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Saturday, June 29, 2019

StorySpotting: Tag, you're it (Avengers: Endgame)

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StorySpotting is a weekly or kinda-weekly series about folktales, tropes, references, and story motifs that pop up in popular media, from TV...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

The Tale of the Sun - a Saami folktale of hope and resistance

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I found this story in Hungarian translation in this book , collected and translated by Erdődi József in 1960. As far as I can tell, the book...
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When birds talked and trees walked (Following folktales around the world 112. - Sierra Leone)

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Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world ! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you c...
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Saturday, June 22, 2019

StorySpotting: How to find a half-blind camel (The Name of the Rose)

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StorySpotting is a weekly or kinda-weekly series about folktales, tropes, references, and story motifs that pop up in popular media, from TV...
Monday, June 17, 2019

The epics of the Mande (Following folktales around the world 111. - Guinea)

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Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world ! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you c...
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Saturday, June 15, 2019

StorySpotting: A girl, a desert, a lizard (The Magicians)

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StorySpotting is a weekly or kinda-weekly series about folktales, tropes, references, and story motifs that pop up in popular media, from TV...
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Monday, June 10, 2019

Classics and morals (Following folktales around the world 110. - Guinea-Bissau)

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Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world ! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you c...