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As promised, thread: “Does it mean there will be no gifts this year?” by Jakub RozalskiThis painting depicts 3 little carolers stumbling upon Krampus killing Santa...I love this image...Because it
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Thread: Good few years ago, I was thinking about "what language is, how it works, how it is created, how it evolves and how it disappears"...The result: realization that "language
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Thread: Out to kill the wren. Kerry, Ireland, St Stephen's day... https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/12/wren-or-wran.html #FolkloreThursday Why would anyone want to kill a wren, the tinies bird you can find in Europe? The
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Thread (longish): Why was Orion seen by Ancient Greeks as a "the greatest hunter" armed with a cudgel (club)? And why do Bulgarians call Orion "cudgels (clubs)" and why do
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Thread: This is an example of a Neolithic shaft hammer axe...It is made of stone. A hole was drilled through it, and a shaft is fixed into it. Nothing special...Except
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Thread: When swearing oath really meant swearing: "And those who lie (break promise), may a dog f*ck their wives and their mothers"...From the letter written in 1432 by Alexander I
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#FolkloreThursday Thread: Serbian/Croatian proverb: "Who doesn't get smoked, doesn't get warm". The proverb simply states the fact that from the moment people started using fires inside roofed dwellings, the inside
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Thread: Face to face with the woman who died more than 1000 years ago – skull and jewelry from 9th century grave from the medieval necropolis discovered at Pećine archaeological
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#Halloween2020 Thread: Cockerel standing on top of the sun gate, on the border between the darkness and light, between the land of the dead (where sun spends night) and
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Thread: This mask currently held in the British museum depicts the grim face of Humbaba (Huwawa), legendary guardian of the Cedar Forest from Sumerian mythology. It is rendered in clay
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Thread: For all of you who are thinking that you are looking at a crude depiction of a Viking dragon head warship from the 8th c. AD...You are not. You
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Thread: When I was born my father planted an apple tree. At that time my family lived in a small village in the mountains of the south eastern Serbia, where
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