#WritersCoffeeClub 8/19 Talk about the influence of folklore on your work.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 8/19 Talk about the influence of folklore on your work.
I had a lot of fairy books of different colours, growing up. I swap folklore tidbits with people even now. Urban legends and lore have seeped into my thinking at a lower level than I could ever unpick. I use them for adventure seeds, but I also use them for the feel of a scenario.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 8/19 Talk about the influence of folklore on your work.
I had a lot of fairy books of different colours, growing up. I swap folklore tidbits with people even now. Urban legends and lore have seeped into my thinking at a lower level than I could ever unpick. I use them for adventure seeds, but I also use them for the feel of a scenario.
"I had a lot of fairy books of different colours, growing up."
Do you mean the "The [color] Fair Books" by Andrew Lang?
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"I had a lot of fairy books of different colours, growing up."
Do you mean the "The [color] Fair Books" by Andrew Lang?
@juergen_hubert Yes. Also, I have a post of yours saved and I mean to use it. I tried to track you down recently to say so, but was on a device not logged into Mastodon. I did see your post saying you would like people to write from your work so I was intending to make more of an attempt when that writing got closer.
Your translation works are fab and I love them. Please keep going.
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@juergen_hubert Yes. Also, I have a post of yours saved and I mean to use it. I tried to track you down recently to say so, but was on a device not logged into Mastodon. I did see your post saying you would like people to write from your work so I was intending to make more of an attempt when that writing got closer.
Your translation works are fab and I love them. Please keep going.
I intend to!
Also, have you seen my wiki? If you remember what the tale was about, I can add it.
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I intend to!
Also, have you seen my wiki? If you remember what the tale was about, I can add it.
@juergen_hubert It was the one about the group of boys who saw a burning ghost by a boundary stone. The one who recognised it was given tools and an amulet and the ghost used the tools to move the boundary stone back, and then told the boy that in three days he would be admitted to heaven as a reward. The boy died three days later.
I am probably going to make the ghost into a plot hook.
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@juergen_hubert It was the one about the group of boys who saw a burning ghost by a boundary stone. The one who recognised it was given tools and an amulet and the ghost used the tools to move the boundary stone back, and then told the boy that in three days he would be admitted to heaven as a reward. The boy died three days later.
I am probably going to make the ghost into a plot hook.
To be honest, while I recognize some of the elements, I do not remember _that_ particular combination.
Though recombining familiar elements in something new is in the very best spirit of folk storytelling.
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To be honest, while I recognize some of the elements, I do not remember _that_ particular combination.
Though recombining familiar elements in something new is in the very best spirit of folk storytelling.
@juergen_hubert Yes, totally. Stories are remixes of stories.
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@juergen_hubert Yes, totally. Stories are remixes of stories.
I did dig up a tale about a boy who dies young, though:
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I did dig up a tale about a boy who dies young, though:
@juergen_hubert I got to the correct computer to find the link.
Jürgen Hubert (@juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe)
Attached: 1 image #FolkloreMoment : A group of children once encountered a "fiery man" next to a boundary stone, and only one boy recognized him as his dead godfather. Thus, it was determined that the boy should help save the ghost. He was given blessed items as well as a hoe and a spade, and was told to give the latter to the ghost when he was mucking around the boundary stone. The ghost took them, and used them to move the boundary stone to its original location from where he had wrongly taken it from in life. Then the ghost exclaimed: "Now I am saved! In exchange, you too shall enter Heaven in three days!" And, indeed, the boy died three days later. #Switzerland #folktale #folklore EDIT: Forgot to add the link. https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10454995?page=134,135
The Folkore Cafe (thefolklore.cafe)
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@juergen_hubert I got to the correct computer to find the link.
Jürgen Hubert (@juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe)
Attached: 1 image #FolkloreMoment : A group of children once encountered a "fiery man" next to a boundary stone, and only one boy recognized him as his dead godfather. Thus, it was determined that the boy should help save the ghost. He was given blessed items as well as a hoe and a spade, and was told to give the latter to the ghost when he was mucking around the boundary stone. The ghost took them, and used them to move the boundary stone to its original location from where he had wrongly taken it from in life. Then the ghost exclaimed: "Now I am saved! In exchange, you too shall enter Heaven in three days!" And, indeed, the boy died three days later. #Switzerland #folktale #folklore EDIT: Forgot to add the link. https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10454995?page=134,135
The Folkore Cafe (thefolklore.cafe)
Ah, okay, it was one of the tales I had not replaced yet - that explains it.
I will add it eventually, for my hypothetical future "Reckless Child Endangerment" book.
