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
Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War."
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