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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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Tonight, April 30th is Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night), also known as the ‘other Halloween’ — a night that belongs to WITCHES.
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Hello, #FolkloreThursday! This is Crystal of @HistoriumU joining as your host for the next hour. A huge thanks to @MythCrafts for hosting before our break. Today’s theme is the folklore of heroines and heroes. Sharing is caring: https://t.co/pgFBNz2LkI. (Image: Rackham)
For #FolkloreThursday:
Irish Tales of Terror, edited by Jim McGarry.
Welsh Tales of Terror, edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
Cornish Tales of Terror, edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
Scottish Tales of Terror, edited by Angus Campbell (a synonym of R. Chetwynd Hayes).
#horror
Bellerophon (Ancient Greek: Βελλεροφῶν) is a hero of Greek myth, who defeated the monster Chimera, and captured the horse Pegasus using Athena's charmed bridle.
The Gods disowned him for trying to get into Mount Olympus flying on Pegasus.
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A little thread about Ireland's kick-ass legendary heroine, Macha!
#FolkloreThursday 🎨Kellepics on Pixaby
‘Three Characters of the Play
The Villain, The Heroine, The Hero’
Achille Greco marionettes
Palermo, Sicily
📷 Harry B. Lachman (1886-1975)
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Thanks for your great shares this #FolkloreThursday! This is @DeeDeeChainey signing off, but we'll be back with the brilliant @MythCrafts in an hour. Until then, do support the community by retweeting more epic folklore posts from this live feed: https://t.co/QUVD93PwNL
Grace Darling assured her status as a real life & folk heroine in 1838, when she rowed out to rescue survivors from a shipwreck off the Northumberland coast. She inspired countless street ballads, fiction, even figurines, and many requests for locks of her hair
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In Norse mythology, Hel is ruler of the underworld. Alongside the crucial job of judging the dead, she also had a vital and terrifying role to play in the endtimes legend of Ragnarok, leading an army of the dead in a ship made from the fingernails of corpses. #FolkloreThursday