Japanese Folktales You’ll Want to Hear in These Voices—5 ENVTubers to Watch for English Readings and ASMR
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この声で聞いてみたい、日本の昔話――英語朗読・ASMRで注目したいENVTuber5選
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What?
Snow-White and Rosy-Red
Which language?
Danish
Who wrote it?
Torgen Moe and P. AsbiörnsonAnthony Montalba. Fairy Tales from All the Nations (1849).
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34956
[In fact: The Twelve Wild Ducks, in Norwegian–Danish, by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe.]
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For those interested:
I did a blog series on gemstone legends and folktales, in case you are curious what kinds of stories are out there 😊
The Multicolored Diary: Gemstone Folklore https://share.google/gBu6UMj00Iq4w3fLn
#folklore #folktales #storytelling #gemstones #mythology #geology
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#WritersCoffeeClub 2. October: Do you have plans for your next work yet?
Oh yes.
Title: The Draug
Description: 40 folk legends and tales of revenants of the restless sea dead.
Status: Awaiting external editing.Title: The Linden Queen, and Other Forgotten Folktales from Norway
Description: 20 hitherto unpublished Norwegian folktales.
Status: Composition. Some of these tales exist only as outlines or collectors notes.Title: The Swedish Folktales of Sven Sederström
Description: A collection of Swedish folktales composed by an early tradition bearer.
Status: Translation.Title: The Princesses in the Mountain Blue, by Sigrid Undset
Description: The second puppet-theatre stageplay Undset wrote.
Status: Translation.Title: A Reader’s Companion to Norwegian Folklore
Description: Essays on various aspects of Norwegian folktales and legends.
Status: Planning.Title: “Snow-White and the Three Bears”
Description: An essay on the purported origins of the nursery tale we know as “The Story of the Three Bears,” by Robert Southey (1837).
Status: Composition.#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore #Folktales #IndieAuthor #AmWriting #AmTranslating #AmGoingSlightlyMad
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Ok so from the toot yesterday I already learned a lot: Apparently for a lot of people it is not automatically clear what gemstone legends are?
(The working title of the book was Folktales and Legends about the Treasures of the Earth)
They are folktales and legends that feature gemstones and minerals.
Like the legend from Myanmar about how the first rubies were born. Or the Norse myth of Thor fighting a flint stone giant.
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Looks like I have made a mistake. (Another one? you say. Indeed, says I.)
I have been working on an ePub of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe, under the impression that a single file with all 150 texts and >300 illustrations would land at more than half a gigabyte. After all, the #Vellum file has grown that big.
But no.
After compiling the work, the #ePub turns out at around 65MB, which is manageable on modern systems.
It's still too big to sell on #Amazon, because their download fees, which they take out of royalties, would make it necessary for me to bump the price up by about $10, which is just stupid.
So, here's the new strategy:
Amazon: the whole collection split into 15 volumes at necessarily inflated prices. (Customers may like giving Bozo their money; he's not stealing from me.)
Ko-fi: the whole collection in a single 65MB ePub (no-DRM) that can be stored wherever you store stuff, and sideloaded on to any ereader or app, at a price that is less than a quarter of what the full 15 volumes costs on Amazon.
More information will be forthcoming.
#NorwegianFolklore #NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore #Folktales #Legends #SelfPublishing #IndieAuthors
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Leopards had to be taught how to hunt. The lesson came with a permanent catch.
https://mythopia.io/story/910/why-the-leopard-can-only-catch-prey-on-its-left-side
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Today is the Day of the Hungarian Folktale. So your quest, should you choose to accept it, is to go find a Hungarian folktale a read it / listen to it.
😊
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Lion hunted without mercy until one small bird decided enough was enough.
https://mythopia.io/story/1603/tiny-titi-and-the-hungry-lion-a-ngoni-trickster-bird-tale
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Okay so I just discovered a podcast and I need to share it with all y'all:
(Sort of) the Story is a podcast run by two amazing and hilariously funny ladies who tell each other folktales and comment on them in an enthusiastic fashion.
