🎨 Pieter Brueghel the Younger: Autumn (Slaughter and Pressing the Grapes), 1624.
#FolkyFriday #November 🐏
In Anglo-Saxon tradition, Blōtmōnaþ, the "Blood Month," was when herds were ritually #sacrifced to feed families, and honor the dead before winter.
Scholars note no specific deity is linked to these rites.
Spill blood, then feast, survival meets the divine.
#BloodMonth 🩸
For soon the year will collapse,
fold its hands across its lap,
wheeze and rattle its last.
#bloodmonth #November #poetry
Blood month is crazy. I wanna be big and pregnant and heavy but I'm ace????????? Sigh... Megs would be the sire, I'm legit Optimus Prime with an attitude cuz I said so
... I'll probably write more on my TFCD heavily pregnant oppy short fic.
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#bloodmonth #period #ugh #tfcd #megatron #optimusprime
Blōtmōnaþ— shadowed nights where villagers gather around the flames of twisted shadows. The meats are salted, food preserved; charms and wardings presented at ancient crossroads, and doorframes marked.
Time to bind spirits and curse the creatures of winter.
#Folklore #November #BloodMonth
