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Welcome to week 15 of a crazy journey through world folklore through my perspective. This week I’m visiting a creature from Georgian classic stories named Bakbak-Devi (ბაყბაყ-დევი).
From the little information I found in English, this appears to be some kind of multi-headed giant that lives in a cave with in a dark tale that includes kidnapping and of course a hero who plays a prank on the giant to rescue the hostages…
Here’s my imagination trying to portrait that hero:
I think the hero and the hostage are having an argument since our hero is playing its epic monologue before accomplishing the mission:
But of course, this is not about heroes, but the evil Devi who kidnapped the princess and her parents, King Nino and Queen Olivia, who are also arguing because he thinks everything is fine and there’s nothing to worry about, too much Hakuna-Matata Queen Olivia thinks.
Seems like in Bakbak-Devi tales, the hero heroine always plays tricks and games to defeat the giant, a classic from the playbook isn’t? So that’s why I’m intrigued by what happens in the middle of the stories, little details that the characters may have experienced but no one wrote about… or maybe they did, can anyone from Georgia here tell me more? Leave a comment if you know more about this.
Meanwhile, here you have a close up of fictitious King Nino and Queen Olivia who are still down there in the cave:
Hakuna-Matata
Have a wonderful weekend, see you next week with a little piece of the wonders that China has to offer.
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