Roll for Folklore Ep3 - Eaten by Rats!

 

 

Hatto, an evil bishop, was hoarding food during a terrible famine. The peasants became angry, so Hatto promised to feed them, inviting them to an empty barn. Hatto ordered the barn's doors locked, then set the barn on fire and burned the peasants commenting on their cries with the words "Hear the mice squeak!" Perhaps he should have chosen his words more carefully. 

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Roll for Folklore ep2: What flattened 80 million trees at once?

Roll for Folklore ep2: Tunguska!

Today's Roll for Folklore: The Tunguska Explosion!

On the morning of June 30, something cause an 12-megaton explosion that flattened  80 million trees in the middle of the Siberian wilderness.  At around 7 o’clock in the morning, Indigenous people and Russian settlers northwest of Lake Baikal saw a bluish light, nearly as bright as the Sun, moving across the sky.

About 10 minutes later they heard what sounded like artillery - followed by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet and broke windows hundreds of kilometres away. The boom was so loud it was heard as far away as Washington DC

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100 Strangest Mysteries by Matt Lamy 

Suggested readings on supernatural folklore from Newfoundland and Labrador

Looking for non-fiction books on Newfoundland and Labrador supernatural folklore? You could always start with some of mine, of course, but there are a lot of other titles out there for lovers of the paranormal!

Here is a selection to get you started: 

Fairies and Witches

• Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland by Barbara Rieti
• Making Witches: Newfoundland Traditions of Spells and Counterspells by Barbara Rieti
• Spirited Away: Fairy stories of old Newfoundland by Tom Dawe 
• Fables, Fairies & Folklore by Mike Mccarthy

Ghosts and Hauntings

• The Ferryland Visitor: A mysterious tale by Charis Cotter and Gerald Squires
• Screech!: Ghost Stories from Old Newfoundland by Charis Cotter
• Haunted Towns: Ghost Stories Of Newfoundland And Labrador by Geraldine Ryan-Lush
• Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador by Edward Butts 
• Ghost Stories from Newfoundland Folklore by Alice Lannon and Mike McCarthy 

Cryptozoology and The Old Hag

• Here Be Dragons by Bruce Hynes
• The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions by David J. Hufford

PDF volumes

• Folk Cures and Practical Magic (2017)
• Folk Belief and Legends of Bay Roberts and Area (2014)
• Devine's folk lore of Newfoundland in old words, phrases and expressions (1937)
• Tales of Fogo Island edited by Della Coish
• Some superstitions and traditions of Newfoundland (1919)

Fiction more your style? I've got you covered here!