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I’m off to bury my toes in the sand, #FolkloreThursday. This is Crystal @HistoriumU waving goodbye. The magnificent @ShanonSinn will join at 6:30 BST for today’s last session. “Every island to a child is a treasure island.” ― P.D. James (Image: M. Pernhart)
Whoops my hand slipped. 😉
Just a quick morning sketch of Gray from Story of Seasons: FoMT
I've been playin it a bit while sick and the nostalgia is real, but I wanted to see less chibi versions of all the bachelors/bachelorettes so I'm sketching them myself. 😂 #SoSFoMT
The Islands of Orkney were reputed to be a haven for witches and King James wrote in Daemonologia of the special power of the devil there - the spae-wives were the wise women of the island and they were victims of the witch hunters. Spae - fortell . . .'to spy' #FolkloreThursday
In Scottish waters, three days before a storm, the drowned would leave their watery graves to lament and warn the living of what was to come...
🎨John McGhie
#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
In the tale of Momotaro, the oni were pillaging villages and kidnapping women, and would take them back to their island, Onigashima. It was up to Momotaro and his animal friends to go to that island, defeat the oni, and rescue the captives. #FolkloreThursday
Ukonsaari Island in Lake Inari is a sacred site of the Sámi, Europe's only indigenous culture whose people have long inhabited the arctic circle. Shamans (noaidi) visited the island to communicate with Ukko, the god of thunder in charge of weather & harvests. #FolkloreThursday
An aside to Glastonbury being the Isle of Glass in Welsh: when the base of the Tor was a lake, several villages were built in the marshes - Iron Age crannogs.
One of them, Meare Lake village, was a centre for rare Iron Age glass bead making.
A real Glass Isle.
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the Beach-Crow sees what is lost, opens the earth, and owns that which is not possessed by anyone. #folklorethursday
Old beliefs in the British Isles featured lightning birds, in the form of many native birds, come to earth via electrical storms, bearing branches of invisible fire. Those who robbed the nests or harmed the birds risked their own home being burnt up by lightning #folklorethursday
Fiery goddess Pele not only hewed the natural features of her native Hawaii, but her bones formed the hill of Ka Iwi o Pele. Her tempestuous spirit is said to live in the Kilauea volcano; you might spot her face in its lava flows. https://t.co/kTdeNRUUwE #FolkloreThursday #island
Today's #FolkloreThursday is island folklore. According to myth, #Blackbeard punished a mutiny by marooning the crew on the barren Dead Chest Island in the British Virgin Islands. Each mutineer was given a bottle of rum in the hope they'd get drunk, belligerent & kill each other!
Avalon, Isle of Apples, is the legendary island where the sword Excalibur was forged and King Arthur was laid to rest. Its name comes from belief that on this Isle, fruit and grain grew itself - no need for a farmer's plough or cultivation. #FolkloreThursday #storytelling
Since today's #FolkloreThursday is island-themed, check out the discussion @Colebrax and I had about Homer's island-hopping adventure THE ODYSSEY and some outstanding adaptations across different forms of media: https://t.co/ReE2XBFRlN (Art: Boecklin)
Mljet island is where Odysseus was held captive for 7 yrs by amorous nymph Calypso, who promised him immortality & eternal youth. But he yearned for his island Ithaca, so Zeus ordered Calypso to free him. The cave where he stayed is named after him to this day. #folklorethursday
The island of Tír na nÓg is the Celtic Otherworld, a realm of eternal youth & joy. In the tale of Oisín and Niamh, after few years, the hero Oisín decides to leave the island to visit his homeland, only to realise that 300 years have passed in the mortal world. #FolkloreThursday
The Huldufólk (hidden folk) are the elves of Iceland. Rooted in the #island's history, they are by far the country's most #mythical being. A study shows 8% of Icelanders believe the elves exist, and 54% wouldn't deny the possibility.
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(#art by John Bauer)
Sable Island (nr. Nova Scotia) is home to wild horses & ghosts. 350+ ships sank off its shores; legend has it the horses escaped a shipwreck (not true) & the ghost of a priest who ministered its 16thc penal colony & a murdered ‘white lady’ roam its dunes (true?) #FolkloreThursday
Lillie ☀️ my favorite bachelorette from the game!!
#StoryofSeasons #HarvestMoon
Skogsrå and Huldra: The femme fatale of the #Scandinavian #forests by #TommyKuusela for #FolkloreThursday
(Illustration by Robin Kuusela)
https://t.co/IDXqbpPWja