Folklore is the land's long memory. Its stories remember better than any of our carvings of it, the ruins we leave atop it. – Dr. Michael Benn, 1982 #FolkloreThursday

#ThursdayThought Remembering history, mystery defining the extraordinary on #FolkloreThursday 📚for #AgathaChristieWeek📕
'Method! Order! Let's use the little grey cells. Eh, Hastings!'
'Sheppard! Again, the name is SHEPPARD!'
Graphic: NYT #bookseries #Reads 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🔍 #silicasun 🪑📙💙

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `#GraceO'Malley found her way into the history books as 'the most notorious woman on the entire #Irish coast' and 'the mother of all rebellions', but to survive in the tumultuous times of the 16th century, she had to change the rules and fight for her clan and family
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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `#GraceO'Malley found her way into the history books as 'the most notorious woman on the entire #Irish coast' and 'the mother of all rebellions', but to survive in the tumultuous times of the 16th century, she had to change the rules […]

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#NationalFoxDay In my native Ayrshire dialect, 'tod' is fox

Fox is a spirit guide and trickster. In common with the otter, the fox is said to carry a magic pearl that brings good luck to whomever finds it.

#folklorethursday #Scotland
art: Fox Spirits by Stephanie Bayles

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `The narrow cove in #Rockfleet was the perfect place for a fort and to hide a small fleet while keeping watch over the entire #ClewBay, Co. #Mayo. Pirate queen #GraceO'Malley must have been thinking about the same thing when […]

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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `The narrow cove in #Rockfleet was the perfect place for a fort and to hide a small fleet while keeping watch over the entire #ClewBay, Co. #Mayo.
Pirate queen #GraceO'Malley must have been thinking about the same thing when,
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#NationalFoxDay 🦊 in Cumbrian dialects 'tod' is fox, 'thimble-flower' is foxglove, 'bummel' is bee

in one tale, faeries gave a fox, foxglove petals to put on it's toes - the fox's gloves - to raid the hen house without being heard

#folklorethursday #foxoftheday
📷 Alan McFadyen

Shuihu, bestia acuática proveniente de China. En Japón se le conoce como Suiko y es considerado jefe de los kappa. Su nombre significa "tigre de agua": grimoriodebestias.blogspot.com/2026/09/suik...

#FolkloreThursday #Yokai

Ilustración de Toriyama Sekien.

A rollicking #FolkloreThursday to all! Here's a BRAND NEW tale-telling from Oxfordshire for you, knocked up in me shed – the story of the Norse Smithy Wayland! WAYLAND & FLIBBERTIGIBBET! youtu.be/Ddr0t5CQCV8?... 🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚🔨

The teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) is also called Barber’s Brush, Fairy’s Broom and Prickly Beehive. Romans called it “lavacrum Veneris”, or “basin of Venus”, as droplets of water that gather at the leaf joints were said to have medicinal and beautifying qualities. #FolkloreThursday

Thursday
#AdoorableThursday
#BookologyThursday
#BridgesThursday
#FolkloreThursday
#GlassObjectThursday
#HelmetThursday
#InsectThursday
#IronworkThursday
#MetalWorkThursday
#OrchidThursday
#PubSignThursday
#RomanFortThursday
#ThatchThursday
#ThrowBackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate

🐉🥚🐉Hatchling Dragons...
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

At the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, Victorians could wander among statues of Minerva, Mars and other ancient gods under a roof of iron and glass. The palace burned in 1936, leaving these photographs all that's left of this vanished treasure. #FolkloreThursday #museum

Image: The Met, PD.

#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: The last lintel of the entrance passage to #Oweynagat is an #ogham stone with characters on both lower edges. „They read "VRAICCI...MAQI MEDVVI" which means "Fraech... son of Medb". Actually Fraech wasn't Medb's son, he was the […]

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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: The last lintel of the entrance passage to #Oweynagat is an #ogham stone with characters on both lower edges. „They read "VRAICCI...MAQI MEDVVI" which means "Fraech... son of Medb".
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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `The #Druids were the intellectual elite of the #Celts, they could read and write (Greek and Latin), but did not leave a single written word. They only passed on their secret knowledge orally.`
Source […]

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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `The #Druids were the intellectual elite of the #Celts, they could read and write (Greek and Latin), but did not leave a single written word. They only passed on their secret knowledge orally.`
Source: www.zdf.de/dokumenta...

'On Cader Idris' by Francis Nichols. One of the highest peaks in #Snowdonia, it was one of the haunts of the Brenin Llwyd, or Grey King. Marie Trevelayn describes him as 'robed in grey clouds and mists, and woe betide anyone who was caught in his clutches!'
#folklore #FolkloreThursday #Wales #Eryri

In 1890, a paper in Tombstone claimed two ranchers shot a winged, alligator-like monster. But no follow-up photograph was ever produced, leaving the story in a cliffhanger.

Later retellings turned the so-called "Tombstone Phoenix" into a pterodactyl. #FolkloreThursday

Image: The Lost World. PD.