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Was reading about Ispolin last night, a race of pre-human giants that lived along-side modern humans in the mountains of Bulgaria and didn't care for blackberries...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is…
Woke up to a reddit alert on my phone telling me "Bulgarian Palaeolithic modern humans and Neanderthals fucked"
https://www.inverse.com/science/…
Honestly want to know how the blackberry/bramble worked its way in to this tale, its cast as an a fucker in every culture... In Ireland the blackberries are said to be cursed until you turn them in to wine, which is very convenient.
I'm convinced every time I free the dog from a vine at some point in human development the bramble was a more formidable opponent but I'm not sure that's what toppled the 'reclusive mountain giants' - I'm guessing we probably fucked them and THEN killed and THEN ate them and washed it down with blackberry wine.
- thank you for this! i am talking to a friend of bulgarian origin to learn more.renderedred
- Having just this week cleared a bramble from our garden, I suspect you've simply not met your match yet.Nairn
- hah, been there a few times, painful. i've been suspicious of them since i saw this vid a few years ago https://www.youtube.…kingsteven
- got curious and started looking for references in mythology and such and every story the bramble is a bastardkingsteven
- yup, now i researched too, many folklore tales have it as the "bad guy".renderedred