Joseph Jacobs creator QS_P170,Q981949, Page 212 illustration in English Fairy Tales, Brownie, public domain
#FolkloreThursday: `A cattle-herding #brownie of the #Scottish islands, the #gunna hung about small farms making sure the cows did not trample the garden. As with many such helpful sprites, he went naked despite the weather. Any attempt to provide clothes […]
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The 'Land of the Ever Young' depicted by Arthur Rackham in Irish Fairy Tales (1920), public domain
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `In the plain of Bray, lay the Gardens of the Sun-god #Lugh. So sunny and so fair and fertile was that plain, with waving meadow-grass and buttercups, and the sweet may-blossom girdling the fields. Close all about the fort the […]
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The 'Land of the Ever Young' depicted by Arthur Rackham in Irish Fairy Tales (1920), public domain
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `In the plain of Bray, lay the Gardens of the Sun-god #Lugh. So sunny and so fair and fertile was that plain, with waving meadow-grass and buttercups, and the sweet may-blossom girdling the fields.
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Left: illustrated stratigraphic profile, showing the location of a chert cache at Cahal Pech, Belize. Right: sample of lithics from the cache and the cache in situ during excavation.
According to #Maya beliefs, chert stone embodied the lightning god, K’awiil #FolkloreThursday
Chert flakes were often layered over elite burials and chert caches played a role in ceremonial ancestor veneration.
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🏺 #Archaeology
Albert Herter artist QS-P170,Q556534, Garden of the Hesperides, public domain
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: Among the talismans #Lugh demanded from Tuireann's three sons as
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Albert Herter artist QS-P170,Q556534, Garden of the Hesperides, public domain
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: Among the talismans #Lugh demanded from Tuireann's three sons as
punishment for the murder of his father #Cian were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World). `Only these apples will […]
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artist QSP170,Q216406, Image detail from Burne-Jones Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon v2, cut out by 1. Neu-Kelte, CC0 1.0
#FolkloreThursday: One of the greatest #Celtic visions of the #Otherworld was that of Emain Albach, the Isle of Apples, a beautiful place of everlasting summer whose handsome residents danced the sun-drenched days away. The Otherworld looked like this world […]
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For the Muscogee Creek, mythical alligators were believed to guard the gateway between the physical and spiritual worlds!
Lovely piece of lore shared here!
#FolkloreThursday #Muscogee #Creek
Georgia Peach tree, photo from UGA Extension Service.
Got a sleepyhead, stubborn pear tree? Lore in these parts says you have to have a talk with it. Give it a firm warning and a gentle tap with a switch - this tells the tree it's time to wake up and produce! #FolkloreThursday #TreeLore #Folklore
Photo of Georgia Dogwoods, from UGA College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Watching for the blooms on the Dogwoods isn't just about the view, it's a foretoken! Once those white petals fall, the 'Little Winters' are over and the garden is safe. #FolkloreThursday #SouthernFolklore
Fruits and blossoms on the apple tree at the same time, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FolkloreThursday: The apples significance continues into folkloric uses such as that in the British Cotswolds, where an apple tree blooming out of season meant coming death. Symbolizing harmony and immortality, abundance and love, the apple was considered a […]
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In ancient Babylon, people believed the gods drew pictures of animals in the heavens to send messages through the night sky ✨✨✨
📖 from Lauren Cock Starkey’s Lore of the Stars
🎨 by Gillian Eilidh O'Mara
#FolkloreThursday #creationmythology #stars #constellations #SeaAndStars
Glad Påsk! Happy Easter!
Today in Sweden, this is the day witches get on their brooms with their coffee kettles and fly to the Blue Hill to party with the Devil.
Our terrible witch hunt history has morphed into a kids' Easter tradition similar to trick o treating for Halloween.
#FolkloreThursday
Illustration showing a mercury dime being buried at the corner of a garden plot.
