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I photographed this couple of Tomte hanging at a window of my hotel room in Copenhagen but found them in a trift market of a Danish village. So cute, rustic, well handcrafted and funny with those wooden clogs and their beige & deep orange clothes. The Tomte are like gnomes, tiny creatures believed to live in the countryside around the farmers with the task of safeguarding him, his land and his family, to be protective especially at night as well as against any misfortune. Of course Tomte/Nisse are magic.
Still nowadays the Scandinavian gnome is an exciting part of Nordic traditional culture, especially for kids & an important element of the Christmas celebration.

Notice how many natural materials have been applied for those two puppets: fabric, wool yarns, soft cloth, wood and knitted wool for the long johns. I think the thin rope was meant to hung them in the home. To keep them tied together I used a woolen yarn from the old gnome's beard :-)

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Italian postcard. Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, Ambrosio 1912). Siegfried gloriously returns to the castle of his father, where he is celebrated during a banquet in his honour.

Italian postcard. Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, Ambrosio 1912). King Gunther welcomes Siegfried and tells him he may marry Kriemhild if he manages to liberate Queen Brunhild and bring her to Gunther as Gunther's wife.

Italian postcard. Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, Ambrosio 1912). Siegfried's father gives his son a mighty sword and sends him to King Gunther's court with an army of soldiers. Yet, later on Siegfried liberates the gnome Mime, who pays back by making Siegfried a magic sword. With this sword Siegfried will extinguish the ring of fire around Brunhild, held in captivity.

Italian postcard. Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, Ambrosio 1912). Siegfried hears about the fair Kriemhilde, a Burgundian princess and the sister of King Gunther.

Italian postcard. Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, Ambrosio 1912). A maid overhears the conspiracy against Siegfried by Brunhild (Antonietta Calderari) and Hagen (Serafino Vité), but Hagen threatens to kill her if she betrays them. After Siegfried's death, Kriemhild will avenge herself by raising an enormous army against the conspirators, who have hidden in a castle of the Burgundians. Kriemhild's army invades the castle, sets it on fire, and defeats the Burgundians. According to the brochure of the film Kriemhild kills Brunhild by her own hand. The existing print lacks the last meters, so we don't see the ending of Brunhild and Hagen.

Siegfried / Sigfrido was a typical Ambrosio adaptation of the famous Nibelungenlied. The film initially follows the plot of the Nibelungenlied but greatly condenses and alters the second part of the saga (after Siegfried's death), even if Kriemhild's revenge is kept as a thriving force. Siegfried's slaying of the dragon, so prominent in Fritz Lang's film Die Nibelungen I. Siegfried (1924), has a small part in the original saga and is absent in the Ambrosio film (according to the brochure). Also, the use of the Tarnkappe, the cloak that makes invisible and thus deceives Brunhild, lacks. NB the volume Il cinema muto italiano 1912, part 2, by Aldo Bernardini and Vittorio Martinelli, indicates Dario Silvestri as playing Siegfried, while he looks very similar to the actor playing Parsifal in the eponymous film (Caserini, 1912) by Ambrosio, identified by B&M as Vitale De Stefano. The film Siegfried was released in Italy in October 1912. Both Siegfried and Parisfal were made in 1912 as prologue to the Richard Wagner centenary in 1913. Arrigo Frusta wrote the script, while Angelo Scalenghe did the cinematography. A print of the film exists within the Komiya Collection in Japan and was screened at the 2018 edition of the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bolologna.

For the film's Italian brochure, see www2.museocinema.it/collezioni/Muto.aspx. For the Nibelungenlied, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied. For the screening of the Komiya Collection print in Bologna, see the text by Hiroshi Komatsu in the catalogue: festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/siegfried/

Fernanda Negri Pouget (1889-1955) was an Italian actress who starred in the Italian silent cinema of the 1910s. Little is known about the private life of Antonietta Calderari (dates of birth and death lack), but it is clear she was an actress at Turinese film companies all through her career in the 1910s and early 1920s.

Italian postcard by Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Photo: Ambrosio. Publicity still for Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, 1912). Siegfried has cowardly been killed by Hagen during a hunting party. King Gunther and his men discover the body.

Italian postcard. Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, Ambrosio 1912). Brunhild is jealous of Siegfried and Kriemhild and plots his assassination with the help of Hagen, who loves Brunhild.

Fernanda Negri Pouget (1889-1955) was an Italian actress who starred in the Italian silent cinema of the 1910s. Little is known about the private life of Antonietta Calderari (dates of birth and death lack), but it is clear she was an actress at Turinese film companies all through her career in the 1910s and early 1920s.

Italian postcard. Società Augusta Torino incise, Silvistrelli e Cappelletto Torino imprese. Siegfried aka Sigfrido (Mario Caserini, Ambrosio 1912). As thanks for delivering Brunhild to king Gunther, Siegfried may marry Kriemhild. Brunhild is furious as she is in love with Siegfried.

Fernanda Negri Pouget (1889-1955) was an Italian actress who starred in the Italian silent cinema of the 1910s. Little is known about the private life of Antonietta Calderari (dates of birth and death lack), but it is clear she was an actress at Turinese film companies all through her career in the 1910s and early 1920s.

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“La paura ha creato gli dei”

Representación en escultura de concreto, del ser mitológico "Ten-ten vilú", en la plazuela Martín Ruiz de Gamboa en Castro - Chiloé.
Según la mitología chilota, antiguamente la isla no existía, era parte del continente americano. Luego, la acción de Cai cai vilu, ser mitad serpiente y mitad pez, que tenía el poder sobre el mar, hundió esta parte de América. Ante lo cual, sin tardanza reaccionó Ten ten vilú, otro ser parecido al anterior, que tenía poder sobre la tierra. Luego de un enfrentamiento entre ambos, parte de la tierra que había quedado sumergida, fue restituida a su altura anterior, constituida ahora en una isla, la isla de Chiloé.

Coordenadas: -42.481877, -73.768453

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Representación en escultura de concreto, de los seres mitológicos Ten-ten vilú y Cai-cai vilú, en la plazuela Martín Ruiz de Gamboa en Castro - Chiloé.
Según la mitología chilota, antiguamente la isla no existía, era parte del continente americano. Luego, la acción de Cai cai vilu, ser mitad serpiente y mitad pez, que tenía el poder sobre el mar, hundió esta parte América. Ante lo cual, sin tardanza reaccionó Ten ten vilú, otro ser parecido al anterior, que tenía poder sobre la tierra. Luego de un enfrentamiento entre ambos seres, parte de la tierra que había quedado sumergida, fue restituida a su altura anterior, constituida ahora en una isla, la isla de Chiloé.

Coordenadas: -42.481877, -73.768453

Representación en escultura de concreto, de los seres mitológicos Ten-ten vilú y Cai-cai vilú, en la plazuela Martín Ruiz de Gamboa en Castro - Chiloé.
Según la mitología chilota, antiguamente la isla no existía, era parte del continente americano. Luego, la acción de Cai cai vilu, ser mitad serpiente y mitad pez, que tenía el poder sobre el mar, hundió esta parte América. Ante lo cual, sin tardanza reaccionó Ten ten vilú, otro ser parecido al anterior, que tenía poder sobre la tierra. Luego de un enfrentamiento entre ambos seres, parte de la tierra que había quedado sumergida, fue restituida a su altura anterior, constituida ahora en una isla, la isla de Chiloé.

Coordenadas: -42.481877, -73.768453

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