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@folklorethurs On my lockdown walk in south London is a garden dedicated to talented local artist Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973).
Famous for her flower fairy artworks, she used costumed children as models and depicted accurate plants supplied by Kew Gardens. #folklorethursday
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
#FolkloreThursday #TheBlackRockMermaid found in the #Wirral coastal waters of the River #Mersey. Legend tells of #Liverpool sailor John Robinson being seduced by the siren’s seductive charms & of her giving him a ring on parting. He died 5 days after their encounter.
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On my local lockdown walk in south London is a garden dedicated to the amazingly talented artist Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973).
Famous for her flower fairy artworks, she used costumed children as models and depicted accurate plants supplied by Kew Gardens.
#folklorethursday
@folklorethurs On my local lockdown walk in south London is a garden dedicated to talented artist Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973).
Famous for her flower fairy artworks, she used costumed children as models and depicted accurate plants supplied by Kew Gardens.
#folklorethursday
In the myths of many Native American tribes, thunder is caused by the flapping wings of the enormous thunderbirds. Thunderbirds were believed to be large enough to carry whales in their talons. Some myths claim they also control lightning, rain & hail. #FolkloreThursday
White Buffalo Calf Woman is a sacred figure to the Lakota people. She appeared to them during a famine, bestowed a holy ceremonial pipe, & taught them the Seven Sacred Rites to maintain balance among humans, the natural world, & the wider universe. #FolkloreThursday
@VolcanoJenni this is my Mefiti volcano goddess - from Italy for a picture book I'm working on. In Italiano, spero. Imprarando. Etc. More volcano lore to share. #volcanology #folklorethursday #mythology @BlogTolkien
Clergyman Samuel Roffey Maitland, Lambeth Palace Librarian, travelled through Europe in around 1830. He captured clothing of that period in his watercolour paintings. Some images are identified as Breslau - today #Wroclaw, #Poland. [MS 1945, p. 9] #FolkloreThursday
Some Norse magic was gendered. No man was allowed to learn Seidir, women's magic, and no man could become a Volva, a Norse seer. There was one exception to this rule: Odin learned Seidir from Freyja. Odin regularly broke gender rules, ignoring such "sins." #FolkloreThursday
Hoffmann’s “Der Struwwelpeter,” from 1845, is a terrifying, German children’s book. In moralizing tales, children are gravely punished for “bad” deeds —like “shaggy Peter’s” hygiene, & thumb-sucking! 😂Chilling images were burned into kids’ memories forever. 📚
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✨🍀✨It was believed to be unlucky - almost sinful - to point at stars, because the act was considered so disrespectful.
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"We don't have a place for these kind of people" You have to live working, if you like to eat for free, you will have to sit on the dock as an accused. #FolkloreThursday
In Norse mythology, the sin-eaters swallow the dead & incubate them in their bellies before taking them to Hel, the goddess of the underworld, ruler of Life & Death. She teaches the sinners how to live backward until they are young again & ready to be born anew.#FolkloreThursday
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"The Monk", a Gothic work of fiction, published in 1796 by Matthew Lewis, tells the tale of Ambrosio, a monk tempted into sin who enters into a tailspin of increasing carnal desire & murder. He loses his eternal salvation & his life at the hands of the devil.
Depictions of sins in Dante's Inferno:
3rd Circle of Gluttony, illustrated by Stradanus (L)
4th Circle of Greed, by Doré (Up. R)
5th Circle of Wrath, by Stradanus (Low.R)
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A Cheshire broadside tells how 5 maidservants conjured their future bridegrooms by making a ritual supper.
After reading the Lord’s Prayer backwards the door flew open & 5 ghastly gentlemen sat beside them. One girl apparently died from fright...
#FolkloreThursday #sin 🎨Finden
The wounds of a murdered person will begin to bleed again if they are touched by the murderer, revealing their guilt. #FolkloreThursday
Some sins..
The Seven Deadly Sins 1924 #GeorgeBarbier #FolkloreThursday