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What are your favourite folk tales and legends? Also discuss editions and nice commentaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqP_yoszCE

>> No.18330789
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18330789

anything from this guy

>> No.18330798

what are some Russian folklore? I'm learning it rn, and folklore usually consist of short stories

>> No.18331485

>>18330798
Russian Magic Tales
And the Dual-Language Dover book.

"Maryushka was diligent and hard-working. The two elder daughters, for their part, said nothing.
And so Maryushka took the place of her mother. She knew how to do everything, and she did everything well. And if there was any task she couldn’t do, she was quick to get used to it – and in no time at all she would be doing this task well too. Her father watched; he was glad that his daughter was so clever, obedient and hard working. She was beautiful, too – and her kindness made her yet more beautiful. Her sisters were also beautiful, but they never thought they were beautiful enough, and they were always trying to add to their beauty with pink powders and white powders and all kinds of new outfits. Often they spent a whole day trying to make themselves prettier – but, come evening, they still looked the same as they had in the morning. They’d realize they’d wasted a whole day and got through whole pots of powders without becoming any the prettier and they would get crosser and crosser. As for Maryushka, she would be tired out – but then she knew that she’d fed the livestock and cleaned and tidied the hut, that she’d cooked the supper and kneaded the dough for tomorrow’s bread and that her father would be pleased with her. She would look at her sisters with kind eyes and not say a word. This made her sisters crosser still. They thought that Maryushka had not looked like this in the morning, that she had grown prettier during the day – only they couldn’t understand how."

>> No.18331521

>>18330779
Can anyone recommend me French folk tales? If it’s a book collection, even better.

>> No.18331524

>>18330789
What
s wrong with hid body?

>> No.18331594

>>18330779
I like the magnetic mountain story from the 1001 Nights.

>> No.18332995

I like Rusalka/Undine/Little Mermaid

>> No.18333012

I like how the Horror’s Call books from here are based a lot on legends. I’d like to see more modern books do that.

>> No.18333016

>>18330779
The story of the nun's car which was crushed by an elephant.

>> No.18334434

>>18330779
European (Greek, German, & Celtic) ones and Hedayat

>> No.18334503

>>18331524
hes mediterranean

>> No.18334543

Everything where the sea creature appears human and then discovers humans are bigger dicks than cephalopods

>> No.18336136

bump

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>> No.18336155

>>18331521
Perrault's tales are canonical.

>> No.18336158

>>18333012
Prove it, Gardner.

>> No.18336864

>>18330789
Is he okay?

>> No.18336894

>>18330779
CLaude Lecouteux writes excellent books on the origins of folk tales (mostly French, German and other European)

>> No.18336897

>>18330779
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malachite_Box
Read those

>> No.18337071

>>18336897
Thanks

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>>18330779
Here's one from 1490 that is overlooked. It was very popular back in history. Fortunatus tells the story of a man who finds a magic purse. He can pull an unlimited amount of gold out of the bag. The story follows multiple generations as the purse is handed from father to son and they must work to keep the secret.
They travel all through out Europe during the story.

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>> No.18339442

>>18336897
Is this in English at all?

>> No.18339451

>>18336155
Thanks, anon

>> No.18339527

>>18339442
check libgen
looks kinda commie tho
if we are at commies tho, check out Gorky's "Twenty-six Men and a Girl"

>> No.18340752

>>18339527
Thanks

>> No.18341412

>>18330779
Bluebeard if that counts as a folk tale.