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#folklorethursday

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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄

The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. The most comprehensive edition ever. The whole collection appears for the first time in English.

Paperback editions, or .pdf files for less than half the price. Details here: norwegianfolktales.net/books/t

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe in three volumes, against the background of the Aurora borealis.
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The Godyssey Podcast

Witch sabbats were trade meets, where witches would travel from afar to give thanks to the Devil and perform elaborate rituals in folk thought. Sex remained a major part of that, for loose and open sexuality was anathema to medieval theology. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: O. Tassaert

Octave Tassaert's famed La Femme Dammnee, showing a woman being eaten out, made out with, and her nipple sucked by three other women as they fly through the air. Truly, a woman damned in the best way
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The Godyssey Podcast

Aisha Qandicha is a Moroccan anti-colonial jinn, witch, or goddess, depending on the source, who is both feared and loved, granting blessings from her shrine but cursing those she possesses. She is beautiful from the waist up: below she is either a goat or camel #FolkloreThursday

An artist's depiction of Aisha Qandicha, sitting underwater cross-legged: her legs are camel-like, her arms covered in henna, her dress beautiful and green with silver, but her cloaked head is ragged. Artist's signature is there but I can't read it and TinEye is useless
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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄

I have uploaded .pdf copies of both editions of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe to ko-fi, where they are now available for purchase at less-than-half the cost of the Amazon paperback books.

Details and links on my Website here:

norwegianfolktales.net/books/t

I think you should choose the annotated edition; here’s what you get:

1. Three chunky volumes (815 pages, 617 pages, and 665 pages).

2. Original prefaces from eight editions.

3. Jørgen Moe’s substantial introduction to the folktales, in which he discusses the origins of folk narratives, and how the Norwegian material exemplifies his ideas.

4. All 122 folktales Asbjørnsen & Moe published during their careers.

5. 28 hulder tales and folk legends, a genre Asbjørnsen defined, in which he embeds the legends of the hidden folk.

6. Approximately 350 illustrations by some of the most accomplished artists Norway has known, including Hans Gude, Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen.

7. Asbjørnsen & Moe’s notes on the folktales, which detail the variant(s) the collectors used to compose each folktale, sketch out other variants they collected, and compare the Norwegian folktales with similar traditions from other regions.

8. Newly-researched editor’s notes, which identify the collector responsible for the composition of each text, give collection data, including tale type, geographical origin, collector, informant, and date of collection, sketch biographical details of informants, where known, give previous publication and translation details, trace historical and literary sources, and draw attention to points of particular interest.

9. Editor’s prefaces to each volume, which trace the publication history of the original volumes represented, as well as previous translations.

10. Comprehensive – perhaps even exhaustive – bibliographies to each volume.

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

All of my books, including The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe.
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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄

I have published an updated edition of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen’s retelling of what presumably is a folktale, “The Three Bears, or, The Visit in the Bears’ Cabin.” Illustrated by H. Krüger. Brief afterword included.

€1.49 from my Ko-fi shop.

norwegianfolktales.net/books/t

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

The Three Bears by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. This clas­sic nursery tale, “The Three Bears” re­tains all the elem­ents you re­member from your child­hood, but cer­tain de­tails pe­culiar to this Nor­wegian ver­sion place the story deep with­in the ma­jes­tic Nor­dic for­est. First pub­lished in 1864, Peter Christen As­bjørn­sen’s text has nev­er pre­viously ap­pear­ed in Eng­lish. Peter Christen As­bjørn­sen is most fa­mous for the Nor­wegian folk­lore he pub­lished in the mid­dle of the 19th cen­tury, to­gether with Jør­gen Moe. “Little Bruin’s bed was just right, though, and she rest­ed so easi­ly on its soft lamb­skin, gazing at the bumb­le bee whir­ring and hum­ming away in the win­dow, that she fell a­sleep, and slept sound­ly.”
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