Ring the bells and open the gates! It’s the Games From Folktales August 2018 transcripts!
Sorry about the lack of art assets this month – my time was spent on Episode 150.
Dunsany: Taking up Picadilly
A short Dunsany episode, but one of my favourite stories from him. Thanks to Thomas Copeland for reading this into the public domain through Librivox. Taking up Picadilly Going down Picadilly one day and nearing Grosvenor Place I saw, if my memory is not at fault, some workmen with their coats off—or so they seemed.…
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The Ring of Gyges
In the Republic, there’s a thought experiment that a faerie or demon might make real in Mythic Europe. A shepherd named Gyges finds the grave of a king, after an earth tremor, and removes a ring from it. When he places the ring upon his finger and twists it, he becomes invisible. He uses this…
Read MoreGames From Folktales Episode 150: Cornwall
Thank you to everyone who has supported Games From Folktales for 150 episodes! Here’s a little gift: the first edition of the Cornwall gazetteer I’ve been promising. Click to access cornwall-edition-1.pdf I call it the first edition, because at some point I hope to extend the section on saga seeds, and have a map professionally…
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Mujina by Lafcadio Hearn
This folktale by Lafcardio Hearn was used to create the minions of an enemy published in “Antagonists”. Mujina, by Lafcardio Hearn. On the Akasaka Road, in Tokyo, there is a slope called Kii-no-kuni-zaka,—which means the Slope of the Province of Kii. I do not know why it is called the Slope of the Province of…
Read MoreTintagel Castle
A reconstruction of the medieval Tintagel Castle is on English Heritage’s web page.
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Cornwall: Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Volume 1
Bottrell was one of the researchers that Robert Hunt used to flesh out his book, so his material has been already fossicked over, at one remove. Bottrell uses a lot more of the local dialect, and his colour text is better than Hunt’s. For example, all the descendants of Jack the Giant are shaggy because…
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Walking under Wittgenstein’s ladder
This week I’ve been thinking about Hermetic applications of Wittgenstein’s ladder, but to get there, I need to take three steps back. I hit upon the idea in Terry Pratchett’s books, where it’s called lie-to-children, which is taken from Cohen and Stuart. An example I can think of is when Neil Gaiman wrote a Doctor…
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Dunsany: a moral little tale
A quick Lord Dunsany story. The Puritanical Devil is a sort of inverse of the Merry Devil which I wrote up for Realms of Power : Infernal (p.73). It is likely hated not only by the angels, but a lot of faeries as well. A Moral Little Tale There was once an earnest Puritan who…
Read MoreGames From Folktales July 2018
Sound the bells and lock the gates! It’s the July 2018 Games From Folktales pdf!
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