@uncannycornwall.bsky.socialThe Giant Bolster of St. Agnes Beacon
#folklorethursday
It was said he could step from The Beacon to Carn Brea in Redruth in one huge stride. The giant of Carn Brea angered the Bolster so much he cleared his own hill of stones throwing them at Carn Brea so it became covered in granite boulders.
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@venetiajane.bsky.socialIn ancient Greece, it was said mushrooms sprang up where Zeus, god of the sky and thunder, cast his lightning. There may be some truth in the tale; modern studies show strikes can boost mushroom growth, even doubling yields on spore-laden logs hit by lightning. #FolkloreThursday
@pj-richards.bsky.social✨🍂✨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
@lindajeanlee.bsky.socialHey Baltimore and DC area friends - I'm giving a pre-Halloween talk on witches tomorrow! #witches #FolkloreThursday #AskAFolklorist #Halloween
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `During the #IronAge people at Castell Henllys didn't use money. They measured wealth in cattle instead. The more cattle someone had, the more important and powerful they were. Warriors loved stealing their enemies' cattle, and many […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `During the #IronAge people at Castell Henllys didn't use money. They measured wealth in cattle instead. The more cattle someone had, the more important and powerful they were.
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@pj-richards.bsky.social💜'Fairy Folk By An Old Gnarled Tree' - by Arthur Rackham.
#FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `There is a well on Unst, the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles. It has two names, Yellabrön and Heilyaburn. If travelled to after sunset and before sunrise, it will provide water with healing powers. If a mouse ran across […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `There is a well on Unst, the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles. It has two names, Yellabrön and Heilyaburn. If travelled to after sunset and before sunrise, it will provide water with healing powers.
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@niftybuckles.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday 🎃🍁Ca
On the Bay of Quinte, the old lantern changed its skin.
Irish & Scottish settlers brought the turnip lantern; here, the pumpkin replaced the turnip. 🎃
In 1886, Kingston Daily News printed an early North American report of a pumpkin jack-o’-lantern.
Same flame. New fruit. 🕯️🍂
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: "Truly, I see here," said Fiall, daughter of Forgall, "two steeds of like size, beauty, fierceness, and speed, bounding together, high-headed, spirited, powerful, pricking their ears (?), thin-mouthed, with long tresses, with broad […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: "Truly, I see here," said Fiall, daughter of Forgall, "two steeds of like size, beauty, fierceness, and speed, bounding together, high-headed, spirited, powerful, pricking their ears (?), thin-mouthed, with long tresses, with broad foreheads, much speckled, slightly
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@kotodamaink.bsky.social[Hifumi Norito | Behind the scenes]
We didn't give the male and female voices roles like "heaven" and "earth." We found no source handing that down for the Hifumi Norito, so we designed the two voices simply as two tones.
#FolkloreThursday #MusicSky #folklore #mythology #JapaneseCulture
@tengriverse.com№005 · Körmös · Underworld + Earth
Erlik's unseen envoy; it stands at the left shoulder and counts.
@tengriverse.com№005 · Körmös · Yeraltı + Yer
Erlik'in görünmez elçisi; sol omuzda durur ve sayar.
@talesofbritain.bsky.socialAs this #FolkloreThursday is also the first day of 'Spooky Season', here's the creepy and tragic true Norfolk tale of BABES IN THE WOOD! Sadly, Wayland Wood makes nothing of its cultural history at all. @folklorethursday.bsky.social youtu.be/3TG_QeqYtvo?... 🐉🏴🏴🏴📚🌳👫🌳👻
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