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In Norse myths, Aegir was a sea giant he and his giant wife Ran lived in a eloquent hall beneath the ocean and are seen as the divine powers of the ocean. Aegir formed close ties with the Norse pantheon and was famous for hosting many lavish feasts for them.
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Cetus was a large sea monster sent by the Greek god Poseidon to devour princess, Andromeda, to punish her mother Cassiopeia for bragging that her daughter’s was prettier than the sea goddess. Cetus was killed by demigod Perseus who later on married Andromeda
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Áine, the Queen of the Fairies in Irish mythology, is the goddess of love, fertility, the sun, and Summer. The summer solstice and the days leading up to midsummer are her sacred days. Rites were performed in her honour as recently as 1879.
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Balm - or bee-plant used to be planted around orchards and vegetable plots to encourage pollination. During the 17th and 18th centuries balm was used to make bees stay in their hives, and even attract a new swarm...
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#Welsh #Mythology and #Storytelling: Telling the #Mabinogion by #HughLupton for #FolkloreThursday @crickcrackclub https://t.co/vWUvAvnfcb
#FolkloreThursday It is the family sagas that we hear while sitting on our parent's (grandparent's) knees that create our family roots and give us the sense of belonging...Hence Serbian expression "from knee to knee" meaning "from generation to generation"
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Boccaccio’s The Decameron, a frame story comprising 100 tales, told by a group of 10 young friends, over a period of 10 days. The #storytellers are sheltering in a secluded villa on the outskirts of Florence, to avoid the risk of the Black Death.
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🌿💜🌿Sage lore...
To conjure a vision of your future spouse, pluck twelve leaves - without breaking any - at midnight on Midsummer Eve, one at each strike of the clock.
Eat it in the month of May to ensure long life.
Believed to remedy failing sight and memory.
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(/4) Mount Subis, where the Great Niah Cave is located, has more than 1 story attached to it, but all have a theme in common: it was originally a longhouse, which turned into a stone after its inhabitants broke some traditional law/taboo. #FolkloreThursday #SarawakFolklore
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An elderly man called Keith,
Mislaid his set of false teeth.
They'd been laid on a chair,
He'd forgot they were there,
Sat down, and was bitten beneath.
- Old Irish Limerick
The foxglove originally symbolised riddles & conundrums, probably because in Old Irish it was “folksglove”, the “folks” being the fairies with all their tricks. The “glove” may have been Anglo-Saxon “gliew” - bells on a frame. Foxgloves were also “fairy bells”. #FolkloreThursday
Anne Boleyn was beheaded #OnThisDay, May 19, 1536. Her ghost is said to still haunt the Tower of London, and a guard once claimed he saw her ghost leading an elaborate procession of knights and ladies in the Royal Chapel.
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The Gerding is form of Hookland nature spirit that needs appeasing. A monstrous head that lives beneath the soil, every few years it sends spores of itself up to the surface. These grow into smaller heads that demand the Gerding below is given its due. #FolkloreThursday
✨🦇✨Bats were often seen as bringers of bad luck, but this rhyme was said to ward misfortune away...
"Airy mouse, airy mouse, fly over my head,
And you shall have a crust of bread,
And when I brew and when I bake,
You shall have a piece of my wedding cake."
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#folklorethursday #animalfacts; A sea goat represents the astrological sign Capricorn. Those born between December 21 and January 21 are Capricorns and are said to be very ambitious!
The Forest Godesses, Vâlve or Charmstresses were said to hold power over herbs, magic flowers, thermal springs, winds, mountains and forests, where they lived among themselves, speaking a language no one understood.
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My favorite food safety tip: Never eat blackberries after Michaelmas (September 29) because on that night the Devil urinates on them all. (When St. Michael expelled the Devil from heaven, he landed in a blackberry bush. He's carried the grudge ever since.) #FolkloreThursday
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Laka is the Hawaiian Goddess of fertility, the forest, and all vegetation. She is credited with inventing the Hula, or artful storytelling though dance. Hula dancers offer prayers, and wear sacred Ti leaves to ward off evil, attract good, and to honour Laka.
And clinging, twisting, up I creep,
And climb towards the sky…
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