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"Hekate Einodia, Trioditis, lovely dame, of earthly, watery, and celestial frame, sepulchral... pleased with dark ghosts that wander through the shade; Perseis, solitary goddess, hail!"

Orphic Hymn to Hecate, goddess of night & magic etc

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Astarte is the Hellenized form of the Middle Eastern goddess Astoreth (Northwest Semitic), a form of Ishtar (East Semitic), worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity.

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Made equal to Adam, Lilith would not submit to his dominance and for that crime God cast her out of Eden. Whether with angels or other men or Cain, Lilith became the mother of demons and foreigners, and a much maligned part of Abrahamic religion.

🖼: LeGrebe

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'Little Jack Horner'

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Good morning
This is here to kick off today's theme: the folklore of bold courageous and powerful goddesses!
(Image: Boadicea, John Opie)

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The cry of the Banshee is mournful beyond all other sounds on earth, & betokens certain death to some member of the family whenever she is heard in the still of the night.
When several banshees appear at once, it indicates the death of someone great or holy.

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Call her Hag or Crone, the aged woman dwells in a place beyond the norm. Once beautiful and fertile, she draws on her accumulated power to make her way in the world. Often feared, the crone is a wise and worthy gatekeeper to the mysteries of life.

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When objects get very old, they can acquire a spirit and become yokai called Tsukumogami. It can happen to all kinds of things like tools, musical instruments, household goods, and kitchen implements like this rice cooker by our own

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Legend has it that Jenny Greenteeth, a water-witcher, was an old woman who skulked under the weeds or willows overhanging the water, ready to drag in any unsuspecting child that ventured too close to the water’s brink with her long arms.
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- Haida Tales: Raven and the Coming of the Salmon https://t.co/sg3G3SV79R

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In Irish Mythology 'The Children of Lír' are transformed into four swans by their stepmother Aoife, only regaining their human form in extreme old age. Pic: by John Duncan

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Ukko is the Finnish and Estonian god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder. His name means male grandparent, grandfather, old man in Finnish.

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Urashima Tarō rescues a turtle that takes him to a palace under the sea where Princess Otohime entertains him for a few days. She gifts him a box he must not open. When home he learns he was gone for 100 years. Saddened, he opens the box & becomes a very old man

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'My lusts they do me leave,
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head

For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch,
And lusty life away she leaps
As there had been none such'

by Lord Thomas Vaux

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Proverb: "For an old man to marry is like wanting to harvest in wintertime"

by Ernest Aris

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"#Old Jimmy Spray" (c.1806-1888) c.1860-70. "..the only thing of interest about him [!].. that he was taken from the Workshouse as a that he was bought from the !

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Perhaps the moral of the Japanese legend of Princess Kaguya is that living forever won't be worth it without one's love - it's why immortal moon-woman Kaguya avoids marrying on Earth, and why the Emperor, who so loved her, ultimately refuses to be made one alone.#FolkloreThursday

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To discover how many years you will live, run around a tree full of ripe cherries. Then shake it. The number of cherries that fall will be the number of years left...

🎨Tomikichiro Tokuriki

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In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed, ferocious old woman. She can be both benefactor & villain. She is also regarded as a Mother Earth figure and guardian of the forest.

🎨Xenia Berezovsky

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