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The master won’t let Krabat escape and uses warlock powers learned from Koraktor (a book of black magic from Sorbian folklore) to control the students. The latter are not only forced to work for the master, but also perform rituals based on folk belief e.g. to sleep at a spot where a man died violently.
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The movie is based on a novel Krabat written in 1971 by a German author O.Preußler. The book takes great inspiration from Sorbian folklore and features many typical elements one can find in Slavic fairy tales which the animated feature faithfully preserves.
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Going to write a movie review
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One of the most underrated tales in Greek tradition is one of Achilles and Penthesilea’s tragic love which both began and ended in battle.
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Folk Herbalism vs corporate pharmaceuticals:
Modern medicine is really good at concentrating & making chemical compounds to quickly neutralize symptoms. Fever . take 3 Tylenol etc. What modern medicine does not do well is preventative medicine and curing the root cause of illnesses.
Several years ago there was an exposé between wall street investors and big pharma / health insurance agencies who had meetings around, "is curing patients a sustainable business model?" The goal of these companies is to make as much money as possible. To do that, sell you as much medication as possible. To do that is not to cure you, but to keep you sick while making you feel better.
Folk Herbalism by contrast is about supplementing your diet with preventative vitamins & minerals. It is about living a good lifestyle. In short, with proper living and diet, the need for modern heavily-concentrated artificially-synthesized medications is rendered moot. This is the main reason why home gardens and homesteading is under attack.
If I got a penny for every atheist posing as a Pagan… This retard claims that the Gods were originally not depicted as human-looking, even though the oldest idol on Earth (Shigir idol) is. Uses naturalism reducing Gods to animals, mountains and rivers (literally christian-atheist trick like euhemerism). And doesn’t even know how the term Pagan was (and is) applied.
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Nevertheless it was not war but work that determined the trend of life and gave form to institutions, social as well as religious. A man asserted his gentility no less by tilling his land in luck and showing a generous hospitality, than by courage in action.
V.Grönbech
What some newcomers don’t get is that Germanic Paganism is not quote on quote a viking religion. Vikings are a product of Germanic culture, but dare I say they are not the best representatives. A typical Germanic Pagan was a farmer and most of his/her religious practices were focused on the herd and harvest.
Meanwhile viking culture is a distillation of raider-warrior mentality and would be destructive in a Pagan society because it’s not meant to exist inside, it’s always outside by it’s raiding nature. This sentiment is also expressed in V.Grönbech’s book I’m reading.
Though platonism lead to the collapse of traditional paganism, breaking free of it will restore the natural worldview of our forefathers.
It is said that there are two pillars of current western liberal civilization, the judeo-christian bible, and plato. Most of us have discarded the first pillar and only after the second is gone, will the natural state of European men and women return and flourish once more.
There are simple magic formulas children utter to summon a khorkha
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In Germanic faith, Draugr are the undead that are equal parts dreadful and cruel. Even after christianization, sightings and conflicts with Draugr are relatively common.
Not to be confused with the Norse Haugr, or mound-dwellers, Draugr are usually those that are discontent and upset with their fate. Hatred burning inside turning a mean man into a cruse upon the land and those who call it home.
The ancient view of life necessarily leads thought beyond the individual; one always looks about among the family to find the sources of his will and his fate.
The father's eye is gladdened when he sees himself and his kinsmen again in his sons, when, as the phrase runs, he can “see the luck of the family” in his son.
V.Grönbech
Sucellos and Nantosuelta
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Eventually the cauldron ends up in possession of Bran the Blessed, a giant who ruled the Island of the Mighty. Bran gifts it to Irish king Matholwch after an offense the latter received due to the actions of Bran’s half-brother Efnisien.
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Zombies in Celtic lore?
In Mabinogion there’s an exiting tale of Bran the Blessed. I won’t retell the entire story but we will delve into the part about a magical cauldron which could raise the dead called Pair Dadeni (Cauldron of Rebirth). It’s power was described as follows:
The dead were thrown into the cauldron, until it was full. They would rise up the next day-fighting men as good as before, except they would not be able to talk.
The story follows titular Krabat, a young homeless boy who lives as a beggar until one day he is summoned by ravens to an abandoned mill where a one-eyed sorcerer makes Krabat one of his apprentices. The sorcerer himself is the standout character of both the book and the movie. Despite providing shelter and even teaching the boys his dark arts the Master (as he is addressed) is cruel and scary serving as the antagonist of the story.
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Krabat the Sorcerer's Apprentice is a great animated movie from Czechoslovakia and I highly recommend it.
The first noteworthy thing is obviously the unique cutout animation used in the picture. The technique seems exotic nowadays since it’s much cheaper to create 3D models with modern tech. Not to sound like an old grump, but I prefer those antiquated methods like stop-motion, cutout etc. And Krabat is probably one of the best examples why.
Achilles and Penthesilea by Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Nice, source-accurate depiction of Cu Chulainn. Most artists forget, or rather, are not aware, that he was very young and never even reached full adulthood. Cu Chulainn being too young to have facial hair is the reason he wasn’t affected by the curse which put down all other warriors of Ulster.
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Antefix in the shape of a female bust from the neighborhood of the altar of the Temple of Hera, Paestum.
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First snow where I am. Winter spirits waking up early it seems.
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When the connection with daily occupations and obligations had been severed, as it had to be in armies settling on foreign soil, war filled the scene, and the truest, nay the only proof a man could give of his gentleness consisted in deeds accomplished with the axe. These gallant knights were sometimes fain to pour contempt on the patient toil of the bread winner as in the epigram of the Harbardsljod: “Odin owns the earls who are slain in battle, Thor owns the race of the thralls”.
V.Grönbech
For the Teutons, living implied fighting, man means a living being who keeps his weapons sharp by grinding them on his honour.
V.Grönbech
Usually a khorkha replaces a child’s tooth with a coin
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Carpathian tooth fairy is a mouse-like creature called khokha
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Lombard ruler with his guards
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World Serpent by Angus McBride
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The end of the cauldron
Later Paor Dadeni is used in battle. When Efnissiyen sees it he decided to stop the slaughter.
Woe to me - being the cause of this carnage of the men of the Island of the Mighty' he thought 'and shame on me if I don't seek deliverance from this.'
He crawls in amongst the corpses of the Irishmen, and two bare-bottomed Irishmen come to him and throw him in the cauldron, along with the others. He stretches himself out in the cauldron, until the cauldron breaks into four pieces, and his heart breaks [as well].
The origins of the cauldron
Where does Paor Dadeni come from? It was brought to the Ireland by giants. Here’s how the tale starts:
One day, while hunting [back] in Ireland, I was on top of a tumulus above a lake in Ireland, called "The Lake of the Cauldron". Then I saw a large, reddish-yellow [haired] man coming out of the lake with a cauldron on his back. Furthermore, the man was large and monstrous with an evil, anorles look about him, and [he had] a woman following after him. And large as he was-twice as big as him was the woman. They made their way towards me and greeted me.
I’ll get back to Celtic folklore and traditions for a while. Specifically great Mabinogion which is really underrated.
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