Folklore is not Taught, it is Learned

[@AntoinetteTarot]

I have always believed that our very prescious spoken Tales, Rhymes & Folklore holds the secret to traditional crafts and celebrations of old ways. I am so glad to listen to your thoughts today on this subject 🌞🌻

[@ArithHärger]

As Tolkien said "Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know." Thank you friend, be well!

[@dragorsi]

♥

[@Robert-gc9gc]

You are a holder of wisdom and knowledge, we can always learn from each other. Also, kitty @5:27🐱

[@alysmarcus7747]

kitty at 5

[@selmar6918]

This is so beautifully and coherently expressed - thank you so much Arith. What especially struck me was the reminder that simply by recognizing folklore for what it truly is, we remember we already belong - we are integral to an ongoing dynamic process where things no longer need to be 'ancient' to be viewed as enchanted and amazing - it becomes unattached to a timeline. I love it.

[@Sheepdog1314]

I grew up with my grandparents - yes, there were bits of folklore , and superstitions, thrown in every so often. No one thought about it, but it was part of life. I am glad I was gifted - the generations after me have zero folklore, and very few true traditions

[@ArithHärger]

Same here. I grew up with my grandparents and my great grandmother in a remote village (my parents worked far and hard to give us a future). That life has shaped me in a way. Lots of bad things but also other useful and interesting things. Now it's up to me to deconstruct the biases and racism I grew up in and take the positive aspects, and carry on with the folklore and traditions that are healthy and can be adapted and reshaped to our modern living, in order to create more folklore for future generations.

[@kellysouter4381]

Sharing experiences and stories is how you create culture.

[@ernamoller175]

Thank you Arith for this video on folklore. It really had been hard hitting in the sense that folklore was used as a form of indoctrination when I grew up. It left me feeling that I have no identity . You have given me food for thought. Blessings my friend.

[@6Haunted-Days]

Sure hope you're not talking about anything xtian based. Cuz that's NOT folklore AT ALL.

[@Spear_of_the_Raven_Ash]

Thank you, dear friend! I had much to say at 1st, decided to listen and heard more. Happy Thanksgiving/Feast of Úllr to you, and 💚's to the cat in the background. Also noticed the falling leaf. Be well Arith

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you friend. Hope it was a useful talk. Share your thoughts here with the community, I'm sure your insight will prove to be useful. Thank you and be well! (The cat was a blessed visit hehe).

[@iainmelville9411]

Thank You for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. Always appreciated, many Blessings.

[@ArithHärger]

My pleasure and honour. Thank you for listening. Many blessings to you too!

[@simonekaspy2231]

Mr. Arith has my full consideration, it is always a cultural pleasure to watch his work, this is, I repeat countless times, an honest, honest, 100 Star Channel! Thanks! Best regards!

[@brandonrunyan2546]

Weary & wary... perfectly said, sir

[@jmbsoutho]

One thing that's really impressed me in my own culture is how much the Nebraska Czech community has worked to keep their folklore alive over the last century to a century and a half since they immigrated to the United States. There is such an emphasis on maintaining those Czech roots and passing on the folklore from the old country while at the same time developing their own unique folklore.

[@denyse6666]

folklore has always been strong and active in Cornwall and many here are still wrapped in the old ways and old traditions and belief's I only hope we have a planet that they can continue in as it seems like most of the people of this world are walking blindly towards their own destruction and still only money talks ! ....... loved the setting for this talk and the wonderful ginger visitor ....

[@ArithHärger]

You know, while searching for the meaning and trying to understand the "Witchcraft" stuff (don't know how else to call it, perhaps "folk magic") my great grandmother was doing, I came about similar traditional folk magic from Cornwall, West country overall, and also in Scotland. Coincidentally (or perhaps not) a new DNA result came in to show me I'm, apparently, 17% Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Cornish. I keep thinking if what my great grandmother was doing somehow was passed down through the generations. If so, folklore is indeed a strong human expression to preserve memory. It was nice to have a visitor in the video, at least one that walks on land. Thank you my friend.

[@denyse6666]

@@ArithHärger thats 2 of us with mixed DNA :)

[@Duececoupe]

I thoroughly enjoy this journey my dear friend and the path that we are traveling on.... I would love for you to do a video on the music and the instruments of the old Norse.... Sköt om dig och skål! 🍻 I just noticed that hit 100K, many hearty congratulations to that, well deserved!

[@dragorsi]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Took me long to watch this video but only because I know I want to pay full attention to what you talk about. Appreciate you. :)

[@cyclicallivingoz]

Great video! Thank you Arith. Timely for me, I have been studying the rise of Santa Muerte recently.

