Beautiful but deadly, wolfsbane (Aconitum napellus), or monkshood, is steeped in werewolf lore. Said to repel werewolves or break the curse of lycanthropy, it also appeared in recipes for witches’ ointments believed to grant powers of flight and transformation. #FolkloreSunday

🖤🌕🖤"Tis now the very witching time of night..."

🕯️Hamlet.
#ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday

💜🎃💜"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

📖Henry David Thoreau.
#BookWormSat #FolkloreSunday

✨🍂✨It's said that if you catch a falling autumn leaf before it touches the ground, you will be granted a wish.
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday @SundayFolklore #Celtic: `#Fionn mac Cumhaill and his Fianna were said to have regularly visited Belleek in the autumn to feast on the annual salmon run, and sharpen their weapons there.` #Celtic
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#FolkloreSunday @SundayFolklore #Celtic: `#Fionn mac Cumhaill and his Fianna were said to have regularly visited Belleek in the autumn to feast on the annual salmon run, and sharpen their weapons there.` #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

The original headless horseman is the Dullahan of Ireland, carrying his own head as he searches for souls on Ireland's roadways. He may be an evolution of the Irish god Crom Dubh, the Black One. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday

🖼️: W.H. Brooke

Michael Hurley - "The Werewolf Song"
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#FolkloreSunday: The hag goddess #Cailleach was sometimes said to appear as a hare or other small creature. A shout went up from harvesters as they approached the end of a field to “drive the Cailleach” into the next field. Some argue that this harvest […]

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: The hag goddess #Cailleach was sometimes said to appear as a hare or other small creature. A shout went up from harvesters as they approached the end of a field to “drive the Cailleach” into the next field.
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3/3 In some versions you are with them until the following year, when they leave you at the same place they found you. In others, they will drop you off miles away when they realize you are not part of it.
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2/3 Often you will only hear the hunt, but to see the it predicts disaster or death. The Hunters are hunting sinners & the unbaptized. If you are on the road, you may be swept up into the hunt.
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1/3 The Wild Hunt is a spectral band of fey & dead hunters led by Odin & accompanied by Hell hounds. As it takes place when the veils are thin, the Unseelie court will sometimes join.
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#FolkloreSunday
Orddu, daughter of Orwen, was one of the the Three Witches of the Uplands of Hell.
When Culhwch is given the impossible task of drawing blood from her, he allies with his uncle, King Arthur, as well as Gwyn ap Nudd, the Lord of the Fairy Folk.

The Scots called the Unseelie court the Sluagh, or Host. The Host included the spirits of the unsanctified or wicked dead. The Host would sometimes ride with The Wild Hunt.
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: „The Cŵn Annwn are associated with the Wild Hunt. They are supposed to hunt on specific nights (the eves of St. John, St. Martin, Saint Michael the Archangel, All Saints, Christmas, New Year, Saint Agnes, Saint David, and Good Friday) […]

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: „The Cŵn Annwn are associated with the Wild Hunt. They are supposed to hunt on specific nights (the eves of St. John, St. Martin, Saint Michael the Archangel, All Saints, Christmas, New Year, Saint Agnes, Saint David, and Good Friday), or just in the autumn and winter.
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3/3 In Scottish #folklore the Unseelie Court is known to associate with witches. A witch who served the Fairy Queen was known as a ‘carline’ or ‘carling’. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3337... #FolkloreSunday #art #mythology #Spooktober #Autumn #fairytale #wallart #giftideas

2/3 The Seelie court are associated with Spring & Summer, and the Unseelie are associated with Autumn & Winter. The Seelie court might have elves & brownies, while Unseelie might have redcaps & banshees. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3570... #FolkloreSunday #art #mythology #folklore #fairytale