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Ynglinga Saga is the first section of Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla and it tells the legendary history of the ancient kings of Sweden, tracing their origins back to the gods themselves. 🖼 Hugo Hamilton

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Greek goddess Venus sends her son Cupid to punish the lovely mortal Psyche, yet Cupid is smitten with Psyche and defies Venus's orders. This tale depicts how mortals & gods both suffer, where spite sours their dreams,how only love & trust entangles the soul.

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Today’s prompt is folktales and fairy stories! I decided to go with The Snow Queen, which is one I’ve always really liked the idea of. Don’t drop troll mirrors from high altitudes kids, or this could happen to you.

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I think maps are natural storytellers all by themselves!
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Does anyone else endlessly peer at story maps finding yourself lost for a while to other worlds?

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Farewell, friends! I’ve enjoyed spending time with you today. This is Crystal signing off. will join on at 6:30 BST for today’s last session. Love this: “Stories are a communal currency of humanity,” ~ Tahir Shah. (Image: R. Doyle)

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A Chamorro/Chamoru tale for

Chaife & The Escaped Soul:

Every culture has their own personification of death/ruler of the underworld

Ours is Chaife, the God of the Underworld, who lives in Sasalåguan (it means "Hell" in Chamorro) which is located in a volcano

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For Fairytale lovers, this book consists of eight individual tales, but when read altogether also reads as one complete story.

https://t.co/m5z1WroB5J

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Fairy, also spelled faerie or faery, a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close relationship with humans.

📷The Yew Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker.

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Hello again, This is Crystal signing on as your next host. Thanks to our previous host for sharing all your wonderful stories and lore. This week’s theme is favourite folktales and fairy tales! Tweet your hearts out! (Image: W.J. Morgan)

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a epic poem about bravery, honor, romance - and beheading.
Originally a 14th century Middle English poem, this tale has kept alive by language scholars, novelists, and recently the script writers of "Adventure Time" a cartoon.

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When a prostitute dies before being able to buy her freedom, her clothes r donated to a temple in exchange for a funeral and prayers. However, if the woman is still owed money from her clients, her spirit might reanimate her kimono, becoming a Kosode No Te.

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One of my favourite bits of writing was adapting the already fairly weird brothers Grimm stories - like The Three Snake Leaves, which includes a princess who stipulates that when she dies, her beloved must be buried alive https://t.co/oicPMaKxAp

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Greuceanu is one of the oldest tales of written Romanian folklore, the protagonist having to set the sun and moon free from Zmei (archetypical devil/dragon like villains).

Old stamp of Greuceanu (from the collection of folk tales compiled by Petre Ispirescu)

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Tatterhood is born to her queen mother riding on a goat & holding a wooden spoon. She goes on to save her sister from trolls & more.

Art: unknown

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In Hawaii, a myth describes how the moon came to be called Mahina. The deity Hina, tired of weaving kapa cloth, scaled a rainbow to the Sun, but it was too hot. She then climbed to the Moon, and, pleased, made it her home. “Mahina” is derived from her name.

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Great tales have been told of the highly bearish Bödvar Bjarki for hundreds of years. He and Beowulf both had connections to Götaland and might originally have been kin or even one and the same. 🖼 Louis Moe

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Would you kiss a frog to find your prince? Don't worry! In the original Grimm version of the tale, the frog's curse breaks when it's thrown against a wall.








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Little Briar-Rose is the Grimm’s version of Sleeping Beauty, published in 1812. Briar-rose is also known as the wild rose & has thorns that form hooks, just like the hedge that grows around Briar-Rose’s castle for 100 years until the prince arrives. Img: CMB

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‘Little Ida’s Flowers’ is the tale of a young girl who discovers her flowers are wilting because they exhausted themselves dancing at a magical ball. It is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s first fairytales, published 8th May 1835. It mentions 17 types of flower.

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