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Hello, #FolkloreThursday! A huge thanks to @MythCrafts who hosted before the break. This is Crystal of @HistoriumU and I’ll be with you for the next 90 minutes to celebrate the folklore of women. Tweet some girl power now! (Image: PubDom) #FolkloreThursday #InternationalWomensDay
the Fifth on the Fifth! with 'Old Mother Anguish' as one of her Names, you know the Mother of Ants is not to be trifled with. she will unseal and unseam. you cannot deny her. #folklorethursday #cultistsimulator
The Rusalka, women who died of violent drowning deaths at the hands of another, lured & seduced young men into the depths of bodies of water, where she would tangle them with her long hair & submerge them. This would continue until her death was avenged. #FolkloreThursday
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#Women in Folklore for #InternationalWomensDay
Kodama are female spirits in Japanese folklore that inhabit trees, similar to the dryads of Greek mythology. They occasionally speak, and can especially be heard when a person dies.
Futakuchi Onna is a yokai that seems like a normal woman who just doesn’t eat much, but if you look at the back of her head you’ll find a second mouth that is extremely hungry. #FolkloreThursday
In Celtic lore, the Queen of the Fairies is represented as beautiful & seductive, but also terrible & deadly Paying a tithe to Hell every 7years, with her mortal lovers as the sacrifice. Even though she may show kindness, she is quick to seek revenge! #FolkloreThursday #WomensDay
In the legend of Ragnarok, the Norse foretelling of the Apocalypse, Hel (ruler of the eponymous underworld) role was to lead an army of the dead in a ship made from the fingernails of corpses. She literally brings the end of the world with her. #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
In Slavic folklore Rusalki are women who died violent deaths and dwell in bodies of water luring men to their deaths, in early June it is 'Rusalki week' where they are especially active, swimming is forbidden during this week as it will result in certain death #FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday After Zeus’ extramarital affair with Lamia, Hera, his wife, punishes her with sleeplessness and by killing her offspring. Zeus offers Lamia the ability to remove her own eyes and she becomes a Greek part-serpent monster with an appetite for children.
The wilis are the spirits of betrothed girls who died before their wedding night. They use their otherworldly allure to seduce men and dance them to death.
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#folklorethursday In Catalan folklore, women deemed to be witches had the mark of the Devil on their buttocks. He would bite them, creating a mark in the shape of two crossed horns, a ram, a toad, or a circle.
Image: Dali
50 years of bloody civil war were the price the Merovingian Franks had to pay for the feud between Fredegund of Neustria & Brunhilda of Austrasia during the 7th century. It may well be echoed in the Nibelungenlied's queenly quarrel of Kriemhild & Brunhild.
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Arianrhod is a magic figure in the Mabinogion. Claiming to be a virgin, she delivers 2 magical sons. Dylan who seeks the ocean & becomes a sea spirit as well as great & handsome hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes on whom she places a tynged (spell) influencing his destiny. #FolkloreThursday
In Greek mythology, Terpsichore is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance. Here is a classic image and images of women she has inspired...
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Images from Pinterest
Sláinte chuig na fir & go mairfidh na mná go deo
Health to the men & may the women live forever! #InternationalWomensDay Pic1 #Connemara Women by Harry Furniss. Illustrated London News, 31 Jan 1880, p. 116 & Pic2 Clifton R. Adams NatGeographic 1927 #FolkloreThursday #SnaG20
“The Romans and Greeks used to call her a Dryad; but we don’t understand that: out in the sailors’ quarter we have a better name for her; there she’s called Elder Tree Mother...' A tale from Hans Christian Andersen #FolkloreThursday #InternationalWomensDay https://t.co/X1YGHycMdi
In #Norse #mythology, a valkyrie from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live.
Here are some beautiful images from Pinterest:
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"You may gaze at her reflection
In still waters of the lake
But do not look at her directly
Or death will be your fate"
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Time to sow herbs:
“In March & in April from morning to night
In sowing & setting good housewives delight,
To have in a garden or other like plot
To physic their house, or to furnish their pot.”
(Good husbandry 1753,🎨Waterhouse)
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A favourite poet's simple lines for children:
‘Bread and milk for breakfast,
And woollen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast,
On the cold days of the year.’
(🖊️Christina Rossetti 🎨 Walter Crane) #InternationalWomensDay #FolkloreThursday