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The Amazing !!! Mrs NJ State Folklorist 🎉🎉🎉🎉 @folkwise !!!!!!

"I have become so practical" is a statement from Daisy that cannot possibly be true.

As a folk punker this is sick

As a Mongolian it’s very entertaining. Funny how other ppl try to understand our culture and try to put ancient culture into a box. Also the scholar needs to do more research if he is serious about what he does. Not sufficient understanding about our mindset and culture. But still it’s better than some others.

I wonder why we tend to try and interpret what happened in Twich plays Pokémon (or a lot of modern media tbh) as "religious" and not religion as some form of role-play? Besides some form of magical believe, born of obsercation and bias, I would argue that a lot of people "starting" a religion are aware of the phantastical factor. They are using vernacular and codes to exclude people from their experience, world view or just certain parts of live, creating both power and agency. It's the same way fandoms or occupations or sub-cultures in general use a diffrent speech or even language alltogether from the dominating culture. To exclude, to other - and thus to strengthen their internal bonds. Religion has - in my opinion - no other function than this. What makes it diffrent is that at some point in time, mostly after the generation who initiated it all dies, people start to use the words and phrases without connection to what the people REALLY meant and thus creating the otherworldy and godly aspect. Or, as someone once said: If all people in the future will have from todays civilization is Lord of the Rings, they are bound to believe that Elves, Dwarfes and Hobbits existed and we all worshiped and feared magic and dragons. Because all they have are disconnected bits of our reality. There is no Pokemon-based religion YET, because we all still know the origins and meanings of the vernacular used. There might be a Pokemon-based religion some generations in the future, when the original meaning got lost. Also, Twitch plays Pokemon's lore doesn't work well together with the official lore on religion in the Pokémon-World, so this could be an interesting topic to observe. And the currency in the Pokémon-World doesn't have an official name. It's commonly called PokéDollar, but in the original games it's just Yen and there has been no statement from GameFreak on that topic.

Lynne S McNeill what a babe.

Everyone should check out the huge amount of music made by church of the helix choir. Top notch stuff.

Teacher: "The essay needs no less then 1000 words" Me:

Loved the content here, but the way it was delivered threw me a little. Single take content can be difficult when not rehearsed, and the essay seemed to speed up and slow down based on what kind of vocabulary was used. It was good content and I loved the clearly defined connections to religion and the explanations of them and the fan art that came with the experiment, however, I would definitely suggest multiple takes if necessary to help it flow a bit better!

sadly the first 35 hours are lost media

Good content but i dont like the delivery :( i need music and a voice that

I want to show this to a theology professor

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This was quite entertaining! Having a big recap like this is very fun, though I will say that you treat it a little bit too much like a "real" essay. There's a lot of unnecessarily big words that I'd argue detract more than they add. It makes sentences flow a lot less naturally (especially since it all seems to be one take and make you stumble), and makes it less likely that people will actually keep up with you entirely. Also the very explicit way you mark the "sections" reduces the flow of the video too. Otherwise I had a very good time watching this.

holy hell ppl still remember about tpp. btw its still alive and we are about to play Diamond/Pearl on physical hardware very soon

I absolutely refuse to believe this was 10 years ago. No shot.

Very cool. Love all the citations

I love this channel's content about pop culture titles & modern event phenomenon. I'd love to see content from you about the relationship between personal/ collective mythology & psychology in the modern era, explored from the ideas of Joseph Campbell & similar thought leaders. Cheers!

I love this

This is awesome. I love it when you trick me into listening to you read a dissertation by making it about cool shit that rules and putting it on TH-cam. Keep doing that

Date of this interview?

hey my chat name is in the 1st second of this video? does that make me...first?

Thank you all for having me! What an absolute blast 🦑🌟💙

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Great interview. I've been a Lugosi fan for 42 years now. I live in Australia. Yes I have a Bela tattoo too😂

My people! This was too much fun. :D Sexy Mothman is a new one on me, and I'm half afraid to learn more. But I must. And for Greek god best in bed, as a Classicist, I'm going with Dionysus because he drives those ladeez crazy, yo. As the kids totally say.

Magnificent, truly glorious.

Great fun. Thanks, gang!

