#FolkloreThursday In harvest lore of Scotland the last sheaf could become the #Cailleach, the “Old Woman.” Kept through winter, the grain might later be fed to livestock or returned to the earth.

The old harvest spirit carried into the new. 🌾

🎨 Cailleach by Mairin-Taj Caya

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From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday

‘The Autumnal Equinox was celebrated with the oak, then big with acorns; a tree, from all antiquity thought most sacred.’

William Stukeley "Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects" (1763)
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"...in many a woodland district it is, perhaps even still, an item of boyish creed that if you go a-nutting on Sundays, Satan will come to your assistance, and hold down the boughs for you!"
By Mark Antony Lower in Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol.XIII, 1861. #FolkloreThursday #Sussex #Folklore

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In old Celtic harvest nights, folk hollowed turnips and hard turnips and set a coal inside lanterns for the thinning veil.

From Mabon on toward Samhain, that lit fire was said to guide the kindly dead and to send mischievous Fae and hungry spirits the long way home.

In Chinese tradition, the Moon Rabbit is seen in the markings of the moon, often pounding ingredients with a mortar and pestle. During the Mid-Autumn season, look up and one may see a man in the moon while another tradition finds a celestial rabbit at work. #FolkloreThursday

Art: Katsushika Hokushū

When autumn fog rolls through the S Georgia pine flatwoods, the ghost lights appear. From the legendary Surrency orbs, or Screven Spook Light, to marsh lights along the Altamaha, travelers report drifting lanterns that pace rail lines & dissolve into the swamp mist. #FolkloreThursday

THE MOWING DEVIL or 'Strange News out of Hartford-shire'. An English woodcut pamphlet from 1678 that narrates a tale of Satan mowing a field in Hertfordshire. The images of reaping & gleaning are reminiscent of #harvest folklore; also cited as an early example of a crop circle #FolkloreThursday

Hello #folklorethursday friends~huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for the last hour of magical Autumn lore~this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social flying in from checking on the turnips in the garden(will they be ready for Hallowe'en?✨)here to guest host 'til 12~pic 1893 Bliss seed catalogue

Thanks everyone! @willowwinsham.bsky.social handing over to @botanicafabula.bsky.social now for the next hour of autumn and fall #FolkloreThursday!

An old Southern graveyard warning for autumn: never plant a red cedar in your yard. Folk belief warns that once its branches grow tall enough to shade your grave, your time is up. Cedar was planted only in cemeteries to keep restless spirits tethered to the soil. #FolkloreThursday
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Watch where you step this autumn - the woolly worms are crawling! Traditional Southern folklore reads their rust and black bands as a map of the coming cold: wide black bands warn of harsh freezes, while broader orange midsections promise a gentle, mild winter. #FolkloreThursday #Folklore

After catching an interview on the radio about the World Conker Championships and the current conker crisis, I’ve fallen down a very fascinating rabbit hole - anyone attending this year? #FolkloreThursday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In Greek mythology, Xarpo is the goddess who provided food for the community and is in charge of Autumn, as well as the ripening & harvesting of produce, and the ushering in of cooler air. Fun fact, her name can also mean 'Fruit'!

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🎨 Horae Serenae, by Sir Edward John Poynter (1896)

At Halloween, Scottish and Irish fortune-telling sometimes involved pulling kale or cabbage stalks from the ground. Their size, shape, and even the amount of dirt clinging to them supposedly revealed qualities of a future spouse. Romance was once quite agricultural. #FolkloreThursday

Art: CardCow

The 'Devil's Coach-horse' beetle, in Ireland this beetle was a symbol of corruption. It was thought to have the power to kill on sight, and eat sinners. When the beetle raised its tail, it was thought to be casting a curse.
I've got some of these living in my house at the moment #FolkloreThursday