They used some stories from my English books (that's how I found them) and I am now addicted. I keep snort-laughing on public transport. -
A war breaks out between the animals of the sky and the animals of the earth. Bat tries to fight for both sides. He pays for it forever.
https://mythopia.io/story/53/why-the-bat-flies-at-night
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Before a yam festival changed everything, Tortoise didn't carry a shell at all.
https://mythopia.io/story/902/how-the-tortoise-got-its-shell
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The Kannada Panchatantra, composed by Durgasimha, has a few stories that rarely appear in other retellings. One follows a fox that refuses to trust a farmer's fake death until it personally checks the nearby town for mourners. Another follows King Kachadhruma, who loses his kingdom after sidelining every honest advisor around him. Full piece here: https://babutellsstories.blogspot.com/2026/09/kannada-panchatantra-additional-tales.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Panchatantra #KannadaLiterature #IndianStories #FolkTales #SouthIndia
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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.
(Originally Vater Nass and Frau Feucht)
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Long ago the sun belonged to the cock alone. Then a god asked to borrow it, and morning was never the same again.
https://mythopia.io/story/704/the-origins-of-dawn-why-the-cock-crows-for-the-sun-each-morning
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How did "prince rescuing princess from a tower" become such a universally referenced trope?
Rapunzel doesn't get rescued by the prince. Actually none of the classic tower folktales I can think of (Canary Prince, Daughter of the Sun, Zal and Rudabeh, Maid Maleen etc.) actually involve the princess being rescued from the tower by the man.
How did this become a thing?
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உக்ரேனிய நாடோடிக் கதைகள் (Ukrainian Folk Tales In Tamil )
A collection of Ukrainian folk tales translated to Tamil.
தொகுப்பாசிரியர்: விளதீமிர் போய்கோ
மொழிபெயர்ப்பாளர்: நா. முகம்மது செரீபு, எம். ஏ.
ஓவியர்: வா. கொர்திய்சுக்
பதிப்பாசிரியர்கள்: எவ்கேனி கனவாலவ், வித்தாலி ஃபுர்னிக்கா
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THE MAGIC BEHIND HOOKLAND, the ongoing open-source (re?)creation of a lost English county that has delighted social media for more than a decade, explored in ways that diminish none of the enchantment. A lovely guidebook. A MINUS
#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #fantasy #alternatehistory #folktales #England #Fortean #SmallPressSunday
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ਪਰਬਤ ਸੋਵੀਅਤ ਦੇਸ਼ ਦੀਆਂ ਕੌਮਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਪਰੀ-ਕਹਾਣੀਆਂ (A Mountain Of Gems – Russian Folk Tales In Punjabi)
A collection of Russian folk and fairy tales translated to Punjabi.
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The Angel Took the Form of a Beggar (1921) by Jay Van Everen, from The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.
Source: New York Public Library / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fea7cd96-8c5b-476f-ba3b-dc9529c53a0e
#abstract #folklore #folktales #bookillustration #art #publicdomain
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ಉಕ್ರೈನಿನ ಜಾನಪದ ಕಥೆಗಳು (Ukrainian Folk Tales In Kannada)
A collection of Ukrainian folk tales translated to Kannada.
ಉಕ್ರೇನಿಯನ್ ಜನಪದ ಕಥೆಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ, ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುವಾದಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.All credits to the original uploaders.
ಸಂಕಲನಕರ್ತ: ವಿ. ಬೊಯ್ಯೋ. ಡಿ. ಎಸ್ಸಿ. (ಭಾಷಾಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ)
ಅನುವಾದ: ಕೆ. ಎಲ್. ಗೋಪಾಲಕೃಷ್ಣರಾವ್
ಚಿತ್ರಕಾರ: ವಿ. ಗೊರ್ದಿಕ್
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A unique #theatrical #performance inspired by #Yiddish #folktales features dead #Jews dancing at a cemetery, a prophet appearing in the form of a bunny rabbit and a stone-munching worm named Shamir. It all takes place within the confines of a 2’ X 4’ box known as a #cranky and it’s coming to #NewYork later this month as part of the International #Puppet #FringeFestival.