In South Georgia, we don't just fence a garden; we "fix" it. Old lore says burying a Mercury Dime at the corners blinds the trickster rabbit and keeps haints from your harvest. A flash of silver in the soil ensures the earth is paid and the crop is protected. #FolkloreThursday #Conjure #FolkMagic
Redcap, the murderous goblin from Anglo-Scottish Borders folklore read more in my new: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror" folkloreofscotland.com #bookologythursday #folklorethursday art: "Recap" by Stephen G. Rae
Redcap, the murderous goblin from Anglo-Scottish Borders folklore
read more in my new: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror"
folkloreofscotland.com
#bookologythursday #folklorethursday
art: "Recap" by me
Fachan lives in the Highlands of Scotland. He's easily identified by his one eye, one arm and one leg! and read more in my: "Folklore of Scotland" bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookologythursday #folklorethursday art: "Fachan" by Stephen G. Rae
Fachan lives in the Highlands of Scotland. He's easily identified by his one eye, one arm and one leg!
and read more in my: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#bookologythursday #folklorethursday
art: "Fachan" by me
Sleeping beneath Blencathra is a dragon that guards the final resting place of King Arthur and his most loyal knights and read more in my: "Folklore of the Lake District" https://bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookologythursday #folklorethursday art: "Red Dragon" by me
Sleeping beneath Blencathra is a dragon that guards the final resting place of King Arthur and his most loyal knights
and read more in my: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#bookologythursday #folklorethursday
art: "Red Dragon" by me
Apparently Saturday's @bathcomedyfest.bsky.social funny folktales show has been moved up the road to the BELVOIR CASTLE, same time, 1pm. So here's Welsh folktale THE VERRIES OF PENNARD CASTLE this #FolkloreThursday, as a crowbarred-in reference. See you there! youtu.be/faK0YAKMVzY?... 🏴🏴🏴📚🏰
Something a little more modern for #FolkloreThursday today, #WitchSky. A folk horror masterclass expertly read by some great voices. Just an exquisite slow burn, I'm honestly in love with everything about this. Highly recommend.
Veronica’s guitar washed ashore at the Great Salt Lake—salted wood, broken strings, a poem tucked in the case: “I go where the dark sings.” Folks say at dusk you can still hear her chords across the water. #folklore #folklorethursday #utbanlegend #mysterious
Scottish Kelpie, a mythical, shape shifting spirit that inhabited lochs and rivers.
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#kelpies #art #UKMAKERS #folklorethursday #MHHSBD
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Thursday
#OnlineArtExchange
#FolkloreThursday
#TheatreThursday
#PoetryThursday
#BookologyThursday
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
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#HelmetThursday
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#RomanFortThursday
#ThatchThursday
#ThrowBackThursday
#ThursdayBins
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#Thursgate
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White Blackthorn flowers
"Beware the Blackthorn Winter"
A sudden cold snap, traditionally in April when the white blackthorn blossoms in hedgerows match the late winter frost and snow.
Blackthorn has a reputation as a "witch tree", with many a spell cast from a prick of their thorns.
#FolkloreThursday
A collage of nine close-up photographs of daisies, each with white petals and a golden-yellow centre, set against soft green backgrounds, showing subtle variations in form and detail.
The daisy, April’s birth flower, takes its name from the Old English “dæges ēage”, meaning “day’s eye”, for it opens with the light and closes again at dusk. Its Latin name, Bellis perennis, means “everlasting beauty”. #FolkloreThursday
Very pleased to be hosting another fantastic deep dive into Swedish folklore with the brilliant @helenerwin.bsky.social next #FolkloreThursday!
There are now just 4 tickets left for April's event!
Whether or not the pot remained on Nisshin's head until death is unclear.
Despite being in pain for the rest of his life (and possibly having his tongue cut out), Nisshin continued his missionary work (proving popular) and Honpō-ji was revived.
Pots: 2 / Men: 0
#folklorethursday
Legend has it that the pot melded to Nisshin's head just above the eyes...and because of this he later became known as 'Nabe-kamuri Nisshin' (鍋かむり日親 'Pot Head Nisshin').
Nisshin might have died in prison, but in 1441 Yoshinori was assassinated.
#folklorethursday #Japan
