/lit/ - Literature

>>15472634
no lol

>>15472813
why? :(

>>15473371
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

>>15472634
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga

>>15473384
>>15473403

Thank you! :D

>>15472634
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasse-galerie

>>15473449
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman

There's one fairytale which gave me nightmares for years. I heard it once and can hardly remember it. A young boy is traveling along a road alone. A stranger by the wayside tells him "It's getting dark and there's a full moon -- beware of wide open spaces."
The young boy finds an old derelict church to shelter in for the night. Remembering the stranger's advice, he crawls inside a cupboard. As the sun sets he hears a caterwauling in the main hall of the church. Peering out through the slats he sees a host of hundreds of cats standing on their hind legs and doing a devilish dance.
I can't remember how it ends.

>>15473384
That's not folklore, but that's a fucking awesome illustration.

Anytime folklore comes up, I recommend Jim Henson's The Storyteller, an 8 episode anthology series from the late 80s. Lots of great puppetry, narrated by John Hurt, interesting selection of folktales, and even though it's totally digestible for kids, it doesn't water down the source material. Thoroughly charming stuff.

>>15472634
Grizzly tales for Gruesome children.
/thread

>>15472634
Norway has some spooky ones.
>The Black Plague was often represented as a spooky old hag, wandering the countryside and carrying a broom and a rake. If she used the rake, only some people in the area would die. If she used the broom, everyone would
>One that made an impression on me as a child is one about a girl going to her brother's grave. But suddenly he bursts up from it and chases her and touches her. She gets sick and dies soon after (and maybe becomes a revenant herself)
>there's a well known one of a lady going to church on christmas. She goes in and sees the church full of people with their heads bent. She sits down and recognizes one of her old friends, who are the dead. She is warned to leave, and she looks up and sees shes surrounded by skeletons. She leaves but they come after her and they grab her scarf, but she managed to escape
>Everything about Nøkken. Especially since I also pittied him and its fate of eternal loneliness and lack of soul
>also Myling/Utburd. The ghosts of babies abandoned in the wild to die without being baptised and thus unable to go to heaven. That haunted me

Just nordic ghost stories in general really, the illustrations really helps

>>15473683
these one's are lovely:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzXWwbODYh4
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HywHo8P2Zqg

>>15473808
http://tango.bol.ucla.edu/publications/A01.pdf

Great paper on it with a nice little bibliography

>>15473384
Why has somebody been shilling this book in every thread all of a sudden for like a week? You threw a hissy fit in the archived NYRB thread and started saying they sucked as a publisher because they didn't specifically print this one book, and then somebody checked and they actually did.

We resently had a nice thread about this >>/lit/thread/15182112
Also, I'm the >>15183338 anon who wanted to make a chart. I still hope to do it, it's just I have almost no time on my hands to do necessary research. I'll make sure to monitor this thread for suggestions.

>>15473986
>if you don’t post endlessly about crime and punishment, the bible, moby dick, blood meridan, the catcher in the rye and try to introduce a little known but greatly unappreciated book (because you actually want to discuss it with people) then you’re a shill
Fuck you. I’ll make sure all of /lit/ reads this book at some point and that can be what this shitty board worships for the next 6 years. See you in “/lit/‘s top 100 books of 2020”, you bitch.

>>15473423
No problem! Enjoy! :D
>>15473524
It draws heavily from folklore and it is as supernatural as can be. Read it.

>>15474040
based

>>15474040
I don't think you're literally being paid by a guy who died centuries ago to shill his book but the point is that you bring it up in every single thread even when it's completely irrelevant, like in this one. Is it the only book you've read in the past five years or something?

>>15474086
It is relevant. It has folklore in it.

>>15474040
probably the most chad post i’ve seen on lit
i’ll read it now

After the war (some time in the 20th century) there was a city large part of which was destroyed by bombings. I'm not sure if the city is pic related. Anyway, a lot of people were starving, there were almost no jobs, the economy was wrecked. The story follows a young boy. He walked the streets and tried to find whatever work was available to get by: shining shoes, running errands, sometimes even robbing stores, which did not always go as successfully as he'd wished. The police knew most of the children in the area. One day the boy was walking the streets with nothing to do when he met a man. The man was well-dressed, uncommon at the time and place, and gave off impression of wealth. He called the boy, asked him what he's up to, whether or not he's hungry. After the boy explained his situation, the man stood for a few seconds and said "Tell you what, do you want to earn some money? Here, I have this letter, bring it to [insert some street]. Even better, I'll give you half the money upfront.". The boy's face lit up, he gladly agreed to execute the task. "Just whatever you do, don't open the letter. I will know if you read what's inside of it." The address in the letter was just a few miles away.
In the middle of his journey, the boy was stopped by a policeman. The man took him into his office and asked a lot of questions. Who was the man that gave him the envelope, what's inside of it. Most of the questions the boy couldn't answer. From the face of the officer after the boy gave the description of the man he met it was clear that the officer had recognized the man. The boy saw a hint of relief in his face.
In the end, the officer didn't explain anything more to the boy, took the letter and let him go, telling him to stay away as far away from the man that he'd met as possible.

>>15474040
>See you in “/lit/‘s top 100 books of 2020”, you bitch.
uh hello, based department?

>>15474397
<cont>
It was only many years later, after the city had largely recovered, that the former boy mustered up the courage to talk to the officer about what had happened. The officer was happy to talk. He still had the latter and offered to show it. The letter read
"Dear Johannes,
Alas, this is the last supper I am able to bring you.
Regards,
Hans"

>>15474397
Creepypastas written by ESLs in 2011 are not folklore

>>15473986
Not him, its a great book if you hate calvinists, which should be everybody

>>15474731
It isn’t anti-Calvinist at all and moderate Calvinists like Blanchard are portrayed in the most pious light. Hogg was a staunch Calvinist himself and wrote a strongly pro-Covenanter novel before JS. It’s about extremism and bias in general and the inability to form a coherent worldview through fragmented narratives.