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While Narcissus gave his name to naecissus flowers, they are themselves sacred to Persephone and spring: when stolen by Hades, she was picking them, and when returning along the Styx to the world above, they grew: they are signs of her return. #SuperstitionSat

🖼: W. Crane

Irish gods still walk with us, under new names. Brigid survived Christianity as St. Brigid, who absorbed her attributes and dominion, including holy wells before spreading across all of Christendom. In Haiti, she became a loa, Maman Brigitte. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: G. Zelinska

Goddess of fate and warriors, the Morrigan is the raven-bound goddess of death and madness in Ireland. A goddess seemingly unique to Ireland in the Celtic world, she is both friend and foe to the other gods and later generations of warriors. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: IrenHorrors

@bthomasa Isn't that just reflective of Malekith? They've always had kinda had blue skin.

Tbh I kinda assumed D&D borrowed dark elf skin tones from Marvel

There's been quite a fuss about the arrival of a Japanese spider in the East Coast of North America: the Jōrogumo, an actual species of orb weaver, is in Japanese folklore a craven hungry monster masquerading as a beauty with eyes only for you. #FaustianFriday

🖼: IrenHorrors

One of the many turns of phrase to refer to death and dying is "the pathways of night," which is connected to Hekate, goddess of magic, crossroads, and entryways, and a goddess of the Underworld, which some believe she ruled prior to Hades. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: IrenHorrors

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In Kyivean Slavic mythology, Khors is the god of the sun, bringer of righteousness, and dispenser of justice. May he ride once more across the world and bring hope to Ukraine. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: A. Shishkin

Hope is sometimes all we have to hold onto. Psyche, her love taken by her own curiosity and by the disapproval of Venus, held to hope she would see Cupid again, despite her impossible tasks. And she did: because she dared to hope. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: J.E. Delaney

In the Yoruba traditions of the Americas, he is the sky father and bringer of life, creator, defender of order. He is Obatala, orisha who reigns above as he did when he incarnated, a tradition stemming from his original form in Africa. #FolkloreThursday