[fairytales]

Folklore, fairytales and times of old.

The greedy husband didn’t care his wife’s health was deteriorating.

ugly773:

He wanted her to keep up with the demand of that fine clothes she made. And thanks to that, got them from rags to riches. He walked towards the room where his wife told him many years ago to never enter. At least while she worked. He opened the door, and to his surprise he saw a beautiful crane plucking her feathers and sowing. The crane saw him with teary eyes. Then she flew away, to never come back..

        from the Japanese folk tale, “The Crane Wife”

(via linnaly)

scarytale: In Russian tales, Baba Yaga is portrayed as a hag who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder and sweeping away the tracks behind her with a broom made of silver birch. She lives in a log cabin that either moves around on a pair of dancing chicken legs, is surrounded by a palisade with a skull on each pole, or both. The keyhole to her front door is a mouth filled with sharp teeth; the fence outside is made with human bones with skulls on top.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga

scarytale:

In Russian tales, Baba Yaga is portrayed as a hag who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder and sweeping away the tracks behind her with a broom made of silver birch. She lives in a log cabin that either moves around on a pair of dancing chicken legs, is surrounded by a palisade with a skull on each pole, or both. The keyhole to her front door is a mouth filled with sharp teeth; the fence outside is made with human bones with skulls on top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga

Finnish Folk Magic

rachlizlucas:

   My Finnish friend sent me a link to this new publishing website and blog paganarchive.com based in Helsinki, Finland. I’m fascinated by folklore and traditional charms and spells, so I’m very tempted by their first publishing project The Magic Songs of the Finns:

“Since the time immemorial the Finns have used incantations, or Magic Songs… The 639 spells and charms contained in this book were collected in the 19th century from the rural areas of Finland and Karelia, shortly after which this old esoteric tradition became extinct.”


** click on the picture for a link to their site.

I got this book for Christmas from my friend and it’s SO worth buying. The text is in old letters and there are very beautiful wood carving illustrations. I love it. <3