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#China The Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Celestial Queen Mother, and Jade Emperor, floated down on a moonbeam. She wove the stars and their glow, into "Silver River" (Milky Way), to shine over heaven and earth #folklorethursday
🎨 #illustration by Honor Charlotte Appleton
#Eire Legend tells of spectral ‘fetches’, spitting images of living mortals, (sim doppelgänger). A sighting was taken as foreboding the demise of the person they resembled, UNLESS the fetch shows up in the morning, when it signifies longevity #folklorethursday
🎨 Elinore Abbott
#FolkloreThursday 'Snegorochka'. the story of a girl made of snow who comes alive, only to melt when she goes near fire. In some parts of Russia, folk still mark transition from winter to spring by the traditional burning of a straw doll on a bonfire, to dispel Winter.