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I was using Google Translate to scan through a German folktale. Which is how the king and queen of water popped up as Father Wet and Mrs. Moist.

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(Originally Vater Nass and Frau Feucht)

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Today's Small Town Legend is special: it comes from my late grandfather, Zalka Ottó, who was an amazing storyteller. He especially delighted in trickster tales and local anecdotes.
This was one of his favorite stories to tell.

Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/sokoropatka-how-to-eat-pig-small-town.html

#folklore #folktales #AtoZChallenge #blogging #SmallTownLegends

The #AtoZChallenge is still ongoing, so here is a Small Town Legend about someone accidentally slapping Empress Maria Theresa on the butt:

https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-queens-buttocks-small-town-legends.html

#blogging #folklore #folktales #SmallTownLegends

Meanwhile, the A to Z of Small Town Legends continues on my blog.

Hévíz: A king asks to be hosted in the house of a power greater than him
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/heviz-greatest-power-in-house-small.html

Istvánkirályfalva: The love of a Christian king and a Pagan woman
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/istvankiralyfalva-love-across-religions.html

Ják: The Devil goes to Rome
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/jak-devil-goes-to-rome-small-town.html

Kisbács: An encounter with the Card Demon
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/kisbacs-card-demon-small-town-legends.html

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#AtoZChallenge

Today's Small Town Legend is about a place where people decided sowing their fields with salt would yield the most valuable crop possible.

But wait! There is more!

Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/galagonyas-sowing-salt-small-town.html

#folklore #folktales #SmallTownLegends #legends #Hungarian

Here we go!

The A to Z Challenge has begun. My theme this year is Small Town Legends: weird folklore from villages and small towns in and around Hungary.

First up: some very strange geese.

Ács: Zombie Goose Shenanigans https://share.google/Aa9plXTmBYbUrUPXM

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High School Bud, Elaine, rides Paul Bunyan's dog, Sport, in Brainard, Minnesota. The year of the Bicentennial, 1976. #minnesota #brainard #brainardminnesota #paulbunyan #sport #lumberjack #talltales #folktales #folkhero #folkheroes #midwest #bicentennial #1970s

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#introduction: I'm a storyteller practicing the art of #oralstorytelling

I tell #folktales #myths #legends #FairyTales primarily to live audiences. Currently building a repertoire of traditional tales from the #Uyghur oral tradition.

Also interested in: #theatre #AudioDrama #SocialAudio #baking #movies and using #Instagram for #ConceptualArt

Mastodon seems to encourage puns, absurdist mini-plays, and hilarious intentional misreadings of everything and I am here for it.