#keats folklore

[carito-dorito]

So far I haven't seen any folklore/folkssoul playlist yet but I made one for Keats and Ellen but I'm sharing mine anyways

(art by @/oboro-fanfic)

[starry-bi-sky]

catch me looking up nightingale symbolisms for tales of the passerine. if danny's using the name of a songbird for a hero name, regardless of familial connections, i will utilize the symbolism tied to the bird. Anyways general gist of the nightingale symbolism i've seen, other than what wikipedia told me, is that nightingales were frequently symbolisms of spring renewal, loss/death, love, etc. catch me about to incorporate music into Danny's character

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[mugenfinder]

Folklore (PS3, 2007) Keats' Transcension

[sadpatipati]

waiting for october, i opened my window today. a warm breeze touched my face. i'm waiting for october to love you more. you're gonna be surprised by the amount of change i'll go through everytime it gets colder and days become shorter. beginning to love you in july gives off a summer-love vibe: passionate yet short and unfaithful, an illicit-affair kind of love. in october, i'm gonna hold you tighter, bake you ginger cookies and get lost in your oversized sweater. in november, i'm gonna watch gilmore girls with you and walk with my hand in your pocket. in december, i'm gonna make you coffee-milk, wear the mittens that you bought me, put up christmas lights, dance around the kitchen with 'cowboy like me' and read you my favorite poems by j. keats and shakespeare.

i'm gonna love you more in october.

[theladwhoisweird]

I don't know what to feel these days as a Swiftie and a dead poet.

Are we getting Folklore 2.0?

[raviniaraven]

In celebration of the season I gotta remind everyone of the best Christmas DLC for any game: Folklore's Christmas outfits.

Ellen's outfit: Typical colors, nice winter fluff, earmuffs, overall pretty cute

Keats' outfit: The worst beanie I've ever seen and a tacky reindeer sweater bc he's lowkey a massive dork

[castlelockandkey]

Happy Saint Agnes' Eve Everybody!

Upon St. Agnes' Eve Young virgins might have visions of delight... -- Keats

A non-exhaustive list of things virgins were expected to do on the 20th of January:

fast

bake a cake in complete silence

plant grain in an empty field at midnight

eat the cake

walk upstairs to bed backwards

recite the Lord's Prayer

sleep naked

So, uh, good luck? Keep warm, everybody.

Painting: The Eve of Saint Agnes, Arthur Hughes

[vintagerpg]

Ekphrastic Beasts (2021) is a beautiful experiment. Ekphrasis means “description” in Greek, but it has come to mean a sort of vivid writing penned in reaction to a piece of art. “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” by John Keats, is maybe the most famous example. Janaka Stucky isn’t reacting to pottery, though — rather, he is describing, and parsing into 5E D&D game terms — monsters painted by a group of artists. They include primarily Ellie Jo Livingston, Jeremy Hush, Joe Keinberger and Nathan Reidt, with single bonus contributions by Arik Roper and Skinner. Its a compelling body of visual work as a whole, but I find myself particularly engaged by Ellie Jo, who manages to filter very modern ideas through a style that keeps pulling me back to a much earlier Golden Age of Illustration style that I have trouble identifying. Dulac, maybe? Nathan Reidt’s work is also very striking, like a collection of horrible, squishy flesh toys. They’re loathsome in the best possible way.

Stucky’s writings aren’t overshadowed by the amazing art. He ping-pongs back and forth as dictated by the illustrations, fleshing out conventionally folkloric creatures like owl harpies then wringing interesting lore from hard-to-fathom beasts like, well, all of Reidt’s work. Roper and Skinner’s works are paired up ever-battling twin titans. Sometimes the stories seem familiar, sometimes deeply weird, but all the time, Stucky is trying to deconstruct or recontextualize accepted monster tropes in the new creatures he is portraying. It isn’t structured as such, but the end effect of Ekphrastic Beasts is very similar to The Monster Overhaul in pushing the GM’s mind to question preconceptions about monster and push against their cliches.

