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what childhood folk tale
Posted by Antiphates
Probably doesn't count as child folk tale but Mordeds story, because it was extremely relatable for me at that age.
After that it was Lucifer, the morningstar, from christian mythology once I encountered Christianity to a sufficent degree to understand it somewhat.
Edit: Aqua sun, Cap Mercury
claiming perceived birthrights
sounds like a perfect combo of aqua/cap yeah
mine is virgo/virgo (first house) so hermit vibe
Posted by Bklatt
I always thought Johnny Appleseed was badass
Frontier hippie and adventurer planting trees and loved by everyone
Aqua sun, Cap merc
oooh i liked that too
just a guy minding his own business, very wholesome
Posted by Arielle83
The tinder box by Hans Christian Andersen
Cancer/Leo
The imagery always fucked me up.
Basically easy money goes fast.
Who you are today can change tomorrow
A powerful man is entitled to invade the space of a subconscious woman if he wants her.
He can go to jail for it but his term won’t be long and then he can seek out his princess and coerce her to marry him.
that's messed up
i feel like looking up this story right now
Hansel and Gretel
Don’t eat too much sweet stuff or the not so sweet witch will get you
Sun and Mercury Scorpio 7th and 8th
Don’t eat too much sweet stuff or the not so sweet witch will get you
Sun and Mercury Scorpio 7th and 8th
i was always drawn to the snow queen for some reason. and swan lake. and some aesop fables.
Rapunzel
Never get the hair cut, there’s strength in it
(Think Samson)
Never get the hair cut, there’s strength in it
(Think Samson)
Posted by MaraiPosted by MyStarsShine
Hansel and Gretel
Don’t eat too much sweet stuff or the not so sweet witch will get you
Sun and Mercury Scorpio 7th and 8th
Oh yes this one too!
Same as Little Red Riding Hood.click to expand
*Oh what big teeth you have*
*All the better to eat you with*
😱
"The Human Foolishness - by Ion Creanga"
Once upon a time, when it was, because, if it hadn’t been, we’d have no story to tell. It’s been said that once there was a married man, and this man lived together with his mother-in-law. His wife, who had a suckling child, was rather dumb; even the mother-in-law was no smarty.
One day, our man leaves the house to go about his business, like every man does. His wife bathed the baby, swaddled and nursed him, then she put him in bed next to the stove, because it was winter, and then swung it and sang a lullaby, until he fell asleep. After he fell asleep, she sat there thinking, then began to wail as loud as her mouth allowed: "Aulio! My baby, my baby!"
Her mother, who spun behind the chimney, startled, threw away her tools and, jumping up selflessly, asked with dread:
- What is it, mother’s dearest, what’s with you?
- Mother, Mother! My child will die!
- When and how?
- Here's how. See the salt block on the chimney?
- I see it. So?
- If the cat climbs up there, it will throw it straight to my baby's head and kill him!
- Woe to me, right you are, my girl; the little one’s days are numbered!
And, looking ahead to block of salt on the chimney and with their hands clenched, as if someone had tied them, they began to wail both, like crazy, as if the house was boiling. While they were in the midst of self-disfigurement, the man of the house entered the door, hungry and worried.
- What is it? What startled you, witches?
Catching their breath, they began to wipe off their tears and tell him while mourning about the happening that had yet to happen. The man, after listening to them, said with wonder:
- Aye! (that's a medieval YO!) I saw many fools in my life, but never like you two. I’'ll go roam the land! And if I find anyone dumber than you, I’ll be coming home, but if not, I won’t.
So saying, he sighed heavily, leaving the house without saying goodbye, and left angry and bitter!
And he walking batty without knowing where to, after some time, stopping in one place, it happened to see something that he had never seen before: a man was holding a bushel with its mouth to the desert sun for a short while then quickly grabbed it and ran back with it in his shack, and then he’d come back out, and put its mouth to the sun, and so on...
Our traveler, puzzled, said:
- Hello, good man!
- Thank you, friend!
