Folktale week 2024
First year that I participate in this challenge called Folktale Week. For each day I looked for legends from different countries and cultures.
First year that I participate in this challenge called Folktale Week. For each day I looked for legends from different countries and cultures.
The mysterious legend of the green children of Woolpit. In 1100 two children with green skin appeared near a trapping pit, in the village of Woolpit and spoke an unknown language. It is believed that they were lost in a netherworld and then reappeared again.
An Egyptian diety. Considered writing, Moon, wisdom, knowledge, science, magic, art and judgment. Thoth was portrayed as a with the head of an ibis and often holding an object called a "scribe's palette.
In the middle of the XVII century, some parents lost their son who disappeared when he went swimming with some friends in Bilbao.
Five years later, some fishermen in Cadiz claimed to have seen an aquatic being with a human appearance. The sightings were repeated until they managed to catch it and it was indeed a man with body scales.
The man kept mumbling "Liérganes", the town in Cantabria where the parents who had lost their son, Francisco were from. When the mother took him there, she quickly recognized that this being was her son.
After spending 9 years at his mother's house, living with no interest in anything, hardly speaking, he disappeared again in the sea and was never heard from again.
This supernatural japanese creature is called Baku and feeds on nightmares like the one this little girl is having. Its origin is found in a similar creature from Chinese folklore called Mo and in the Malay tapir.
Searching for information about fairies, I learned that they often live underground. The entrance to the home of the Sidhé (fairy in Irish) they are found in mounds or small hills. In this case they found a fairy and she got so scared that she spilled her drink.
The legend of Rocamadour tells the story of a castle that is often shrouded in fog and illusion. Travelers can get lost in the corridors and staircases of the castle, unable to find their way out.