#folktales
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #folktales from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-09 01:38 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-09 01:38 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 01:38 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~85538 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (35) · Hungarian (4) · Japanese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.2
Top of the latest posts
How did "prince rescuing princess from a tower" become such a universally referenced trope? Rapunzel doesn't get rescued by the prince. Actually none of the classic tower folktales I can think of (Canary Prince, Daughter of the Sun, Zal and
I was using Google Translate to scan through a German folktale. Which is how the king and queen of water popped up as Father Wet and Mrs. Moist. @juergen_hubert (Originally Vater Nass and Frau Feucht) #folklore #folktales #FolktaleMoment
It's here; I did it. A complete DRM-free ePub edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. Fully illustrated. Exclusively available at Ko-Fi. https://ko-fi.com/s/dc2dc44e47 #NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegen
What “folktales” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediafolktales
- nounA tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.
Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature has been transcribed. There is no standard definition, as anthropologists have used varying descriptions for oral literature or folk literature. A broad conceptualization refers to it as literature characterized by oral transmission and the absence of any fixed form. It includes the stories, legends, and history passed through generations
“Oral literature” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#folktales across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #folktales straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
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