In the British Isles, turnips served as jack-o'-lanterns before pumpkins.

There's hints that turnip lanterns have wider roots in Europe - they feature in Finland's Kekri festivities, and may have evolved from Celtic head-taking!
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🍀🐇🍀An old English superstition says that to see a Hare is a sign of good luck, and a wish can be made as soon as it passes by.
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🌿🌊🌿'Undine' - written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
"Forget not that I am here with thee as a guide."
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The scarecrow is practical by daylight and deeply suspicious by moonlight. A human figure without a human inside it, standing alone among dead stalks, is almost designed for folklore. Add one crooked hat and suddenly nobody wants to cross the field. #FairyTaleTuesday

Autumn has its own soundtrack: geese overhead, dry leaves underfoot, wind through bare branches, and acorns hitting the roof. Most of it is perfectly ordinary. At 2 a.m., however, every single one of those sounds becomes a potential ghost. #FairyTaleTuesday

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `The Autumn equinox was considered to be a day of great importance by the ancient Irish, especially for the first farmers who arrived and built the great megalithic civilisation.
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `The Autumn equinox was considered to be a day of great importance by the ancient Irish, especially for the first farmers who arrived and built the great megalithic civilisation. Numerous ancient monuments are aligned to both the […]

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Autumn leaves are beautiful because they are dying, which may be part of the season's strange hold over us. Fall turns endings into spectacle: crimson forests, golden fields, and brilliant color appearing precisely because something is disappearing. #FairyTaleTuesday

Apple peels once doubled as romantic fortune-tellers. In one tradition, a person tossed a long peel over their shoulder and examined the shape it made on the floor. Whatever letter it resembled might reveal the initial of a future sweetheart. #FairyTaleTuesday

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `In the episode `Nuckelavee, Scotland's Scariest Demon` the makers of `Stories of Scotland` journey to the cold waters of the North Sea. Annie relates, how `as the middle of autumn approached, and the autumnal equinox drew near, the […]

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `In the episode `Nuckelavee (nicovleeuwen.blogspot.com/2019/06/gael...), Scotland's Scariest Demon` the makers of `Stories of Scotland` journey to the cold waters of the North Sea. Annie relates, how `as the middle of autumn approached,
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In Greek mythology, Cronus became leader of the gods by castrating his father Uranus with a stone sickle. Though a violent entity, Cronus was also a god of fertility and the harvest, who ruled over the Golden Age of humanity (when all food grew easily on the Earth).
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An old Halloween tradition called snap-apple involved trying to bite an apple suspended from a string, often with hands tied behind the back. Apples, courtship and fortune-telling became deeply tangled in autumn celebrations. Romance apparently required stronger teeth. #FairyTaleTuesday

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: At this time of the year, `apples were picked, along with different fruit and nuts - children were warned not to touch blackberries after the equinox, since a púca might have poisoned them! Customs varied throughout the country, and […]

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: At this time of the year, `apples were picked, along with different fruit and nuts - children were warned not to touch blackberries after the equinox, since a púca might have poisoned them!
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Before pumpkins dominated Halloween, people in Ireland and Britain carved turnips and other root vegetables into eerie lanterns. If you think a jack-o'-lantern is spooky, imagine encountering a shriveled glowing turnip face on a dark country road. #FairyTaleTuesday