Same is good. But different is good, too, and often more rare. I want more books to push this way.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Mood & Motif

MOOD (from Anglo-Saxon, mod "heart" or "spirit"): In literature, a feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind—especially the predominating atmosphere or tone of a literary work. Most pieces of literature have a prevailing mood, but shifts in this prevailing mood may function as a counterpoint, provide comic relief, or echo the changing events in the plot. The term mood is often used synonymously with atmosphere and ambiance. Students and critics who wish to discuss mood in their essays should be able to point to specific diction, description, setting, and characterization to illustrate what sets the mood.

MOTIF: A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature. For instance, the "loathly lady" who turns out to be a beautiful princess is a common motif in folklore, and the man fatally bewitched by a fairy lady is a common folkloric motif appearing in Keats' "La Belle Dame sans Merci." In medieval Latin lyrics, the "Ubi sunt?" [where are . . .?] motif is common, in which a speaker mourns the lost past by repeatedly asking, what happened to the good-old days? ("Where are the snows of yesteryear?" asks Francois Villon.) The motif of the "beheading game" is common in Celtic myth, and so on. Frequently, critics use the word motif interchangeably with theme and leit-motif.

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[adventuresofalgy]

It was indeed the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, but Algy suspected that neither mists nor fruitfulness were quite what the English poet Keats had in mind…

However, the fruitfulness of the local rowan trees was greatly appreciated by many of Algy's feathered friends, if not by poets, to the extent that by the time Algy decided to help himself to a wee feast he found that there were only a few scattered clusters of the tempting red berries left 😞

As he relaxed in the arms of the welcoming tree, munching happily, Algy wondered how many of his friends around the world knew how important the rowan tree is in Scotland and in Celtic mythology, and why so many rowan trees are planted at the doors or gates to people's homes in this part of the world.

He recalled a wee poem in the Scots language which explains it well:

When the days were still as deith And you couldna see the kye Though ye’d maybe hear their breith I’ the mist oot-by; When I’d mind the lang grey een O’ the warlock by the hill And sit fleggit like a wean Gin a whaup cried shrill; Tho’ the hert wad dee in me At the fitstep on the floor, There was aye a rowan tree Wi its airm across the door.

Which translates into English roughly as:

When the days were still as death And you couldn’t see the cows Though you’d maybe hear their breath In the mist outside; When I’d think of the long grey eyes Of the warlock on the hill And sit frightened like an infant If a curlew cried shrilly; Though the heart would die within me At the footstep on the floor, There was always a rowan tree With its arm across the door.

But then, when the rowan tree is gone:

But that is far, far past And a’thing’s just the same, There’s a whisper up the blast O’ a dreid I daurna name; And the shilpit sun is thin, Like an auld man deein’ slow And a shade comes creepin’ in When the fire is fa’in’ low; Then I feel thae lang een set Like a doom upon ma heid, For the warlock’s livin’ yet— But the rowan’s deid!

Which translates (roughly):

But that is long, long past And everything’s just the same There’s a whisper in the wind Of a dread I dare not name; And the sickly sun is thin, Like an old man dying slowly And a shadow comes creeping in When the fire is getting low; Then I feel the long eyes settle Like a doom [death sentence] upon my head, For the warlock’s living yet- But the rowan’s dead!

Fortunately, there are many rowan trees planted around Algy's assistants' garden and by their gate, so Algy need not fear the warlock by the hill 😀

[Algy is quoting the poem The Rowan by the early 20th century Scottish poet Violet Jacob.]

Notes: (1) Algy thinks that the use of the term warlock here is not the common one of a male witch who casts spells, but the more symbolic one in folklore, where warlocks are evil supernatural beings associated with darkness, death, and the devil. (2)Algy is not quite sure about some parts of his translation of the second stanza of the poem, so if anyone is able to correct it, please let him know!

[brokehorrorfan]

Arrow Video has revealed the final specs for its Trick 'r Treat 4K Ultra HD, which releases on October 28 . Sara Deck designed the new cover art for the 2007 horror anthology; the original key art is on the reverse side.

Michael Dougherty (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Krampus) makes his feature directorial debut from his own script. Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, and Quinn Lord star.

