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Today's equinox-worthy theme was "Autumn Folklore” 🍂

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1906 Ivar Arosenius

In Irish folklore, there was a man in the wind - fear nagaoithe (the wind-man). In late autumn he destroyed stacks of corn and hay which the farmers hadn't put into the barn. He could also use his bellows to bring the storms...
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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

#FolkloreThursday FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `An #Cailleach grows old in autumn and becomes younger as the winter passes, until in spring she relinquishes her hold and lets the summer flowers blossom.`
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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

The Harvest Moon isn't named because it's orange or enormous. It's the full moon nearest the autumn equinox. Around this time, successive moonrises occur unusually close together, historically giving farmers extra evening light during harvest. #FolkloreThursday

Art: Samuel Palmer

In Ireland, the last harvest sheaf could be used to find the drowned. A candle was set by the sheaf which was then placed in the water where the person had fallen in. It was allowed to drift until it came to a rest and that was where the body would be found... #FolkloreThursday
📷Sir Benjamin Stone

#FolkloreThursday The Polevik is a Slavic spirit of grain fields, described as a dwarf dressed in white with dark earthy skin & grass for hair. If they chance upon someone drunk or asleep in the fields they strangle them to death, and are most active at noon and dusk.

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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 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

#FolkloreThursday: `St. Michael’s feast day on September 29, called Michaelmas, is close enough to the autumnal Equinox that harvest festivals have collected around that day; in the Scottish islands a special harvest-bread called struan or struan Michael ( […]

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

Late 19th century Carl Offterdinger