Ukraine’s Living Infolklore

As Ukraine’s new dragon fire delivering drone, or its Carouselling Baba Yaga UAV, or the Witches of Bucha shooting down Ruschists’ Shaed drones or the Sirens of Marvki’s camouflage knitting for Ukrainian defenders demonstrate:

The Mana of folklore is also immanent in our Counter Disinfolklore.

We CAN control Ruschist War Magic. If we fight fire with fire, magic against magic.

Source: Twitter Note (2024)

In 1840s Kharkhiv University led the collection of folktales that established Ukrainianess in the face of Russian oppression.

Source: Twitter Note (2024)

Ukraine provides the living proof. Dragon fire drones (folklore motif), Baba Yaga UAV (reappropriating the witch archetype), Witches of Bucha (women as agents of defence), Sirens of Marvki (domestic craft as resistance) — this is Infolklore made real. Organic, bottom-up, community-building stories of resistance. The same city (Kharkiv) being bombarded today was once the centre of Ukrainian Infolklore.

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