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“Yuletide Specters”
[Note from rosemary-sealavender: This is one of my favorite spooky Christmas folktales. It’s from The Swedish Fairy Book (1921), edited by Clara Stroebe and translated by Frederick H. Martens, from the Frederick Stokes Company. It’s public domain.]
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Once upon a time there lived two peasants on a homestead called Vaderas, just as there are two peasants living on it now. In those days the roads were good, and the women were in the habit of riding when they wanted to go to church.
One Christmas the two women agreed that they would ride to Christmas night mass, and whichever one of them woke up at the right time was to call the other, for in those days there was no such thing as a watch. It was about midnight when one of the women thought she heard a voice from the window, calling: "I am going to set out now." She got up hurriedly and dressed herself, so that she might be able to ride with the other woman; but since there was no time to eat, she took a piece of bread from the table along with her. In those times it was customary to bake the bread in the shape of a cross. It was a piece of this kind that the woman took and put in her pocket, in order to eat it underway. She rode as fast as she could, to catch up with her friend, but could not overtake her. The way led over a little stream which flows into Vidostern Lake, and across the stream was a bridge, known as the Earth Bridge, and on the bridge stood two witch trolls, busy washing. As the woman came riding across the bridge, one of the witch trolls called out to the other, "Hurry, and tear her head from her shoulders!"
"That I cannot do" returned the other, "because she has a bit of bread in the form of a cross in her pocket."
The woman, who had been unable to catch up with her neighbor, reached the church at Hanger alone.
The church was full of lights, as was always the case when the Christmas mass was said. As quickly as ever she could the woman tied up her horse, and hurriedly entered the church. It seemed to her that the church was crowded with people; but all of them were headless, and at the altar stood the priest, in full canonicals but without a head. In her haste she did not at once see how things were; but sat down in her accustomed place. As she sat down it seemed to her that some one said: "If I had not stood godfather to you when you were christened, I would do away with you as you sit there, and now hurry and make yourself scarce, or it will be the worse for you!" Then she realized that things were not as they should be, and ran out hastily.
When she came into the church-yard, it seemed to her as though she were surrounded by a great crowd of people. In those days people wore broad mantles of unbleached wool, woven at home, and white in color. She was wearing one of these mantles and the specters seized it. But she flung it away from her and managed to escape from the church-yard, and run to the poor-house and wake the people there. It is said it was then one o'clock at night.
So she sat and waited for the early mass at four o'clock in the morning. And when day finally dawned, they found a little piece of her mantle on every grave in the church-yard.
A similar experience befell a man and his wife who lived in a hut known as Ingas, below Mosled.
They were no more than an hour ahead of time; but when they reached the church at Hanger, they thought the service had already begun, and wanted to enter at once; but the church was barred and bolted, and the phantom service of the dead was nearing its end. And when the actual mass began, there was found lying at every place some of the earth from the graves of those who shortly before had been worshiping. The man and his wife thereupon fell grievously ill, because they had disturbed the dead.
NOTE
"Yuletide Spectres." The tale of the weird service of the dead on Christmas night is common throughout Scandinavia. (From an mss. communicated by Dr. v. Sydow-Lund).
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[Another note from rosemary-sealavender: More stories from the same book are available via worldoftales.com, from which this is taken verbatim. WoT is an excellent resource for early 20th C. books of folktales. However, here I’ll add the caveat: the collection skews Western European, and stories collected from elsewhere in the world are written from a white Euro-American perspective and include dated, i.e., racist, colonial, exoticizing language. Just as an FYI.]
old movies, public domain, classics, other such things: the read-more edition
this is a carry over of my original post but under a read-more for more extensive and readily available editing. updated whenever possible
the purposes of this post continue to be “eclectic” but to be “brief”, is for people who enjoy consuming Media and want to have online resources on hand to find them, especially when they are non-contemporary, non-mainstream, and/or on the obscure side (but not always!). it has evolved far beyond what the title says basically
feel free to send your own resources!
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yes, Disney can still use mickey mouse if they lose copyright protection of him.
tw: vulgar language they can still use his image, they can still sell merch, they can still make shorts and use him as much as they want all this means is that everyone else will be able to do whatever the hell you want with mickey with complete legal safety. want to make mickey mouse bongs and buttplugs? go ahead. want to turn mickey mouse into a lovecraftian horror and make erotic fanfiction between him and garfeild the cat? i mean technically you could do that anyways under parody fair use laws, but still you can do that even more so now! Disney is a bunch of greedy corporate slimeballs, they just want to hoard a 100 year old character all to themselves for $$$$$$$. And if anyone here tries to defend Disney essentially ruining the creative copyright laws, i am going to label you a corprotate bootlicking cuck.
Jan of next year mickey will be set freed next year how about we celebrate by making the most bizzare obscene shit with this character. stay frosty my wonderful freaks of the online space.
Had to bring this up again...
(Note: This is not hating on the Public Domain, this is hating on what humanity is doing with the Public Domain.
