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Good morning, How would you like to wake up to this wild woman, The Old Hag? Newfoundland's local succubus, one version of Herself was featured on a Canadian postage stamp in 2016!

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🌟#FolkloreThursday
This week, the Folklore is for a &what can be more Wild, than the separation between things? ‘#Chaos’-as pure energy potential;
between Heaven’s &Earth:

Most of the energy is caught, inbetween-as the electric field between plates of a Capacitor!

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The Wild Huntsman, Wild Ride, Raging Host & Odin’s Hunt - some of the names given to Norse storm god Odin in his role as gatherer of the souls of the dead. This ghostly entourage rages across the sky in storms & if seen presages misfortune & death. Img: Rackham

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In Alpine folklore, Faengge was a wild-woman of colossal stature, lichen hair, a mouth that stretched from ear to ear and breasts so long, she had to throw them over her shoulders when she ran through the woods...

🎨MadLaid/DeviantArt

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Hello 🐉

A huge thanks to Crystal for being our epic host before the break! This is hosting the last session of the day 🧐

Today's theme is Folklore of Rivers and Wells! Bring out the nymphs and river monsters !!

Warwick Goble 1912

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For today’s : how the classical myth of the nymph Arethusa and the Alpheus inspired the Elvish love story of Nimrodel and Amroth in The https://t.co/q7xUwVXGzN
(Statue in Ortygia, Sicily; art by LiigaKlavina)

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-River Folklore-
The River Gods were the 3000 sons of the great earth-encircling river Oceanus and his wife Tethys.
They were the brothers of the Oceanids and the fathers of the Naiads.
(Art by Daren Horley)

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Reported in 1896
The funeral procession must not cross a river.
Baldwinsville, N. Y.

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I had a blast sharing your water wisdom, This is Crystal signing off. Get your next tweets ready because will be on at 6:30 BST for today’s last session. “Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river." ― Lao Tzu (Image: Stillman)

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Jakob's Well, the scene of the conversation between Jesus and the “woman of Samaria” narrated in the Fourth Gospel, is described as being in the neighbourhood of an otherwise unmentioned “city called Sychar.” see also John 4:6 (ESV)#FolkloreThursday

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Today's theme is Rivers and Wells! River hags are a common theme in English folklore, with figures such as Peg Powler and Jenny Greenteeth acting as bogeyman-figures who would drown children who came too close to the riverbank.

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Kawa Akago are the cousins of kappa. They live on the riverbanks and cry out like babies, leading people into the river. When a person is in the river, they’ll knock their legs out from under them, sometimes drowning their victims. Art

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For the Cherokee, the world is an island floating on water & suspended from the sky by 4 ropes. One day, the cords will break & the world will sink in the ocean & all will return to water. That is why rivers are sacred & people bath in them at each new moon.

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The myth of Narcissus tells of a beautiful young man who became so enamored of his own reflection in a river that he refused to move from the spot, and eventually flowers (narcissi) grew there. Echo fell in love with him, but he only had eyes for himself.

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JENNY GREENTEETH Beware if passing a marsh or pond in a mist. This sharp-toothed crone pulls unwary wanderers into the depths & devours them. 'Jenny Greenteeth' is also the local name for duckweed in parts of England 🎨image 2 Brian Froud

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It was believed that the Taff Whirlpool was frequented by a lovely lady, who lured people whilst bathing 🌪

Youths were known to swim towards her, attracted by her beauty. They were then sucked into the vortex, and their bodies could never be found 💀

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In old Nordic folk tales (mainly Sweden and Norway) Näcken (the Neck) is a male water creature that mainly lives in rivers, streams, ponds and lakes inland. He plays his fiddle to lure you into the water.

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✨A Kelpie is a shape shifting water spirit inhabiting the Locs & Pools of Scottland. Preying on any humans it encounters. It is usually described as a black horselike creature, able to adopt human form. ✨

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A kyōkotsu is a ghostly, skeletal spirit, with only its bleached skull and tangled hair emerging from its tattered shroud. They are formed from bones improperly disposed of by being discarded down a well, this lack of respect creating a very powerful grudge.

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🌊🧜‍♀️🌊A Mermaid from the river Mersey was said to swim through a subterranean passage to Rostherne Mere, where an ancient church bell had been lost in the waters. She would ring it to welcome in the dawn on Easter Sunday, before sitting upon it to sing.

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