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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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An old Faroese nursery rhyme:
“A crow sits on the stone
Picks at a bone:
First was a potsherd,
Second – rubbish in a ring,
Third – a bandit at the Ting.
Now (name) should turn round in the ring”
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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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The student team of Blackdog Games from @AbertayUni have been doing a stellar job creating a video card game for @originsoflaoich. Look at this lovely artwork! #videogame #indiegamedeveloper #scotland #highlands @XpoNorth #celtic #gaelic #FolkloreThursday #fantasy #scottish
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White lilies symbolise peace, chastity, grace and grief. In ancient times brides wore garlands of lilies in their hair, as a lucky charm for a pure and fruitful marriage. Symbolic of the souls of the recently dead and a sign of peace, they are seen at funerals.
It was said that if you added a sprig of rosemary to a barrel of beer it would stop you from getting drunk. Additionally eating from a spoon made from rosemary wood was supposed to give flavour to even the blandest of dishes. #FolkloreThursday
The herb basil was said to be the only effective antidote to the poison of the dreadful Basilisk, hence its name. #FolkloreThursday
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Dragon boat racing is said to have begun on the Eastern shores of the Dongting Lake as a search for the body of poet, Qu Yuan, 1st author of Chinese verse. The dragon-king is said to live at the bottom of this lake.
In Irish tradition speedwell was regarded as a good luck charm. Often found along verges or byways, it was sewn into clothing to give protection from accidents, especially on journeys when “speed well” possibly meant “godspeed” or “safe journey.”#FolkloreThursday Img: CMB