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Podcasters and Storytellers dedicated to sharing fairy tales, myths, legends, folktales from all around the world! Tune in for folklore! Show notes and research on our website: www.talesfromtheenchantedforest.com
Empty bookcases
A bookcase being assembled
Last night we started the massive operation of moving our reference library and document archives into our new premises, ready for public opening.
Our fundraiser for this task is really vital to our success. We are just Β£50 away from hitting four figures. Can you help?
bit.ly/flafundraising
It's in the same vein as Aisha Aseed's "Bilal Cooks Daal" and Toba Adina-Jao's "Me, Mommy, Mantu." Food is folklore and heritage and history. It is a way to connect not just through your own country but through entire continents.
Just like Cinderella, every country has their own dumpling or daal.
We were recently given an ARC of "Curry Means More by Maria Marianayagam, illustrated by Geeta Ladi" and I am in love. As someone who has unfortunately heard "you smell like curry," I love picture books that showcase the smells of food as love and comfort instead of something shameful.
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The movie's story artist, Radford Sechrist notes that the tiger is a symbol of warding off evil while the magpie means good news. However, through Minhwa, the duo soon became satirical and that is where they got the inspiration behind the "derpy" idiot tiger. #FolkloreSunday
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Fictional Folklore: Did you know that Jinu's Tiger and Magpie pet duo from Kpop Demon Hunters are based off of the Korean folk art style of Minhwa? The art style which wasn't referred to as such until much later, was considered the art of the people. #FolkloreSunday
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Syou Ishida crafts each short story with characters that have to deal with their inner turmoil - all with some feline assistance. That's because the wacky doctor at Kokoro Clinic for the Soul in Kyoto won't solve your problems with medicine but with a cat!
The translated sequel is out Sep 2025!
Cover of "The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen" by Yata Takahashi features a woman standing inside the restaurant staring out at Tokyo Bay while a kitten lays curled up on the window sill.
Welcome to the Chinineko Kitchen where a remembrance meal can give you one last chance to speak to some one who has passed away. Yuta Takahashi makes us feel the grief and anguish of each character in the time it takes for their meal to get cold.
Book two's translated version releasing 2026!
Cover of "The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen" by Yuta Takahashi. A woman is looking out a large window to the sea while a cat lays curled up on the window sill.
Cover of "We'll prescribe you a cat" by Syou Ishida. Artwork features 5 drawn cats tumbling out of an orange prescription bottle.
Cover of "The Goodbye Cat" by Hiro Arikawa. Artwork features a calico cat curled up on a pile of books and looking directly at the reader.
It's Caturday and which means sharing some of our favourite cat-related books that you can read in a day (or over the weekend)!
These stories take you through the lives of different characters as they deal with loss, anger, sorrow, love and regret with elements of magical realism to them!
Now a woman, Ungnyeo prayed for a child and Hwanung himself took on a mortal form to answer her prayer. From their union came Dangun, the founder of the first Korean Kingdom.
Webtoon image adapted from the novel by Angela and p.P shows Dok-go whose appearance reminded other characters of a bear.
"Ungnyeo" is the story of a bear and tiger who begged the divine king Hwanung to turn them into humans. Hwanung gave them 20 cloves of garlic and ssuk (mugwort) with instructions to stay in a cave for 100 days. After 20 days the Tiger gave up, but the Bear remained and was rewarded!
π¨ Shim Soo-keun
Fiction Folklore: The Second Chance Convenience Store by Kim Ho-Yeon
"In ancient Korean mythology, there is a story about a bear that became human after eating only garlic and mugwort for a hundred days in a cave."
Some of our research for those who want to know more:
Pan, Maja. "Introduction to the Analysis of Gender in the ATU 514 Fairy Tale Type on Examples from the Balkans."
Ready, Psyche Z. "She was Really the Man she Pretended to be: Change of Sex in Folk Narrative,"
FOLK NARRATIVES
While some tales have a curse like this to make the relationship "acceptable," in others it feels like the disguised Princess is truly becoming who they want to be. Our tale in tomorrows episode is one such story from Petre Ispirescu's "The Princess Who Would be a Prince."
