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otting tv witcher monday december 23 2019 familiar discoveries following folktales around the world 136 mozambique 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 this is the last post in the series before a short winter break we ll be back after the holidays makua tales second series h w woodward bantu studies 9 1 1935 since i could not find a book for mozambique i dug up an article from the bantu studies journal it contains 25 makua folktales in the original language and english mirror translation the makua are a bantu ethnic group who mostly live in mozambique and some of them are scattered in tanzania the end of the article also contains a series of riddles but they are very hard to guess for someone not familiar with makua culture or local flora and fauna most of the tales in the article belonged to familiar types but it was nice to see them again highlights the story of narikosha was simple and lovely a handsome man decided not to pick a beautiful girl from among the ones that competed for him instead he picked a girl he loved even though she was covered in sores connections i knew the story of the monkey s heart from many places including columbia here it was a catfish who got tricked by a monkey the mutual invitation story where neither host allowed the guest to eat at their party here featured tortoise and monkey there was a flying turtle tale as well where turtle was being carried over water by his friend falcon but couldn t resist speaking so he got dropped in the river that s why turtles live in water i was happy to see my favorite bystander intervention folktale again this time rabbit tried to trick dove into giving him her children but falcon showed up in time to tell her not to believe the empty threats rabbit can t actually hurt or reach her there was a short animal bride folktale featuring a civet cat that secretly turned into a woman when no one was looking and cleaned a hunter s house the resident trickster is hare who usually tricked hyena for example in the popular african tale type of going to visit relatives and tricking his companion on the way multiple times there was also a deadly rock type story here hare lured animals into a hollow log and killed them when they got stuck until eland tricked him in another story hare kept scaring people and eating their food when they ran away until they caught him with the usual tar baby trick on the other hand it was also hare who tricked the ungrateful leopard back into the trap he had been saved from saving deer s life and he also featured in a silent princess tale where he made her speak by showing her a catfish in a cat trap and a cat in a fish trap where to next the comoros posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa folktales following folktales mozambique trickster monday december 16 2019 morals for the next generation following folktales around the world 135 malawi 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 malawi folktales 1 veronica maele aglc press 2003 the book contains fifteen folktales collected by the author from her own older relatives the goal of the book according to the introduction was to offer traditional stories to the next generation from their own culture teaching them through morals that have not been passed through because of social changes between generations to support this goal the book has an educational chapter at the end with questions and teaching help there are also some black and white illustrations highlights i really enjoyed the story of kilapo and the witches kilapo was a sick boy probably with leprosy whom his own family wanted to exile into the wilderness but he had one loyal friend who spent time with him even when he was not supposed to he invited kilapo along on a trip with other children even though kilapo waked slowly and all the other kids made fun of them the group ended up in a cave of witches and of course it was kilapo who saved everyone in the end the story of the woodcutter and the bird was also beautiful the woodcutter found a beautiful rich forest but every time he cut down some trees the clearing disappeared by the next day he eventually managed to catch a glimpse of a magic bird that flew in and revived the trees with its song the woodcutter gave up and moved elsewhere i also liked the story in which a kind bird gave wings to the grasshoppers so that they would not have to hop everywhere another pourquoi story explained why frogs look the way they do and not the way they used to back in the old days when they had pretty horns and luscious white fur connections i was surprised to find a variant of the ant and the grasshopper the moral was the same gather food for hard times but in the end the neighboring mouse took pity on the grasshopper and gave him enough food to survive the winter the story of the red mangoes was similar to all the folktales about stolen golden apples except here the youngest boy was very kind to the bird and when his brothers wanted to take it from him a wizard appeared out of nowhere and chastised them there was also a kind and unkind girls story i was reminded of a west african anansi story by the tale of lizard and his three wives he won them by guessing their secret names but in the end they ran away with other men and lizard was okay with it as long as he could visit sometimes which is why you tend to find lizards inside the house there was yet another tricky invitation tale where tortoise and monkey invited each other for lunch but didn t actually get to eat any food and also an ungrateful lion tricked back into the trap by a clever hare to help a medicine man where to next mozambique posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 1 comment labels africa folktales following folktales malawi saturday december 14 2019 storyspotting fae vs human maleficent mistress of evil 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 i am not a fan of disney s recent live action phase but maleficent is the one exception because it actually manages to create a new story instead of just cgi ing the crap out of a cartoon where was the story spotted maleficent mistress of evil aka maleficent 2 what happens humans decide to start a war to get rid of those pesky fae creatures in the enchanted forest once and for all the whole story culminates in an epic battle scene and a bunch of fae locked in a church being turned into flowers and plants by poison gas yeah i know what s the story sure fairies and humans have their differences in various tales and legends but all out war and genocide really yup illustration castle sirok for starters there is a hungarian legend about castle backa in transylvania it claims that the castle was built by fairies who lived at a distance from but in general peace with the humans that is until we started to build churches with bell towers the fairies repeatedly warned humans the sound of the bells bothered them and when that didn t work they raised