Tuesday, February 6, 2018 <p><img alt="220px-Mother_Goose_Grave_Boston.jpg" data-entity-type="" data-entity-uuid="" height="165" src="/sites/default/files/2018-02/220px-Mother_Goose_Grave_Boston.jpg" width="220" /></p> <p>So you think you need a great-grandmother near a hearth fire or some time in a remote mountain village with an expert narrator before you can learn the latest folktale? Not if you can type #FolkloreThursday into&nbsp;your devices. Although the blog skews heavily to the British Isles (not that there's anything wrong with that!), it is clearly aiming to become a worldwide sampler of folklore ancient, medieval, and modern. Recent posts include "<a href="http://folklorethursday.com/folktales/japans-three-great-ghosts/">Top Three Japanese Ghosts,</a>" "<a href="http://folklorethursday.com/folklife/5370/">Companion Dogs as Seers, Healers, and Fairy Steeds</a>," and "<a href="http://folklorethursday.com/folktales/the-blind-boy-and-the-loon/#sthash.sM6C2mwP.dpbs">An Inuit Folktale of a Blind Boy and a Loon.</a>"&nbsp; There's a nice <a href="http://folklorethursday.com/folklife/spinning-a-tale/#sthash.dIlUD3NV.dpbs">piece</a>, too, on the role of spinning and weaving in a variety of folktales. I think the author's hair would stand on end if she had seen any of the variants of the Pontic Cinderella, where the sisters challenge their mother to a spinning contest, rig it against her, and cook and eat her when she loses!</p> <p>For more, see&nbsp;http://folklorethursday.com/#sthash.3T4a4q2F.dpbs.</p> <p>(Image of Mary Goose's grave in Boston, Massachusetts By Swampyank at en.wikipedia - Own workTransferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:Mutter Erde using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4904213)</p>