Tsukimi, the Autumn moon viewing party, is an old tradition in Japan, held on the night of the full moon of the eighth month of the solar calendar. Seasonal produce and round rice dumplings that represent the moon are served. #FolkloreThursday

Migrating geese have long been seasonal timekeepers. Their great autumn formations told people something calendars now do more precisely...that the year was turning. Folklore and weather lore paid attention because sometimes the sky itself announced the season. #FolkloreThursday

Art: Robert Bateman

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That was Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your guide for the next one hour ✨

Celebrating teh change of seasons, today's theme is "Autumn Folklore” 🍄 🍂 🐿️

Late 19th century Carl Offterdinger

In Western culture, the Grim Reaper is the personification of death. Wielding a scythe, he or she has been associated with Autumn as a harvester of souls since the Black Death of the 14th Century. The Grim Reaper's name emerged in the 1800s.

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1911 Petit Journal, 1915 M. Fingesten

Momiji was a witch in the mountains of Nagano. Disguised as a princess, she invited some samurai to a leaf-viewing party. That night in a dream, the god Hachiman warned one of them and gave him a sword. He awoke with the sword in his hand and used it to slay her #folklorethursday art
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“In still, dark weather, which happens at the time of the autumn equinox, roosters will often crow all day and all night.”
Yup, that’s what’s happening rn. It’s definitely not helping my migraine. But I found some good folklore that made me tolerate the incessant beast #FolkloreThursday

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

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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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

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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.”

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~ Old Pennsylvania Folklore

Art: Paintings By Simon / Simon Rudd
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🍁🍂 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

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. 💀🌙
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🌿🌊🌿'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