wishes to go to the moon he convinces his father to take him and they board a ship together sailing for the place in the east where the moon rises from the sea on the way they pass various spirit islands and lose some of their crew to spirit diseases when they reach the horizon the father throws matanako at the moon and he has been living up there ever since the dark shapes on the surface are the shape of his body why the skunk lives underground a quechua folktale about a skunk and a fox who are unlikely best friends fox s biggest dream is to go to the moon while skunk would like to feast on the worms that live underground when the moon lets down two ropes for them they decide to climb up together skunk doesn t really want to go but he agrees to accompany his friend in some versions a guinea pig chews skunk s rope through and he falls back down in others he decides that going to the moon is not for him after all and comes back down to live comfortably underground fox makes it happily to the moon and thus both friends fulfill their own dreams the fox who was in love with the moon another quechua story and a very cute one a fox falls in love with the moon and wants to reach her but no matter how many mountaintops he climbs he can t get any closer eventually he climbs the highest most daunting mountain and from the top he jumps into moon s arms he s been cradled there ever since true history lucian of samosata wrote this piece in the 2nd century ad as a parody of the true stories of ancient travelers he claims to have sailed to the moon on a ship picked up by a whirlwind the moon he says is inhabited by vulture riders people riding giant vultures into battle ruled by endymion the moon goddess mortal lover they are waging a war against the ant riders of the sun over who gets to colonize the morning star the armies of the moon have 80 000 vulture riders 20 000 cauliflower riders garlic warriors and millet slingers they are joined by 30 000 flea archers archers riding giant fleas and 50 000 wind runners lucian describes the whole war in great and elaborate detail he also shares wild tales about the moon society including how they harvest babies from trees that grow from men s testicles planted in the ground how their rich people dress in glass clothes and how they have honey instead of snot orlando furioso in one of my favorite epic moments the knight astolfo borrows a hippogriff and then elijah s chariot to fly to the moon where all lost things can be found to search for the wits sanity of his friend orlando who lost them due to his love for a woman among the great collection of lost things on the moon there are such curiosities as lost fame lost desires lost tears lost kingdoms wasted efforts lost favors unhappy marriages lost charms and lost time which is the only thing one cannot claim back astolfo is shocked to find a bottle with his own name on it it contains a portion of his own lost wits which he never even realized was missing conclusion there are countless other folktales and legends about traveling to the moon most cultures seem to have at least one this is what made the actual moon landing so fascinating in the eyes of the storyteller humanity achieved something that it has collectively been dreaming of for millennia so which dream should we tackle next posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 3 comments labels china folktales history italy legends minorities moon orlando furioso peru storyspotting tuvalu monday july 15 2019 brains over brawn following folktales around the world 115 burkina faso 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 from the moose of burkina faso alain joseph sissao langaa rpcid 2010 the book contains forty two folktales from the moose people of burkina faso collected from the oral tradition we get a short introduction to moose culture and storytelling as well as a bibliography at the end of the book the stories have been translated to french and then to english keeping their original wording this is a folklore collection definitely not a children s book and some of the tales sound strange even to adult european ears however some of the strange tales were really interesting and enjoyable highlights in the tale of the warthog and the lion the king of the animals wanted to kill the warthog because others claimed he was stronger hare helped the warthog to get away with a lot of cunning and some frustration but the lion has been hunting his kind ever since in another more adorable escape story a hunter picked up a hedgehog and her children the mother kept telling the little ones if god does not kill the chief cannot kill either eventually the hunter set his bag down to kill an antelope and the hedgehog family got away there was a fun chain story about a beautiful girl who was kidnapped by a crocodile and rescued by a turtledove the dove began to sing and the crocodile left the girl with a lizard to go listen to the music the lizard wanted to listen too so he left the girl with a frog and so on until she was finally left alone and she could escape my favorite clever solution in the book however was for the dilemma of the chief the hawk and the turtledove in this one a dove fleeing a hawk found refuge in a chief s pocket and in return promised him whatever he wished for the hawk promised he would have many children the chief did not know which one to pick but luckily a child came along and asked what the matter was his solution was simple yet great he asked the hawk if he was trying to kill the dove specifically or was just hungry since it was the latter the child told the chief to bring some meat and feed the hawk both birds got away content and both of them gave their gifts to the chief there is always a third option connections there were also some familiar tale types in the book for example two variants of the kind and unkind girls both of which had an orphan girl for a protagonist she returned