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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2014, 02:46:33 pm »
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I wonder how it feels being Welsh.  :rolleyes:

yn well na bod yn llysnafedd fel chi.  :wink:
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2014, 03:05:08 pm »
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Gnjus should visit Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (yes actually the name of a village/railway station, guess its a big fuck you to anyone trying to pronounce it :D)
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2014, 03:23:33 pm »
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It's very hard to find folklore that is representative for all of Germany because there was no unified German state for so long. There's a lot of local folklore but the first thing without any regional referance that came to my mind is the Nibelungenlied.

Although Wagner made (of course) an opera out of it, the original Legend of the Nibelung also has Nordic roots as far as I know so I'm not sure if you can count it as originally German folklore.
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2014, 03:40:45 pm »
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Some interesting Spanish ones:

Caganer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer
Basically a figure of a guy shitting that is put in Nativity scenes accross Catalonia. I love this one.

Lovers of Teruel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_of_Teruel
Love story, both rich and in love since childhood, guy's family becomes poor, father forbids the wedding, guy says he will ask again in 5 years when he is even richer, returns 5 years and 1 day afterwards, she just got married, he dies, she dies, end of story.

A couple of local ones:

The Puig Campana hole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puig_Campana
Near Benidorm, there is Puig Campana, a mountain with a hole near the top. There is also an island in the bay nearby. So there are stories linking them. Some versions say it is Roland fighting the moors that split it, some others that it was some Saint's horse that kicked it.

The face of the Moor:
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A face that can be seen in this mountain in Alicante, there is a legend about the tragic love story between the daughter of a Moorish lord and a Christian peasant. This one was imprisoned and executed, and it is said that resulted in the astonished face of the lord set in stone when his daughter threw herself down the cliff.

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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2014, 03:57:19 pm »
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Estonians national folklore is "Kalevipoeg" as in "Son of Kalev". Man I tell you, this is litterally some fucked up shit. The author has really let his imagination run wild, to say the least. It tells a tale of a gigantic superhumanly strong baltic pagan barbarian king who is quite daft and dies in the end due to his own stupidity. I mean this is just litterally so over the top imaginative that it makes Beowulf look completely subtle. And honestly thats why I never liked it. I mean it teaches a lot, I quess and it has some pretty good hidden messages behind it, but the unreality of it all kinda ruins it imo. A lot of fellow(older generation)estonians would bash my face in with a rock for saying it, but honestly thats how I feel.


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Its a good read, if you are into that folklore type of thing.

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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2014, 04:27:33 pm »
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Here we have "Rübezahl" a quite moody mountain spirit. He has a different name in czech and polish but there are a lot of tales of him around the selisian border region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCbezahl

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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2014, 04:38:31 pm »
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We have this from the Black Sea region of Turkey. Apparently, according to Wikipedia here, we share this mythic creature with Macedonians, Serbians and Bulgarians as well. This is a folk tale we share with Georgia too. What is told about this creature is pretty reminiscent of the Nordic troll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoncolos

Here are varying depictions of the creature, each noticably different:
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2014, 04:46:25 pm »
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2014, 04:54:00 pm »
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I've always been interested in some good o'l folklore, my favorite folklore from my own country are the forest roaming trolls etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll

If you have some good folklore from your own country that you like, please share :D


Hm, looks like your definition of folklore is different from mine... anyway, polish folklore? Let's think...


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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2014, 05:18:59 pm »
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My favorite story is of John Henry.

Bascially, he was a steel driver who tried to prove himself better than a steam-powered machine and ended up winning, but dying.

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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2014, 05:43:00 pm »
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Eh, we have... Johnny Appleseed? And, the; eh....  Salem witch trials (not folklore)...?
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2014, 05:45:02 pm »
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In Britanny we have this

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A kind of death bringer.
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2014, 06:07:47 pm »
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Kind of sad that I had to look up my countries own folklore but the ones I remember hearing about in my childhood are Davey Crockett, Daniel Boone, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Sasquatch.

I think if you asked kids nowadays about any of them they would have little to no clue.
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2014, 06:47:20 pm »
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The one where an old man with a white beard enslaves a bunch of afro americans and makes them clean the chimneys for him
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Re: Your countries favorite folklore
« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2014, 06:48:55 pm »
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Latvian folklore has a lot of stories about werewolves. Even the romans described the Balt lands as the lands of the werewolves. Go figure.

Dang i always imagined thered be werepotatoes that would seduce hngry farmers into a trap
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