For those unfamiliar with the decidedly low-tech medium, #crankies are portable stages through which a panorama is scrolled by cranking a pair of wooden dowels. The characters and scenery on the scroll are usually accompanied by #narration and #music, in this case a live #klezmer trio. In backlit crankies, #shadowpuppets can also be used for characters.
The cranky performance of #ShternaandtheLostVoice was created by the #MagidEnsemble, a far-flung interdisciplinary collective that includes a #storyteller, a #graphicartist and three former members of the #Boston klezmer band #Mamaliga."
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As part of our series on local folktales, we will be publishing works in English.
We hope this will help you enjoy Japan even more.*Japanese articles and translation features for various languages are available.
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「Once Upon a Time in Local Japan」
As part of our series on local folktales, we will be publishing works in English.
We hope this will help you enjoy Japan even more.#KindlePublishing
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Everyone warned Moses not to fish on Sunday.
Then he hooked something that wasn't a fish.
Some old warnings exist for a reason.
Listen: https://buff.ly/2v5xaHK
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A Singing Rag Doll by Chang Rui
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The princess with the pea was faking it.
In the folktale Andersen based his story on, the girl (a miller's daughter) knows she is being tested for royal blood, so she pretends to be overly sensitive. It's a female-protagonist version of Puss in Boots, basically.
"But that's cheating!"
Yeah. This is what you get when you put people through blood purity tests instead of paying attention to what kinda person they are.
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Sudden thought:
Cinderella is a neurodivergent heroine.
I, too, fail to mask after midnight.
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Bird Neighbour by Wang Yamong
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Seed Travelers (Beginning Science) by Lin Songying
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The Frog Rider (Folk Tales From China)
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Hedgehog’s New House Chinese Stories by Ding Yuzhen
A Chinese picture story book for children.
Text by Ding Yuzhen
Drawings by Liang PeilongYou can get the book here and here
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Seven Clam Sisters by Xia Qing
A Chinese picture story book for children.
Story by Xia Qing
Illustrations by Yang YongqingYou can get the book here and here
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NY people, I highly recommend checking out Shterna and the Lost Voice at International Puppet Fringe Festival, 3 showings at Teatro Latea (107 Suffolk St) on August 13, 15 and 16.
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Wondering what the Fedi's mytho-poets, Jungian analysts, investigators of the subconscious, & archetype explorers make of the folk tale The Raven, collected by the Brothers Grimm, translated by an unknown person, and performed so well by
Joey DeNoia at the link below.Very much interested in how you personally understand the story - not what you've found others saying about it.
#JugianArchetypes #BrothersGrimm #TheRaven #FolkTales #RobertBly #JoeyDeNoia #PreModern
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“No.” It was whisper-thin, barely an exhale, her throat long unused for this sort of sound. And then again, louder, “No.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/06/09/no-it-was-whisper-thin-barely-an-exhale-her-throat-long-unused-for-this-sort-of-sound-and-then-again-louder-no/ #again #AmitiéRomansNouvellesEtc #AutonomieRomansNouvellesEtc #AutonomyFiction #BarFridmanTell #barely #book #CollegesAndUniversitiesFiction #Contes #exhale #fantasy #FantasyFiction #fiction #FICTIONFairyTalesFolkTalesLegendsMythology #FictionFantasyMythologyAndSciFi #FictionLiterary #fictionGeneralGenre #FICTIONFantasyDarkFantasy #FleursRomansNouvellesEtc #FlowersFiction #folkTales #folklore #FolkloreWalesFiction #FriendshipFiction #GothicFiction #HorrorFiction #literaryFiction #LonelinessFiction #longUnused #louder #LoveFiction #MagicFiction #ManWomanRelationshipsFiction #no #PopularFiction #quote #Roman #SiblingsFiction #SolitudeRomansNouvellesEtc #sound #thisSortOf #throat #whisperThin -
Georgia's best-known storyteller was fishing guide, Lemuel “Lem” Griffis (1896/1968). Known to entertain visitors at his fish camp outside Fargo with tall tales from the swamp. "Storytellers: folktales & legends from the South" features him. #FolkloreThursday #Georgia #Folktales
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Georgia's best-known storyteller was fishing guide, Lemuel “Lem” Griffis (1896/1968). Known to entertain visitors at his fish camp outside Fargo with tall tales from the swamp. "Storytellers: folktales & legends from the South" features him. #FolkloreThursday #Georgia #Folktales
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In 1916, the American anthropologist Mabel Cook Cole published a collection of #folktales from the Philippines, including mischievous spirits, talking jars, and the antics of personified celestial beings, bickering suns and moons. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/philippine-folk-tales-1916
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In "Wise Women", Sharon Blackie & Angharad Wynne re-narrate a selection of European #folktales mostly from the British Isles on old hags, witches, grandmothers, fairy godmothers and other mature women, of middle age & beyond
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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
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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
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If you like dragon-slaying legends and a coat-of-arms featuring a cute dog, this blog post is for you!
