My theme for the 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge was WTF - Weird Things in Folktales. I went through the Thompson Folktale Motif Index, picked the strangest, most shocking, most amusingly titled motifs from world folklore - and looked up the stories that contain them. You can find my introduction to the project here, and all 26 posts as follows:
A2211.5 - Shrew blows nose into snout
B182.1.1. Magic dog vomits any liquor required of him
C961.5. Transformation to anthill for breaking tabu
D192.2. Transformation: man to centipede
E581.6. Ghost rides giant demijohn
F555.7. Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day
G11.6.2. Woman who marries tiger is fed human nails regularly
H506.5. Test of resourcefulness: to swing seventy girls until they are tired
Interesting story dislodges frog from queen's nose
J1762.7. Lobsters mistaken for Norwegians
K366.7. Thieving butterflies
L315.5.1. Elephant killed by mouse who runs up open end of trunk to head and there smears poison over his brain
M149.4. Quarreling prince and princess vow that if they are married he will desert her on the wedding day and she will make him eat boiled rice and thin broth for six months
N339.5. Uxorious king is burned to death while taking an alcohol bath
Oil sold to iguana
P327. Barmecide feast
Q551.1. Undutiful son punished by toad clinging to face
R9.1.2. Sun and Moon captured by creditor, thus causing eclipse
S139.2.2.4.2. Brains of enemies fashioned into balls (as trophies for play)
T543.4. Birth from fungus
U114. Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse
V49.1. Werewolves hold mass
W111.2.5. Boy to see whether there is fire in the house: feels cat to see if she is warm
X11. Red pepper for the slow ass
Why canary's eggs are yellow
Z25. Fly forgets her name
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