#folklore ask game

[motsimages]

11) favorite folklore trivia, please.

Thanks for asking :)

I'd say my favourite is not necessarily related to fairy tales, but to traditions and food.

In Russia, every 1st of March, they celebrate Maslenitsa, which is a big party to commemorate the end of Winter (in Russia, seasons begin and end on the 1st, not the 21st of the month) and welcome Spring. A classic story that has similar traditions and parties all over the world.

They do many things but there are two that I like: 1) they make bliny, crêpes. Lots of bliny for sharing with everyone, even in the street, and there is still snow and all, but they also do dances and games. Often people dress in traditional costumes or with other different apparels, not necessarily dressed up.

And 2) they burn the tchutchela, which is like a big straw doll where people write their wishes for the next year and to get rid of other things, that kind of thing. They put it there, and then they burn the tchutchela.

As I said, this has similarities with other Bye Winter-Hi Spring traditions. And Spain is one of them. We have Carnaval.

Carnaval usually involves getting dressed up and singing and celebrating. It takes place in February 40 days before Easter so the date changes every year but it's about the same thing. You may have seen images from Rio de Janeiro or Mardi Gras or even the Canary Islands, some of the most famous Carnaval-related events of the world. That is what everyone knows and every country gives its own take.

But in Spain, it also involves 2 things. One that is lost mainly, and another one that stays mainly for children celebrations. The one that is lost and not many people remember is "frisuelos de carnaval", or crêpes made specifically in this time. The one that survives is "El entierro de la Sardina" (the burial of the sardine). Without getting into too much detail, it involves writing wishes and other small letters and putting them inside a giant paper made Sardine that will be paraded and cried over around and will end up being burnt, just like the tchutchela.

So this may be obvious to many, as I said many countries and places have similar traditions and it is all Europe after all, but it was a surprise to me the first time I got to experience Maslenitsa in a big festival and it brought me all the way back to my childhood in Spain.

[rainycabride]

peace and the lakes<3

peace: what is something that will forever bring you peace?

a cup of tea and a good cry while rewatching about time always does the trick

the lakes: where is one place you feel safe?

my beddd especially when it's raining outside

[inkyami]

I’ve made a deck for the slavic themed Mafia game — each character is from classic fairytales and epics. Part 1 of ? (Not really supposed to reveal the whole deck)

𖧷 Ivan Tsarevich 𖧷 Koshchei the Deathless 𖧷 Solovey (Nightingale) the bandit 𖧷 Rusalka

[Part II]

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[earlgrey24]

Top 5 myths/legends/folklore? :)✨

Thank you for the fun ask! ✨ (and sorry for taking so long!)

1. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

I'm not exactly sure why, but it may be my favourite piece of Greek mythology. There's just something about it that resonates with me. I definitely prefer the versions in which Iphigenia gets saved at the last minute by Artemis (and I'm here for any potential queer readings).

I also think it's interesting how it highlights the parallels between a wedding ceremony and a ritual sacrifice (things like white colour symbolising purity, symbolic death of the bride for her old family, priest being present, a subsequent feast, even the fact that blood was technically expected in both cases). Something I've been thinking about ever since I watched the new Contrapoints video.

2. Hyacinth and Apollo

The original death of a twink! Jokes aside, it's quite a tragic story. What I find the most interesting about the myth however is how Hyacinth was mourned/celebrated during the Spartan festival of Hyacinthia. If you want to get really heretic, you could see the festival as a forerunner of some of the later Christian Easter traditions, with the whole death/rebirth motive.

3.  Lady Godiva

One of the earliest examples of women getting involved in British politics!

Again, jokes aside, I do appreciate this legend because it is essentially a story of a woman taking risks for a cause that she believes in. It also brings up the idea that femininity can be used as a weapon. That is not necessarily my most favourite take of all, but it's certainly interesting - and this old English myth captures that perfectly!

also the iconography is so cool I mean--

4. The Legend of El Dorado

I definitely think that the legend of the mythical city filled with gold located somewhere in South America can tell one a lot about European colonialism. Not an expert on it by any means (though I'd love to read more about it at some point), but I really enjoyed how it was portrayed in Voltaire's Candide!

5. The Golem of Prague

Okay, obligatory hometown reference. I do find Jewish folklore genuinely fascinating, and the story of a being made of clay that came to life is perhaps the most interesting of all! Some parallels can be traced with later stories - like Frankenstein - or even with things like robots or AI, if you stretch the definition a bit.