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It's PRIDE MONTH, so we have delved deep into the folklore index to find you a tale in ATU514, "The Shift of Sex." Now, these stories are often of a disguised-Princess saving the Princess, marrying her and later being "cursed" into becoming a man....
π H.J Ford from the Violet Fairy Book
Unfortunately various pieces are sold out on her website, but keep your eyes peeled for updates! I am obsessed with the gorgeous postcard book and tapestry!
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As summer comes into full blast here in the mountains, we find ourselves surrounded by every shade of green imaginable.
No artist captures the feeling of lush greenery as ethereally as Mulgil Kim's (@sooroway) exhibit "Echoes of Evergreen" or her "Art Roads" project!
βThe natural world is fading. The evidence is all around. It has happened during my lifetime. I have seen it with my own eyes. It will lead to our destruction.β
Happy Birthday, David Attenboroughπ #nature #Biodiversity
Unfortunately, while hunting a wild boar, Adonis was impaled and despite Aphrodite's attempts to cure him with nectar, he died. Her tears and Adonis' blood created the anemone flower.
Was the boar Ares in disguise? Or a plot from Persephone to get Adonis back? #FolkloreThursday
π¨ J.W. Waterhouse
Unfortunately, when Aphrodite went back to claim Adonis, Persephone refused and Zeus had to intervene. He gave them each a third of Adonis' time, with the final third being Adonis' to choose. He chose Aphrodite and spent his time with the goddess and hunting.
π¨ FranΓ§ois Lemoyne
She ran away and was in exile before begging the Gods for help. They turned her into the Myrrh tree and nine months later, a beautiful baby burst forth. This would be Adonis, the handsome mortal who was found by Aphrodite and given to Persephone to raise.
π¨ Gustave Dore- Myrrha in Dante's inferno.
Some metamorphosis for #folklorethursday (π§΅)
Myrrha was cursed by Aphrodite (or the furies) to desire her own father, so she tricked him into laying with her in complete darkness. One night, he grew curious and when he discovered his own daughter, he went to slay her.
π¨Franceschini
All this to say, we will see you next week with an episode on the most beautiful woman on the three isles AND the most beautiful woman ever AND the most beautiful woman made of flowers....
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We tried really hard to get the episode out today but unfortunately the script was hit by a spear that took a year to forge (& only worked on during the Sunday sacrifice) while it was perched between the edge of a bathtub and the back of a buck- all located on a riverbank.
π¨ Dreoilin
I've been asked by @britishacademy.bsky.social to chair a panel in London as part of their FOLKLORE REIMAGINED series of events.
I'll be hosting Lore of the Land: stories of wetlands, woods and weather on May 29th at 6pm.
It's free and you can book at:
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lore-...
One of my favourite Maibaum heists was in 2004 by a group of senior citizens with the help of a helicopter to steal the Maypole atop the Zugspitze- shockingly this was their second heist since they did the same thing in 1996! Negotiations were over season tickets
News: www.dw.com/en/a-maypole...
The Maypole has gone up in our town and instead of dancing around it, now is the time to defend it from neighbouring towns! Once the Maibaum is stolen, it can be returned after heated negotiations for hearty amounts of beer.
What May traditions are you guys celebrating?
Art by Ella Casella
Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road.
Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.
Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).
The Cat With The Pearl Earring.
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
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We've covered the Korean version of this tale on the podcast so be sure to check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBtG...
...of the four great Chinese Folktales. Despite their forced separation on opposite sides of the milky way, once a year magpies form a bridge between the lovers so they can be together.
In the Netflix scene, the Korea strait separates Gwan-sik and Ae-sun physically as they long for each other.
In Netflix's "When Life Gives You Tangerines," episode 3, the Haenyeos taunt Gwan-sik's mother and grandmother by mentioning how even the heavens couldn't separate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl because they still had to let them meet on the seventh day of the seventh month. This folktale is one...
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