This month's edition of the newsletter contains a link to the updated 'What is language and verbal lore?" edition of the dispatch and podcast along with a discussion of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale.

https://csmaccath.com/blog/september-2023-problem-propp

#FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore #FolkloreSunday #FolkloreThursday #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingInspiration #WritingTips

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: In a tale from South Germany collected by Ignaz and Joseph Zingerle, titled Die Schlange ("The Snake"), a count's wife gives birth to a serpent son who lives in his own chamber. When the snake is twenty years old, it requests his mother to find him a wife. On her wedding night, the maiden wears seven layers of clothing, as she was instructed to do, and to dispose of each layer as her husband sheds his own layers of snakeskin.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lindworm#Germany

The first fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Wind in the Willows’ appeared in 1913, with illustrations by Paul Bransom, an American best known for his portrayal of animals. #FolkloreSunday

🎨Paul Bransom, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1913)

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: Once a king had a wife, Silver-Tree, and a daughter, Gold-Tree. Envy arose when Gold-Tree's beauty surpassed Silver-Tree‘s. Desperate for a cure, she sought to consume her daughter's heart and liver.
Meanwhile, a prince sought to marry Gold-Tree, and the king agreed. To deceive Silver-Tree, he fed her a goat's heart and liver, at which she got up from her sickbed.
But Silver-Tree learned from a trout that Gold-Tree's beauty still surpassed hers and was living abroad with a prince. The queen embarked on a ship to visit her. Gold-Tree, afraid, was locked away. Silver-Tree persuaded her to put her little finger through the keyhole, so she could kiss it for a farewell, and when Gold-Tree did, Silver-Tree stuck a poisoned thorn into it.
The prince, heartbroken, kept her body safe. Despite remarrying, the prince protected Gold-Tree's memory. Silver-Tree's treachery was exposed, but the prince refused to abandon his second wife. In a final encounter, Silver-Tree met her demise: She was tricked into consuming her own poisoned drink. Hence the prince, Gold-Tree, and his second wife found happiness.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold-Tree_and_Silver-Tree

“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed.”

The first recorded sighting of an aquatic monster connected to Loch Ness appears in Chapter XXVIII of Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ (“Life of St Columba”), c. 7th/8th century CE

#Scottish #literature #folklore #medieval #folklore #LochNessMonster #FolkloreSunday

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columba-e.asp

Lovecraft based his Innsmouth on numerous seaside towns in Exeter County and rural Rhode Island, near his home in Providence; the particular model was Newburyport, MA, a town with centuries of history; Lovecraft just added eugenics to the tale. #FolkloreSunday

Orkney's folklore features two dueling gods that represent the seasons: the Sea Mither protects, subduing her rival in summer and keeping the seas calm, but come fall and winter, Teran rises from the water and brings storms, sending her away. They are variantly siblings, husband and wife, or just enemies, with Teran being somewhat typical of the devil and the Sea Mither being something else entirely. For fear of Teran, mention of the Christian God is forbidden in some Orkadian vessels. #FolkloreSunday

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Awen is passion, inspiration, instinct that drives artists and muses in medieval Welsh thought. Sometimes depicted as coming from the cauldron of the white witch Ceridwen, awen is what drives people to create and craft. #FolkloreSunday

Even when others mock your passions, pursue them: the Lady Who Loved Insects tells of a princess who loved insects, treating them as friends and reciting poetry to them, even as the Japanese court mocked and taunted her for neglecting her appearance. #FolkloreSunday

🖼️: J. Lau

This month's edition of the newsletter contains a link to the updated 'What is a conspiracy theory?" edition of the dispatch and podcast along with a Pagan-centric discussion of the phrase "accurate folklore."

https://csmaccath.com/blog/august-2023-accurate-folklore-and-other-fictions

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Failinis is the hound of Lugh, the dog whose skin cannot be broken by weapons, who can turn water into wine by merely touching it, whose coat shone every color, who can change sizes and summon forth gold and silver for its master. #FolkloreSunday

