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The Beast of Bodmin Moor is a large phantom cat. After mauled livestock & closure of a zoo in Plymouth prompted sightings of this panther-like creature upon the moors and a government investigation revealed nothing, a large cat skull was found on the moors...
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Beast of Gévaudan. Between 1764 and 1767, there were a series of reported attacks by what was described as “beasts with huge teeth and massive tails”. The victims’ throats were torn out and it resulted to over a hundred deaths.
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A Zburator is a Romanian Dragon that is nocturnal and hunts in packs for other dragons. It said that it has a tail of a fire and the head of a wolf. It name literally means "flyer." #folklorethursday
Urashima Taro, a fisherman, was given a strange box by the princess of the underwater Dragon Palace; she told him never to open it. But when Urashima returned home, hundreds of years had passed. In despair he opened the box, and suddenly became an old, old man.
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This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is folk tales and legends from around the world! Share your favourites with us this Thursday! (Image: From Folk-tales of Bengal, 1912)
#folklorethursday As a kid I loved the story of Snow White and Rose Red, sisters who befriend a bear and keep having run ins with an ungrateful dwarf.
The last time they see the dwarf, the bear is about to kill him. True to form, he begs for the girls to be eaten instead.
The other-world is a reversal of ours. Things plentiful here are in dearth there. When light there, our world is dark. The right hand here corresponds to the left there--Why people became wary of the left-handed: they could be spirits from that reversed world.
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#FolkloreThursday Twelfth night celebrations on Hopeless, Maine (art self) The costumes and masks were partly inspired by Noh Theatre tradition from Japan.
In Britian it is not uncommon for people to salute a lone magpie - as magpies mate for life seeing a lone bird carries connotations of a lost partner/ill fortune, in showing a sign of respect it is believed one's own bad luck may be avoided. @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
The rites and rituals of the below-ground population of Hopeless, Maine (which is to say, vampires) #FolkloreThursday Art, self and @Nimue_B The wicker rug beater is not an absolute requirement.
In Norse sociecty the greatest of criminals were executed in a ritual known as the blood eagle it is detailed in late skaldic poetry. #FolkloreThursday
Adrammelech (king of fire) is an ancient Samarian sun god briefly mentioned in the Old Testament's Book of Kings. In demonology he is an arch-demon & a great minister of the Order of the Fly, founded by Beelzebub. He appears in the form of a mule or a peacock. #FolkloreThursday
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According to the traditional Cosmology of Oceania's Kiribati Islanders, Nareau, the Lord Spider, spun the universe into existence. It created all life, the first Man & Woman, the Octopus Lord, The Eel, The Wave, and all the Gods, only to retreat from being. #FolkloreThursday
African Lore: Grootslang, meaning "great snake." It lived in a diamond cave, the Wonder Hole. The OG Grootslang was too powerful, so the gods subdivided the animal into two species: elephant & serpent, but a Grootslang or two escaped this fate & reproduced. #FolkloreThursday
Aboriginal Australian #Myth, tells of the (genderless) Rainbow Serpent. Referring to the intersex serpent as the creator or giver of life; due to its connection with water. Where a Wagilag sister gives birth &her blood flows into the Rainbow Serpent's waterhole. #FolkloreThursday
The Inuit goddess Sedna is a creator deity, with dominion of marine animals. She is depicted as hermaphroditic in some myths, with others showing her as bisexual or lesbian, living with her female partner at the bottom of the ocean. #FolkloreThursday #Pride2018
The wheel of fate as seen in Hopeless, Maine for #FolkloreThursday
Santa Muerte, a potent Mexican folk saint, appears as a skeleton wearing feminine garb. Seen as a protector of the weak & oppressed, she has become the patroness & protector of LGBT communities & likes offerings of flowers, alcohol, & cigarettes.
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Iris 🌈 Goddess of the Rainbow
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