Sometimes Light & Wonder isn’t about discovering something far away.
Sometimes you just have to cut something open differently. 🍎✨🍂
via Lisa Frayne
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@subrosamagick.bsky.socialSometimes Light & Wonder isn’t about discovering something far away.
Sometimes you just have to cut something open differently. 🍎✨🍂
via Lisa Frayne
4/4 #FolkloreThursday
@kotodamaink.bsky.socialSanju no Oharai — a prayer for cleansing away impurity
Waves in the cove — a scene from the video.
▶ https://youtu.be/EFk9qkU6Ais
#FolkloreThursday #AIart #AIillustration #mythology #MusicSky
@k13uanh.bsky.socialA #Selkie is a merseal from Celtic #folklore. They transform into humans by removing their pelt. Losing their coat means they cannot return to the sea. A snippet of a #poem I wrote:
#poetrysky #FolkloreThursday #writingcommunity
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Criomthan Nianair was a King of Ireland, and the son of Lugaidh Sriabhdearg ‘of the Red Stripes’, who was famously #CúChulainn’s foster son. Criomthan was said to have brought back a golden chariot and a cloak woven with golden […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Criomthan Nianair was a King of Ireland, and the son of Lugaidh Sriabhdearg ‘of the Red Stripes’, who was famously #CúChulainn’s foster son.
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@silicasun.bsky.social#ThursdayThrowback - The mystery, the madness, the strangeness, the sadness of Edgar Allen Poe #EdgarAllenPoe death day #OTD for #FolkloreThursday 📚
Quoth #TheRaven The Raven NEVERMORE 🐦⬛
#books #novels #shortstories #poems #horror #literature #reads 📕
silicasun.wordpress.com 🐈⬛ #silicasun 🐦⬛📙🧡
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: In the story of ‘Cormac’s Adventure in the Land of Promise’, Cormac finds himself surrounded by fog. When it lifts, he is wandering through the Otherworld. #Manannán shows him the Well of Knowledge with its five streams flowing out […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: In the story of ‘Cormac’s Adventure in the Land of Promise’, Cormac finds himself surrounded by fog.
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@niftybuckles.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday 💧
At St Keyne’s Well in Cornwall, legend says whichever newlywed drinks first will rule the home. 💍
In Southey’s ballad, the groom rushes to the well—but his bride brought a bottle to church.
Four trees. One sip. The quieter magic wins. ✨
🎨 Thomas Creswick - The Well of St. Keyne
@niftybuckles.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday 🐙 #WorldOctopusDay 🐙🌎 #WorldSpaceWeek ☄️
Three hearts. Blue blood. Eight arms that taste.
Ainu lore tells of red giant Akkorokamui; in Hawaiʻi, the octopus is a form of Kanaloa. 🌊
A 2018 paper proposed frozen eggs arriving on comets—an unproven idea. ☄️
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#FolkloreThursday: `#Irish legends from time immemorial have a great deal to say about the #Otherworld, the land of the fairies, the home of the Tuatha De Danann, or the world of the Sidhe.
There are those who claim it lies beneath fairy mounds or on the other […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `#Irish legends from time immemorial have a great deal to say about the #Otherworld, the land of the fairies, the home of the Tuatha De Danann, or the world of the Sidhe.
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@tengriverse.comShe comes to the mother left alone in the forty days, and runs to the water with her liver.
@tengriverse.comKırk gün içinde yalnız kalan anneye gelir; ciğerini alıp suya koşar.
@stephengrae.bsky.socialCumbria has a wealth of Arthurian legend, from his father Uther Pendragon to Merlin. Read more in my:
"Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#folklorethursday #booksky
🎬 Excalibur, 1981; dir. John Boorman
@antiquity.ac.ukCast of rock art from Fossum, Sweden: a segment of a wider panel.
Made by Nazi scholar Herman Wirth, he selected the section to support ideas of an ancient Aryan religion, showing how prehistory was manipulated to push ideological goals #FolkloreThursday
@talesofbritain.bsky.socialHappy #FolkloreThursday! Here's a less scary side to Britain's giants – the Yorkshire builders WADE & BELL! youtu.be/9LFoTwVIhOM?... @folklorethursday.bsky.social
See you in The Grapes, Bath, Saturday at 2pm for more! 🐉🏴🏴🏴
@hookland.bsky.socialFolklore likes to travel ... #FolkloreThursday
@lilithepunk.bsky.socialWant to zhuzh up your writing? Or incite a rebellion? Or even just listen to how traditions and the ritual year can heavy lift your #WIP? Join me in @waterstones.bsky.social #Worthing on 14 October to find out how! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #FolkloreThursday www.waterstones.com/events/folkl... 📚📝
The 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.