[@morriganwitch]

Thank you Blessings in this New Moon xxx

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you. Many blessings to you too.

[@leonardofaedo707]

Another great piece Arith. Well done. Excelnte trabalho.

[@L.I.M.E.LighTnTwilightTarot]

I Am Me and open to Learn through involvement and participation. Coincidence and Luck I give not attention to. Thank you A.H.

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you ;)

[@howardhavardramberg333]

Very good video, excellent takes!

[@gregorydejean8389]

You are such a joy to which to listen! I thank you for your intelligence…

[@ThatWitchesRealm]

Shared this....lovely...thanks for another great video🖤💫🤍

[@ArithHärger]

thank you for the support! :)

[@ivar3654]

Tradição é a voz dos Antigos a falar conosco! Muito obrigado Arith!

[@brandonrunyan2546]

My wife & I recently moved to a small town; she joined a Facebook group for the local pagan community as a way to get to know people & hopefully find a friend- but she said she had to leave the group because it was more intolerant than she ever remembers any Christian community & she's alright, of course; but it really did bother her deeper than she let on 😢

[@SistersOfTheWell]

Tell her not to give up. Some groups are bad but others may not be. I have had more luck in looking for connection in one then finding a group. Good luck to her! Don't give up!

[@Djurberg74]

That makes me very sad to heat…

[@6Haunted-Days]

Yep that's cuz it's a human nature issue, not a xtian one. 🙄🤮🤡 sucks so much tho!!! That's why I gave up on groups of covens. Solitary for decades. No BS power trips & all else.

[@Karen-tq6fb]

Speaking about folklore… In their “myths”, Aboriginal Australians has spoke about astronomical events that happened thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago. Scientists have verified that these events were actual occurrences, n that these people have handed down accurate information.

[@redcrowdawn]

I really appreciated what you said around the 11 minutes, 30 seconds mark in the video about the indigenous, the depression, and the thieving of their culture, traditions, etc. This may not seem related to the video and the indigenous, but bear with me -- most people celebrate thanksgiving in america today, yet most don't know it's also National Day of Mourning -- a holiday marked each american thanksgiving by the indigenous of this continent, and indigenous from around the globe join them in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Leonard Peltier always writes a letter from prison, and it's read aloud in Plymouth. He was wrongfully imprisoned DECADES ago and spends much or all of his time in solitary confinement for a crime he PROVABLY (not probably) didn't commit!! He suffers from depression and diabetes from the $h¡T "food" he's fed in prison, and he was framed by the american government for killing an agent that the govt actually killed!!! He just wants to go home for the holidays. He is an elderly man now. He wants and needs to be with his people, and on his land. I want to help him be free after his horrible, unfair trial and denied appeals by a crooked judge. Thank you for another amazing video. Spending money on being your patron is one of the best things I do each month!

[@6Haunted-Days]

Yea I don't celebrate it. This video isn't about thanksgiving tho, not sure WHY you'd think it was or about ANY American holidays? That's not folklore 🙄🤷🏼‍♀️ sure hope you don't think it is....& I know it's hard to grasp but this channel isn't about "that" stuff.....it's much more ancient witchcraft or pagan folklore & practices. Ya know it's not like the xtian missionaries didn't DESTROY & DECIMATE my ancestors spiritually & our very way of life. We were the LAST to fall to evil xtianity..... I'm guessing you know NONE about that....probably just assumed a ton.

[@Greentrianglegallery]

Hellooooo Arith !!!!❤

[@nyxdiosavibes]

Thank you for teaching me something new with every video ❤

[@markdibben7890]

beautiful ginger kitty walked behind you at 5m15s

[@onyxdefortuitous2783]

🙌🌟🔥BLESS YOU ARITH🔥🌟🙌 💕💕💕this video is FIRE💕💕💕

[@stewartthomas2642]

Love your stuff kick on love it

[@ansari1375]

Would you explain a little bit about the wooden stick? What's its purpose and how it relates to the environment?

[@johnedwards8550]

I very much appreciate this!

[@heimdalsen721]

"Le folklore, c'est la mort du mythe". M.E. [maybe, I forgot] Your def. is intresting as your location. Talking about living folklore, standing in an old abadonned garden. (or former cultivated place)

[@judithparker4608]

Thankyou......ENGLISH IN 1971 UK !!

[@Charles-oo8bq]

Truth as usual.

