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@DirkPuehl

Weird and wonderful tales from my Cabinet of Curiosities, the , with titbits of , and shuffled in between.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2014.

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    “Whoever wants to know something about me – as an artist which alone is significant – they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want." Ornate, groundbreaking, erotic, slightly scruffy icon Gustav Klimt d. 1918

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    An iceman found at a sideshow garnered interest from the Smithsonian and the FBI. Was it a lost species in the human evolutionary chain or an elaborate hoax with more twists and turns than could be imagined…

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    Nordic Tales is a nice little collection of Scandinavian folktales that includes retellings of The Forest Bride, Hildur - Queen of the Elves, Mighty Mikko, and others. Illustrated by Ulla Thynell and published by

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    Perhaps the first documented ghost story, in 2500 BCE, Mesopotamian edimmu, spirits with harmful intent, could only be exorcised by calling on the god Merodach in addition to winding black and white yarn around the possessed. Art: Ghosts on a Tree by F. Sedlacek

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    In Russian wonder tales, a far off place is often described as the thrice-ninth kingdom, unfathomably distant.

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    The Unquiet Grave has variants in song, poem and tale ( ) and concerns the return of a dead lover from the grave to converse with the living Image: The Old Church, Corstorphine by Hugh Ross Maclean © University of Edinburgh

    Drypoint etching of Corstorphine Parish Church. The church is the the centre, with headstones in various stages of disarray in the foreground
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    Storytelling was an important aspect of hospitality, or Xenia (guest-friendship), in Ancient Greek culture. In return for shelter and food, there was an expectation that guests would tell stories and tales after a meal. Art by Rubens.

    Painting of a scene of hospitality at a table with people chatting over bunches of grapes.
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    Sitting... like some lone tower Of former days remaining - yours truly leading a workshop with a shoal of trainees. And telling stories of elephants...

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    Der Erlkönig/'The Alder-King' is a German Romantic figure for the King of the Faeries adapted from Danish folklore. This malevolent figure lures children to the land of the dead and was the inspiration for Goethe's poem.

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    One of the most enduring in Europe is the deal with the devil. From farmers, to artists, to scholars, to bishops! Come and see the terror of failed debts, the cunning that outsmarted old Scratch, and more!

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    Ghost stories were popular tales in the & worlds. The writer told one about the battlefield of Marathon: that ghostly men & horses re-fought the battle each night, & would get angry at anyone who tried to watch them.

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    Welsh Bards were incredibly important within court, described as a part of the king’s household. In part a storyteller & entertainer as well as an oral historian & keeper of genealogies. Even when royal bardic tradition ended; there were still bards in Wales.

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    A nice narwhal for Thursday morning, in a letter from Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane, May 1736. Sloane MS 4054, f 227r.

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    37/366 Unheimliche Geschichten (1919). This anthology film included versions of Poe's 'The Black Cat' & Stevenson's 'The Suicide Club'. The 5 stories are told by Death, the Harlot & the Devil after they step out of paintings in an antiquarian shop.

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    Dunsany, you say? Oh my friend, his writing is beloved to me. One of my long poems I wrote last summer was partly inspired by my rereading of his brilliant The King of Elfland’s Daughter last February. If you get a chance, please do read it:

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    Alexander Afanasyev was a Russian folklorist who collected and published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk tales. His tales are often accompanied by illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.

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    Latterly infirm, Queen Anne–born 1665–used a one-horse chaise & drove it "furiously like Jehu & a mighty hunter like Nimrod".

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    1818 Coleridge writes "I have this morning been reading a strange publication - viz Poems with very wild interesting pictures." The book is by William Blake - it is Songs of Innocence and Experience

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    The enchanted Moura is a female creature in Portuguese folklore. Very beautiful and seductive, she lives under an imposed occult spell and promises to give treasures to whom sets her free.

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    "In the witch stories connected with salt is mentioned as a safeguard against every kind of sorcery. If you had bread and salt in your pocket, you would be safe against witchcraft." Folklore of Wales, 1909 Clip: Macbeth (Orson Welles)

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