🖼️: A. Zaharyan

`There are many stories of the #Irish Wolfhound in #mythology. The most famous hounds are, without doubt, Fionn’s two favourites, Bran and Sceolán. They were said to have been so tall, that their heads reached chest height to a man. Bran was described as ‘ferocious, white-breasted, sleek-haunched, with fiery deep black eyes that swim in sockets of blood’. Sceolán was slightly smaller, ‘small-headed, with the eyes of a dragon, claws of a wolf, vigour of a lion, and the venom of a serpent’. They feature as prominently in the exploits of the Fianna as do the warriors themselves.`
Source: Ali Isaac
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RT @NeuKelte
#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: `According to ancient Brehon law, ownership of #Irish Wolfhounds was governed by status. Only the nobility were permitted to ow…
https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1645115746702311424

`According to ancient Brehon law, ownership of #Irish Wolfhounds was governed by status. Only the nobility were permitted to own the hounds. The Fili, a classification of bard and poet, was limited to the possession of only two hounds, for example. Contrast this with the legendary hero of the Fianna, #Fionn mac Cumhaill, who famously loved the Irish Wolfhound. He was said to have owned in excess of five hundred!
Source: Ali Isaac
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RT @NeuKelte
#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: #Fionn Mac Cumhaill’s sister, #Uirne, was cursed by a jealous rival and turned into a bitch who gave birth to Bran and Sc…
https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1645039790696325120

Cernunnos is one of the most popular Celtic deities, a horned god who brings peace to nature and is the lord of wild places, reclining in a yoga-like pose. Except one problem: that's all modern folklore. The only definitive identification of Cernunnos comes from the Pillar of the Boatmen, a 2nd century column giving homage to Gallo-Roman gods like Apollo, Jove, and of course Cernunnos: but it does not identify anything about him except he's a horned deity. Half-finished, his name is recorded a few other times on material objects like rings but we don't know much more. The most popular image of this horned god may not even be him: the Danish-found Gundastrup Cauldron, believed to be reflective of the earlier La Tene Celtic culture, shows a horned figure, a torc on his neck and in his right hand, a snake in his left; he divides animals, stags and bulls/rams on his right and a wolf and lions on his left. He is peaceful, reclining, but is he Cernunnos? To scholars of the 19th and 20th century, unquestionably of course it was, and from there popular abstractions were born: the Horned God of witch cult and Wiccan lore, the hunter god theory that stretched from Harappa to Ireland. However, more recent scholarship has stepped away from this, reflecting that generalist takes like these are reductionist, often Euro-centric, and are imaginative at best and utterly made up at worst. Yet the popular images remain: Cernunnos is now forever linked with a cauldron in Denmark and is forever the Lord of Wild Places. Perhaps now, in his modern second life, Cernunnos is more popular than ever. #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday: The #Eravisci were a #Celtic tribe in present-day Hungary (Transdanubia). Their oppidum on the Gellértberg in today`s Budapest was never conquered by the Romans.
A Juppiter Teutanus is known as their tribal god from Roman times. Several inscriptions between the years 178 and 288 AD are dated to 11 June, a few days before the #SummerSolstice, probably the date on which the Celtic god was celebrated.
Source: H. Birkhan „#Kelten“

#FolkloreSunday: The #Eravisci were a #Celtic tribe in present-day Hungary (Transdanubia). Their oppidum on the Gellértberg in today`s Budapest was never conquered by the Romans.
A Juppiter Teutanus is known as their tribal god from Roman times. Several inscriptions between the years 178 and 288 AD are dated to 11 June, a few days before the #SummerSolstice, probably the date on which the Celtic god was celebrated.
Source: H. Birkhan „#Kelten“

„In #Irish #mythology, hurling was the sport of the Tuatha de Danann. It is still played in #Ireland today, and is reputed to be the fastest and oldest field sport in the world.“
Source: Ali Isaac
https://twitter.com/MeaveofConnaugh/status/1052184672766181376?
#Celtic #FolkloreSunday

„In #Cornwall there are stories of hurling matches between groups of male giants, their thrown pebbles forming mountains.“
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/StoryMartin/status/1375021790595051524?t=2d7PYFIMGmtb6Vtx_C1NTg&s=09
#FolkloreSunday

#Midir, son of the Dagda of the Tuatha de Danann was said to have lost an eye in a hurling match, which Dian Cecht replaced for him. The story goes that he was watching a group of youths play hurling at Bru na Boinne (Newgrange) with Oengus mac Óg, when a fight broke out amongst the youngsters. Midir went to sort it out, but was accidentally hit on the head by a hurley thrown in the heat of the moment.
#Celtic #FolkloreSunday
https://twitter.com/ticiaverveer/status/814914618061705217?t=E0jv4kPnZzFMO6g007n7-A&s=09