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Naughty or Nisse

I’ve looked at a few Christmas gift givers over the years, but I don’t think I’ve done anything with the Nisse, an elf-like creature from Norse folklore. Their role is basically that of a household spirit, especially on a farm, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Magic, Mythology, Norse | Tagged a visit from st. nicholas, brownies, elves, fairies, gnomes, goats, hobgoblins, horses, jenny nystrom, julenisse, nisser, porridge, santa claus, sprites, st. nicholas, tomtar, yule, yule goat |

Mary-ly We Troll Along

Popular Tales from the Norse, compiled by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Engebretsen Moe, translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent – It includes the tale of the grinder that can produce anything. Many of them have a character called Askelad … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Art, Authors, Christianity, Fairy Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Religion | Tagged arabian nights, beneath the moon, bible, big peter and little peter, bulls, cinderella, east of the sun and west of the moon, goats, jesus, jorgen engebretsen moe, kate crackernuts, katie woodencloak, megingjord, north wind, ogres, peter christen asbjornsen, popular tales from the norse, revelation, rocs, satan, sinbad the sailor, sir george webbe dasent, soria moria castle, tatterhood, the blue belt, the cock and hen a-nutting, the lad who went to the north wind, the lassie and her godmother, the master-smith, the three princesses of whiteland, thor, trolls, virgin mary, yoshi yoshitani |

New York Abstains

SPOILER WARNING for everything contained herein. Thor: Love and Thunder – I was looking forward to seeing this one, and while it was enjoyable enough, I felt like there just wasn’t that much there. It combines two stories, that of … Continue reading →

Posted in american revolution, Animals, Arabian, Comics, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Music, Mythology, Norse, Politics, Prejudice, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged 1776, afterlife, asgard, baldur, captain marvel, carol danvers, clandestines, death, declaration of independence, eternals, goats, gorr the god butcher, guardians of the galaxy, indepdence day, indigarrians, inhumans, jane foster, jinn, kamala khan, korg, kronans, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, ms. marvel, necrosword, odin, omnipotence, omnipotence city, president john adams, president thomas jefferson, ragnarok, richard henry lee, russell crowe, second continental congress, sherman edwards, slavery, the god butcher, thor, thor love and thunder, valhalla, valkyrie, weapons, william daniels, x-men, zeus |

Mystery, Mars, Matriarchy, and Magpies

The Kingdom of Why, by Stuart Basham Stone – I learned about this book from Anil Tambwekar’s blog about books inspired by Oz. This one, published in 1913, uses the same basic structure of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Chinese, Christianity, Families, Feminism, Gender, Health, History, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged anil tambwekar, autism, birds, goats, jesus, magpies, mars, martian time-slip, matlida joslyn gage, matriarchy, mental health, mental illness, merlin, patriarchy, philip k. dick, rick riordan presents, schizophrenia, st. paul, stacey lee, stuart basham stone, t.h. white, the kingdom of why, the once and future king, the wonderful wizard of oz, time travel, winston chu, winston chu vs. the whimsies, witches, wizard of oz, woman church and state |

Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

I’ve previously reviewed the 2016 Oziana, which consists of fifteen different alternate endings for Rinktink in Oz. I thought I should say a little more about each one, however, so here we go. Susan Johnson starts out by going in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a child's garden, aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, christopher m. diket, dorothy gale, eggs, eleanor kennedy, ev, fix city, flattown, george van buren, gilgad, goats, high faluting city, how to be good, invisible inzi of oz, jackdaws, james bond, john w. kennedy, karen diket, king anko, king gos of regos, king rinkitink, kuik blackbab, maggie lockett, magic belt, mariah b'forre, mermaids, musicton, nikobob, nome king, nome kingdom, ouija board, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, prince bobo of boboland, prince inga of pingaree, puns, queen aquareine, queen cor of coregos, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, roodnite, sarah hadley, scarecrow, susan johnson, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway of oz, three trick caverns, toto and the cats of oz, tune town, virginia and robert wauchope, walkingbury, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizards, zog |

Purple Horse, Pink Goat, Blue Woozy

Scan by Jared Davis The 1992 Oziana gives us a rather striking cover illustration, a picture by Eric Shanower of the Wicked Witch of the East as she realizes she’s about to be crushed by a house. “A Christmas Tree … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Christmas, Comics, Eric Shanower, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a christmas tree for dorothy, afterlife, bill eubank, blue emperor, brent peddy, christmas trees, cindy jen, daniel han, david maxine, deepa mehta, dorothy gale, dorothy's christmas tree, emerald city, everett avila, fred meyer, gayelette, goats, henry blossom, high boy, horses, joe mcsweeney, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kingdom of dreams, krizzle kroo, lurline, magic mistake bag, nicole bent, oziana, ozma, pastoria, professor nowitall, ricky blount, robin olderman, sandman, santa claus, scarecrow, shaune anderson, stars, the blue emperor of oz, the giant horse of oz, the journey, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the silver princess in oz, the tail of the pink goat, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tin woodman, w. w. denslow, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, wizards, woozy |

The Ecosystem of Yggdrasil

A comment on my post about video game squirrels mentioned Ratatosk (or Ratatoskr, probably a more accurate transliteration, but not how I originally knew it), the squirrel from Norse mythology. He’s a red squirrel who runs up and down the … Continue reading →

Posted in algonquin, Animals, Comics, Final Fantasy, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Native American, Norse, Video Games | Tagged bahamut, dainn, deer, dragons, duneyrr, durathror, dvalinn, dwarves, eagles, final fantasy xiv, giants, glooscap, goats, god of war, hawks, heidrun, heroine's quest, jotun, marvel comics, mead of poetry, miko, nastrond, nidhogg, niflheim, odin, prose edda, ragnarok, ratatosk, rati, serpents, snorri sturluson, squirrel girl, squirrels, trees, valhalla, vedrfolnir, wabanaki, world tree, yggdrasil |

Hiding in Plane Sight

While Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz sets the stage for a sequel with the Wizard and Tin Woodman trying to retrieve the lost Ozpril, such a book was never published. As indicated in Michael Patrick Hearn’s afterword, Ruth Plumly … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged breakfast the bananny goat, giraffes, goats, j. l. bell, michael patrick hearn, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, ozpril, pirates in oz, rinkitink in oz, snowmen, stratovania, the lost king of oz, the wonder city of oz, tin woodman, wizard of oz, yankee in oz |

Save Our Symbols

I’ve recently heard about white supremacist groups co-opting the A-OK finger symbol, which hardly seems fair to the rest of us. If they want to steal it, why should they just be able to get away with it? We can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Satanism, Theosophy, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged adolf hitler, anton lavey, aryans, atlantis, classical elements, donald trump, eliphas levi, goats, heimdall, isis, jesus, manji, nazis, pentagram, racism, satan, stars, swastika, symbolism, terrorism, the legend of zelda |

Santanimals

According to the annoyingly catchy Christmas novelty song “Dominick the Donkey,” Santa Claus rides a donkey because “the reindeer cannot climb the hills of Italy.” But can’t the reindeer fly, in which case hills would be more or less irrelevant? … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Christianity, Christmas, Finnish, Holidays, Music, Mythology, Norse, Poetry, Religion | Tagged a visit from st nicholas, bethlehem, bible, camels, clement moore, dominick the donkey, donkeys, father christmas, goats, gospel of luke, gospel of matthew, jerusalem, jesus, joulupukki, kangaroos, reindeer, santa claus, six white boomers, thor, ukko, virgin mary, yule goat |