blaft

blaft, 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to folklore

Editing a story for our Anti-Caste SF book, I have just been alerted to the fact that the colloquial expression for a "sunshower"--in languages ranging from the southern tip of India all the way to Korea and Japan--is "a wedding of foxes/jackals".

My mind is a little blown!

In the Philippines, it's a wedding of Tikbalangs!

There's a cool-looking academic paper about how this might have been transmitted, but it's in Korean

https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART003068703

#sunshowers #folklore