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Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...
In Greek mythology, Limnoreia, Limnoria or Lymnoria [1] (Ancient Greek: Λιμνώρεια means 'salt-marsh') was the Nereid of the salt marshes [2] and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [3]
Why the Sea Is Salt (Norwegian: Kvernen som maler på havsens bunn; the mill that grinds at the bottom of the sea) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book (1889). [2]
The Fountain of Youth is a mythical spring which supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters. Tales of such a fountain have been recounted around the world for thousands of years, appearing in the writings of Herodotus (5th century BC), in the Alexander Romance (3rd century AD), and in the stories of Prester John (early Crusades, 11th/12th centuries AD).
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood: New and Selected Stories is a 1976 short story collection by Canadian author Alistair MacLeod. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] All of the stories contained in the collection were later republished in the book Island , along with the stories from his collection As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories .
Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of tales from myth and legend rewritten for a general readership by the American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, published after his death in 1867. The work was a successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers.
Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, [1] [2] offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood.
The other type of stories includes historical accounts and "news" or informational stories. For the Nlaka'pamux of the Fraser Canyon - Nicola regions in British Columbia, the genre of traditional narrative is called sptékʷɬ whereas the informational narrative is called spíləẋm , in Montana Salish (Flathead) the distinction is between ...