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#Krampus...as a woman. And her birch is not for children who have misbehaved! #FolkloreThursday #Krampusnacht
Across England it was thought very bad luck to harm a robin. The hand of someone who had killed a robin would always shake. If you broke a robin’s egg you would soon find your own crockery broken. If you broke a robin's wing your own arm would soon also break. #FolkloreThursday
#Fairies embody the nature of the #trickster. Filled with mischief and malice, they tangle hair (#elf-locks), they switch out children (changelings), they confuse the paths of travelers, and force humans to dance. But they're pretty...
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#art by Arthur Rackham
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Vodník is the Czech/Slovak version of vodyanoy, a male water spirit. Vodník looks like a human, wears clothes, and can survive outside water with his clothes wet. He tricks and drowns people, then he keeps their souls in teacups underwater.
Art: Josef Lada
The Baobhan sith (Bavaan-shee) is a vampiric creature in Scottish folklore. Fair or red haired maidens with deer feet and legs who dance in the moonlight to seduce travellers and shepards, only to kill them and drain their victims of their blood.
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imo Anissa is one of the prettiest sos bachelorette.. 🥺🥺🥺💓💓💓 she is beauty she is grace
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Nombre: Isabel Bravo Lima Pais: Mexico
me gusto el resultado, no suelo usar coloretes claritos y mirar que cute me salio el pollito
The answer to this week's #riddle on #FolkloreThursday is:
Snow ❄️
Fastest off the mark were:
1.@LauraFUnderhill 🥇🏆
2.@merryme300 🥈🏆
3.@amandauren 🥉🏆
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Today’s #FolkloreThursday is all about ice and snow! The Hag of Beara was said to bring winter to Ireland. She is associated with various rocks on the coast, usually believed to be her petrified form, staring out to sea forever.
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In the freezing waters of the North Pacific live the Haietlik, giant lightning serpents.
According to Nuu-chah-nulth mythology, the Thunderbirds—supernatural beings from the upper world—use the Haietlik, their allies against evil, as harpoons to hunt whales.
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#FolkloreThursday #Persephone, or Kora, the maiden. Abducted by #Hades, with approval from her father #Zeus, to be queen of the underworld. She is the #goddess of vegetation, leaping forth in Spring and sinking back into the earth in Winter.
King Bress demanded milk from all the cows that were brown & hairless. He then passed all the cattle in Ireland between two fires so that their hair was singed off, which made all Irish cows brown & hairless.
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#FolkloreThursday In Belgium, on the 25th of November, the feast of St Catherine of Alexandria, if St. Catherine appears in a white veil (snow), the winter will be hard.
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In Polynesian myth, there are four sisters of the snow covered mountains, deities of Mauna Kea. Poliʻahu lives in the summit, Waiau, is a guardian, Kahoupokane is a weaver, and Lilinoe is the maker of mist. Together they create balance between ice and heat.
#FolkloreThursday Some images of #JackFrost
Jack Frost costume from "Santa Claus" panto, 1894
1910 Jack Frost with his silver brush, Jack Frost and Parsnip, 1914
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❄️🌱❄️Even though they're a welcome sign of springtime, Snowdrops were thought to be an ill-omened flower when brought into a house, and might presage a death. 🥚Less frightening was the belief that bringing them inside would prevent poultry eggs from hatching.
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