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@FolkloreThurs Transylvanian forests have a plethora of myths, one of the most famous being the sightings of the Iele, dryad-like figures from Romanian mythology. Those who would interrupt their dance (which would leave burnt marks on the ground) would lose their voices for ever.

@FolkloreThurs Myth of Sisyphus who had to eternally roll a colossal boulder for his crafty deceit directed at Zeus. Today Sisyphean task is one that requires large and futile volumes of work. #FolkloreThursday

Sisyphus (1548–49) by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid

The myth of the Wild Hunt is present in the folklore of numerous European regions, from Scandinavia to Britain and Germany, with various leader such as King Arthur, Odin and King Amerdag of Denmark #FolkloreThursday

Painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo with Odin in charge of the Hunt

#OTD 1517 Battle of Ridaniya, part of the Mamluk-#Ottoman war (1516–1517), is won by Selim I's Ottoman army, resulting in the collapse and annexation of the Mamluk Empire. #History

Venetian embassy to the Mamluks Governor in Damascus in 1511, by Giovanni Bellini.

Anonymous woodcut from 1557 of the 1529 Marburg Colloquy summoned by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. It tried to solve a disputation between Luther and #Zwingli over the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, while also aiming for the consolidation of a Protestant alliance.

#OTD 1789 At the Siege of Izmail (part of Russo-Turkish War 1787–1792) Suvorov led 31,000 Russian troops against the 40,000 Ottoman garrison. It ended with a crushing victory for Russia with the Ottomans losing the city, more than 25,000 (killed) and 9,000 captured. #History

#OTD 1737 Antonio Stradivari or #Stradivarius, exceptional #Italian luthier and creator of more than 1100 string instruments (most notably violins and violas of which 650 survived), dies at the age of 93 in Cremona, Duchy of Milan.

Painting by Edgar Bundy, 1893 #History #Music

#Onthisday 1467 Battle of Baia fought between the principality of Moldavia led by Stephen the Great and Hungary led by Matthias Corvinus ends with a decisive victory for the Moldavians, despite being heavily outnumbered.

Image from medieval Chronica Hungarorum #OTD #History

#OTD 1520 At the Elster Gate in Wittenberg Martin Luther burns a copy of Exsurge Domine, papal bull promulgated that year by Pope Leo X aimed at censuring most of #Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and threatening to excommunicate him(he did in 1521). Painting by Karl Aspelin #History

@FolkloreThurs The Wild Hunt is a #folklore motif present throughout European literature, usually represented as a harbinger of death, plague, war and thus are often seen as a villainous entity, despite being led at times by figures like Odin, Theodoric the Great or King Arthur.