- But what are you doing here?
- Well, I’ve been toiling for the past two or three days to carry some sun into my shack, to have light, but to no avail...
- What a drudge, aye! said the traveler. Have an axe handy?
- Yes I do.
- Grab it by the tail, break here and the sun will go inside by itself.
Once he did so, and sunlight got into the shack.
- A great wonder, good man, said the host. Had God not brought you here, I was to grow old carrying the sun with my bushel.
"Another goof," said the traveler to himself and left.
And on he went. After a while he reached a village, and, by chance, stopped at the house of a man. The man of the house was a wheelwright, and had assembled a carriage in the house, in its entirety; and now wished to take it out, so he pulled the hitch with all his might but the wagon would not come out. You know why? The doors were narrower than the cart. The man wanted to demolish the walls to take it out.
Luckily however, the traveler taught him to take the cart apart, take the parts outside one by one and then put it back together again.
- Much obliged, good man, said the host, you taught me well! Just think about it! I was about to demolish this good old house for the cart’s sake ...
From here on our traveler, counting yet another dimwit, went straight ahead, until he again reached a house. There, what do you see?! A man with a big fork in one hand, was trying to throw some nuts into the attic.
"More and more idiots," said the traveler itself.
- But why are you so troubled, good man?
- Well, I want to throw some nuts in the attic, and this damned big fork, cursed be its name, not is no good ...
- You toil pointlessly, uncle! You can curse it all you want, the fork won’t work. Have a bushel?
- How could I not have it?
- Put the nuts in the bushel, take it on the shoulder and climb up to the attic; the big fork is for straw, not for nuts.
The man listened, and work was soon over. Traveler did not linger there any more, but left, counting one more idiot.
Then, from there he went on, until he had to see yet another silly deed. A man had tied a cow with a rope around the neck and, having climbed up to a barn where he had thrown some hay, was pulling the rope hard to get cow up on the barn. The cow was in pain, and he was getting tired ...
- My man! said the traveler in stupor, but what are you trying to do?
- What am I doing, you ask me? But can’t you see?
- I do see, I just do not understand.
- Look, this cow is very hungry but would rather die than come up here on this barn to get some hay ...
- Hold on, Christian, you’re hanging the cow! Take the hay down to the cow!
- But won’t it get wasted? ...
- Do not be sparing of bran and cheap on the flour.
The man listened and the cow escaped death.
- Well you taught me, good man! For this little hay I was about to strangle my cow!
So, our traveler, wondering and this is great folly, said to himself, "the cat could have possibly pushed the salt block off the chimney, but carry the sun in the house with a bushel, throw walnuts to the attic with a big fork and drag the cow up to the barn by rope, NEVER! "
So the traveler returned home and partied with his own, whom he considered more enlightened than those who saw in his journey.
--------------------------------
Sun in Gemini + Mercury in Taurus 😏
Once upon a time, when it was, because, if it hadn’t been, we’d have no story to tell. It’s been said that once there was a married man, and this man lived together with his mother-in-law. His wife, who had a suckling child, was rather dumb; even the mother-in-law was no smarty.
One day, our man leaves the house to go about his business, like every man does. His wife bathed the baby, swaddled and nursed him, then she put him in bed next to the stove, because it was winter, and then swung it and sang a lullaby, until he fell asleep. After he fell asleep, she sat there thinking, then began to wail as loud as her mouth allowed: "Aulio! My baby, my baby!"
Her mother, who spun behind the chimney, startled, threw away her tools and, jumping up selflessly, asked with dread:
- What is it, mother’s dearest, what’s with you?
- Mother, Mother! My child will die!
- When and how?
- Here's how. See the salt block on the chimney?
- I see it. So?
- If the cat climbs up there, it will throw it straight to my baby's head and kill him!
- Woe to me, right you are, my girl; the little one’s days are numbered!
And, looking ahead to block of salt on the chimney and with their hands clenched, as if someone had tied them, they began to wail both, like crazy, as if the house was boiling. While they were in the midst of self-disfigurement, the man of the house entered the door, hungry and worried.
