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Everyone talks about the cherry blossoms, but the autumn blooming chrysanthemum is also a traditional symbol of Japan, depicted in the Imperial crest and on passports. A remarkable traditional way of growing them prunes and trains a single plant into a large cascade of flowers #FolkloreThursday

Thank you for all the #Folklorethursday treats over the last hour. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social signing off, but keep those tweets coming as @crystalponti.bsky.social will be back to host after the break.

Img: Autumn Leaves, by Georgia O’Keeffe

“The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach).—In harvest, there was a struggle to escape being the last done with the shearing… The fear entertained was that of having the ‘famine of the farm’ (gort a bhaile), in the shape of an imaginary old woman (cailleach), to feed till next harvest”
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The Jinmenju is a tree that bears fruit in the autumn that looks exactly like a human head. They can't speak, but they can laugh, and if they laugh too hard they fall off the tree. #FolkloreThursday hyakumonogatari.com/2012/06/03/j...

THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER STROKE is on display at the RCA giving access to the stunning detail of a fairy #autumn. Dadd depicts the fairy 'feller' about to split a large chestnut with his axe to make a new carriage for Queen Mab, amid the prickly fruits of the London Plane Tree #FolkloreThursday

The eerie autumn call of the barn owl helped give owls ominous reputations in folklore. Their nocturnal habits, pale faces, and uncanny cries made them natural companions to stories of death and supernatural warning. Evolution accidentally designed an excellent ghost. #FolkloreThursday

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The seven whistlers manifest on stormy nights as a shrieking, whistling noise across the English skies. It is said they are seven of the devil’s demons loose from the Wild Hunt, in search of lost souls. A portent of doom for any who hear them... 🎨Valentin Ruths #FolkloreThursday

‘If you catch a falling leaf, you will have twelve months of continued happiness'

Dip in beeswax to make a garland. The beeswax is a pain to melt, but the scent fills the house and the leaves last for ages.

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The Greek demi-god Triptolemus presides over the sowing of grains and the milling of wheat and was the first initiate into the Eleusian Mysteries. His name literally translating to ‘he who pounds the husks’.

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Gathering beech mast is for my workshop at Allen valley folk festival this coming Sunday where we’ll be looking at tree lore and creating a giant beech mast poem in this beautiful clearing said to have inspired W.H.Auden and been used by John Wesley to share his beliefs💫🍂 #folklorethursday

Hello #Folklorethursday and thank you @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last session. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social offering you a virtual cup of mulled wine as we toast to the stories of the harvest season.

Img: The Autumn by Alphonse Mucha

Thanks for the rich harvest of Autumn-lore over the past hour, this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social handing over the #folklorethursday mantle to the magical @mythcrafts.bsky.social who will take you up to the break🍂
I'm now off to gather beech mast!

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Houseleeks on the roof to protect from lightning, horseshoe to protect and hold good luck, all the ancient tricks come to play as the grain arrived to be milled…has this all been lost in the last 60 years or are the fragments still there amongst modern farming monoculture? #folklorethursday

“In Gaelic tradition, the last sheaf or sguab mu dheireadh…was crafted into a superstitious charm, which could take the form of a simple plait of straws tied up with ribbon, or may be crafted into a corn dolly and even clothed.”
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The Scottish heritage:bloody ploughman apples are ready to pluck at Culross palace garden~the story goes they first grew from seeds found in the pocket of a ploughman killed for scrumping at Megginch estate in Kinross~ I share the story in my latest book Collected Curiosities #folklorethursday