[@Charles-oo8bq]

Heart channeling

[@AveTyr]

Hey, Arith, I have a question for you. Is there any information on Norse God of art? especially in the case of drawing or something more related to this, rather that for example poetry (which is Bragi) as far as I know.

[@MeaningSeekerPod]

More like this please 👏

[@teresa6775]

QUESTION FOR ANYONE THAT CAN ANSWER: I'm not trying to be controversial, just trying to learn and understand. Thinking about all religions and their beginnings. The how, when, and why's. WHEN did paganism begin ? How did it get the name "pagan". Who deemed it to be named "pagan" ??? I realize religions of today were initially created to start divide and war amongst us "peasants" . It is, however, how maintain a controllable narrative and one of the ways make a large amount of money. So, by-passing all that....What are the beginnings of Paganism ????

[@phillipr.mctear8962]

👍

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

AAAAARIIIIIIIIITH HAAARGERRRRR!!!

[@stephaniewilson5284]

FOLKLORE SAVES LIVES

[@cat_is_wizard7211]

I love this Guy

[@ArithHärger]

Yeah me too. Starting to grow on me :0

[@melissabrentford8260]

Me too🌷

[@cat_is_wizard7211]

@@ArithHärger ;"D

[@heimdalsen721]

This year I made my peace with Holloween. It did not occur in our region. Although I see it as a symptom of globalisation, the great leveller. Could it become real folklore. Or is it like compare Mc D. with real food. Just my thoughts.

[@dahliagovan]

💚

[@ArithHärger]

[@joutavainen2920]

some people will always rather choose the "beautiful lie" than the "harsh truth". to me, in this day, it´s actually new age that represents the "beautiful lie", they´ve picked up all the horrible remnants of the monoteistic thinking and spiced it up with some "spirit animals" and "chakras". it´s sickening to me.. not what individual practicioners do, but the evil fucks behind the choices, it reminds me of one certain now defunct older religion that never made any sense either. better to be harsh but true than fake and clueless! (any group of more than two people you will already disagree with, some can´t even agree with one person, i think they call it marriage)

[@joutavainen2920]

or i guess it´s fake and loving, i put two negatives on them :) the point being that all the (later day) religions seem to be is but a battleground of different human attributes. if you add too many then you risk a civil war, or things becoming convoluted. and if too few then all you do is create more fanatics to the world, love fanatics, but fanatics all the same (back then they didn´t even pretend it was love, it was the "wrath of god", the opposite lesser emotion). you have to go outside people, or you might become like that.. "but a second hand emotion", listen to the (real) wise women, look at what the animals do, look at what the trees do. do trees love each other? sometimes they do grow next to one another, so they tolerate each other.. they certainly make babies, even if avoid direct contact.. if you listen closely they do seem to speak to one another.. but love, i don´t think so.. it´s possible, but not proven :) at least pick an emotion that is relevant to (human) life.. like eating, equals pleasure, strength, don´t hate everyone that eats! (i guess you could now even do that, you can always do everything wrong)

[@joutavainen2920]

that thought train ended because i was struggling to find human emotions that are essential to good life. even compared to basic things like food.. because without food everything goes to shit real fast (i dare anyone to try). without emotions, especially secondary ones like love or hate (i think i can do without). it´s not even regular love they´re talking about, it´s "unconditional love" (abstract nonsense, there´s always conditions). if it was important there would be a word for it, there isn´t (only mother´s love comes to mind, and is that even unconditional). it´s very unnatural, everything they´re trying to spin, they actually call natural things "low vibes".. well, i call their thoughts dog poo, floating dog boo (without any hatred, just observation). joy! that´s the one that the animals do (after getting food, or before). joy good, love bad.

[@joutavainen2920]

also they´re always surprised when i just directly say yes i am the trickster :) they think it´s a bad thing (which shows their previous religious leanings). where i come from tricksters are very loved.. like a famous finnish trickster recently passed down, in the movies he was always playing the fool that showed people what not to do.. i remember in one scene he was doing ski jumping, and every time he landed differently, with a crazy face to the camera.. that´s a witch playing the role of an actor :) i also was on the trickster path for a while when i was younger, i just don´t have the chops for it (it´s hard because you get hated for playing a role, something that you really aren´t). love and hate again there, they go hand in hand.. that´s why they´ve chosen that particular pairing (of all the less destructive ones).

[@markushanell7253]

Easy told 😀

[@Greentrianglegallery]

Meow meow…5;10

[@Greentrianglegallery]

❤

[@Greentrianglegallery]

You know my son and I say the ginger ones are portal time lord meows….watching over us for all of the kitties ….