Witches, it was believed, went unbelted.
May. 26th, 2008 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Lookin' up Russian folklore and fairy tales, particularly death folklore. I love Baba Yaga stories, but I realized I haven't read that many, and I conflate Baba Yaga with the fairytale function of witches in general, which naturally has been highly informed by Grimm's fairytales. Russian folklore is amazing. I wish I still had Gail around so I could ask her stuff.
This is proving to be very useful.
This is proving to be very useful.
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Date: 2008-05-27 06:50 pm (UTC)What was your high-school language? I took Latin and while it's come in useful when picking apart the English language, I really wish I'd taken Spanish. It probably should be a requirement now, same as math and science. Every kid should take a few years of it.
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Date: 2008-05-27 06:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-27 07:00 pm (UTC)French is worthless as far as I can see unless your main goal is to take the class trip to France to get drunk and laid. (I went to Italy with Latin club one summer and most of the kids on the trip went for those two purposes, and stupid nerdy me, all I did was take photos and actually pay attention to the tour guides. Never so much as had a glass of wine because I was so paranoid and asocial.)
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