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🌟THE LIGHTBRINGERS🌟
For #FolkloreThursday we thought we'd share some of @andtheHare folkloric images. Here's Mari Lwyd. A Welsh tradition: a pale horse that stalks villages with a troup of wassailers, its skull adorned with ribbons and winter foliage. https://t.co/xdlUJHQZAF
"Bread and milk for breakfast,
And woollen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast,
On the cold days of the year."
(✒️Christina Rossetti 🎨 Walter Crane)
#FolkloreThursday #cold
Hey #FolkloreThursday folks, I've made the art for this immersive ARG project. It's themes focus on magic/myth/legends/mystery.
There's a #kickstarter to raise the funds, BUT it's free to explore and engage with for everyone :)
Take a look why not?
https://t.co/UVMC14Fypm
Thanks for a brilliant start to #FolkloreThursday!
This is @DeeDeeChainey signing out, but we'll be back for more #cold, #snow and #ice folklore in just an hour with the fabulous @HerbalStorytell!
(Image: Snow Queen by Rudolf Koivu)
Good morning #FolkloreThursday; have you heard of Þorri (Thorri)? He is a winter spirit that makes himself known at this time of year. They say he sings the songs of ice and snow and wherever he goes he brings the frost.
Irish sayings about ❄️! If it snowed Christmas Eve🎅, children told geese being plucked in heaven! New moon lucky omen🌑. Mild weather on Christmas Eve was cause for concern because, "A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard"!😲 ©mistletoediary, my house #snow #FolkloreThursday
In the fens people would tap an iron plough with a hammer to predict the coming winter. If it gave out a dull boom then sleet and snow were expected. If it gave a ringing sound then frost was coming. #FolkloreThursday
A sign of harsh winter?
The holly bears the crown...
#TheHollyFairy #FlowerFairies #CicelyMaryBarker #FolkloreThursday
#Top5 Portsmouth #Mysteries That Will Never Be Solved!
By @lifeisamazinguk for #FolkloreThursday
https://t.co/JyPhwvG5p8
Morozko (father frost) is the Russian king of winter and sometimes death. When he encounters lost travelers in a snow storm, he's known to test their hearts and according to their answer he either spares them or bleeds the warmth and life out of them.
#FolkloreThursday
Chione was the goddess of snow in Greek mythology. She was a daughter of Boreas, god of the wintry north wind. She was also the consort of Poseidon, god of the sea, & mother of Eumolpus who she threw into the sea (it's ok, Poseidon rescued him)
#FolkloreThursday
🎨Jen Hallbrown
Halcyon days, named for the Kingfisher or ice bird, occur in December. Tranquil weather 15 days before frost the birds build nests near water. Seven days prior to winter solstice, birds made nests from fish bones & 7 days after, they tended to eggs & hatchlings. #FolkloreThursday
In Ojibwe lore, Memegwaans are tiny humanoids who are terrified of adults; vanishing if they see one. However, they #love human #children. Helping any children who are upset, injured, scared, or lonely; protecting them until help arrives. #FolkloreThursday #ChildrensDay2020
Troll. Through the woods
Ink and watercolor
#fae #faerie #fairytale #folktale #myth #FolkloreThursday #troll #watercolor #watercolourpainting #art #cartoon #FaeMoonCreations
New Gods of the Fourth World
When Jack Kirby left Marvel for DC, he created New Gods as a direct sequel to Norse myths he adapted for Marvel's Thor
My article on connections btw Kirby's opus + myths that fascinated him:
https://t.co/Eem373orOm
#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
#FolkloreThursday Slavic tale "The Good Ferryman"
3 sons inherit a ferry boat, but when the youngest's kind heart is rewarded with magical gifts, his bros trick + rob him. He bounces back, then the king covets his beautiful wife
https://t.co/O1Gbh3RNV6
🎨 Cecile Walton c. 1920
Compelled to open the closet door, inside Ivan finds a weak old man bound in chains. The old man asks for water, which he gulps down, enabling him to break his chains and flee - revealing himself to be the wicked sorcerer, Koschei the Deathless. #FolkloreThursday
A child born to the Trojan royal house before nightfall would bring ruin to the whole of Troy: but King Priam and Queen Hecuba could not kill their son. So Priam left the boy with a shepherd, who abandoned him. Suckled by a she-bear, the child Paris survived. #FolkloreThursday
Prophesied to die at the hands of his grandson by his daughter, King Acrisius of Argos and locked his daughter away. Zeus impregnated her as golden light, so Acrisius made a choice: rather than kill his daughter and grandson Perseus, he cast them to the sea. #FolkloreThursday