2026-09-04 06:13 UTC
I just realized that I have the perfect anti-AI story:
King Cormac and the Silver Branch
It's an Irish legend about a wise king who is visited by a mysterious otherworldly stranger bearing a silver branch with golden apples. Shaking the branch produces such a wonderful music that people immediately forget their pain and sorrows and daily worries.
King Cormac covets the branch, and is willing to pay whatever price the stranger sets for it.
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#AI #folklore #legends #mythology
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@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social 2026-09-04 06:16
The visitor gives Cormac the branch and leaves. For a year Cormac uses the enchanting music to deal with every problem in his kingdom. Instead of listening and dispensing justice, he just shakes the branch. In one year the stranger comes back for the first installment of the payment: Cormac's daughter. The next year, he takes his son. Then his wife. Cormac is left alone. He uses the branch to dull the pain, but he eventually realizes the mistake he'd made, swapping people for easy magic. 2/3