Last week we saw one of the stories narrated by Lafcadio Hearn: the story of the earless minstrel. If you recall, the minstrel found himself telling the epic story of a family downfall to the ghostly court of the dead of that very same family. The story is the Heike Monogatari and I promised you […]
Do you work in the construction industry? Have you ever found yourself covering up something in a space that needed to open in five minutes? I know I did, and I know this is why all my sympathies go to the poor guys painting the roses red in the opening of the chapter where we […]
The amazing people at #FolkloreThursday, one of the initiatives that prompt lovers of folklore and the fantastic to tweet weekly around a theme, decided to announce their theme in advance, while usually the theme is announced the day before. If you want to jump on board, you can find the 2022 themes here. This means […]
Lo scorso mercoledì abbiamo visto alcune funzionalità della piattaforma TeamRetro.com, in particolare quelle relative alle retrospettive. Chiudiamo la panoramica della piattaforma vedendo come funziona la parte relativa all’health check, cui avevo dedicato l’ultima #BIMpill dell’anno scorso. Ma quelli di TeamRetro ti pagano? No. Ma la piattaforma è gratuita? No, ma potete attivate una trial di […]
As I anticipated, I’m looking into Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. The first story collected in the book revolves around a prominent figure in Japan’s folklore, Hōichi the Earless (耳なし芳一, Mimi-nashi Hōichi), a cursed bard. It is normally considered that Earn wrote his tale after reading Isseki Sanjin (一夕散人), and his 1782 […]
After Alice wanders away from the Tea-Party, she stumbles upon a tree with a door in it and she walks through it only to find herself where she started, in the hallway with the glass table and the golden tree. Before we follow her through the door she initially wanted to cross, into the Queen’s […]
The witch of Endor is one of the many characters described in the Bible that are connected with magic, divination, and stuff that you superficially wouldn’t expect to find in the Bible. She appears in the First Book of Samuel, although she’s absent from the Book of Sirach where the same events are told. I […]
Ricordate i concetti di retrospettiva e health check? Al secondo ho dedicato l’ultima delle #BIMpill dell’anno scorso, ma li abbiamo già incontrati entrambi come compiti di un facilitatore. Come sempre, non si tratta di attività per le quali dobbiamo necessariamente impazzire a costruire strumenti di registrazione, controllo e analisi (che di solito finiscono a essere […]
After seeing a beautiful book at a friend’s house, I found myself perusing the work of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek journalist born from an Irish surgeon and raised in Dublin after his 6th year. Lafcadio went to Japan for the first time in 1889 and was then known as Koizumi Yakumo. He collected several […]
When I talked about the White Rabbit’s house, I made some mistakes in attributing the illustrations and you can clearly see it when you read the description of the next character we meet after leaving behind the Cheshire Cat: the March Hare. …she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were shaped […]