@juergen_hubert @bookstodon Interesting, but is in line with the records I've seen of priests bemoaning how villagers would desecrate corpses they thought weren't dead enough in more Slavic influenced regions.
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Let's talk #vampires.@juergen_hubert @bookstodon That's so interesting, I've been seeing that vampires are most prominent in former Ottoman Empire regions so I wonder if those regions also had some Ottoman influence.
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Let's talk #vampires.Let's talk #vampires. Mine are based on Russian/Central Asian mythology. My MMC is blond with double lidded eyes for racial ambiguity.
Vampires were huge in #slavic literature. For example, there is the ubir in #Turkish folklore which shapeshifts and consumes life and blood: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upi%C3%B3r
The oldest vampire myth is of the Stirix which later becomes the Strigoi. My vampires are linguistically similar to the Strigoi, but functionally like the Ubir and Stirix.
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Okay since the Fedi guppy groups are gone and the new groups are still very small, I'm doing a new #introduction@juergen_hubert Thank you once again. This sounds so much more efficient than just sharing blog links like I've been doing.
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Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.@14mission I don't know a lot about silent movies so followed to oearn more. Also yes, I love the Silk Road so much but its not very common knowledge. I'm hoping that if I yap about it enough, people will get interested though. Its an amazing era.
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Okay since the Fedi guppy groups are gone and the new groups are still very small, I'm doing a new #introduction@juergen_hubert I did not know this existed. Thank you, I'm saving this post for later when I'm on my laptop!
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Okay since the Fedi guppy groups are gone and the new groups are still very small, I'm doing a new #introduction@juergen_hubert Thank you! Your work looks amazing. Excited to see more of it!
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Okay since the Fedi guppy groups are gone and the new groups are still very small, I'm doing a new #introductionOkay since the Fedi guppy groups are gone and the new groups are still very small, I'm doing a new #introduction
I'm Mar, a future SFF and #historicalfiction indie author who reads Arabic, Chinese, English and French. I post a lot about #medieval #history and the books that I'm writing.
I also have a blog that I sometimes post on for longer historical musings.
I know about @histodons and @militaryhistory and am looking to #follow more historical and writer accounts.
Boosts are appreciated.
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Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.
To sort of give you an idea of the weird stuff I'm into, here's a post I did about stories written in the Medieval Silk Road that feature women and are available in English:
Stories About Women from the Medieval Silk Road and Available in English
The Silk Road had men and women of all walks of life. It also was one of history's most literate eras and places, prior to the modern age. One of the reasons that we know that is from the stories they told and recorded on a wide range of material. These stories were not always…
Women Along the Silk Road (mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.com)
On this, anyone else into weird and obscure histories?
#intro #history #historicalFiction #silkroad #womenshistory #books #introduction