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The Obol was an ancient greek coin made of bronze, copper or silver and popular for funerary use. Deceased were buried with obol coins in their mouth to pay the ferryman Charon for the passage across the rivers Styx or Acheron.
#FolkloreThursday #folklore #mythology #myths

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
- Lewis Carroll - "Jabberwocky", a dragon-like monster with smooth teeth and buttons on his stomach. #FolkloreThursday #folklore

Methuselah has become a synonymous for longlivity. According to the Bible, e.g Book of Genesis, Book of Enoch he lived 969 years. Some scholars believe his age is a mistranslation, while others believe it was used to describe the past of the Genesis. #FolkloreThursday #folklore

"I know that I hung on a windy tree
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run."
- Rúnatal, Odins Rune song, from the Hávamál of the Poetic Edda
#aMythForSunday #mythology #folklore

For #FairyTaleTuesday comes "Allerleirauh" - a princess flees from her father, who wants to marry her and disguises herself as a poor girl in an ugly fur. After found by another king she lives in his kitchen, until she conquers his heart in a Cinderella like story. #fairytale

Valkyries (from Old Norse "valkyria" meaning "chooser of the slain") are female spirits from the retinue of the father of the gods Odin. They are fate bound and choose between the ones, who stay alive in battle or those who are supposed to die. #mythology #myths #folklore

Cerberus is not just the three headed hellhound of Hades, it's rather an obsolete constellation. The stars are now part of Hercules, one of the fourty constellations of the astronomer Ptolemy. Cerberus was depicted as a three headed snake on old star maps.
#mythology #myth

"The genealogy or birth of the Gods" also known as "Theogony" is a narrative poem of the writer Hesiod. It's a synthesis of religious traditions and one of the oldest sources of greek #mythology and cosmogony. #folklore

Whereas "The Frog Prince" is the first story of the collection of the Brothers Grimm, there's also a #tale about "The Frog Princess", which has multiple versions. The most famous are the russian #fairytales "Tsarevna Frog" and "Vasilisa the Wise".
#folklore #FairyTaleTuesday

"For the natural the world has barely space:
What’s artificial commands a narrow place."
- Faust II, Goethe

The Homunculus is an artificial little human, who is created in rituals of alchemy. He often appears as a demonic helper of magical practices.
#foklore #Literature #myths