Hungarian #FolktaleMoment of the day:

You know the folktales where fairy maidens are taking a bath, and the "hero" steals the dress of one of them to force her to be his wife?
(Also in Selkie stories)

Well I just read a Hungarian folktale where the guy steals the dress - at which point the fairy walks up to him, slaps him across the face, and takes the dress back.

Pop off, queen.

#folklore #folktales #storytelling

@TarkabarkaHolgy love this. Can you share the name or a link to the story? (And any others similar to this)

@suramya I found it in the Magyar Nyelvőr linguistic archives. It's called Tündérszép Majlona. (Problem is it was transcribed phonetically from dialect so Google Translate wouldn't handle it well)

@TarkabarkaHolgy @suramya TIL there are things even harder to read than regular Hungarian. 😱