Tag: Sweden

Tomte and Vรคttar, Swedish farm folklore entities

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For centuries and perhaps millennia, Swedish farmers have shared tales of supernatural creatures inhabiting their farms. Since the nineteenth century, folklorists have begun to study these stories, gathering information on the mysterious entities, traditions and rituals connected to them.

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โ€œMidsommarโ€: the coronation of Beauty and the expulsion of the Beast

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Ari Aster's "folk-horror" film stages a Midsummer ceremony inspired by the ancient European rites of late winter and Calendimaggio: beyond the inaccuracies and poetic licenses, the fulcrum of the narrative must be recognized in the "descent into hell" and in the subsequent rebirth of the protagonist Dani, an initiation that obviously requires a sacrifice.

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