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After his accidental death at the hands of Hodr, Helmod his brother went to Hellheim to retrieve him. He pleaded with the goddess Hel to release Baldur. She replied that she would only release him if everything in the world would weep for Baldur #mythologymonday

The Dragon of Mordiford  was said to reside just outside the Herefordshire  village of Mordiford, at the confluence of the River Lugg and the River Wye.
From early life, the green dragon, was said to have loved a small girl named Maud who resided in Mordiford #FolkloreThursday

The Green Knight was a character featured in the classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.This knight came into Arthur’s hall and asked any one of his knights to trade blows.
Sir Gawain accepted this challenge and he was allowed to strike first. 1/2 #WyrdWednesday

In Slavic mythology, Stribog is the god and spirit of the winds, sky and air; he is said to be the ancestor of the winds of the eight directions. He was a connector of heaven and earth. #MythologyMonday

In Scandinavian folklore, sleep paralysis is caused by a mare. The mare is a woman, who is cursed and her body is carried mysteriously during sleep. In this state, she visits villagers to sit on their ribs while they are asleep, causing them nightmares. #mythologymonday

In Greek Mythology Thanatos was the god or personified spirit of non-violent death. His touch was gentle, likened to that of his twin brother Hypnos. Violent death was the domain of Thanatos' blood-craving sisters, the Keres, spirits of slaughter and disease. #mythologymonday

In Norse mythology as part of the reparations owed to Skadi for the death of her father the Aesir had a contest to see if they could make her laugh. At last, Loki tied one end of a rope to a goat and the other around his testicles and began a game of tug of war #mythologymonday

In the Slavic religious tradition, Domovoy is the household god of a given kin. They are deified progenitors, that is to say the fountainhead ancestors of the kin. The Domovoy expresses himself as a number of other spirits of the household in its functions. #FolkloreThursday

In Chinese mythology the Jade emperor and his wife the queen mother of the West ensured the gods immortality by holding banquets where they would eat the peaches of immortality, the peach having long been a symbol of longevity in Chinese myths #FolkloreThursday

Seidr is a form of Norse magic and shamanism concerned with discerning the course of fate and working within its structure to bring about change, which was done by symbolically weaving new events into being. #FolkloreThursday