In 1895, Hélène Guerber recorded an interesting belief about the Wild Hunt; if one heard the Wild Hunt and called out to it in bad faith, the Hunt would take you with it. But, if one called out to it in good faith, they’d drop a horse leg, which turned to gold when the sun rose. In the folk tale Grimm recorded, the Wild Hunt dropped a horse leg down the carpenter’s chimney, but he must have called out to them mockingly, hence his death. Painting by Johannes Wilhelm Cordes, 1856. 𐃏
In 1895, Hélène Guerber recorded an interesting belief about the Wild Hunt; if one heard the Wild Hunt and called out to it in bad faith, the Hunt would take you with it. But, if one called out to it in good faith, they’d drop a horse leg, which turned to gold when the sun rose. In the folk tale Grimm recorded, the Wild Hunt dropped a horse leg down the carpenter’s chimney, but he must have called out to them mockingly, hence his death. Painting by Johannes Wilhelm Cordes, 1856. 𐃏
After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war. In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation." Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements.
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