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#FolkloreThursday Other solstice traditions surround the ashes from a midsummer bonfire 🔥 which can be used as protection against misfortune by being formed into an amulet, or spread across a garden to ensure a good harvest 🌾
Stay tuned for our new blog post on the solstice...
Long associated with childbirth, the stork is a fertility symbol that is also linked to birth & springtime. The tale of storks delivering newborn babies to their mothers is told to children throughout North America & Europe.
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Vintage illustration, source unknown.
Babies born when the clock was striking the hour were thought to be gifted with the ability to see ghosts and spirits. #FolkloreThursday
Remembering Jane Sharp, 17thC midwife & author of The Midwives Book, in English rather than Latin.
Female-centred, her book saved lives & was open about sex: "the clitoris being nervous & of pure feeling, when rubbed & stirred causeth lustful feelings" #FolkloreThursday #birth
#FolkloreThursday Death (XIII) is the 13th trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in Tarot, tarock and tarocchi games as well as in divination. There are decks that title Death as "Rebirth" or "Death-Rebirth."
Flowers were seen as symbol of rebirth since Roman times, each month having its own #birthday flower.
June's birth flowers are #rose and honeysuckle.
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‘The bumps’ is a birthday tradition common in Scotland. The friends and family of the birthday person take them by the arms and legs, and ‘bump’ them up in the air and down to the ground. The number of bumps given equals the age of the person plus one for luck. #FolkloreThursday
“I tried to imagine myself a long time ago, in the lands where these stories were first told, during the long winter nights perhaps, under the glow of the northern lights”
Neil Gaiman, "Norse Mythology"
Painting sagaman Peter Nicolai Arbo #BOTD 1831 in Norway
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Todos hemos deseado secretamente batirnos en un duelo de insultos!! “Hasta un manco esgrime el florete con mas destreza!”... o hasta ganar un concurso de escupitajos! #lucasarts #retrogames #RetroGaming #pointandclick #pixelart #pixelperfect #videojuegos #videogames
For a better future, without discrimination and racism!
#blacklivesmatter #georgefloyd #togheter #stopracism #illustration #artforjustice #loretaisac
So many beautiful works on this challenge, I decided to do my interpretation #sailormoonchallenge #sailormoonredraw #seilormoon #art #drawing #loretaisac
Tradition accuses the magpie of not wearing full mourning at the Crucifixion. In Scotland it was considered such an evil bird that it was said to carry a drop of the Devil’s blood under its tongue...🩸#folklorethursday
If you are often troubled by ghosts, ask them what they want. They seldom reply, but they will leave you and not appear again.
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Kuniyoshi The Ghosts
Kelpies are smaller than the myths would have you believe....
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#FolkloreThursday In German folklore,the Roggenmuhme ("rye aunt") is a female corn demon with fiery fingers.Her bosoms are filled with tar,and may end in tips of igneous iron.She is known for stealing children and for replacing them with changelings #GothicNewWorlds
🎨Igor Krstic
Horses are often credited with the power to see ghosts, and sweat and shy when troubled by spirits. They were once thought to be vulnerable to the Evil Eye, and their owners protected them with brasses made in spirit-repelling shapes, such as the sun or moon #folklorethursday
Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & placed in a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. #FolkloreThursday Img: Cicely Barker