Stephen G. Raeさんのイラストまとめ

In Cumbrian #dialect: 'pissibed' is the dandelion

Dandelion was used as a tool for divination. If you blow a seed head, the number of seeds remaining are the number of children you will have.
#WordOfTheDay #folklore #wildflowerhour #Cumbria

The faerie folk love their music, and they make instruments from Elder wood. Stems of the Elder tree will make whistles & pipes as the branches contain a soft pithy core which is easily removed to create hollow pipes of hard, easily-polished wood.
#trees #music #folklore

The last wolf? A local folk tale suggests that the last wolf in England was killed at Humphrey Head around 1390 by John, son of Sir Edgar Harrington of Wraysholme, after a chase all the way from the Coniston Fells.
#folklore #Cumbria

Folklore, legends, mythology, and other strange tales from Cumberland and beyond - The Shadow Giant

#storytelling #folklore #ghosts
#LakeDistrict #Cumbria

The Coniston Saucer - on 15 February 1954, 13 year-old Stephen Darbishire took a #UFO photo near Coniston. The object had a silvery, glassy appearance, shining “like aluminium in the sunlight.” 🛸👽🛸

#legend #folklore #LakeDistrict

Folklore, legends, mythology, and other strange tales from Cumberland and beyond - The Esthwaite Boggle

#storytelling #folklore #mythology
#ghoststories #shapeshifters #Cumbria

Folk tales, legends, mythology, and other strange tales from Cumberland and beyond - The Boggart of Leece

#storytelling #folklore #ghosts #ghoststories #Cumbria

In Cumbrian #dialect: 'leemers' is the nut from the hazel tree

The Celts equated hazelnuts with wisdom and poetic inspiration, suggested by the similarity between the Gaelic word for the nuts, 'cno', and the word for wisdom, 'cnocach'.
#trees #language #WordOfTheDay #Cumbria

In Cumbrian #dialect: 'birk' is the birch tree

Brooms made of birch twigs were commonly used to drive out the spirits of the old year and to ‘beat the bounds’ of property for protection.
#trees #language #superstition #culture #Cumbria

Folk tales, legends, mythology, and other strange tales from Cumberland and beyond.

#storytelling #folklore #LakeDistrict #Cumbria