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Our time together has come to an end, #FolkloreThursday. This is Crystal @HistoriumU signing off. @ShanonSinn will jump on at 6:30 GMT to share more of your traditional stories and tales for #NationalStorytellingWeek. See you soon! (Image: Rackham)
"When the Forge is cold and the Glory is dark and the Wood is dust, perhaps the Wolf Divided will rest, but only until it can devour itself."
the 16th Hour is a God-from-Blood, the Wolf Divided, who unmakes, who unmakes, who unmakes... #folklorethursday
@FolkloreThurs @sfs_uk #FolkloreThursday Some of the best-known Romanian tales can be found in a Romanian-English-French edition: https://t.co/nGJbm5pbZF
#FolkloreThursday Ignis fatuus, the 'will o the wisp', once more commonly seen, often in oak woods, were also known as corpse candles. They were spirits, and could lead you into a bog. Natural gas, Now a rare phenomenon, due to vastly increased agriculture, drainage & irrigation.
Raised by wild coyotes, Pecos Bill could use a rattlesnake to lasso a cyclone. He rode a horse called Widow-Maker, and his favorite food was dynamite. Naturally, he met his paramour, Slue-Foot Sue, while she was riding a giant catfish down the Rio Grande. #FolkloreThursday
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The Panchatantra or The Five Treatises is a collection of interconnected animal fables for children. It's earliest version in Sanskrit dates to 200 BCE and the stories have seeped into the culture of almost every country in the world.
The Little Mermaid, shown as naked & vulnerable by Rie Cramer.
Folklorist Virginia Borges writes that the story is about the dangers of accepting abuse or inconsiderate treatment in the name of love. #FolkloreThursday #NationalStorytellingWeek
Wayland the smith is a story told in Völundarkviða (a poem in the Poetic Edda) and Þiðreks saga. In them, Wayland is enslaved by a king and takes revenge by killing the king's sons and then escaped by crafting a winged cloak and flying away. #folklorethursday
@KimlinhTran Since you're accepting ocs too, how about my multi-channel mascot Loretta "Danketta" Sequoia?
Vi - short for Violet Loretta
Resident half orc/elf with a heart as soft and sweet as the scones she bakes for the inn she grew up learning how to run~
Bard in the College of Glamour
It is unlucky to uproot Periwinkle from a grave, for the dead, will appear to the person who takes it, and his dreams for the next twelve months will be very wretched and miserable.
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Naglfar, a ship fated to sail during Norse end times, was to to be built entirely from the finger/toe nails of corpses. To deprive the otherworld of materials & delay the ships construction, funerary tasks often included trimming the nails of loved ones. #FolkloreThursday
Hecate was the Greek goddess of crossroads, doorways, boundaries, thresholds & city walls. This eclectic deity was also linked to the home, magic, necromancy, dogs, polecats, yews, light, ghosts, herbs, medicines & poisons. #FolkloreThursday #folklore #WilliamBlake #gothic
Fenrir, a monstrous wolf of Norse mythology, was the son of the demoniac god Loki & a giantess, Angerboda. Fearing Fenrir’s strength the gods bound him w/ a magical chain and gagged him w/ a sword, the spell breaking only on Ragnarök (Doomsday), releasing him. #FolkloreThursday
@FolkloreThurs Myth of Sisyphus who had to eternally roll a colossal boulder for his crafty deceit directed at Zeus. Today Sisyphean task is one that requires large and futile volumes of work. #FolkloreThursday
Sisyphus (1548–49) by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid
When a 16th century Dutch fisherman refused to release a mermaid caught in his net, the dikes burst and his island home vanished, becoming the Drowned Land of Saeftinghe. On foggy days, they say you can still hear the town's bell ringing. #FolkloreThursday
Mahuika is a fire goddess in Māori mythology. Māui tricked her into giving him her flaming fingernails one by one, stealing the secret of fire for humanity. #FolkloreThursday
Read the whole story: https://t.co/r1VkQkiNtj
🖼️E. Mervyn Taylor