OMG MHG's sleep cat I completely forgot XD precious

Good to see you guys!

Frank Turner 4 Lyfe!

OmGEeee I loved Peirs Anthony ❣️ No one else ever knows who I'm talking about 😅 Thank You ❣️

WoW, ATU'S , Another mole hole I needa go down for the next decade. Thank you ,so fun, and brilliant . Blessings for all of you always ❣️❣️❣️

watching this on the night sonic 10-0's a homophobe and gave em a fursona

I like IT!

Important issues

I hope there's something of interest in there for your viewers. Thanks again for having me ☺

How did you get to contact her for the interview?

Love the intro! Ska for days

Really enjoyed this episode. Thanks!

Thank you for the interview. Sending love, solidarity, and thoughts of joy.

Thanks for the interview, Folkwise!

Love me some sheep! A huge part of my dissertation!

WITCH SWEEP

I still cant handle Marilyn White in this it is so good im still laughing about it (and learning too!)

Awesome!

I'm probably going to come off like a dick here but really have no ill intent. I love that others are interested in this material, but if Mr. Schmidt is teaching vampires to students, he might appreciate some help from a fellow folklorist who works in this region (geographically and theoretically). 1. Both the cases of Plogojowitz ("plogoyovits", likely Blagojević "Blagoyevich") and Arnold Paole (likely Arnaut Pavle "Arna-oot Pav-leh", lit. Paul the Albanian) occurred in Serbia (Medvegia is a Western take on Medveđa "Medveja"). Neither case occurred in Czechia (I think Summers' mistake, rather than Schmidt's). Most Western European accounts give Hungary or Austria because the Duel Empire had taken control of Serbia from the Ottomans following the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718). The Habsburgs didn't know that they would be losing the territory in 1739 and so set up a protectorate and tried to develop the region and to populate it with Christians fleeing the Ottoman Empire as they did on the Military Frontier. Both cases involved German officers with little substantial scientific background (although, surprisingly a field-surgeon in Pavle's case) being caught up in frenzied peasant activity and sending shocking reports back home of the monsters in South-Eastern Europe (what fun!). Summers relates these accounts poorly; if Mr. Schmidt has read Paul Barber's excellent work, then he's read translations of the actual, first-hand accounts from Kameralprovisor Frombald, and the surgeon Fluckinger. Better to stick to that source. 2. The calendars being quoted are Orthodox (the dates do occur among Catholic populations too but if he's quoting Murgoci and looking at Serbian cases, then we're talking majority Orthodox populations and so, ergo, Orthodox liturgical calendar. Thus, St. George, for example, is on May 6, not April 23, &c. &c, &c. 3. On garlic, there are some real problems with a lot of this theorizing (admittedly, not the speakers' but that of the quoted scholars). Firstly, the connection to teeth is weak. The idea that vampires bite their victims and drink their blood is common to the Balkan tradition (though not the only explanation of how they get it, or what they take) but the idea that they have enlarged canines is a product of Western European (and later American) imagination, linking the being with exploratory accounts of vampire bats in South America. No Balkan peasant would be searching for protection in plants that resemble vampire canines. Those peasants were too busy being practical and hamstringing the vampires or shoving things in their mouth to keep all the monster's teeth away from them. The second problem arises in the fact that garlic and wormwood are the most common floral apotropaics in the Balkans and used for pretty much every corporeal, evil spirit. The exclusive linking of garlic to vampires is another Western trope. In the lore and real folk practice, garlic was good for vampires, werewolves, vilas, various dwarven figures, and all sorts of other baddies. In the jumble of folk belief where analogical thinking prevails, any idea that adds weight to preconceptions is a good idea. The ancient connections between garlic and plague likely fit into folk custom, but they can't explain all of it. It really is a timeless mystery. The Ottomans calling garlic cloves diş isn't likely one of them though. Cheers!

Great game and interview with Michael Dylan Foster (both here and in the seperate video) ... i first heard of the idea of the folkloresque a few weeks ago and realized that so many things about the intersection of folklore and pop culture that i had found fascinating for years were discussed in there ... so the concept is new to me but it seems to articulate many intuitions that resonate with me and i can't wait to dive deeper into it ... super excited at the moment ;)