The limited edition set comes with a booklet featuring new writing by Becky Darke and Heather Wixson, a double-sided poster, and six art cards.

Trick 'r Treat has been newly restored in 4K, approved by Dougherty, in Dolby Vision with original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo audio. Read on for the special features.

Special features:

Audio commentary by writer-director Michael Dougherty, moderated by Dead Meat's James A. Janisse & Chelsea Rebecca (new)

Audio commentary by writer-director Michael Dougherty, conceptual artist Breehn Burns, storyboard artist Simeon Wilkins, and composer Douglas Pipes

Interview with actor Quinn Lord (new)

Interview with production designer Mark Freeborn (new)

Interview with director of photography Glen MacPherson (new)

Interview with costume designer Trish Keating (new)

Interview with creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos (new)

Mark Freeborn Remembers Bill Terezakis - Tribute to the late makeup effects designer (new)

Tales of Folklore & Fright - Featurette with writer-director Michael Dougherty, conceptual artist Breehn Burns, and storyboard artist Simeon Wilkins

Interview with writer-director Michael Dougherty

Sounds of Shock & Superstition - Featurette with Michael Dougherty and composer Douglas Pipes

Tales of Dread & Despair: Releasing Trick ‘r Treat - Featurette with Michael Dougherty and film historian Rob Galluzzo

Season’s Greetings - 1996 short film with optional commentary by director Michael Dougherty

The Lore and Legends of Halloween narrated by actor Brian Cox

School bus VFX comparison

Additional scenes

FEARnet promos

Sam O'Lantern

Storyboard and conceptual artwork gallery

Behind the scenes gallery

Monster Mash comic book set in the Trick 'r Treat universe

Trailer

Also included:

Double-sided foldout poster with original and new art by Sara Deck

Six postcard-sized art cards

Booklet with new writing on the film by Becky Darke and Heather Wixson

Follow the secretive and disturbing life of a high school principal (Dylan Baker) who leads a double life as a ruthless serial killer; the journey of a young girl (Anna Paquin) looking for love who finds something infinitely more macabre; a group of teenagers playing a prank with disastrous consequences; and an old man (Brian Cox) confronted by Sam, a mischievous trick-or-treater with a terrifying secret.

Pre-order Trick 'r Treat.

[totallylost4you]

"Invisible String" lyrics: Bold was the waitress on our three-year trip. Getting lunch down by the lakes.

Taylor about her song "The lakes" (2020): "I think THE LAKES sort of sounds like a testament of what I’ve wanted to escape from and where I saw myself escaping. We’d gone to the Lake District in England a couple years ago [...]"

"on our three years trip" (by the lakes) + "a couple of years ago" = connected?!

There's no way Joe+Taylor celebrated their three year anniversary "a couple of years ago" in 2020. (2016 + 3 = 2019. It would have been a year ago.)

Who was pictured at a lake in 2017? (2020 - 3 = 2017)

Taylor+Karlie and two loving swans. ❤️

Full speech about "The lakes" in "Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions". Why does she even have a "cottage backup plan"? 🤔👇

"I think “the lakes” sort of sounds like a testament of what I’ve wanted to escape from and where I saw myself escaping. We’d gone to the Lake District in England a couple years ago — In the 19th century, you had a lot of poets, like William Wordsworth and John Keats would spend a lot of time there. There was a poet district, these artists moved there were kind of heckled for it and made fun of for it as being these eccentrics and these kind of odd artists who decided that they just wanted to live there. I remember when we went, I thought, “Man, I could see this. You live in a cottage and you’ve got wisteria growing up the outside of it. Of course they escaped like that, of course they would do that.” And they had their own community of other artists who had done the same thing. In my career, since I was probably about 20, written about this sort of cottage backup plan that I have. “the lakes” is really talking a lot about relating to people who, hundreds of years ago, had the same exit plan and did it. I went to William Wordsworth’s grave, just sat there and I was like, “Wow, you went and did it, you just did it. You just went away and you kept writing, but you didn’t subscribe to the things that were killing you.” And that’s really the overarching thing that I felt when I was writing folklore is, I may not be able to go to the Lakes right now, or to go anywhere, but I’m going there in my head, and this escape plan is working. I thought [this song] would be the perfect way to slot the last puzzle piece in, right when people least expected it. Because “hoax” as the ending song for the record, I thought was interesting for a couple weeks, but then I wanted to actually come in with the real last song of the record, which is “the lakes”, that’s kind of the overarching theme of the whole album, of trying to escape, having something you wanna protect, trying to protect your own sanity, and saying, “Look, they did this hundreds of years ago. I’m not the first person who’s felt this way, they did this.”

