Hawthorn hedge in May blossom
Hawthorn hedges look amazing in their May blossom (and their autumn berries).
In folklore they’re associated with spring fertility and with faeries. Thomas the Rhymer entered another world via a hawthorn tree
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From folklore to pharmacology: the chemical roots of witchcraft #FolklyFriday #Folklore
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A tradition called the "Bartlemas bun run" involves children receiving currant buns for completing a lap around the church after a service, while adults receive a biscuit stamped with the local hospital's seal - from A Clerk of Oxford #FolklyFriday
"The Familiars' Joyride" print is Kat Philbin
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In Celtic & Welsh folklore, #witches shapeshift into black cats prowling the edge of worlds. Feared & revered, they spy curse, or protect sacred sites under the moon. Crossing a black cat on #Fridaythe13th Bad luck or secret guardian? 🥛 Milk outside your front door brings blessings.
For #FolklyFriday, meet #Blodeuwedd, Welsh mythology’s “Flower face,” crafted from broom, meadowsweet, & oak. Wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes, her betrayal led to an owl’s curse. Monster or pawn of fate? #Mabinogion @threeravenspod.bsky.social
🎨 by Selina Fenech
A statue of Manannan mac Lir over Lough Foyle, showing a man naked from the waist up with his arms extended, in half a boat that disappears when it is misty. The statue was removed during filming for Game of Thrones.
The Isle of Man is named for its divine protector, the son of the sea himself: Manannan mac Lir is the Lord of Tir na nOg, and covers the Manx people with his cloak of mists, which he can also use to make people forget. #FolklyFriday
Black and white illustration of The Nine Maidens by William Copeland Borlase 1872
Boskednan stone circle (grid reference SW434351) is a partially restored prehistoric stone circle near Boskednan, around 4 miles (6.4 kilometres) northwest of the town of Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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Plough towed by an old-fashioned tractor and two shire horses outside a church.
Around Plough Monday - the 1st Monday after 6th Jan - 'plough lights' burned in churches to bless farmworkers' efforts. Sometimes the village plough - loaned out to those who couldn't afford their own - was kept in the church & presumably benefitted from the blessings too. #FolklyFriday #folklore
Perchta-type figure from the Kingdom of Bohemia in a 1910 photograph. A female figure wears a hideous mask and a shawl and long dress. A male figure stands behind with a beard and horns.
Perchta is a #Christmas witch or monster found in Austria and Bavaria. She rewards good children, but bad children are slit open with a ploughshare, disembowelled, stuffed with straw & sewn up using a chain as thread. #FolklyFriday #folklore #Yule #gothic #weird
Photo of two ghostly figures walking down a road hand-in-hand at sundown
"The Breton Celt makes no distinction between the living and the dead. All alike inhabit this world, the one being visible, the other invisible [...] The Bretons speak of the dead indirectly, and even then with fear and trembling."
- 'The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries'
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📷: Jr Korpa
