During the Renaissance, maps often featured monsters to indicate dangerous and unknown places. Scientists have collected 1,200 testimonies and identified 600 specific locations associated with myths about werewolves, devils, dragons, giants, and other creatures. Researchers have developed a map that combines folklore with modern cartographic technology, highlighting locations associated with mythological and supernatural stories. The work focuses on regions of Northern Europe and aims to combine history, culture and cartographic art, writes Heritage Daily. Researchers from the Polish Academy of Sciences have created a map covering Pomerania and Mecklenburg. Created at a scale of 1:720,000, it combines the aesthetics of a Renaissance map with modern geographic information systems (GIS). The project collected 1,200 pieces of folklore from German and Polish sources and identified 600 specific locations associated with myths about werewolves, devils, dragons, giants and other creatures. According to ethnologist Dr. Robert Petrovsky, these stories often focus on local sites where strange events were believed to have taken place, such as witches gathering in the mountains or giants throwing boulders. The researchers were inspired by the artistic heritage of Italian Renaissance maps, famous for their depictions of mythical creatures. “In the past, these monsters often occupied empty spaces on maps, symbolizing unexplored or mysterious regions,” explained Dr. Dariusz Brykala, a geographer specializing in historical cartography. In this approach, the team aimed to capture the cultural and artistic atmosphere of previous cartographic traditions. While early maps combined scientific precision with artistic creativity, modern cartography has shifted towards interactive and digital methods. The post Monster Lairs Mapped: Researchers Create Map of Northern European Folklore appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Point and laugh at The Hollywood Reporter. After four years of Team Biden pressuring Big Tech to crush dissent on social media, not to mention Team Biden pressuring the news media to crush any word of Biden’s mental decline, they’re going to warn the world about Donald Trump and censorship. The silly headline on this silly article is “Trump’s Media Censorship Arsenal Is Growing.” Beware, says the subhead: “A new roadmap for the president-elect and his advisors to chill free speech has surfaced as he targets networks critical of him.” Nowhere in this 1,000-word joke does young Berkeley-educated writer Winston Cho mention Biden or his team’s tawdry record of censorship and “chilling” negative reporting in any way, shape, or form. Journalists on the Left hypocritically clothe themselves in the mantle of democracy and free speech while they tolerate the crudest censorship and political pressure being brought to serve the most powerful Democrats. Then consider the hilarious notion that Donald Trump is going to turn the anti-Trump media into a harmless yarn basket full of toothless kittens. Network evening-news coverage of Donald Trump has been routinely and relentlessly 90 percent negative in every study we’ve done at NewsBusters. But the left seems terrified that Trump might be able to pressure the media into making it what? 70 percent negative? At one point in the last campaign, Kamala Harris was drawing 100 percent positive evening-news coverage on ABC. So of course, Cho’s panic began with ABC settling with Trump rather than letting us see all the internal George Stephanopoulos emails. We can’t have the slightest fraction of a chance that ABC News and Stephanopoulos would somehow transform into a slightly more moderate network. It continued with the notion that Trump would cause this Supreme Court to revisit the New York Times vs. Sullivan ruling, which makes it nearly impossible for public figures to sue malicious and/or corrupt media outlets. “The specter of Trump toppling a pillar of First Amendment jurisprudence has emerged as one of several weapons in his censorship arsenal,” wrote Cho. Democracy and journalism somehow survived before the New York Times won over the Supreme Court in 1964.   Then there’s the unintentionally hilarious worry from journalists that Trump shouldn’t be using “lawfare” to make their lives difficult and expensive. Oh really? And what do they think they’ve been relentlessly promoting and weaponizing all these Trump years? The lawfare shoe was delightful….on the other foot. Third, there’s the worry that Trump’s arsenal includes “Loyalists serving as heads of regulatory agencies who can steer networks away from coverage critical of him and his administration.” FCC chair Brendan Carr is making noise about reviewing TV news coverage, so “long-term incentives to stay out of Trump’s crosshairs by toning down adversarial coverage persist.” These people are terrified at the prospect of “toning down adversarial coverage.” Perhaps they would witness less use of words like “fascist” and “end of democracy.” Maybe Trump will merely be described as “oafish” and “stupid.” Cho is appalled that Stephanopoulos can’t claim repeatedly that Trump is a rapist. Mediaite founder Dan Abrams recently admitted “there is a level of Trump derangement syndrome among some that they are completely incapable of giving him credit for anything.” Any encouraging word about Trump is “normalizing” him. The abnormal people here are the anti-Trump ranters who can’t seem to fathom that every president tries – sometimes gently, sometimes roughly -- to “tone down adversarial coverage.” These haters just can’t be honest enough to confess they don’t object to Democrats like Biden censoring critical narratives and pressuring reporters to avoid negativity and repeat Democrat happy talk. 

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