Tag: Folklore

  • Tales from Granny Squannit

    Tales from Granny Squannit

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    Joan Tavares Avant brings us Tales from Granny Squannit in the Mashpee Enterprise. Mrs. Frederick Gardner, Mashpee Wampanoag, shared the legend about the Screecham Sisters with author Elizabeth Reynard, who wrote it down around 1934. No one could not settle on Screecham’s Island, which lies off Cotuit near Mashpee, because the ghost of Hannah Screecham…

  • The Fox Wife

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    NPR introduces Yangsze Choo’s new book The Fox Wife on their Book of the Day series. The book “blossomed from that core idea behind the title, of a woman who also happens to be a fox. But beyond that, it’s a story about a mother avenging her child, about a murder investigation in early 20th…

  • Green Jello and Fry Sauce: Utah’s Food Folklore

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    What is “Utah food?” Many Utah natives grew up eating Jell-O, fry sauce, deep-fried scones, and “funeral” potatoes. BYU folklorist and English professor Eric Eliason is studying these food traditions and what they say about people and cultures. Utah festivals and fairs celebrate these traditions and offer authentic Utah foods all in one place, often…

  • The Sea Turtle and the Megapode

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    Alanna Gisonodo shares a story told to her by Joshua Eberdong, a sea turtle expert from Ollei, a small village located in the northern end of Ngarchelong state of Palau. The legend goes that a woman who lived in a small village near Ollei gave birth to a hawksbill sea turtle and a megapode. Every day, while…

  • Bloody Mary and La Llorona: Folklore of Miami’s Homeless Children

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    An article titled “Myths Over Miami” published, by Linda Edwards, in the June 1997 issue of the Miami New Times lay dormant for years until it was posted Tuesday in the “Today I Learned” section on Reddit.  It went viral immediatly. The article chronicles a folklore constructed by children living on the streets and in homeless shelters in Miami,…

  • Midcentury Map of American Folklore

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    This map, by social realist artist William Gropper, was created to showcase the diversity of national myths and folk stories and was distributed abroad through the U.S. Department of State starting in 1946. (You can see it up close by clicking on the image below to arrive at a zoomable version, or by navigating to…

  • Sephardic Folklore – the Spanish Romancero

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    Dr. Samuel Armistead, who passed away this year, considered his scholarly work on the Spanish Romancero to be his crowning achievement.  The Romancero is a tradition of stories and ballads handed down in Sephardic folklore.  Dr. Armistead’s website Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews provides a wealth of information on the oral literature of Sephardic Jews…

  • Writer sought to gather Dumfries and Galloway folklore

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    From BBC News, South Sotland: A writer is being sought to gather and retell folklore, myths, legends and tales about Dumfries and Galloway. The initiative is being organised by the Wigtown Book Festival with funding from Fresh Start for the Arts. It has been loosely inspired by John Mactaggart’s work of 1876, the Scottish Gallovidian…

  • Lake of Death With Folklore of Danger

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    Reposted from The New India Express By Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras I could not speak. I became unconscious. I could not open my mouth because then I smelled something terrible… I heard my daughter snoring in a terrible way, very abnormal… When crossing to my daughter’s bed… I collapsed and fell… I wanted to speak,…

  • The Dark Day

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    From the GazetteLive: It was a day that has gone down in Teesside folklore, indeed it has taken on legendary status, a day that would forever be remembered as The Dark Day. Today, July 2, marks the 45th anniversary of this event. So it is timely that we have a look back at what some…