- What is it? What startled you, witches?
Catching their breath, they began to wipe off their tears and tell him while mourning about the happening that had yet to happen. The man, after listening to them, said with wonder:
- Aye! (that's a medieval YO!) I saw many fools in my life, but never like you two. I’'ll go roam the land! And if I find anyone dumber than you, I’ll be coming home, but if not, I won’t.
So saying, he sighed heavily, leaving the house without saying goodbye, and left angry and bitter!
And he walking batty without knowing where to, after some time, stopping in one place, it happened to see something that he had never seen before: a man was holding a bushel with its mouth to the desert sun for a short while then quickly grabbed it and ran back with it in his shack, and then he’d come back out, and put its mouth to the sun, and so on...
Our traveler, puzzled, said:
- Hello, good man!
- Thank you, friend!
- But what are you doing here?
- Well, I’ve been toiling for the past two or three days to carry some sun into my shack, to have light, but to no avail...
- What a drudge, aye! said the traveler. Have an axe handy?
- Yes I do.
- Grab it by the tail, break here and the sun will go inside by itself.
Once he did so, and sunlight got into the shack.
- A great wonder, good man, said the host. Had God not brought you here, I was to grow old carrying the sun with my bushel.
"Another goof," said the traveler to himself and left.
And on he went. After a while he reached a village, and, by chance, stopped at the house of a man. The man of the house was a wheelwright, and had assembled a carriage in the house, in its entirety; and now wished to take it out, so he pulled the hitch with all his might but the wagon would not come out. You know why? The doors were narrower than the cart. The man wanted to demolish the walls to take it out.
Luckily however, the traveler taught him to take the cart apart, take the parts outside one by one and then put it back together again.
- Much obliged, good man, said the host, you taught me well! Just think about it! I was about to demolish this good old house for the cart’s sake ...
From here on our traveler, counting yet another dimwit, went straight ahead, until he again reached a house. There, what do you see?! A man with a big fork in one hand, was trying to throw some nuts into the attic.
"More and more idiots," said the traveler itself.
- But why are you so troubled, good man?
- Well, I want to throw some nuts in the attic, and this damned big fork, cursed be its name, not is no good ...
- You toil pointlessly, uncle! You can curse it all you want, the fork won’t work. Have a bushel?
- How could I not have it?
- Put the nuts in the bushel, take it on the shoulder and climb up to the attic; the big fork is for straw, not for nuts.
The man listened, and work was soon over. Traveler did not linger there any more, but left, counting one more idiot.
Then, from there he went on, until he had to see yet another silly deed. A man had tied a cow with a rope around the neck and, having climbed up to a barn where he had thrown some hay, was pulling the rope hard to get cow up on the barn. The cow was in pain, and he was getting tired ...
- My man! said the traveler in stupor, but what are you trying to do?
- What am I doing, you ask me? But can’t you see?
- I do see, I just do not understand.
- Look, this cow is very hungry but would rather die than come up here on this barn to get some hay ...
- Hold on, Christian, you’re hanging the cow! Take the hay down to the cow!
- But won’t it get wasted? ...
- Do not be sparing of bran and cheap on the flour.
The man listened and the cow escaped death.
- Well you taught me, good man! For this little hay I was about to strangle my cow!
So, our traveler, wondering and this is great folly, said to himself, "the cat could have possibly pushed the salt block off the chimney, but carry the sun in the house with a bushel, throw walnuts to the attic with a big fork and drag the cow up to the barn by rope, NEVER! "
So the traveler returned home and partied with his own, whom he considered more enlightened than those who saw in his journey.
--------------------------------
Sun in Gemini + Mercury in Taurus 😏
After thinking about it...
Hansel and Gretel
Ive seen so many diff versions of this story and they are always so twisted and dark. Ive looked at both perspectives of the characters and both of them are just crazy... neither one of them are right or wrong. Makes you think.
