I do love a corn dolly, but some of them, like these living, walking corn dollys of Devizes, are just a bit weird!

#wiltshire #corndolly #weird

Ukrainian custom that is similar to rituals in other European countries

#poetry #didukh #corndolly #grandfatherspirit #lastsheaf #harvest #ukraine #ukrainiancustom #uk #poland #romania #germany #brierfieldpoet #scythe #sickle #craft #christmas #winter

Patch & I are enjoying a slow start to #Caturday 😻♥️ Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Today I’m hoping to transcribe more #Sudbourne school log books. Tomorrow I’m going to another #CornDolly workshop @butserancientfarm.co.uk

#LocalHistory #SocialHistory

2/2 I also had the chance to chat briefly with artist @chrischarlespark about the West Wycombe Caves and the Uffington White Horse.

We are back tomorrow for more!

#chalklander #whitehorse #uffingtonwhitehorse #aveburystones #CherhillWhiteHorse #corndolly #artexhibitions #folklore #folkart

8/1は #盛夏 #Luchnassas #Lammas #pagan #Sabbath です
🌾🌽🌾イングランドで文明が機械化する前に信じられた穀物に宿る精霊 #CornDolly #CornMother と呼ばれ収穫後の麦藁やトウモロコシの芯や皮で精霊人形を作り来年の豊作を願われた🌽 #AugustEve
今年は初めてCorndollyを作ってみた

Craft a Corn Dolly for Lughnasadh: A Pagan Harvest Tradition Jump to Craft There’s a special kind of joy that comes from working with our hands, especially when we’re crafting something rooted in tradition, beauty, and intention. As the first golden hints of harvest appear and the sun begins its slow descent, the Lughnasadh or Lammas Sabbat invites us to pause and celebrate what the earth has begun to yield. One of the most delightful ways to do that?

This Lughnasadh, honor the first harvest by crafting a traditional corn dolly 🌾

A sacred symbol of seasonal abundance, add this simple yet meaningful creation to your harvest altar ✨

Learn to make yours on Onescence🔗📄

#onescence #yourascensionconnection #corndolly #cornhuskdoll #seasonalcraft

A heart made of straw, tied with red ribbon. I need to tidy the ribbons up so that they hang better!

This is a countryman’s favour, which young men would have worn to hiring fairs in Victorian times. They’d attach something to it to denote the type of work they were looking for, in this case sheep’s wool for a shepherd.

This is a Suffolk lantern, a sort of tiny hanging basket. It’s a bit scruffy because (a) I’m a beginner to corn-dolly making & this is the first one I’ve made, & (b) because the straw will shrink slightly as it dries out, I have to leave it overnight before chopping the ends off.

I had a lovely day making #CornDollies at @butserancientfarm.co.uk today. I’ve done a couple of #CornDolly workshops there before, they’re always so much fun! It’s a red-listed craft & is in danger of dying out. My ancestors were from #Suffolk, so I was thrilled to find a Suffolk piece to make!

A shot of a rather groovy old bookshop and a corn dolly in the shape of a witch flying on her broomstick

Broomstick corn dolly at Atlantis Bookshop #bloomsbury #london #witches #corndolly #occult

#AIprompt: twig and straw people at
#stonehenge
#hedgewitch - ing
#wyrd - ing
#corndolly

#WickerMan #GreenMan #FolkHorror
#Wyrd #Hauntology #Krampus
#Belsnickel #Schwartz #Roetveegpiet
#SootyPiet Rooty Piet #MudHead #Clod & #Roots Klaus #SandyClaws
#CornDolly #Ontology of (the)
Form(less) #Herne #Pan #Satyr #Faun
#WildMan #Archetypes #Silvanus #Antlers #Woodlands #GreenKnight
#Daghda

Beaver moon over Butser Ancient Farm

The welcoming entrance to the Iron Age roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm

Beaver moon over Butser Ancient Farm

Topping up the fire during a storytelling event at Butser Ancient Farm

Thank you @butserancientfarm.bsky.social for another wonderful storytelling event on Friday! The stories were great and we especially loved the snippets of archaeology in between them. Only a couple of weeks until we’re back for a #CornDolly workshop 🔥🛖🔥

Fine line pen drawing of 12 corn dollies arranged in a circular 'clock'. An adder bites its tail in the centre, swallows fly overhead, and harvest mice nibble seeds at the bottom.

Folklore, and the stories we use to try and understand ourselves are another recurring theme. I like getting really into it with the detail and the symmetry, like with this large drawing, The Corn Dolly Clock.

#drawing #corndolly #folklore #edinburghart