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Then I am sorry for your endless, and pointless, salute.I think I might have accidentally payed tribute to the god of penises.
Then I am sorry for your endless, and pointless, salute.I think I might have accidentally payed tribute to the god of penises.
Priapus?I think I might have accidentally payed tribute to the god of penises.
Not like the Galli I hope...I think I might have accidentally payed tribute to the god of penises.
St. Priapus.Priapus?
They're not reported as often these days but a notable exception is Lotan Baba, Indian "rolling saint" who claims to have clocked up around 30,000 km by rolling around the world. Where others walk or cycle this is (literally) how he rolls! He rolled around London in 1994Back in the 70s/80s there always seemed to be a report on a (usually) Indian chap who had either
a) stood on one leg for 50 years
b) could climb barefoot up a ladder made of swords
c) could give out electric shocks from his body
d) had held his arm up in the air for years, and
d) claimed to have not slept for years.
Don't worry. It's a very small salute.Then I am sorry for your endless, and pointless, salute.
Brilliant!They're not reported as often these days but a notable exception is Lotan Baba, Indian "rolling saint" who claims to have clocked up around 30,000 km by rolling around the world. Where others walk or cycle this is (literally) how he rolls! He rolled around London in 1994
I agree. My days of rolling, cartwheeling and somersaulting are long gone.Brilliant!
I'd manage about two rolls before I threw up, I reckon.
Not if they were bacon rolls...Brilliant!
I'd manage about two rolls before I threw up, I reckon.
I went to a Folklore Society meeting in I guess 2019 where an American speaker was talking about the cry of the Banshee being alive and well in certain areas of the States.Tatzlwyrm, or other cryptids? Of course if real they may have become extinct. There are a few others Waitoreke, Nandi Bear, Unicorns.
Are Banshees still a thing or still heard?
A local pub (Edinburgh) has one. The last tiem I walked past the pub it looked suspisciously permanently closed.Oooh, one doesn't hear of 'screaming skulls' kept in cupboards or similar so much now - probably the 1970s was the last wave of documented spookydom around human head-bones.
Tschhhh! It's all 'Slenderman this' and 'Shadowpeople that' nowadays....
That just made me think of the On a Storyteller's Night track by Magnum, a song I haven't thought about in decades. You are probably right, now our narratives come via TV series and films, novels etc. Back in less literate, pre-electricity times, the local stories would have held people in spellbound horror with the dark pressing insistently at the windows...I wonder if some of these good old spine-tinglers; the screaming skull, the phantom coach, the headless horseman, were most popular in times before TV and social media. Great stories - anything with a bit of background that could be built up into a proper tale for telling around the fireside on dark winter evenings when there was no other entertainment. Tales with a proper narrative.
Nowadays all the ghosts and scary stories are either derived from TV or social media (like Slenderman) or seem very 'thin'. A 'something' seen on a dark lane, a 'presence' in a house or a poltergeist throwing things - nothing that can be given a narrative, nothing more than anecdotes. Perhaps we no longer need the long, drawn-out tale of 'what happened to Old Mr Watson who lived across the green', told with anticipatory relish and much rolling of eyes and dramatic voices.
And they had to be stories, that's the thing. That's what I think is missing now. The story of the screaming skull, whose it was, why it was detached and the 'last words' that had it hidden in a cupboard... the tale of the dissipated Earl for whom the phantom coach comes at midnight on the same day every year and to see it means death...That just made me think of the On a Storyteller's Night track by Magnum, a song I haven't thought about in decades. You are probably right, now our narratives come via TV series and films, novels etc. Back in less literate, pre-electricity times, the local stories would have held people in spellbound horror with the dark pressing insistently at the windows...
Interesting; I wonder whether it has become conflated with La Llorona in Hispanic areas. The legend is different though although I believe hearing either is not a good sign.I went to a Folklore Society meeting in I guess 2019 where an American speaker was talking about the cry of the Banshee being alive and well in certain areas of the States.
Or maybe it's an Irish-American desire to still feel close to their roots.Interesting; I wonder whether it has become conflated with La Llorona in Hispanic areas. The legend is different though although I believe hearing either is not a good sign.