[mybeingthere]

John Caple, British, b 1966.

John Caple’s family have been land workers in Mendip since the eighteenth century. He grew up in a close, rural community in which family stories and folk traditions were passed down through successive generations and which were to become the inspiration for his earliest paintings. Twenty-five years later, John Caple’s art remains woven into the landscape and history of Somerset as well as the rich tradition of poetry, folklore and magic that has held firm in Mendip.

These are paintings built on the collective memory of generations who shared a profound connection to the natural world. It was their voice which resonates through the poetry of Coleridge, who lived on the Quantock Hills, Wordsworth and then Shelley, Keats and Emily Dickinson and it was in their poetry that John Caple turned to find another way of reaching into the landscape, most recently in exhibitions that used Shelley’s visionary language as a starting point for his paintings.

https://www.jmlondon.com/.../103-john-caple-the-woodman.../

[ozzgin]

Ozz you should've said earlier about Romanian folklore!! Well, which one do you prefer? Strigoi or moroi? I personally like strigoi because of the possibility of a tragic love story background. Imagine being in a forbidden love due to difference in classes and your lover get killed brutally.. oh what a misery.. this somewhat reminds me that painting called "isabella and the pot of basil"

Funnily enough, I had to research the difference myself when making the poll. I think the terms are used interchangeably in parts of the country, and to most people they’re likely synonyms. An article I’d found at the time used Vampire Diaries as a reference. So there’s an added confusion of what exactly is the traditional meaning vs what’s depicted in foreign or modern media.

For example, moroi are meant to be the souls of infants who died at birth, who then torment their mothers and wander the earth. Not exactly the most promising romance starter. But in the English sources it has a completely different definition, as the child of a woman impregnated by an incubus vampire.

The strigoi at least is a little more consistent, in the sense that you can broadly describe it as the undead soul of an evil human who was not accepted into the afterlife.

If you go into really old definitions, you will find a lot of conservative and religious reasoning, which is why I’m not a massive fan of either, y’know? The Romanian Wikipedia article of strigoi mentions that they can be born as regular babies; sometimes because the mother goes out at night without humbly covering her head, as she normally should. (???)

If we are to take all meanings into consideration, then I share your preference. Fun coincidence, since you brought up the painting: it’s based on a poem by John Keats, whose grave I visited last year in Rome! I have a little poetry book bought as a souvenir from the Keats-Shelley House, though looking through it now, it doesn’t include said title. Alas.

[the-amaranthine-terminal]

Gilly's LCB OCs literary references

I'M FINALLY DONE WITH MY LIMBUS OCS LOOKS OMG

(refer to this post!)

THEY'VE BEEN IN THE BACK BURNER FOR AGES AND FINALLY THEY'RE OUT OF THE BASEMENT

☔ : The Two Voices by Alfred Lord Tennyson

🧜‍♀️ : Den Lille Havfrue (The Little Mermaid) by The Grimm Brothers

🐩 : The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith

🦪 : Asal-Usul Telaga Warna (The Origin of Rainbow Lake), Indonesian folklore

💎 : Batu Menangis (Crying Stone), Indonesian folklore

🌿 : Isabella (or The Pot of Basil) by John Keats

🐁 : The Jaunt by Stephen King

🕊️ : Von dem Machandelboom (The Juniper Tree) by The Grimm Brothers

🪨 : Sisyphus, Greek mythos

🥒 : Timun Mas (The Golden Cucumber), Indonesian folklore