✨🍂✨It's said that if you catch a falling autumn leaf before it touches the ground, you will be granted a wish.
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Tokusa no Harae — a prayer for settling and restoring the spirit
A norito, a Japanese prayer, with the chant "furube, yura-yura" (the Furu no Koto), sung as music with manga-style visuals.

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I've been reading Miles Dillon's 'Early Irish Literature' (1948) and was struck by his lovely translation of this lament from Aided Maele Fothartaig maic Rónán.

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From time to time, a ghostly funeral procession appears in the valley of Seon.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Nighttime_Funeral_Procession_Near_Seon

The ghost in Shakespeare's Macbeth is visible only to Macbeth. Murdered Banquo silently takes Macbeth's place at the banquet table, sending the king into a public panic while his guests see an empty chair. Sometimes the dead don't need to say anything. #MythologyMonday

A tragic, doomed love affair between a living noblewoman and a dead knight.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghostly_Suitor_on_Hartenstein_Castle

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Tech Duinn (translating to “house of Donn”) is said to be the place where the souls of the death gather and commonly identified with Bull Rock, a small island off the coast of the Beara Peninsula in the far southwest of Ireland […]

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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Tech Duinn (translating to “house of Donn”) is said to be the place where the souls of the death gather and commonly identified with Bull Rock, a small island off the coast of the Beara Peninsula in the far southwest of Ireland.
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The ghost of Darius rises from his tomb in Aeschylus's Persians, first performed in 472 BCE. Summoned by the Persian elders and Queen Atossa, the dead king explains the catastrophe facing his people. One of Western drama's earliest surviving ghosts arrives with political analysis. #MythologyMonday

Even death will not keep a dedicated mother from breastfeeding her children.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Love_after_Death

The ghosts of the Old Noricans used to warn their descendants of impending invasions. But the shame of the region's occupation by Napoleon's forces was too much for them.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghosts_of_the_Old_Noricans

Ancient Egyptians believed a person consisted of several spiritual elements, including the ka and ba. The ba could travel between the worlds of living and dead and was often depicted as a human-headed bird. The Egyptian soul was never just one simple ghost. #MythologyMonday

In Greek mythology, when Odysseus enters the Underworld to find the prophet Tiresias, he sacrifices a ram and a ewe. The dead come forth, eager to drink the sheep's blood. However, Odysseus refuses to let any other shade approach until Tiresias drinks and delivers his prophecy.
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#MythologyMonday: `#Muirgen, son of #Ireland’s chief bard, Seanchán Toirpéist, called up the ghost of the great warrior Fergus at his grave as he was an excellent source for the missing material of the Táin. The poet who performed the invocation, frightened by […]

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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Muirgen, son of #Ireland’s chief bard, Seanchán Toirpéist, called up the ghost of the great warrior Fergus at his grave as he was an excellent source for the missing material of the Táin.
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#MythologyMonday 🍂👻
At Samhain, Irish folklore tells of the dead returning across the veil to the warmth of home.

Not every ghost comes to frighten. Some come home. 🕯️

📖 Patricia Monaghan (2004), pp. 119–120
🎨 Autumn Leaves (1856), John Everett Millais
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The Irish fetch is a supernatural double of a living person. Seeing someone's fetch could be interpreted as an omen of that person's approaching death. Imagine meeting a friend on the road, only to discover later that they were somewhere else entirely. #MythologyMonday

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At Samhain, the boundary between worlds was believed to grow thin, allowing the spirits of the dead to return. 🍂👻

A jack-o’-lantern glows beneath the trees. Its carved face seems to wake—a little guardian of shadow and fire, keeping watch through the long autumn night. 🎃🔥

Perchtl leads a procession of children's ghosts through the mountains of the European Alps.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_G%C3%B6mnacht-Perchtl_at_Hechenblaiken