It is about a brave woman who slays a ferocious dragon. With chemistry!
Read here:
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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.htmlIstvánkirályfalva: The love of a Christian king and a Pagan woman
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/istvankiralyfalva-love-across-religions.htmlJák: The Devil goes to Rome
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/jak-devil-goes-to-rome-small-town.htmlKisbács: An encounter with the Card Demon
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/kisbacs-card-demon-small-town-legends.html#folklore #AtoZChallenge #SmallTownLegends #folktales #history
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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!
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Hoda Afshar - Speak the Wind
'In the islands of the Strait of Hormuz off the southern coast of Iran a distinctive local culture has emerged as the result of many centuries of cultural and economic exchange...Central to these is a belief in the existence of winds-generally thought of as harmful-that may possess a person, causing her to experience illness or disease, and a corresponding ritual practice involving incense, music and movement in which an hereditary cult leader speaks with the wind through the afflicted patient in one of many local or foreign tongues in order to negotiate its exit'
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I am a bit behind on sharing my #AtoZChallenge posts so here are two of them - both featuring incredible women!
This one is about an incredibly buff woman fighting off a nobleman who wants to take her land:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2026/04/ecsed-very-strong-woman-small-town.htmlAnd this one is about a heavily pregnant woman fighting off Tatar invaders:
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Blog/Review: Contemporary Stories are Failing Kids (And Adults)
One of the little-known facts about J.R.R. Tolkien was that he absolutely despised Disney. So great was his hatred of Disney that he described it as “vulgar,” said that Walt Disney was “a cheat,” and even said that, at times, the animation gave him nausea. The reason for this wasn’t because he had an arbitrary hatred for the mouse running around on screen. Rather his hatred of Disney was two-fold, beginning when he saw the 1937 adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in theaters with C.S. Lewis. For one thing, he saw it as a total bastardization of the original tale published by the Grimm Brothers that was made purely for money’s sake. For another thing, he disliked how the movie shied away from the grimness of the source material. The dark aspects of fairytales were something that Tolkien greatly appreciated, as he was a staunch believer that if a story for children couldn’t also be enjoyed by adults, then it wasn’t worth writing. In fact, in his essay, On Fairy Stories, he bemoaned the fact that in recent years, fairy tales have largely been associated with children, leading to their infantilization, something Disney’s adaptation of Snow White added to.
If Tolkien had only lived to see the slop being pushed on our kids, his already heartfelt disgust towards the infantilization of fairytales and stories in general would have turned into the fury of a thousand suns.
The contemporary fairytales being pushed on kids today are excessively childish. If they aren’t stories that are based on existing intellectual properties (such as any number of Disney-owned franchises) it’s online entertainment such as the stuff on Disney+. Just think about the last time that you saw a kids’ show that treated kids like they were capable of thinking for themselves, that treated them as having the potential to grow past their current mindset. Bluey is one such show from what I’ve heard, but many of the shows out there treat kids as kids. They don’t treat them as young humans who are gradually maturing, navigating the complexities of growing up.
As an example, think about the difference between Miss Rachel and Mr. Rogers. Miss Rachel is known for her infantilized online persona aimed at teaching kids various lessons about things (including Left-wing politics for some reason.) Meanwhile, Mr. Rogers spoke to young kids as an adult. He came at it not as though he was trying to be one of them, but as a wise grandfather. He reached both kids and adults, something that Miss Rachel can’t do.