It can be seen as a warning that technology can turn against its creator which dates all the way back to the 16th century!

(I also find it really interesting how much emphasis Jewish culture places on the power of words, and the story of the Golem is a great example of it, since words are literally what brings the golem to life).

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

Motivated by a mutual, here’s an ask game!

1 What do you practice?

2 Does a particular faith inform your craft, or alternatively, if your faith and magic are separate- why is this distinction between the two important to you?

3 What paradigm or philosophy do you adhere to?

4 What culture(s) is your magic rooted in?

5 For my dual faith folks, do you practice a historically attested syncretism or one of your own creation?

6 How easy or difficult has it been for you to hold to a dual faith observance?

7 What are some of your favorite tools?

8 What are some of your favorite books, or books you would recommend to a novice?

9 What’s something you wish more people understood about the craft?

10 What’s something you’re tired of explaining to people?

11 How would you define witchcraft?

12 Your favorite things about the occult community? Whether it’s your local community, if you’re lucky enough to have one, an online community or whatever!

13 Least favorite things about the community?

14 Go to herbal allies?

15 What’s something you feel is often overlooked?

16 Books in general you recommend or are interested in?

17 go to animal allies?

18 go to mineral allies?

19 most unorthodox thing you’ve utilized in magic?

20 what’s something you’re currently interested in and/or learning about?

[laurasimonsdaughter]

For the folklore side of tumblr...

Folklore and fairy tales ask game!

1. Did you grow up with any fun folk beliefs/customs/superstitions?

2. What is one of your favourite romantic fairy tales?

3. What is one of your favourite non-romantic fairy tales?

4. Did you grow up hearing or reading folktales?

5. Did you have a favourite folktale as a kid?

6. Do you have a favourite book with folklore or folk/fairy tales?

7. What is one of your favourite folkloric creatures?

8. Is there a specific fairy tale you dislike?

9. Is there a particular culture's folklore you know most about?

10. Is there a particular culture's folklore you'd like to know more about?

11. Have a bit of folklore trivia you'd like to share?

12. Do you have any media about folklore to rec?

13. Do you have a folklore rant you're holding in? (Let It Out)

14. If you could change something about a specific fairy tale what would it be?

15. Got any burning folklore questions?

16. What's a folktale you used to love but grew out of?

17. Do you prefer fairy tales, fables, legends or myths?

18. Do you care about the distinction between literary fairy tales and folk fairy tales?

19. If you could own any object from folklore what would it be?

20. If you met a talking animal would you prefer it to be an enchanted human, a disguised spirit, or simply a gifted animal?

21. For the multi-linguals: do you like the term 'fairy tales' or do you prefer what they are called in your other language(s)?

[princess-ibri]

How would you incorporate Mizrabel from the Castle of Illusion games into the Disneyverse?

Ok, I've been thinking on this for weeks now trying to figure out a good idea for this, i've thought out soooo many different things xD And I think I finally got one that I like:

Link to the fairytale mentioned in this so it makes sense if you don't already know it

Oh also Trigger Warning for Body Horror. Thats a first for this blog I think xD

Mizrabel is originally the adopted daughter in the Nordic faitytale Tatterhood. The child taken in by the childless king and queen, who only serves the purpose of befriending a wise woman's daughter so that the wise woman can tell the queen how to gain two biological daughters, who go one to be the actual main characters of the faitytale, and then the adopted one is never heard from again. I've ways wondered what happened to that poor girl...

And what happened was that, her heart broken by grief over her adopted mother basically abandoning her once her own twins were born, the young adopted princess Mirja goes back to the wise woman herself, demanding she be given something that will make her beautiful, powerful, noticed, loved.

The wise woman warns her of the dangers of such a request. Her mother asked for a child of her own, disregarding the one she had, and for the greed in her heart she did not follow the wise woman's rules and gained more then she asked for, and did not appreciate what she gained besides.

For the Queen ate, not one, but both of the magical flowers she had grown with the wise woman's guidance. She was warned to eat only one, but she hungered to ensure the spell would take, and so gained one beautiful daugher--and one wild one.

But the cast off princess doesn't care about the warning. For she wants to be More than both of the children the queen has gained combined.

