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August 9, 2019
StorySpotting: Into the briar patch (Veronica Mars)
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!
The new season of Veronica Mars is out on Hulu, and while this show missed me in its original run, I had a good time
The new season of Veronica Mars is out on Hulu, and while this show missed me in its original run, I had a good time
August 7, 2019
Anxiety folktales (a #FolkloreThursday special)
I have been anxious pretty much all my life, but it wasn't until I was working on my PhD that I actually got diagnosed with it, and I could put a name to all the symptoms that accompanied me for the previous twenty-odd years. (Go figure, PhD and anxiety tend to go hand in hand). As a storyteller, obviously I have been looking for symbolic expressions of this experience ever since.
Before I got
Before I got
August 5, 2019
Girl in the Chair: Hare rescues the sun
Girl in the Chair is a blog series on research for storytellers. You can find the details about it in the opening post here.
This request came from Coral Conant Gilles. She asked me to look into a story she found in a book a while ago. It's called How Hare Rescued the Sun, and she remembered reading it in Michael J. Caduto's Earth Tales from Around the World. She also supplied a reference to
This request came from Coral Conant Gilles. She asked me to look into a story she found in a book a while ago. It's called How Hare Rescued the Sun, and she remembered reading it in Michael J. Caduto's Earth Tales from Around the World. She also supplied a reference to
August 4, 2019
Anansiland (Following folktales around the world 116. - Ghana)
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!
Akan-Ashanti Folk-tales
R. S. Rattray
Clarendon Press, 1969.
This is a fairly old collection, from sometime in the 1930s when Ghana was still
Akan-Ashanti Folk-tales
R. S. Rattray
Clarendon Press, 1969.
This is a fairly old collection, from sometime in the 1930s when Ghana was still
August 3, 2019
MythOff Budapest: Living Planet
This Wednesday we had the ninth MythOff event in Budapest - for the second time in our wonderful new venue, the Premier Kultcafé. The theme, courtesy of Bumberák Maja, was Living Planet - we told myths about the relationship between humans and nature, which held important relevance to current world events. Despite it being the middle of summer, we had a great audience and a full house of more
Tricky Borders: FEST Storytelling Conference, 2019.
"Tricky Borders" - this was the title given to the 2019 FEST storytelling conference by the organizers, who represented three countries together: Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The conference this year took place in the Euregio, where the borders of those three countries meet. Our headquarters was on the Netherlands side in Rolduc Abbey, and we took short trips to Aachen and the Belgian
August 2, 2019
StorySpotting: Swan Sisters (Big Little Lies)
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!
The second season of HBO's Big Little Lies just ended, and this gives me an excuse to explore a certain story motif
The second season of HBO's Big Little Lies just ended, and this gives me an excuse to explore a certain story motif
July 30, 2019
Girl in the Chair: Gathering chicory
Girl in the Chair is a blog series on research for storytellers. You can find the details about it in the opening post here.
This request arrived from American storyteller Erin Johnston. She asked me to research an Italian folktale titled "The Three Chicory Gatherers" in Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales.
The story
Three girls go gathering chicory in a field, and in turn all three
This request arrived from American storyteller Erin Johnston. She asked me to research an Italian folktale titled "The Three Chicory Gatherers" in Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales.
The story
Three girls go gathering chicory in a field, and in turn all three
July 26, 2019
StorySpotting: I gave my love a cherry (Harlots)
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!
One of my favorite period dramas are back for a third season, and off to a strong start.
Where was the story
One of my favorite period dramas are back for a third season, and off to a strong start.
Where was the story
July 19, 2019
StorySpotting: Moon Landing Special
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!
Today's post is a little bit different from the usual, but it had too great a topic to miss.
Where was the story
Today's post is a little bit different from the usual, but it had too great a topic to miss.
Where was the story
