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In the 1800s, Pennsylvania farmers tied red scarves onto mannequins to frighten crows from their fields.

They called these eerie guardians “Bogeymen.”

#Scarecrows #Bogeyman

~ Old Pennsylvania Folklore

Art: Paintings By Simon / Simon Rudd
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Non resident woodcock usually arrived in Ireland on the first full moon in November and it was believed they had spent their summers on the moon... #FolkloreThursday
🎨Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Michaelmas daisies earned their name because they bloom around the feast of St. Michael on September 29. Their late purple flowers became a traditional sign of the changing season. Before calendars were everywhere, the landscape itself announced autumn's progress. #FolkloreThursday

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Anything can come to monstrous life in Japan, including vegetables. In one legend, a pumpkin monster called Sunamura no onryō appeared in the neighborhood of Sunamura night after night, terrorizing people by chasing them around #FolkloreThursday

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Halloween mischief, Nova Scotia style!

In Acadian communities, young people once slipped out on Halloween night to steal vegetables from their neighbours’ gardens.

Forget guarding the candy.

Lock up your cabbages and turnips! 😂🥬🥕

🎨 Halloween Lucky Thirteen by Bonnie White

Garden magic suggests carrying an acorn in your pocket for protection against storms, evil intent and losing your way... #FolkloreThursday

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In European #Broomlore, sweeping after sunset could sweep in misfortune.
Suspect a hex? 👁️
Spit on your broom to break it! 🌙

During #Mabon, a new broom swept away old energy. 🧹✨

Make a wish while sweeping and it might come true. 💫

🧹 Georgia Marfels on Etsy

The fuzzy woolly bear caterpillar supposedly predicts winter by the width of its rusty middle band: wider means mild, narrower means severe. It isn't a reliable meteorologist, but every autumn this tiny caterpillar gets dragged back into forecasting anyway. #FolkloreThursday

Art: Hillary Farmer

🍁🍂 Welcome, autumn wanderers! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social, taking the #FolkloreThursday reins for the next hour! Thanks to @mythcrafts.bsky.social for hosting before the break. Now bring on the falling leaves, harvest lore, autumn omens, & old seasonal magic! 🌾🍎✨

Art: Muy Lindo

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Sept 24 in the old Romanian shepherd villages: Teclele (Teclele Berbecilor).
Don’t sweep the house, don’t spin wool, don’t work skins, don’t lend fire. 🔥

The day wears St Thecla’s feast, but the taboos are older fire-and-wolf spirits. Break them and the pack takes your rams 🐏

#FolkloreThursday: `The Corn Dolly was often crafted from the last sheaf cut at harvest-time. Its origins are obscure but clearly mythic or ritual. Often the Corn Dolly was stored in a house or barn from fall until spring, when it played a role in sowing or […]

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#FolkloreThursday FolkloreThursday: `The Corn Dolly was often crafted from the last sheaf cut at harvest-time. Its origins are obscure but clearly mythic or ritual.
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Inspired by the Latin word for “star” due to its shape Asters were revered as a sacred flower (possibly created by the goddess Astraea) by Greeks and Romans who decorated shrines with Aster wreaths. It’s also called the Michaelmas Daisy because it flowers around Sept 29th #FolkloreThursday

After the Devil went out collecting nuts on Devil’s Nutting Day (21 Sept), the Virgin Mary suddenly appeared. Startled by this, Satan dropped the sack of nuts which turned into the Devils’ Bag of Nuts (aka Alcock’s Arbour), a hill near Haselor, Warwickshire.
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Beware the Headless Horseman! Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) echoes older European headless-rider lore, often compared with Ireland’s dreaded Dullahan. 🐎 🎃 🔥

Some legends never die.

They just keep riding. 💀🌙
#AutumnReads 🍂

"School Harvest Festival
Parents and friends were present at the Down County Modern School for Girls, on Friday last week, for the school's harvest festival, which was conducted by the Rev. F. E. Walker."
Bexhill Observer 4.10.1947 #FolkloreThursday #HarvestFestival #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1940s

🌿🌊🌿'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

flesh shifting to fur
hungering lycanthrope leers
forms caped in crimson
moon discs bleeding from within
it laps the pooling craters

#vss365 #hunger #vsshorror #FolkloreThursday #tanka