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The #Celtic tree month of #hawthorn begins on 13th May. The May tree, it gifts love & healing to the heart & is sacred to the goddess Brighid when she brings new growth & fertiity. Known as a faery tree, the hawthorn should never be harmed. #FolkloreThursday Img: Cicely Barker
The answer to this week's #riddle on #FolkloreThursday Thursday is:
Ham-mock
Just the one winner this week. The nimble-witted @LauraFUnderhill 🥇🏆
Congratulations!
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im loretto :•) and i (mostly) draw cute things in warm colors
art only: @ladybugboots
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i tag @fuzzyworme @KULAWAVE @misandristwwx !! https://t.co/LUk1oU9LZk
Installation 07, known colloquially as Zeta Halo, is the most unique of the seven Halo rings that are spread across the galaxy, being the only surviving member from the original array of 12. #LoreThursday
Learn more about this mysterious ring here: https://t.co/AjBoEKwCrq
#Goldenweek holds Hamamatsu's #Kite #Festival, where 100 professional kites are flown over windy sand dunes. Battling in the sky, using friction to cut their opponents down! Newborn names are written on the kites. For the higher the kite, the healthier the baby! #FolkloreThursday
🌿🎀🌿May Day in Herefordshire... crosses woven from birch & rowan were hung over cottage doors & seed-beds to ward off bad luck & the spells of Witches, also birch trees decorated with red & white ribbons were stood by stables, to protect horses from the Fae.
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Additionally it was said that during the night of the 24th of June during the Drăgaica, the Iele (spirits of the forests) would perpetually dance leaving burnt traces around oak trees, while also making those who disturbed their dances mutes for life. #FolkloreThursday
The Drăgaica,a traditional Midsummer fair, has been held for centuries near the Buzau river in Wallachia (paused between 1806-29 because Ottomans burned the city).It is said that whoever did chores on the main day on the 24th of June would be struck by lighting.#FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday 'The Descent of the Witch' marks the beginning of the local festival of the Navarrese town of Vidángoz in the Sangüesa. The town's popular festivities are held in honour of its patron saint St. Augustine, taking place at the end of August https://t.co/IaPdCi5kPf
#FolkloreThursday Maypole dancing, an ancient ceremonial folk ritual & fertility rite performed around a tall pole decorated with foliage, flowers & ribbons woven into patterns by the dancers. Traditionally performed on #MayDay in #UK & midsummer in #Scandinavia
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Every age has its own magic, but beauty is always the same.
Here we place the magic of 20th century in to the frame of Russian fairy tales.
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As a child, the samurai Minamoto no Yoshitsune was exiled to Mount Kurama after his father was assassinated. He learned swordsmanship from the tengu Sojobo and used his skills to avenge his father's death and become a famous warrior hero. #FolkloreThursday
A Jack in the Green is a common sight around May Day festivities- once believed to be a remnant of a pre-Christianity fertility ritual, the practice is now thought to be tied to a seventeenth century custom of decorating milk pails, and then milk maids.
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You can read 2 of the folktales - “The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōichi” & “Yuki-Onna” - as written by Lafcadio Hearn in his 1904 book, 'Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things' @internetarchive :
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