@crystalponti.bsky.socialIn The Princess and the Pea, a queen stacks 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds over one tiny pea to test a mysterious young woman's royal identity. She still feels it. Fairy-tale quality control was apparently both elaborate and terrible for the spine. #MythologyMonday
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyWhen Hans found refugee with an old friend in Venice, the latter impressed him with three golden beds shaped like animals.
#MythologyMonday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hans_in_Venice
@silicasun.bsky.social#Folklore to explore for #MythologyMonday 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit . . .' --JRR Tolkien #fantasy #classic novel The Hobbit #TheHobbit 📘 published #OTD by George Allen and Unwin publishers UK 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 🌳 #readingismagic 📖 #silicasun ⛰️📕💚
@crystalponti.bsky.socialThe ancient Greeks imagined Hypnos, god of sleep, dwelling in a shadowy realm untouched by sunlight. His son Morpheus shaped dreams. A bed may look like ordinary furniture, but mythology repeatedly treats sleep as a doorway into somewhere much stranger. #MythologyMonday
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Time came for them to go to bed - and to bed they went, Pwyll and the queen. The moment they got into to the bed, he turned his face to the side, with his back towards her. From then until the next day, he didn't say a single word to her.
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@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Time came for them to go to bed - and to bed they went, Pwyll and the queen. The moment they got into to the bed, he turned his face to the side, with his back towards her. From then until the next day, he didn't say a single word to […]
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyPut these herbs into your bed in order to drive unwanted lovers away!
#MythologyMonday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Amorous_Devil
@david-castleton.bsky.socialWhen the landlord of Yorkshire's Busby Stoop Inn was due to be hanged, he sat in his favourite chair to enjoy a last pint then cursed it. Over the years, anyone who sat in the chair died soon afterwards. It is now in a museum - safely suspended from the ceiling. #mythologymonday #folklore #gothic
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyAt the main table of Hudemühlen Castle, a chair and a plate of food always had to be set aside for the house spirit Hinzelmann. If this was forgotten, he grew upset.
And you wouldn't like Hinzelmann when he was upset.
#MythologyMonday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hinzelmann
@crystalponti.bsky.socialA throne is rarely just a chair in mythology. It represents authority, legitimacy, and divine favor, which is why stories are filled with rulers fighting to occupy one. Humans looked at a perfectly functional seat and somehow turned it into something worth killing for. #MythologyMonday
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#MythologyMonday #Celtic: After the wedding of #Cuchulainn and #Emer, the king of #Ulster had to exercise his `right of the first night‘. While #Conchobar mac Nessa feared #CúChulain`s reaction, he would have lost his authority if he had renounced his […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#MythologyMonday #Celtic: After the wedding of #Cuchulainn and #Emer, the king of #Ulster had to exercise his `right of the first night‘. While #Conchobar mac Nessa feared #CúChulain`s reaction, he would have lost his authority if he had renounced his privilege.
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@crystalponti.bsky.socialThe enchanted castle in Beauty and the Beast eventually became filled with magical furniture in famous modern adaptations, but older versions focus more on an eerily luxurious palace serving Beauty without visible servants. Imagine the furniture moving when nobody is there. #MythologyMonday
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyAfter his death, the knight Hans von Lichtenstein was imprisoned in a room that only had red furniture.
#MythologyMonday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Ghosts_Reaching_Salvation
@forgottenbeauty.bsky.socialLuna's counterpart Apollo drove a four horse chariot, or quadriga. The four horses represented the four seasons.
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3561... #MythologyMonday #art #folklore #classicalart #fairytale #giftidea #wallart #mythologyart #decor
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Conall Cearnach was on the point of death in heavy snow when Bealchu of Breithfne, a Connaught champion, found and saved him because he wanted to kill him gloriously later on.
`But when Bealchu saw that Conall was recovering and his […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Conall Cearnach was on the point of death in heavy snow when Bealchu of Breithfne, a Connaught champion, found and saved him because he wanted to kill him gloriously later on.
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@forgottenbeauty.bsky.social2/2 Luna's biga represented the moon, as it traveled its path across the sky. It was drawn by one white and one black horse, visible by both day and night.
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3472... #MythologyMonday #art #folklore #fairytale #wallart #classicart #giftidea #mythologyart