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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

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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

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

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.

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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