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N339.5. Uxorious king is burned to death while taking an alcohol bath (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)

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N in the Motif Index stands for Chance and Fate. It includes wagers and gambling ("N2.5. - Whole kingdom as wager"),

Talking mountains, hidden treasures (Following folktales around the world 21. - Peru)

Today I continue new 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 under the Following Folktales label, or you can follow the series on Facebook!

Tíz évvel ezelőtt perui mesékkel kedztem hivatásos mesemondói pályafutásomat. Nosztalgikus volt ismét elmerülni bennük.

M149.4. Quarreling prince and princess vow that if they are married he will desert her on the wedding day and she will make him eat boiled rice and thin broth for six months (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)

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M in the Motif Index stands for tales about Ordaining the Future. It includes judgments, vows, oaths, prophecies, bargains,

L315.5.1. Elephant killed by mouse who runs up open end of trunk to head and there smears poison over his brain (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)

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L is a fun little category within the Motif Index that stands for Reversals of Fortune. It includes unlikely heroes ("L10. -

K366.7. Thieving butterflies (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)

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K is another very long list in the Index: It stands for Deception - which is a fancy way of saying these are stories about

J1762.7. Lobsters mistaken for Norwegians (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)

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The J section of the Motif index is for The Wise and the Foolish. All the numskull and noodlehead folktales are on this

Interesting story dislodges frog from queen's nose (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)

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Here is the thing: There is no I in the Motif Index (probably because it looks too much like the number 1). So instead of

H506.5. Test of resourcefulness: To swing seventy girls until they are tired (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)

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The H section of the Motif Index lists all the Tests that heroes in folktales need to go through to accomplish their goals.

The richness of the rainforests (Following folktales around the world 20. - Brazil)

Today I continue new 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 under the Following Folktales label, or you can follow the series on Facebook!






Brazilian folktales
Livia de Almeida, Ana Portella, Margaret Read MacDonald
Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

Much like

G11.6.2. Woman who marries tiger is fed human nails regularly (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)

Welcome to my A to Z Challenge blog series titled WTF - Weird Things in Folktales! Find the introduction post (explaining the theme) here. Find all other participating blogs in the comments of each day's post on the main blog! You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
G is a relatively short category, and it is somewhat vaguely labeled as Ogres. It encompasses things that usually appear as