That's the end of another epic #FolkloreThursday 🐉

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

This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off! Wishing you the best of luck with your Halloween preparations 🎃

1906 Ivar Arosenius

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

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

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!

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

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

THE MOWING DEVIL or 'Strange News out of Hartford-shire'. An English woodcut pamphlet from 1678 that narrates a tale of Satan mowing a field in Hertfordshire. The images of reaping & gleaning are reminiscent of #harvest folklore; also cited as an early example of a crop circle #FolkloreThursday

Hello #folklorethursday friends~huge thanks to @willowwinsham.bsky.social for the last hour of magical Autumn lore~this is @botanicafabula.bsky.social flying in from checking on the turnips in the garden(will they be ready for Hallowe'en?✨)here to guest host 'til 12~pic 1893 Bliss seed catalogue

Thanks everyone! @willowwinsham.bsky.social handing over to @botanicafabula.bsky.social now for the next hour of autumn and fall #FolkloreThursday!

After catching an interview on the radio about the World Conker Championships and the current conker crisis, I’ve fallen down a very fascinating rabbit hole - anyone attending this year? #FolkloreThursday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An old Southern graveyard warning for autumn: never plant a red cedar in your yard. Folk belief warns that once its branches grow tall enough to shade your grave, your time is up. Cedar was planted only in cemeteries to keep restless spirits tethered to the soil. #FolkloreThursday
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