an army attacked the human villages and destroyed all churches some time later water disappeared from their castle dying of thirst they came to the humans to beg for water but the humans remembering the destruction denied their pleas the fairies left and no one ever heard from them again another tale from transcarpathia takes an even darker turn it s titled where have all the fairies gone and it was recorded from storyteller pályuk anna about 100 years ago i published it in english in by book dancing on blades it is told in first person by a girl who sets out to investigate why all fairies are gone a mysterious man tells her the story one time human children started to die in great numbers and someone claimed they were being killed by fairies so humans set out and systematically hunted the fairies all down or so the mysterious man claims and then he disappears there is a local legend in ireland s county leitrim about two neighboring cairns sigh mor and sigh beg it claims that under the piles of stones two warriors are buried who fell in a battle fighting each other since both sides in the battle had fairy allies the fairies continued fighting long after the humans were gone and they continued their battles for centuries also moving away from fairies to other mythical creatures there is the legend of king laurin s rose garden one of my favorite medieval stories in this one humans accuse dwarf king laurin of kidnapping their princess and set out to take revenge in truth the princess ran away with the dwarf king out of love but her family refuses to believe that even when they manage to start some diplomatic talks with the help of legendary king dietrich of bern civility soon breaks down and the human knights kidnap the dwarf king he manages to get a message to a relative of his king walberan ruler of the dwarfs and giants of the caucasus and he shows up with an entire army to save laurin and level dietrich s human kingdom the battle is averted in the last minute and eventually dwarfs and humans manage to make peace i have a full hour storytelling show of this legend called roses in the mountains last but not least irish leprechauns are officially a protected species under the e u habitats directive a man who met a leprechaun was told that there were only 236 of them left and since no one can prove or disprove their existence their habitat was declared protected conclusion i feel like we need to remember all these stories and see what we can learn from them about acceptance coexistence cultural diplomacy and other important topics posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels dietrich cycle fairies film maleficent storyspotting monday december 9 2019 tales word for word following folktales around the world 134 zambia 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 zambia texts in six african languages and in english dorothea lehmann dietrich reimer 1983 the book contains nineteen folktales collected in the 1960s by a german linguist who was researching the languages of the newly independent country the introduction tells us about the types and language of the stories the context of collecting them and the way they were transcribed from the original by students who spoke the native languages there was also a lot of information about the storytelling tradition for example a taboo against telling stories in daylight otherwise the teller s father turns into a monkey and their mother into porridge the story texts appear on the same page one column in the original language and the other in english in very punctual mirror translation the book also contains a bibliography and a map highlights i have seen the story of the selfish husband before but i really liked the version in this book during a famine a family moved into the bush the husband found lots of honey but hid it and refused to share with his children even when they begged finally the mother went out to hunt and killed a large animal but could not drag it home the village came to her help gave her flour and corn and now that she had support she divorced her selfish husband there was also a classic shapeshifting story about a hunter who turned into a lion there really is not much happening in the story other than a hunter turning into a lion and his companions pissing themselves in fear the lion didn t hurt anyone though and eventually changed back connections the magic ring was an aladdin story but here it was the mother in law who stole the ring and an eagle and a rat helped to get it back i have already seen a tale similar to the hornbill and the hare once here the bird threatened the hare into working for him claiming his beak was red hot and dangerous once he fell asleep however the hare found out the truth about the beak being harmless where to next malawi posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa folktales following folktales zambia saturday december 7 2019 storyspotting skin and bones terminator dark fate 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 i really wanted to do a terminator post about strong women and female warriors and whatnot but then this random tidbit was so funny that the post just wrote itself sorry where was the story spotted terminator dark fate 2019 what happens in this movie we see a new type of terminator the rev 9 which is designed as an infiltrator as wikipedia so eloquently put it the rev 9 s primary feature is the ability to split its mimetic polyalloy exterior and endoskeleton into two separate units basically its skin separates from its carbon based bones and goes walking around separately taking on other people s form what s the story the first one that came to mind was a folktale from palau titled budel and iuesel they were brothers the children of the same woman budel was just an empty skin and iuesel was a skeleton iuesel went fishing every day but one time budel wanted to go too the skeleton carried his skin brother down to the seashore where he could sit on a rock and spear fish however suddenly they saw an enemy war canoe coming in they had to run back to their village but as iuesel ran budel kept flapping behind him like a cape eventually to make things easier the skeleton slipped his brother on himself like a sweater and skeletons have been wearing skin ever since find the story here taking off your skin and putting it back on is a surprisingly common thing in folktales in a folktale from liberia titled tola and the sea monster a girl declares that she will only ever marry a man with perfect skin a sea monster hearing this borrows the smooth perfect skin of a sea goddess puts it on and seduces the girl carrying her away into the underwater realms she is eventually rescued by her brother there are also many stories in the central american and caribbean region about people especially women who take their skin off and go flying around at night in many cases someone often the husband eventually finds out and rubs the empty skin s inside with salt and or c...