Believe it or not, the problem isn't Mickey being used in Horror. The problem lies in the very thinly veiled intent for Shock value and Money.
"But it's slandering Disney!!"
Honestly, I'm pretty sure even Disney's already caught up to this now. I'm positive one of their lawyers has even used the recent overuse of "Public Domain Character gone wrong" movies as a justification for WHY they fucked up the Copyright system.
And back to the point about these films being used for shock value and Money, it's also very ironic that this is how we're "slandering" a Notoriously Greedy Company.
Like woohoo! You're fighting a Corporation that makes uninspired cashgrabs with... uninspired cashgrabs. Good for you?)
here's the entirety of steamboat willie. if you even care.
MICHEAL RODENT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE NOW!
PROFIT OFF OF HIM NOW!
I'm surprised I haven't seen any Steamboat Willie art featuring Oswald the lucky rabbit, since his first design is public domain too
YES!!!
I have been waiting the whole day to post this. I don't know you, but in my country is already 2024, so... Ummm... Happy new year!?
THE MOUSE IS FINALLY FREE (well.. Not exactly but...)
Now that I've been thinking about it I just realized all of The disney brothers (well teachnicly it's time to rename them to something else but thats besides the point)
Oswald, julius and mickey can each be extremly intelligent in the 3 major ways depending on their species
Rabbits are quite emotional animals, they thump when upset, dance around you when happy and overall id Say alot of their actions even in wild are effected by how their friends act or on what they do, rabbits are highly emotional animals and even in canon we see oswald be aloso highly emotional at times
Mice, or rats Are extremly intelligent in the typical smarts way there really good at solving puzzles there often capeable of noticing patterns and alot of rats can avoid traps specificly made to kill them so by that alone you can guess There not just lucky they find their own ways to trick the trap and we do see mickey very very often do that, solve puzzles problems and avoid traps or tricks (if anything id say he tricks people more succesfuly than anything)
Cats, do I even have to explain em? There tricky little guys Always ready for something reacting fast and swift often they avoid danger before it's even bear them, there an animal that lives on the streets often or at least they visit em alot, they make things as they go and thats teachnicly an ability all disney brothers have but julius does showcase that ability alot in alice comedies and also he's litellary a stary cat
Ya see where i'm getting at?
Oswald- emotional smart
Mickey- mathematical smart
Julius- street smart
[ID: A version of the yes/no meme format showing two screenshots of Mickey Mouse from the 1928 animation Steamboat Willie. For the "no" section, he looks at the ground dejectedly. For the "yes" example," he leaps into the air with joy. The no section reads, in quotation marks, "You can only use the version of Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie!", followed by, in parentheses, "(Extremely misleading, making it seem like the Public Domain demands stagnation and kills creativity)". The yes section reads, in quotation marks, "You can redesign Mickey Mouse in any style or outfit you like as long as it's not a version still owned by Disney's copyright", followed by in parentheses, "(Actually explains the rule, lets people unleash their creativity.)". End ID.]
You can buy this design from my threadless store if you want to help a trans disabled artist pay rent AND spread correct info about the Public Domain at the same time :)
If you save this meme template to use, please also save the image description above as a word document or in a notes app! When you post your version of the meme, just edit the relevant sections :)
Public Domain Day 2024
Once again its the day we all wait for, public domain day. the day some thing get ripped out of the clasps of the claws of corporations. This year is notable for many things becoming public domain but specifically a certain mouse in the united states. Here's an example of some of the things but note that this is only a sampling of what's become public domain
In Europe and other life of author + 70 years areas:
The Wind Has Risen by Tatsuo Hori
The polish Koziołek Matołek comics by Kornel Makuszyński
Mr. Weston's Good Wine by T.F Powys
In New Zealand and other life of author + 50 years areas:
J.R.R Tolkien's work, but only the ones published during his lifetime. Things published by his son Christopher are not public domain
Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins
The works of crime writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson (Anthony Gilbert)
In the US:
All things published in 1928
The big one of course, Steamboat Willie and the earliest incarnation of Mickey Mouse. Disney still owns trademarks so be careful and theres some things like his gloves that didnt appear until later and im sure the Mouse's lawyers are watching like hawks
The House at Pooh Corner, first appearance of Tigger
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
Theres much more. Take a peek over at Project Gutenberg or The Internet Archive
Are y'all familiar with The Woven Book of Hours? This is a prayer book woven in silk BY LOOM in the 1880s. More specifically, the punchcard-programmed Jacquard loom, making it the first digitally produced book. It is estimated that it took 200,000-500,000 punchcards to weave it.
I've discovered that if I take a bunch of quotes from @the-haiku-bot and put them on PD/CC0 images with the right font, they can look downright profound. Or amusing.
@the-haiku-bot posts used:
immediately
no bro esto es
why are you taking
when listening, you
there is a difference
idk about
you lost her and did
my ancestors are
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