Hansel and Gretel
Ive seen so many diff versions of this story and they are always so twisted and dark. Ive looked at both perspectives of the characters and both of them are just crazy... neither one of them are right or wrong. Makes you think.
i've been writing a short story inspired by this. it's about a cursed lake in a small town that takes lots of people's lives in very strange ways. but the lake actually calls to people who have lost perspective/control of their lives. the water swallows them up and in this sense, they become the new 'master of the lake.' the drowned spirits are duty-bound to protect the lake and find a new 'master' each time.
Posted by virgoOPPP
is the most memorable for you?
(and may have even shaped your present views)
that maybe every now and then you still think about it?
pls state your sun and mercury
mine was called 'master of the lake.' about this guy who was so poor that all his parents left him was some rope. then he casually goes over to this green giant man of the lake and tells him: "i'm gonna hang your lake from the clouds with this rope." then the giant got scared and was like: "no boy, i'll give you anything you want. just don't touch my lake!" and boy was like: "hmmkay i want your finest horse." but the giant was like nooo so the boy tricks him with 3 more BS challenges that exhausted him so it all ends with the boy getting the horse.
anyway, similar stories to this would be 'wicked john' and this hungarian one:
(in these versions when he dies, he can't go to heaven nor hell)
i really liked stories about slaying giants when i was a kid
i feel like this story shows how on the path to your goals, you might alienate a whole lot of people- friends or otherwise.
(then i grew up and pretty much did the same to people at work lol and sometimes family)
"Wicked John and the Devil" - reminds me of a similar story written by Ion Creanga (same author who wrote The Human Foolishness). As in... "Ivan Turbinca - The Man who Belonged in Neither Heaven nor Hell". I've heard both stories (: even saw a school play - with Wicked John - back when i was around 12 years old), tho i find the latter more interesting (it's also a bit more comprehensive). I had it on a filmstrip... and back when i was around 6 years old - my parents used to project some images from the story on the ceiling - while telling me the story. As in...
If you liked Wicked John and the Devil - you might enjoy this one as well. Couldn't find a YouTube video with the English version - but i found a site with Ivan Turbinca translated in English, a site that also goes into details - explaining the meaning behind some words - which a foreigner could find confusing:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ivan-turbinca-man-who-belonged-neither-heaven-nor-hell-004801
This calming audio tapes I had to sleep with. Sag Sun, Cap Merc
Frosty the snowman
Charlie brown
The Grinch that stole Christmas
True story. I cried when frosty the snowman melted from the heat.
Edit. Or was it how the Grinch stole Christmas? 🤔
Charlie brown
The Grinch that stole Christmas
True story. I cried when frosty the snowman melted from the heat.
Edit. Or was it how the Grinch stole Christmas? 🤔
Little Red Hen
of course there were also the stories my mother told us to scare us to death and manipulate us into compliance - i won't sicken you with those
of course there were also the stories my mother told us to scare us to death and manipulate us into compliance - i won't sicken you with those
The Pied Piper
The Emperor's New Clothes
Patient Sun + Observant Merc
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(and may have even shaped your present views)
that maybe every now and then you still think about it?
pls state your sun and mercury
mine was called 'master of the lake.' about this guy who was so poor that all his parents left him was some rope. then he casually goes over to this green giant man of the lake and tells him: "i'm gonna hang your lake from the clouds with this rope." then the giant got scared and was like: "no boy, i'll give you anything you want. just don't touch my lake!" and boy was like: "hmmkay i want your finest horse." but the giant was like nooo so the boy tricks him with 3 more BS challenges that exhausted him so it all ends with the boy getting the horse.
anyway, similar stories to this would be 'wicked john' and this hungarian one:
(in these versions when he dies, he can't go to heaven nor hell)
i really liked stories about slaying giants when i was a kid
i feel like this story shows how on the path to your goals, you might alienate a whole lot of people- friends or otherwise.
(then i grew up and pretty much did the same to people at work lol and sometimes family)