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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄Of course, the nisse belongs to Christmas: "It is not too long ago that a woman in Fjone in Nissedal took out some butter porridge and beer for the nisses every Christmas Eve. She put it by a linden tree down in the field. In the morning the dish was empty and upturned. Her husband could not tolerate this ritual and asked his wife to stop it, but that did no good. So one Christmas Eve he took his axe and went down to fell the tree. But he had hewed no more than three strokes before the nisse came, grabbed him, and thoroughly beat him up."<a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/nisse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nisse</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NorwegianLegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorwegianLegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Christmas2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christmas2025</a>

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄And more, this excerpt implying the shapeshifting and sizeshifting ability of the wild hunt:"The Asgardsreie throws its saddles on the roof, there where a man has been murdered, or at least where the death of a man is imminent. A fight will break out, and murder will be committed in a drinking party, there where the host is discerned – there where it enters and sits on the shelf above the door. They sit quietly and peacefully for as long as nothing happens, but they laugh and rattle their iron bars as the fight begins, and as it ends in the death of a man."<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NorwegianLegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorwegianLegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WildHunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WildHunt</a>

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄<a href="https://beige.party/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScribesAndMakers</a> 2. April: What do you want to work on this month?I have just sent off Regine Normann’s legends for editing, so I assume that I shall be occupied correcting all the mistakes I have overlooked so far in my perusal of the texts.<a href="https://beige.party/tags/NorwegianLegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorwegianLegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RegineNormann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegineNormann</a>

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. The most comprehensive edition ever. The whole collection appears for the first time in English.Paperback editions, or .pdf files for less than half the price. Details here: <a href="https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianfolktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#norwegianfolktales</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianlegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#norwegianlegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklorethursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklorethursday</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folktales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/norwegianfolktales" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@norwegianfolktales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairytales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklorethursday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklorethursday</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄And now a claim that the idea of cats as witch familiars comes from America. Proof of this may be found in a mediaeval Swedish source that grants a hare the rôle.I wouldn't be too confounded, but for the fact that the person making the claim apparently has a PhD in philosophy, and thus may be expected to have some semblance of grounding in formal logic.<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Witches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Witches</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NorwegianLegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorwegianLegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklore</a>

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄And now, from a different source, a sensualisation of the female hulder (something that tells us more about the interpreter than about the old stories).Please stop.Hulder girls sometimes fell in love with Christian men. Sometimes it appears that they hoped for salvation through ecclesiastical (marriage) rites. If there are any stories of seductive hulder girls, I haven't read them yet (and I've read widely).<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Hulderfolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hulderfolk</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NorwegianLegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorwegianLegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklore</a>

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄I have uploaded .pdf copies of both editions of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe to ko-fi, where they are now available for purchase at less-than-half the cost of the Amazon paperback books.Details and links on my Website here:<a href="https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe</a>I think you should choose the annotated edition; here’s what you get:1. Three chunky volumes (815 pages, 617 pages, and 665 pages).2. Original prefaces from eight editions.3. Jørgen Moe’s substantial introduction to the folktales, in which he discusses the origins of folk narratives, and how the Norwegian material exemplifies his ideas.4. All 122 folktales Asbjørnsen & Moe published during their careers.5. 28 hulder tales and folk legends, a genre Asbjørnsen defined, in which he embeds the legends of the hidden folk.6. Approximately 350 illustrations by some of the most accomplished artists Norway has known, including Hans Gude, Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen.7. Asbjørnsen & Moe’s notes on the folktales, which detail the variant(s) the collectors used to compose each folktale, sketch out other variants they collected, and compare the Norwegian folktales with similar traditions from other regions.8. Newly-researched editor’s notes, which identify the collector responsible for the composition of each text, give collection data, including tale type, geographical origin, collector, informant, and date of collection, sketch biographical details of informants, where known, give previous publication and translation details, trace historical and literary sources, and draw attention to points of particular interest.9. Editor’s prefaces to each volume, which trace the publication history of the original volumes represented, as well as previous translations.10. Comprehensive – perhaps even exhaustive – bibliographies to each volume.<a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianfolktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#norwegianfolktales</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianlegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#norwegianlegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklorethursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklorethursday</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folktales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/norwegianfolktales" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@norwegianfolktales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairytales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklorethursday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklorethursday</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄Lots of things you've always wondered about <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Norwegian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Norwegian</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/troll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#troll</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a> (<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Kittelsen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kittelsen</a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Werenskiold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Werenskiold</a>, etc.) A video by Kim Diaz Holm, who draws a pretty mean troll himself.<a href="https://youtu.be/7yvUdUX2mlQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/7yvUdUX2mlQ</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianfolktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#norwegianfolktales</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianlegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#norwegianlegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklorethursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklorethursday</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folktales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/norwegianfolktales" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@norwegianfolktales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairytales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklorethursday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklorethursday</a>

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄Here's a children's tale that would rob any child of a good night's sleep: "Our Lord's and the Devil's Animals." It's about goats. (Download in .pdf format.)<a href="https://norwegianfolktales.net/folklore/our-lords-and-the-devils-animals" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://norwegianfolktales.net/folklore/our-lords-and-the-devils-animals</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianfolktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#norwegianfolktales</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianlegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#norwegianlegends</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklorethursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklorethursday</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folktales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/norwegianfolktales" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@norwegianfolktales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairytales</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklorethursday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklorethursday</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

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