The 2024 A to Z Blogging Challenge Theme Reveal
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2w ago
  Oh crap, the A to Z Blogging Challenge is approaching again! I almost ran out of time for this theme reveal.This is my 12th year participating. Even when I am scrambling for time and attention span, I really love being part of the A to Z community. And I enjoy the challenge itself. In the past 11 years I've always had a theme: Weird Princesses (2013) Tales with Colors ..read more
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Folktales about women who save themselves (International Women's Day)
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2w ago
It's International Women's Day again, and it has become tradition for me to post a list of folktales on this day. In previous years I have done lists of women who slay monsters, women in war, woman healers, women helping women, and badass grandmas.Strange Craft by Josephine WallThis year, today also marks the premiere of the much-anticipated Damsel movie. The whole media hype about "this is ..read more
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StorySpotting: The goddess under the ice (True Detective: Night Country)
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1M ago
 StorySpotting is a series about folktales, tropes, references, and story motifs that pop up in popular media, from TV shows to video games. Topics are random, depending on what I have watched/played/read recently. Also, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. Be warned!I don't usually post about shows where the entire story is based on folklore, but this season of True Detective was just too well done ..read more
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Firendship, love, and dragons (Lunar New Year)
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1M ago
We are entering the Year of the Dragon with this lunar new year, according to various East Asian traditions. So, it is time to break out some of my favorite dragons stories! I have done similar collections before, for the years of the Rabbit, Rat, and Pig. Dragons are obviously popular when it comes to folklore - so I decided to limit this list to some highlights where dragons are ..read more
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290 earworms
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3M ago
This is the fifth year that I wrote down what music was stuck in my ear every morning when I woke up. It is becoming really fun to follow the statistics year after year.2018: I woke up with an earworm 306 mornings, featuring 150 different songs (post here)2019: 316 mornings, 137 songs (post here)2020: 346 mornings, 149 songs (post here)2021: 312 mornings, 124 songs (post here)2022: 313 mornings ..read more
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2023: The year in (good) TV shows
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3M ago
This year was not exactly outstanding in terms of TV shows - mostly for personal reasons, since I had limited time and focus to watch anything. My list has 66 series, but many of them I never finished, or have completely forgotten since. Still, there were a few worth mentioning.("This year" means I watched them in 2023. When they were made is irrelevant. And the list is completely subjective. No ..read more
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2023: The year in (good) books
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3M ago
Even though this year was more than chaotic for me, I still made time for reading. In fact, it was my favorite thing to do when I wanted to relax and tune out in the evenings. Because of this, I slightly overshot last year's numbers  - especially because there were a lot of short children's books on the list this year :)I finished a total of 101 books, almost 19,000 pages. Below you can see ..read more
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Warm-hearted heroes and elaborate cursing (Hungarian Roma folktales 1. - Ferenc Jóni)
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3M ago
This is a spinoff to Following folktales around the world. I have been collecting books of Hungarian Roma folktales, and it is time to start reading them. Hence, this new blog series. The only change is that there will be no Connections section (since most tale types are familiar).I encountered the tales of Jóni Ferenc in the archives of the Museum of Ethnography, when I was doing research for my ..read more
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Folktales about adoptive fathers (International Father's Day)
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10M ago
It's father's day, and I felt like making another post, so here it is. (Everybody calm down, this is a stock photo)We are celebrating fathers - and father figures - all around the world today. I already posted about the importance of caring fathers in folklore a few years ago. Today I decided that I want to highlight stories about adoptive fathers - because adoption is a topic near and dear to my ..read more
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Myths, Vikings, nostalgia: International Storytelling Festival in Budapest
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11M ago
The 10th International Theater Olympics is currently happening in Budapest, and as part of the event series, Karinthy Theater decided to put on a storytelling festival! I attended as part of the audience, and immediately felt at home: I got to hear some of my favorite storytellers, and after 11 years, we had a mini-reunion with tellers from the second Holnemvolt Festival, Berecz András and the ..read more
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