home covered in gold or riches while the lazy stepsister only got death and scorpions on the other hand the clever maid character who solved a chief s impossible tasks in this case was a boy there was yet another fun dangerous rock type trickster tale in this case everyone had to go a year without criticizing because anyone who uttered a criticism would die hare pretended to plant a garden on a rock and collected the possessions of the animals that made a critical comment on his foolish behavior eventually guinea fowl turned his own trick against him the trickster in residence is still hare who steals fruit from the chief s tree and collects impossible gifts e g djinn brains there was also a boy who was a great liar making a fool of the chief and the whole village gold shitting donkey stick that the revives the dead classics and swapped his punishment with someone else where to next ghana posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa burkina faso folktales following folktales monday july 8 2019 great mothers questionable husbands following folktales around the world 114 ivory coast 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 some gold a little ivory country tales from ghana and the ivory coast edythe rance haskett the john day company 1971 the book contains 24 folktales out of which 14 are from the ivory coast and the rest from ghana they have been collected and re told by an african american teacher who spent years in the countries of west africa since i will have a whole other post for ghana in this one i will only focus on the tales from the ivory coast the stories were told in an enjoyable style with an audience of children in mind and the book has some colorful illustrations but i found it interesting as an adult as well highlights in the tale of mahda and the bull elephant an evil elephant devoured the three children of a widow she set out tracked the elephant down followed her children into his stomach and saved everyone people and animals alike who had been trapped there in another story mongoose accidentally killed the king s favorite but very annoying goat and tried to frame dog for the murder dog s wife figured out a way to save her husband and in the end it was mongoose who got sentenced to death by snake pit this is why according to the story mongoose is so good at killing snakes once again there were some dilemma tales in the collection in one of them a warrior loved two girls equally and could not make up his mind about which one to marry so he killed himself one girl died after him in grief while the other found a way to bring both of them back to life the storyteller poses the lover s riddle how should the warrior decide now in a short fun pourquoi story god entrusted bat with a basket full of darkness to deliver it to the moon on the way bat fell asleep and curious monkeys opened the basket letting the night loose ever since them bat has been frantically flying around at night trying to collect the darkness connections binyoka the old woman of the water helped a girl named hallah when she made a mistake and threw herself into a lake in her shame she sunk down into the land of water spirits where she met the old woman binyoka rewarded the girl s patience and kindness with gemstones and made sure she found a good husband this story reminded me of that of frau holle without the unkind girl repetition there was also a tale very similar to the european handless maiden stories here a girl was mutilated and chased away by her evil brother when she was exiled into the wilderness for a second time her father s blessing and the friendly forest snakes helped her turn her fate around the story of the three prayers reminded me of all the three wishes tales a husband first wished his ugly wife to be pretty then when she was taken from him he wished her to be a monkey then when he got her back he wished her to go back to her original self in the end however he concluded that he could be just as happy with an ugly wife as for tricksters i was reminded of the tar baby stories by the tale in which a lazy thief was captured with the help of a bowl of fu fu and hot peppers in the end the thief was chased out of the village and his wife who wished for a better husband became the second wife of the fu fu s owner there was also a version of the classic story in which a boy rescued a crocodile and it wanted to eat him in return everyone they asked claimed that it is usual for good deeds to be rewarded with bad until a chief came along and saved the boy where to next burkina faso posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 1 comment labels africa folktales following folktales ivory coast sunday july 7 2019 medusa in the backpack and other stories about teens and role playing games almost exactly a year ago a high school invited me to their esl summer camp for teens i visited with my friend danielle bellone we told some stories in english and since we had a free afternoon i decided to introduce the kids to role playing games several hours and three dungeon crawls later they were hooked this year the organizers invited me back by popular demand to run some more role playing adventures i love my job buy it here there were 26 teens at the camp so we divided them into 5 and 6 person groups and i got a three hour session with each since this time i was dming alone i decided to bring some adventures that are perfect for beginners and also make good stories the first volume of the uncaged anthology came out earlier this year and is quickly gaining much deserved popularity it turns old dungeons dragons tropes inside out giving voice to classic monsters and making players reevaluate their beliefs and convictions it s an awesome collection of short adventures i highly recommend it i brought pre made character sheets the players could pick from my own party helped me by rolling up 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