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In Native American tales, the coyote is both a trickster & a hero. When a Giant was eating children, coyote told him he can make the Giant more powerful. They went into a dark tent & the coyote said, "I will break my leg & mend it, so you can see my power." 1/2 #FolkloreThursday
Prometheus gave humans life & means to sustain it + warned of a great flood so all weren't drowned-tricks that earned him the wrath of Zeus. During his punishment, he didn't reveal a prophetic secret for 30 torturous millennia, until Zeus agreed to release him.
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Andean folklore talks of Uretane who knew she was a man despite her woman's body. As she wished it, Uretane's body changed & she grew breasts but also a penis. Uretane fell in love & challenged the tribe for the right to marry the girl. She won & they did marry.
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The complicated heroine of Hopeless, Maine. Childe-Salamandra to the stormy coast came.#FolkloreThursday
Water ran in her veins...
The story of Undine
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Blodeuwedd, “Flower face”, contemporary meaning, Owl. A heroine of the 4th branch of The Mabinogi. Created by the magicians Math & Gwydion, to counter a curse placed by Arianrhod on her son, she was made from flowers broom,meadowsweet & oak #FolkloreThursday (Art by Yuri Leitch)
A "natural history" approach to the spiritual protectorates of Japan's forests and mountains, the Tengu. (repost for my west coast followers) #fantasyart #FolkloreThursday #japan #creaturedesign
A midsummer night, a boy danced with a girl, he saw that she had a tail and whispered to her, "Miss your tail is showing". The girl thanked him and disappeared. From that day on, the boy always had the luck of the chase, because he had helped a troll. #folklorethursday
The sun used to live among the San of the Kalahari, as a man, unusual only in that when he lifted his arms bright light escaped his armpits. Eventually he was flung into the sky to drive out the prior darkness of the world. #FolkloreThursday
Brian Froud Illustration
Cherokee lore2/2: A possum& her kin tried to steal the fruit but their tails singed. A buzzard tried but its head-feathers fell off. Eventually a spider tried, she spun a web-Milky Way-across the sky reaching the Sun Fruit & threw it to the sky for all to share. #FolkloreThursday
A "natural history" approach to the spiritual protectorates of Japan's forests and mountains, the Tengu. #fantasyart #FolkloreThursday #japan #creaturedesign
In Slavic myth Zorya Utrennjaja is the Morning Star, linked to protection, hope, light. She opens sun god Dažbog's palace gates for his chariot each morning.
Zorya Vecernjaja is the evening star who protects lost travelers & closes the gates on Dažbog's return #FolkloreThursday
Happy Summer Solstice #Folklorethursday have some Solar folklore by Deborah Scherrer and some warm sunny wishes! https://t.co/k9HkC1cmWj
Love-in-Idleness & Heart’s-ease are folk names for the Wild Pansy. This flower is the basis of Oberon’s love potion in A #Midsummer Night’s Dream, causing fairy queen Titania to fall in love with the first thing she sees after sleeping. Image: Cicely Barker #FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday Watercolour by William Blake for Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' with a train of dancing fairies in a woodland setting. The fairies dance in a ring, evocative of the traditional English folk dances associated with midsummer.
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The Bean Nighe is related to the Bean Sidhe (banshee). Both of them are ominous heralds of death. More on the blog -> https://t.co/NUmkIKliSa #folklorethursday
According to John Milton's "Paradise Lost," Pandæmonium is the capital of Hell. Built by the fallen angels at the suggestion of demon Mammon in about an hour. It was designed by the architect Mulciber, who was the designer of palaces in Heaven before his Fall. #FolkloreThursday
The ever-debated Agartha is a group of cities residing in Center Earth; the capital being Shambhala. A civilization composed from the remnants of the utopias Lemuria & Atlantis. Entrances exist at the Poles& in mountainous caverns honeycombed through the planet. #folklorethursday
BIRTHDAY CANDLES
The first candles on cakes ware by the Greeks. They offered moon-shaped cakes to Artemis as tribute. To symbolize her moonly radiance, they lit candles on them so they'd glow.
📷 Michael-C-Hayes @deviantart #happybday #FolkloreThursday #ancientgreece