#folklore >>>

[cocoabeloved]

Folklore album ranking?

oh my god i don't think i'm capable of ranking folklore?

cardigan my love <//3 (SO WHAT if it's the the most popular song?)

SEVEN (🤧)

august!!

mirrorball

epiphany

the lakes (original version >>>)

this is me trying (cr my national anthem)

my tears ricochet

BETTY

exile (instant and utter heartbreak)

ILLICIT AFFAIRS (such an underrated song)

peace

hoax

invisible string

the last great american dynasty (she had a marvellous time ruining everything!!)

the 1

mad woman

[victusinveritas]

[omnybus]

I think what I love most about mythology is that the “Trickster God/Spirit” is an archetypical character found in almost every body of folklore. It’s like “Oh, here’s our God of the Sun, our God of the Sea, our God of Fertility, and our God of Being A Wretched Little Gremlin Who Causes Problems On Purpose”

[moodsandtenses]

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[rosieandthemoon]

Kutaisi, Georgia

[prokopetz]

I enjoy a joke about fucked up German fairy tales as much as the next nerd, but it's genuinely striking how often the source for the really fucked up stuff turns out to be "yeah, this is only in the Brothers Grimm version and doesn't appear in any extant oral tradition, and we're like 80% sure they added it themselves". To a large extent it's not German fairy tales that are fucked up, it's two specific German dudes.

[cloud-ya]

outcast of the village

[mirroir]

The Kelpie Pond✨️ Jaimie Whitbread

[queenoftheantz]

More tales from Stockholm comic festival.... whats the point of comics guys?

[bebs-art-gallery]

Krampus V.S. Santa by Mr. Werewolf

Krampus Compilation

[magicturtle]

The saddest thing about the Pokémon leaks is the evident ignorance of folklore among fans. Sorry to tell you this western gamers, but your ancestors married seal women, were seduced by swans, and fucked half-divine giants. You just don’t remember.

[ladyvictoriart]

The Fish Monk

[victusinveritas]

[bmj-arts]

Designed my own take of Odysseus 🏹

man got big suffering and even bigger thighs

[leaslichoma]

Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.