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This week’s Folklore Thursday looks at clothing in lore. Well, to me, Warwick Goble’s fairy-tale heroines are always dressed beautifully, & to the nines, no matter what enchantment befalls them. I love that ❤️#FolkloreThursday

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The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen is a tale about eleven princes who are turned into swans. Their sister, Lisa must save them by spinning nettles into thread to make eleven coats. She must not speak a word until she is done or her brothers will die.

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Green fairy clothing: green jackets & "nether garments" are in Cornish lore, while Highland folklore sees "green kilts & conical hats" & says "no woman would be clad in such a colour except a fairy woman" ~ also "green gowns" was a euphemism for fairy folk

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Fossegrim is a spirit, making his home in waterfalls, and playing the fiddle day and night...



https://t.co/OqnkGC1mme

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Brísingamen, a fabled golden necklace worn by the Norse goddess of the Vanir, of Earth, love and magic, Freya. Stolen by Loki, retrieved by Heimdall. made by the dwarves, the master craftsmen of the Norse cosmos. Perhaps *cough* we'd better not say how she paid.

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Clothes in Japan could be deadly. Some kimonos, called kosode no te, could be possessed by the vengeful dead, such as prostitutes whose clients owed them money; or amgry belts, called jatai, strangling bad men in Ehime Prefecture. Watch yourself!

🖼: M. Meyer

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The daughters of fin-folk have magical petticoats that twists around their legs to become a mermaid’s tail. So some mermaids actually have feet!

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The Jutes believed that you should never take another man’s armour or sword if you defeat them in battle. They would continue to serve their old masters even in death.

Break the sword,
Do it with respect,
For even an enemy warrior,
Will be supping with Wōden.

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'The Bride Changing Clothes' from the series 'Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman' also known as the Marriage series - Suzuki Harunobu, 1769.

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In many fairy-tales royalty is some tangible thing that travels in blood lines. It can be a bit icky.

One thing I like about Cinderella tales is they're all: They ain't better than you - they've just got cool clothes.

Wanna be royalty? Just steal their look

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In Scotland Brownies are household spirits who help with tasks about the home. But never gift a set of clothes to a Brownie or they will leave forever, calling gleefully: 'Gie brownie coat, gie brownie sark, Ye'll get nae mair 'o brownie's work!'

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Footwear has long been associated with fertility. There is the custom where a shoe is tied a car or carriage of newlyweds. Another example is the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, who had so many children she didn't know what to do https://t.co/uL47c4vYlV

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The "kosode-no-te" of Japanese folklore is an artifact spirit (tsukomokami) manifesting within the sleeveless robe (kosode) of a prostitute who died in misery. These vengeful beings have been said to attempt to strangle anyone who puts the robes on!#FolkloreThursday

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A twisted terrifying tale of a caustic cryptic creature whose pride was pierced by a Hunter in the American woods . Everyone knows that a bushy tail is best bit of clothing for any Beast . Enjoy the tale of the Tailypo
https://t.co/XHyjCZ5tU6

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theme of clothes, or lack thereof: a Hob-thross lived in Millom Castle. He slept during the day, worked at night, doing the chores the humans didn’t want to do. One winter he was offered clothes, an insult to a hob-thross, so he left.
art: Eric Edwards

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CLOTHO🇬🇷
..In Greek Mythology, Clotho, one of the Three fates or Moirai, who spins the thread of human life, of all mortals, also having the power to decide when a person was born, and it's from her name, we get the word "cloth", hence "clothing"..

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Legend has it that in the Black Forest Mummelsee nixies or water sprites lure men to drown. Even in winter, assuming various shapes like fish, snakes or human.
She might look like this, in a woodcut dated 1565.

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2022-01-21

The ill tempered Knight, More of More Hall, agreed to slay a Dragon causing havoc in Wantley Woods. Clad in prickled armour, he resembled a 'strange outlandish hedgehog' & offed the beast in a less than conventional manner. The tale was later revealed as a hoax.

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In the ancient Finland Päivätär and Kuutar were the goddesses of the day and night. They could be seen in the sky spinning golden and silver threads and knitting clothes of them

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From the West Midlands we have Harry-ca-Nab, a regional aspect of the Wild Hunt. Harry was said to be the Devil’s own huntsman! He hunted around the Clent Hills, riding out with his own pack of Gabriel/Hell Hounds from their pen at Halesowen.

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