Would anyone like to speak about folktales, occultism, etc.?

The main frame story concerns Shahryār, whom the narrator calls a "Sasanian king" ruling in "India and China".[6] He is shocked to learn that his brother's wife is unfaithful; discovering that his own wife's infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her killed. In his bitterness and grief, he decides that all women are the same. Shahryār begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning, before she has a chance to dishonour him. Eventually the vizier, whose duty it is to provide them, cannot find any more virgins. Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. The king, curious about how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion of this tale, postpones her execution once again. So it goes on for 1,001 nights.

The tales vary widely: they include historical tales, love stories, tragedies, comedies, poems, burlesques, and various forms of erotica. Numerous stories depict jinns, ghouls, apes,[7] sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally. Common protagonists include the historical Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, his Grand Vizier, Jafar al-Barmaki, and the famous poet Abu Nuwas, despite the fact that these figures lived some 200 years after the fall of the Sassanid Empire, in which the frame tale of Scheherazade is set. Sometimes a character in Scheherazade's tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture.

>>3230578
Arabian nights, correct? Awesome stories!

There is a a tale I Vienna about a being called "Basilisk". A rooster laid an egg, wich a frog hatched. The story basically goes. Some guy wants to go to the fountain to get some water. He then notices a foul stench coming from it. He saw something glitter there and after he told everyone about it a proud Bakerboy decided to go down. He went down the fountain only to be pulled up screaming. He told everyone about seeing a being with the shape of a rooster, a repitlian like tail, "frog" like legs and a crown on its head. The village elder ,or something close to that, told everyone it was a Basilisk, like above said laid by a rooster etc. He said that his breath was poisonous and that the only way to stop it would be for it to see its hideous self. So the baker boy went down with a mirror. The Basilisk saw itself and died due to it`s irritation and rage. Afterwards they threw stones down the fountain and everything was normal.

>>3230546

theres a legend in ireland that theres a thing that cathes you when youre comming home drunk and takes you on a trip trough space and time and brings you back where you were in minutes but it seems like days to you

theres the exact same legend in croatia

how come?

>>3230678
That's a common myth story in Indo european mythology. There's The Wild Hunt, Celtic fae worlds (and the time that passes quickly whilst in there), the story of the underwater kingdom and the fisherman who gets taken there.

>>3230678
My friend has an interesting story of running into a little person, more extremely creepy than interesting

>>3230729
A common trend in most folk tales I would believe, may be a creative way of explaining a sort of depersonalization or existing as time?

An anon shared this in another thread, enjoy:

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