A similar contrast can be found in stories today versus stories written in the past. Even if you go back 10-20 years, kids’ stories were a lot heavier than they are today and could be enjoyed by any age bracket. For example, How to Train Your Dragon came out in 2010, and, while it primarily targeted kids, it had themes in it that went a lot deeper than one would think. It dealt with themes of courage, family expectations, trying to navigate growing up, etc. At one point, Stoic straight-up disowns Hiccup. The second movie that came out in 2014 had some heavy themes in it. However, fast forward to today, and even the third HTTYD movie felt dumbed down compared to the previous ones. Look at the spin-off show on Hulu, and the contrast is even more stark.
Additionally, many of the stories targeted towards kids and adults nowadays have become soulless cash-grabs, often grifting off of pre-existing franchises. To make things worse, the morals they teach are few and far between, if there even are any.
One example of this is Pixar’s newest movie, Hoppers. While it doesn’t have anything blatantly objectionable in it, a deep dive into the morals taught in the story and the political messaging is disturbing. The YouTuber, Real-Life Fake Wizard did a deep dive into the messaging subtly hidden throughout the movie and not only does it justify the main character’s terrible behavior as a Greta Thunberg-like environmental activist, but it also justifies killing people for the sake of the state.
Remember this is a movie aimed towards children pushing an anti-human, Leftist agenda on them covered up with smiles and laughter.
On that note, one of the things that made stories in the past appealing to adults and children were the strong moral lessons that they taught and the characters overcoming bad situations. This was important as not only did these stories give children profound truths that they could be reminded of throughout life, but they also prepared them in some ways for the adult world. In that way, the stories got better as you grew up as you could now interpret them through a wiser, more experienced lens. Nowadays, however, our contemporary folklore is encountering a massive divide between kids’ stories and adult stories.
To illustrate this point, just recently I went to Walmart and checked out their book section with my mom. The kids’ section was a small area, with mainly coloring books and picture books based on various franchises, most of them owned by Disney. The rest of the book area was a handful of young adult novels such as The Hunger Games and a few Percy Jackson and the Olympians books scattered around (with the main one being the Nico x Will LGBTQ+ adventure) hidden amongst the books aimed towards adults.
Several of these books I recognized from the #booktube and #booktok community as having explicit content in them, with the most notable ones being the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Fourth Wing series, both of which, I believe, have been banned in public schools. I also saw the sequel to the infamous book, Haunting Adeline, a book which has become known for its glorification of stalking, physical abuse, and rape (including penetration with a gun.)
I wish I was making this up. That isn’t even mentioning the trigger warning on the first page of the book.
This goes to show how not only have stories aimed towards kids lost the plot (often literally) of being appealing to children while also appealing to adults with the moral messaging and overall story, but the divide between adult literature and kids’ is growing vastly. Even with young adult novels intending to be the buffer zone between kids’ books and adult literature, you still often lack clear morals and a sense of good and evil. Often, you are even being exposed to – at best – softcore porn. These stories don’t help you grow up; they dumb you down by appealing not to a higher sense of morality, but to your base impulses.
While children’s literature used to be considered to be stories for adults told amongst the elders of the village that children were privy to, learning profound universal morals and values along the way, what could be considered as modern fairytales have lost the plot entirely. They have either become something to meet kids where they are at and, in some ways, keep them there, or their idea of adult doesn’t come from the morals within the tale, but rather the increasingly explicit lack thereof. In this way, neither kids nor adults are maturing by reading these tales. They’re only being corrupted to something animalistic.
Until next time,
M.J.
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#AtoZChallenge of Small Town Legends:
C is for Csíkménaság and Hoopoe Jesus
This one is a legend from Transylvania about a bunch of people who mistook a hoopoe for Jesus... and then tried to capture him
Read here:
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The #AtoZChallenge continues!
Today's legend takes place in the era of the Tatar invasions, and tells of a fortunate escape due to healthy snacks.
Bágy: Walnut Body Armor
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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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