#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Hares in Ireland have long been seen as mysterious creatures, deeply connected to the #Otherworld and the subject of legend, song and story. Their association with the realms of the fairies and good folk led the old Druids to capture […]

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An Algonquin tale tells that the changing color of leaves is the blood of the Bear, who greedily ate the food stored in preparation of winter and whom the Algonquins chased across the world. Finally hit with an arrow, his blood turns the leaves red in autumn. #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Saint Melangell became the patron saint of hares when she fled from Ireland to escape an arranged marriage after taking a vow of celibacy.
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Saint Melangell became the patron saint of hares when she fled from Ireland to escape an arranged marriage after taking a vow of celibacy. She went to a secret place in Wales and lived there alone for fifteen years, until Prince […]

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#FolkloreSunday The Morrígan is the Irish goddess of war, fate, prophecy and sovereignty, best known for appearing as a crow above the battlefield. She is often described as three sisters: Badb, Macha and Nemain. She is deeply connected to Samhain. www.theirishjewelrycompany.com/blog/post/th...

According to medieval bestiaries, the fox is a cunning and deceitful animal. This beast will lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. Then, when unsuspecting birds land on the fox, they are devoured. This represents how the Devil appears harmless to lure sinners to their doom.
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FAIRY TRANSPORT Fairies & elves are said to cast an enchantment over woodland animals. They are shown delighting in their mode of transport in the fantastical world of French author and illustrator Jean-Baptiste Monge #FolkloreSunday

As we've just had the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, known in Hookland as the Corn Maiden Moon, it seems appropriate share some of the folklore of the Heading the Corn. #FolkloreSunday

🍀🐇🍀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.
#FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday

A white hare once roamed around Brailes Hill which no one would ever try to kill as it was held to be sacred.
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#AncientSiteSunday
#CeilingsonSunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SaxonSunday
#SevenOnSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
#ShieldSunday
#SignsOnSunday or #SundaySigns
#SilentSunday
#skysunday
#SpoliaSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
#StandingStoneSunday

The Speckled Wood was once called the “Wood Argus”, its eye-spots recalling Argus, the many-eyed giant guardian of Greek myth. Its scientific name, “Pararge aegeria”, also has a woodland link: Egeria was a Roman nymph associated with springs and sacred groves. #FolkloreSunday

Reynard the Fox was a prominent figure in medieval European folktales, a trickster and everyman. He would bedevil other anthropomorphic animals, frequently mocking the nobility, clergy, and other authority figures. However, Reynard's main enemy was his uncle, the wolf Isengrim.
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💚🏞️💚"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

🌿As You Like It.
#ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday

🌿🌊🌿'Undine' - written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
"Forget not that I am here with thee as a guide."
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `„The farmer thanked the people who participated in gathering his harvest at this feast [Lúnasa] and dance. Guests wore harvest knots – those worn by the women had ears of corn attached. People sometimes exchanged these knots as tokens […]

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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `„The farmer thanked the people who participated in gathering his harvest at this feast [Lúnasa] and dance. Guests wore harvest knots – those worn by the women had ears of corn attached. People sometimes exchanged these knots as tokens of affection.“
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#FolkloreSunday 'Autumn Reverie' (Felix Vallotton 1865-1925) Each season has a different quality of light but none is more beautiful & fleeting than that of the Autumn. Despite its radiance, its as if it knows its time is brief & like a gentle flame will perish by winter.

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `The #Cailleach was preeminently the goddess of harvest, whose name was given to the last sheaf cut in each field; dressed in women’s clothes and honored during the harvest festivities, the Cailleach sheaf was kept safe until the next […]

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