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Maundy Thursday and every single witch in Sweden is getting ready to leap astride their broom and take off to orgies with Satan. For #folklorethursday a final post about witches, accusers and gruesome death! #history https://t.co/dDkBbSm5iX
People used to believe in the Easter Hare before the Easter Rabbit, and children left out nests to get Easter eggs. Good children got eggs, but bad children didn't. More Easter lore ➡ https://t.co/76WmNjwa8c #folklorethursday [public domain image]
Baobhan sith, an unseelie wight from Celtic folklore. Likes to lure young men into the forest to dance with her, and when they're exhausted, drain their blood...
Revisiting my old watercolour illustrations made me want to try a digital one!
#folklorethursday #digitalart
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The pinning of spiritual medals on a baby’s vest, pram or crib is a time-honoured tradition for many Catholic families. The medal is a reminder that God sends guardian angels to protect his children & keep them safe from danger.
🎨Frances Brundage
Dongzhi (Winter Arrives) is an East Asian winter solstice festival, of which there are regional variations. Families get together to eat dumplings & tangyuan, drink rice wine, & gather in clan tombs to offer food & drink to their ancestors' spirits. #FolkloreThursday
Cleveland Museum of Art explores time travel in show organized by artist Laura Owens with area teens #art #timetravel #artwork #cleveland #time #travels #teens #organized #organize #exploretime #clevelandmuseum #lauraowens #museum #museums #laura #art https://t.co/vHPvKdIrXw
(2/2) Short-tongued bees favor flowers with shallow florets as seen in this picture featuring a polyester bee drinking nectar from a sunflower!
Illustration by Steve Buchanan 🐝
New art of Bo's Bachelorette Party commissioned by @ocerydia, Sarha-Solar, @thefrench_kitty and @DalfeusHowler. A pact between girls to burrow all the relic of a past as single... It's hard to move on, for sure, but it's for the better XD
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26/03
Un monde animal à l'agonie...
Giant Sand
"Loretta and the insect world"
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The Zamba Zaraa is a hedgehog-like animal, said to live in the Gobi Desert, that inflates like a pufferfish when it feels threatened. Art by @JuncoPuff for the upcoming book #LibrumProdigiosum. https://t.co/dbxMzxQvc3 #FolkloreThursday
Originally made as a farming device by an Engineer as an apology to humanity, the Chopper was repurposed as an assault vehicle that is often used by the Brutes to cut through enemy obstacles! #LoreThursday
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Blackburn 1869 - local man George Hindle is held accused of breaking windows in the Union Buildings, but as they kept on being broken whilst he was in jail it was said it could only be the work of boggarts & the court had no choice but to pronounce this as so!
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Draw In Your Style
King and Queen of the Offerings
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Mexico is the only revolutionary state in the Western hemisphere that outlawed slavery from its beginning and it stayed that way. This is a central cause of the Texan Revolution: white and Tejano settlers wanted the right to own slaves and Mexico refused. #FolkloreThursday
Illustrations by Arthur Rackham for ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’ by JM Barrie. Published in #London by Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. #FolkloreThursday @HodderBooks
The sweet, shiny black berries of the Deadly Nightshade contain Atropine, which causes rapid heartbeat, hallucinations and seizures when eaten.
In Scotland it was believed that walking over Deadly Nightshade plants would make you see the ghosts of dead people. #FolkloreThursday
@folklorethurs On my lockdown walk in south London is a garden dedicated to talented local artist Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973).
Famous for her flower fairy artworks, she used costumed children as models and depicted accurate plants supplied by Kew Gardens. #folklorethursday
The Dragon of Mordiford was said to reside just outside the Herefordshire village of Mordiford, at the confluence of the River Lugg and the River Wye.
From early life, the green dragon, was said to have loved a small girl named Maud who resided in Mordiford #FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday #TheBlackRockMermaid found in the #Wirral coastal waters of the River #Mersey. Legend tells of #Liverpool sailor John Robinson being seduced by the siren’s seductive charms & of her giving him a ring on parting. He died 5 days after their encounter.
🎨JWW