The wise woman sighs, seeing the heartache of her child's friend, and gives her a seed to take and plant, which over the next year will grow into an apple tree that will bear a single fruit, a black apple that shines with all the colors of the rainbow. If she takes one bite of it, she will outshine both the children the queen carries, both in beauty and power.

But, like her adopted mother before her, Mirja does not heed the rules. Fearful that one bite will not be enough, she eats the full apple.

Her bones begin to crack, her skin to melt and merge. She has gained the ability to shift forms, to become anyone and anything. But she cannot yet fully control it, and horrified by the mass of shifting flesh she has become , she flees into the mountains.

There, she meets the witches and troll-folk of the mountain, who teach her greater magics, and she becomes a fearsome sorceress. Finally, after seven years she returns to her old home with her troll and witch companions to wreck havok on her mother's new daughters.

She did not count on the wild one being so fiercly protective of her beautiful sister.

Defeated by young Tatterhood, bound within the mountain, the witch-princess, now having cast off her old name for the name of Mizrabel--for so young Tatterhood taunted that she was--lives in lonely seclusion in the mountains, biding her time, learning deeper lore and magic that will allow her to escape and fulfill her obsesseion of outshining every princess in the lands of the EverRealm.

[andichoseyou]

THE ERAS TOUR ASK GAME!

💗Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince: it's been a long time coming... what was your opinion on the Lover album when it first came out, and what are your opinions on it now?

💗Cruel Summer: fever dream high... can you remember the best or worst summer of your life? if yes, can you explain why it was the best/worst?

💗The Man: i'm so sick of running as fast as i can... can you name some songs, movies, poems, etc that make you feel powerful? like you could do anything?

💗You Need To Calm Down: we've all got crowns... name 5 female artists (besides Taylor!) that you love!

💗Lover: can i go where you go... what are, in your opinion, the most romantic songs of all time?

💗The Archer: you could stay... at the end of the day, who do you choose? who is your person? your other half?

💗THE LOVER ERA: if you could add one Lover song to the setlist, which one would it be?

🌟Fearless: i don't know how it gets better than this... what was something that you were afraid to do, but did anyway? how did doing that make you feel?

🌟You Belong With Me: been here all along... what are your go-to karaoke songs?

🌟Love Story: we were both young when i first saw you... what were your favorite books/fairytales when you were younger?

🌟THE FEARLESS ERA: if you could add one Fearless song to the setlist, which one would it be?

🍂'Tis The Damn Season: it always leads to you and my hometown... what is your favorite spot in the town you grew up in? was it a restaurant? your childhood friend's house? the school you went to? someplace else?

🍂Willow: i come back stronger than a 90s trend... favorite 90s song?

🍂Marjorie: you're alive in my head... if you could have dinner with one person, dead or alive, who would it be?

🍂Champagne Problems: i dropped your hand while dancing... what was the last movie/show that made you cry?

🍂Tolerate It: tell me i've got it wrong somehow... rank every taylor swift track 5!

🍂THE EVERMORE ERA: if you could add one Evermore song to the setlist, which one would it be?

♟️...Ready For It?: in the middle of the night... what is the last dream that you can remember? what was it about?

♟️Delicate: isn't it?... what is your favorite taylor swift "question" lyric? (ex: "can i go where you go?" or "remember when you hit the brakes too soon?")

♟️Don't Blame Me: oh lord save me... all time favorite live taylor performance?

♟️Look What You Made Me Do: the old taylor can't come to the phone... what are your top 5 favorite taylor swift music videos?

♟️THE REPUTATION ERA: if you could add one Reputation song to the setlist, which one would it be?

💟Enchanted: this night is sparkling... favorite dress that taylor has worn? it can be on stage, on the red carpet, or just out and about... but it must be a dress!

💟Long Live: we will be remembered... what is your favorite Taylor related memory?

💟THE SPEAK NOW ERA: if you could add one Speak Now song to the setlist, which one would it be?

🧣22: it feels like one of those nights... when is your birthday? how old are you turning? what is something you want to do for it? do you have any birthday traditions?

🧣We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together: like, ever... best way to get over a break up? (romantic or platonic)

🧣I Knew You Were Trouble: so shame on me now... name 5 songs to scream-sing in the car with the windows down

🧣All Too Well (Ten Minute Version): i know it's long gone... what song(s) by taylor would you want a ten minute version of?

🧣THE RED ERA: if you could add one Red song to the setlist, which one would it be?

