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Tarot Tales: A is for Adjustment (Justice)

Welcome to the 2021 A to Z Blogging Challenge! My theme this year is Tarot Tales. I am making a selection of folktales, legends, and other traditional stories that correspond to tarot cards. Storytelling and tarot go well together. Do other stories come to mind? Let me know in the comments!The card: Justice (a.k.a. Adjustment)Meanings: Justice (obviously), fairness, law. Making impartial and

Visiting Kanchil (Following folktales around the world 195. - Malaysia)

Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you can find the introduction post here. You can find all posts here, or you can follow the series on Facebook!Kanchil the Wily OneTales of the Malaysian Mouse-DeerStuart Dickens McHughThornhill Press, 1977.This was a fairly short book, and not written by a

StorySpotting: Fierce feline women (Wonder Woman 1984)

 StorySpotting is a weekly or kinda-weekly series about folktales, tropes, references, and story motifs that pop up in popular media, from TV shows to video games. Topics are random, depending on what I have watched/played/read recently. Also, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. Be warned!Finally catching up to the DC franchise, I watched WW84. It dabbles - to varying success - in all kinds of lore (most

Thailand, complex and fascinating (Following folktales around the world 194. - Thailand)

Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you can find the introduction post here. You can find all posts here, or you can follow the series on Facebook!Fascinating Folktales of ThailandThanapol Lamduan ChadchaideeBooksMango, 2014.This book is true to its title: it was one of the best ones I read

Tricksters and justice in Cambodia (Following folktales around the world 193. - Cambodia)

Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you can find the introduction post here. You can find all posts here, or you can follow the series on Facebook!Cambodian folk stories from the GatilokeMuriel Paskin CarrisonTuttle Publishing, 1987.This was a fairly short book, but a very interesting read. 

The 2021 A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal!

It's that time of the year again! We are coming up on April, the month of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I have been doing this challenge for 9 years, and in the past 8 I've always had a theme:Weird Princesses (2013)Tales with Colors (2014)Epics A to Z (2015)Diversity A to Z (2016)WTF - Weird Things in Folktales (2017)WTF Hungary - Weird Things in Hungarian Folktales (2018)Fruit Folktales (

International Women's Day: Woman healers

It has become a tradition on the blog to post lists of folktales centered on women for International Women's Day. I did Badass Grandmas and Women Helping Women, and this year I thought it would be fitting to give a shout out to some of the many spectacular woman healers of myth and lore. Here we go!(Links in the titles, as usual)The daughters of Asklepios (Greece)More personifications than active

Butterflies, crabs, immortals (Following folktales around the world 192. - Vietnam)

Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you can find the introduction post here. You can find all posts here, or you can follow the series on Facebook!Land of Seagull and FoxFolk tales of VietnamRuth Q. SunC.E.Tuttle, 1967.This book is interesting because it was written in the middle of the

Pit stop in Laos (Following folktales around the world 191. - Laos)

Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you can find the introduction post here. You can find all posts here, or you can follow the series on Facebook!Lao folktalesWajuppa Tossa, Kongdeuane Nettavong, Margaret Read MacDonaldLibraries Unlimited, 2008.I usually love the Libraries Unlimited folktale

StorySpotting: What did King Solomon actually decide? (New Amsterdam)

StorySpotting is a weekly or kinda-weekly series about folktales, tropes, references, and story motifs that pop up in popular media, from TV shows to video games. Topics are random, depending on what I have watched/played/read recently. Also, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. Be warned!New Amsterdam just dropped on Netflix, and since I can't resist a ridiculous, over-the-top-feel-good, I can