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Announcing this week's #FolkloreThursday theme... folklore of magical creatures — bring on your trolls, giants and fairies this Thursday! [Img: John Bauer]
Tomoe Gozen was a female samurai warrior. She was a remarkable archer & a swordswoman worth a thousand men, performing more deeds of valor than any other warrior during the Genpei War. Unbroken horses obeyed her. She's known for her beheading of great swordsmen. #FolkloreThursday
Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy's gone a #hunting,
He'll never get this rabbit's skin,
To wrap the baby bunting in.
This nursery rhyme dates to 1784 but is believed to have been part of an earlier oral tradition. [ Note Rabbits hunting in the Rackham illustration] #folklorethursday
Julie d'Aubigny, famed fencer & opera singer. She roamed France, teaching fencing and winning fights, & broke the Paris ban on duels thrice in one night, when she fought & defeated three noblemen at once after they took issue with her kissing a woman at a ball.
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Arawn is the King of the Otherworld in Welsh Mythology, encountered in the First Branch of the Mabinogion by the hero Pwyll when both were hunting. Pwyll finds himself in Annwn, the realm of Arawn & meets the Otherworld King’s hounds (white dogs with red ears)
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For #folklorethursday- sport and leisure on the island of Hopeless, Maine part one. Adventures with pets and local fauna. (art self and @Nimue_B )
Veles & Perun, the Slavic god of thunder, always battled: representing chaos & order. The myth was cyclical, repeating each year. The death of Veles was never permanent; he would reform himself as a serpent who shed its old skin to be reborn in a new body. #FolkloreThursday
Veles is a Slavic god of nature, dragons, cattle & the underworld. His tree is the willow. After the advent of Christianity, he was split into several characters & identified with the Devil. His more benevolent sides were transformed to several Christian saints. #FolkloreThursday
Fun Facts about Hera!!!
1) Hera was as an independent goddess before the Greeks gave up trying to suppress her cults and married her off to Zeus, conquering both the land of Greece and a woman-centered religion. #FolkloreThursday
Illustration from HanieMohd
Damballah, oldest of the Haitian loa. A serpent with 7000 coils, Damballah shaped the earth & brings the rain. He's wise, but doesn't speak human tongues, & so communicates through whistling. Don't smoke near his altars.
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HUGINN & MUNINN
Odin's spirit ravens. Fly out each day to gather info for him. Commonly called Thought & Memory, they translate more effectively to Spirit/Soul (from hugr) & Mind (from munr). Insinuating Odin used astral projections?
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I adore the Norse #goddess Freya, who brought the human world black magic! Riding on a chariot drawn by cats, she brought the #gods "Seidr" (witchcraft/shamanism). The magic of altering the course of destiny by re-weaving part of destiny’s web itself! #FolkloreThursday #mythology
Hel was the daughter of Loki and a giantess. Half dead and half alive, she was sent by Odin to host an eternal feast for the dead. While not as regarded as Valhalla or The Summerlands, going to Hel was a good thing.
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Athenians built a temple for Agnostos Theos, or the Unknown God, who represented all the deities whose names were lost or never known. Offerings made here aimed to prevent these forgotten beings from becoming upset at their neglect.
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In Greek myth Demeter was goddess of agriculture, growth, harvest & fertility. She also presided over the cycle of life & death. Persephone, her virgin daughter, was abducted to the underworld by Hades. Here Evelyn de Morgan depicts Demeter mourning her loss #FolkloreThursday
I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs. I make them look like pigs. ~Louise Gluck, Circe's power
Complete poem: https://t.co/jhkfKyjUUd ]
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HEKATE
Goddess associated w/ crossroads, magic, herbalism, ghosts, necromancy, & sorcery. Her shrines were built at crossroads & offerings were made on full moons for protection. She was 3-formed: new moon, half moon, full moon.
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Ryujin is a Japanese Dragon God. Often honoured as the god of the Sea, he controls the tides using magical jewels. He lives in a palace built out of red and white coral and his servants consist of sea turtles, fishes & jellyfish. His jewels appear in many myths
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