☕️The 1: i guess you never know... do you prefer The 1 or Invisible String?

☕️Betty: i know i miss you... what taylor swift song do you feel like she wrote just for you? a song that you relate to so much that it feels like she got inside your brain?

☕️The Last Great American Dynasty: 50 years is a long time... if you could write an essay/book/song/etc about any historical figure, who would you choose and why?

☕️August: you were never mine... favorite month of the year? why is it your favorite?

☕️Illicit Affairs: don't call me kid, don't call me baby... top 3 favorite taylor swift bridges?

☕️My Tears Ricochet: why are you at the wake... what are your go-to songs for when you need a good cry? (doesn't just have to be taylor songs!)

☕️Cardigan: i knew you... what is your favorite piece of clothing that you own?

☕️THE FOLKLORE ERA: if you could add one Folklore song to the setlist, which one would it be?

🦋Style: take me home... if you could ask taylor to cover one song, which song would you choose?

🦋Blank Space: if the high was worth the pain... what was the first taylor song you ever heard?

🦋Shake It Off: it's gonna be alright... list ten things that make you happy!!!

🦋Wildest Dreams: i bet these memories follow you around... would you consider yourself an optimist or a pessimist?

🦋Bad Blood: blood runs cold... all time favorite taylor collab? who do you want to see her collab with next?

🦋THE 1989 ERA: if you could add one 1989 song to the setlist, which one would it be?

🍀Surprise Songs: what are your two dream surprise songs that you want to see live?

🌌Lavender Haze: i just need this love spiral... what is the funniest/stupidest rumor about taylor swift that you have seen/heard?

🌌Anti-Hero: too big to hang out... are you a sexy baby or a monster on the hill?

🌌Midnight Rain: all of me changed... do you prefer sunshine or the rain?

🌌Vigilante Shit: don't get sad, get even... post your favorite taylor pictures from the eras tour!!

🌌Bejeweled: a diamond's gotta shine... out of the 4 music videos from midnights that we have, which one is your favorite? which one is your least favorite?

🌌Mastermind: none of it was accidental... what is your favorite "big word" that taylor has used in a song? (ex: Machiavellian, incandescent)

🌌Karma: sweet like honey... karma is cat for taylor, but what is karma to you?

🌌THE MIDNIGHTS ERA: if you could add one Midnights song to the setlist, which one would it be?

[iron-sparrow]

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon

Yein takes care of sparrows. So many sparrows.

They don't think of the sparrows as pets. Rather, Yein believes the sparrows to be envoys from the aetherial beyond, sent to guide lost spirits to the Lifestream. They've made their home a welcoming spot to nest, ensuring these winged envoys are always sheltered and fed so that they may perform their duties when they leave.

[stealyourblorbos]

20 (intrusive) questions re: "what is your favorite memory" and "do you believe in ghosts" asked by @lyrslair & @motheroftorches

Some years ago mom was visiting me in China and requested a tour to the most "truely hardcore, authentic and impressive place" that was possible at the moment, and so we went to Udang Mountains. The place is older than infamous Shaolin, but less crowded because of the complex accessibility and harsh climate.

It's a taoist monastery complex built in the mountain forest about 1600-2000m altitude, connected with a system of ancient stairs and pathways. It's possible to rent a guest house inside the park or tea farm down near the mountain and hang around as much as you want.

So one beautiful day we got distracted with all the gorgeous views around and stuck at the top, the cable car was already shut down. We presumptuously decided to descend to the village at the foot of the mountain by ourselves...

Weather in the mountains of central China can be treacherous and prone to abrupt change. Dusk came quicker than we expected, it got cold and we realized we chose the wrong stairway and got lost somewhere in the forest on our way down. It was getting BAD. Mom was scared, I was upset, and we both got extremely tired.

When we stopped to fix the gear and stick some patches on our burning feet, we heard some rustling among the trees and fluffy white dog stepped out on the path, wagging its tail. He looked surprisingly clean and well-kempt for a stray forest dog and acted extremely friendly. For the next several hours he was patiently leading the way, looking back at us from time to time, waiting for us on the road splits and steep slopes. As if he knew what he was doing very well, because eventually we saw the lights of village down at the distance.

We thanked our furry hero endlessly. He refused to eat the sausage I had in the backpack, but let us pet him. I also took some pics of him with my DSLR cam. When we quickly stopped by the little roadside store to get a him a real treat and then returned, the dog disappeared.

