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[normalhumanbein]

Things I learned about last night: in some parts of Romania an apparently ficititious country the guy who gave the talk I went to made up, there's a folk belief that if you're walking through a forest and see a blue light, you should stop and dig under it, because there will be treasure.

Things rubynye has linked to this morning: NASA's The Universe Is

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[rheakurokawa]

: in some parts of Romania, there's a folk belief that if you're walking through a forest and see a blue light, you should stop and dig under it, because there will be treasure.

wat?

where did you read that? there are a lot of ur-beliefs in romania that's true, but i don't think i...

(is romanian)

[normalhumanbein]

Eeek. I went to a talk by a historian who was really into folklore, but I guess he's just misinformed and or misciting? Will edit, sorry.

[rheakurokawa]

no no, it might be true. i don't know. maybe. i never heard of it that's all. but we have a lot of folklore so that might be true.

[rheakurokawa]

ok, so um. i went on research and indeed there are beliefs about treasures in romania that sound like what your historian said

Basically there is a belief that in the nights of big celebrations (easter, christmas, new year etc) the "clean", unwitched and uncursed treasures are burning. to find the places where the money is "dancing" or "bathing" (there's a belief the money , the coins are doing a dance) people were very attentive in the hope that they would see the "flames without heat", of blue color, that treasures have. The best time to find them are these nights of the big (and holy) celebrations. It was widely believed only few treasures could be found and from these, very few could be unearthed since they were witched, bound, unclean or given to the devil.

heh

[mercurybard]

There will be no insane space vampire fic
GIVE TO ME ALL YOUR INSANE SPACE VAMPIRE FICS!

...that was mildly creepy, but still!

[normalhumanbein]

LIKE SPACE PIRATES, ONLY MADDER.

[cold_clarity]

I. I just. How many space madness fics can one person have outlined at once, feasibly?

the answer: never enough.

also, entirely unrelated but. I thought you'd appreciate this little quip:

"...some of the guys look like they sleep with men for money."
-Gerard Way in an interview about Danger Days.

...I don't even have anything to say about this.

[normalhumanbein]

...I have nothing coherent to offer.

[cold_clarity]

basically, he wants us to write this verse. or something.

[bkm5191]

By 'no' you mean 'all the fic in the world' right?