#jewish legend

[wamorris56-monstertheater]

'The Golem' 1920. Directed by and starring Paul Wegener. Movie posters.

[briefbestiary]

The Shamir. Despite its age and use, apparently it had lost its potency around the time of destruction of Solomon's Temple at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar II.

[fira54funko]

Azazel.

The Scapegoat.

[phoenixwarehouseproductions2]

https://youtube.com/shorts/kJPiyGvNFAM?si=6frxLp2h6h1vPv3b

Why are people like him not taught about in schools anymore?!

[forthegothicheroine]

In further research into Yiddish collections of Arthuriana, my father found a story of Gawain. You'll never guess what it is, I guarantee. Go on, guess. You're wrong.

It's a Yiddish story about Sir Gawain becoming Emperor of China.

[lunarobyn22]

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year! I wanted a quick sketch and then this appeared after a 2 hour time warp.

the tags have info you might appreciate

[david-goldrock]

I just love it when schnee uses Judaism in his analysis, it's always so beautiful

[drawn-and-talk-of-peace]

Am I writing a college AU specifically so Jinx can call Silco “abba”? Maybe.

[meshiitsukaii]

Link celebrates Rosh Hashanah! Shanah Tovah!

[slyandthefamilybook]

Who said l'chaim in the finale? Was it Scanlan?

[wamorris56-monstertheater]

'The Golem' 1920. Directed by and starring Paul Wegener. Movie posters.

[chase-evergreen80]

[ethanfreemanappreciation]

Ethan and Jill Washington - The Phantom of the Opera - West End 1995

[forthegothicheroine]

I will make a longer post about this later but I got access to the library's vault and asked if they had any rare Arthuriana and I am Indiana freaking Jones right now and I have this in my hands

I am happy, ancestors, that I sought out the same stories of King Arthur that you thought worth recording in Yiddish. I am honored that I hold this volume from the 16th century that you printed in my hands.

I am sorry and ashamed that I cannot read it.

[ace-hell]

Can someone tell me why the sudden siren at 3am woke me up and my brain just immediately started singing "the line" by 21 pilots? 😭

[ouroboros8ontology]

The mezuzah was also an object of suspicion, and at the same time desire. That it was regarded as a magical device by Christians we know, for a fifteenth-century writer admonished his readers to affix a mezuzah to their doors even when they occupied a house owned by a non-Jew, despite the fact that the landlord might accuse them of sorcery. Indeed, the Jews in the Rhineland had to cover over their mezuzot, for, as a thirteenth-century writer complained, “the Christians, out of malice and to annoy us, stick knives into the mezuzah openings and cut up the parchment,” Out of malice, no doubt—but the magical repute of the mezuzah must have lent special force to their vindictiveness. Yet even Christians in high places were not averse to using these magical instruments themselves. Toward the end of the fourteenth century the Bishop of Salzburg asked a Jew to give him a mezuzah to attach to the gate of his castle, but the rabbinic authority to whom this Jew turned for advice refused to countenance so outrageous a prostitution of a distinctively religious symbol.

Joshua Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion; The Legend of Jewish Sorcery