Noone of the locals knew who the dog belonged to, and stray dogs were actually not allowed in the park because of its natural reserve status. But next day one grandma showed me an old little shrine of local deity, Erlang. Guess who I saw there?

All the pictures I took of him that night turned out to be overexposed, just a blurry ball of white fur 😊 and I never had blurry pictures before that.

His name is XiaoTian, 哮天犬, Celestial Dog. You can google him, there actually a lot of funny legends.

Thanks for reading! Man, do I have a lot of stories to tell.

Ask me intrusive questions here

[solargeist]

so a lot of people and cultures believe that hair holds memories, especially ones similar to hylian. if you headcanon that you can also say that zelda cut her hair short to let go and forget everything she felt during that 100 years, metaphorically. and link grew his out because he never wants to forget again.

also in the botw art book it shows that link had a dad and a younger sister and they were drawn, but other than the fact it was probably scrapped showing them, and links dad is mentioned as a knight like twice, you could take it as he doesn’t remember them. he had to gain his memories back but we only saw like 15 of them or something. he could straight up not remember a lot still.

WAHHHH I like that headcanon, such a good reason for them both 😭

I think Link still has gaps in his memory that he may never get back, maybe he has a little shrine by a tree in his backyard for his forgotten family :(

[rainycabride]

cardigan 💝

cardigan: what piece of clothing do you have holds the most sentimental value?

probably the dress i met taylor in lol i haven't worn it since and i don't plan on ever getting rid of it

[dearreader]

hoax 🥰🫡

🗣️RIZA HAWK👏🏻EYE👏🏻🗣️

i will one day get around to writing a stream of consciousness fanfic of riza deciding to follow roy post ishval inspired by this song, because she is literally the ash from roy’s fire, but not today

send my a taylor swift song and i’ll tell you which fma character it reminds me of

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

March ask game:

1) if your practice was a cologne/perfume what would it smell like?

2) pick a painting that you feel in some way is evocative of your practice

3) what’s something you’ve had to learn the hard way?

4) what’s march look like in your corner of the world?

5) what’s your craft look like this month? Interpret this how you choose

7) what colors are your practice? Interpret this however you like lol

8) what animals come to mind when you think of witchcraft?

9) what plants come to mind?

10) pick a song you feel, in any way, describes or captures your craft

12) what do you think your practice would taste like? If one could taste a magico-religious practice

13) How does your craft feel in the spring vs in the darker months?

14) do you work with stars? Constellations?

These asks are all over the place lmao sorry!

[solarishashernoseinabook]

13 and 18!

Gonna assume this is for the folklore ask, thank you!

13. Do you have a folklore rant you're holding in? (Let It Out)

Listen. Listen. I know Disney is huge. I know they're famous (or infamous) for sanitising fairy tales. I know they're many people's first exposures to many fairy tales. But please don't treat fairy tales as the Disney versions, and don't base every dark retelling of them off the Disney version. For that matter, don't just go "lol it's DARK that means there's SEX and GORE" be creative with it

18. Do you care about the distinction between literary fairy tales and folk fairy tales?

There's a distinction? What is it? What are literary vs folk fairy tales?

Link to the ask game if you want to play!

[paxthepuppycat]

about my cat sith kin!

so I have confirmed as of now that I’m a catsith otherkin :3

I remember starting my life as a normal cat, normal black cat. I had a mate aswell, I’m unsure of his colors. anyway we lived outside in a small hole of a tree. One night he just snapped, he broke my neck with one bite and I was dead. Even though I was dead I still remember him eating out my heart. He left me there with a hole in my chest. I then remember being lifted into the sky, just a little above the tree line. Then an entity I couldn’t see spoke to me. It was telling me that I am to be the new “King of Cats” like the leader of the cat siths. Still unable to see the creature behind the voice, a stone heart came into my view, a pentagram carved on it.

after that I recall waking being larger, stronger, and braver. I had horns on my head and red sudductive eyes.

my human form is a pale women with long black hair and a perfect body shape. I’d eat the souls of men by sudducting them, then once the soul transports to me, I’d scratch either a pentagram or an upside down cross.

I believe that I can change whenever I want and unlimited times because of the fact that I was the “King”

Also when in transformation to the cat, it was like a werewolf, like slow and kinda painful.