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“On #TwelfthNight the dead walk, & on every tile of the house a soul is sitting, waiting for your prayers to take it out of purgatory.”
From Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Francesca Wilde, 1888 #FolkloreThursday #BookChatWeekly #Caturday
"The Guirivilo" (Ngürüfilu) is a half-fox, half-snake river creature from the Mapuche Mythology who lures people to cross rivers by lowering the water level and then drowns them at the bottom by pulling them with the claws from its tail.
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In Nordic folklore nisse & tomte are gnome-like creatures who guard the farmsteads especially at the #WinterSolstice & #Yule. Perhaps because they are associated with Thor, or because it was Frigga’s Eve, they always refused to work on Thursday evenings though! #FolkloreThursday
December's @CumbriaMagazine
We have a family tradition of telling ghost stories over the Festive period. I write about it's origin, the Banshee encounter, and tell a few Cumbrian folk tales also
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In the Orkney Islands, there is a winter demon called the The Nuckelavee. TheMither o' the Sea, keeps hold of it for most of the year, but in winter, the Nuckelavee emerges from the sea, as a ferocious hybrid beast and harbinger of illness, drought and death.
#FolkloreThursday Saule is the Baltic goddess of light and the sun. When she cries her tears become amber. At winter solstice she rides across the sky, drawn by reindeer, dropping gifts of amber to those below. The reindeer are all female, as males shed their antlers by December
#FolkloreThursday The Dangers of a Norwegian Christmas--beware the Oskorei and Haug-folk, who become more dangerous at Christmas.
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Thank you #FolkloreThursday for a fun filled hour! This is @MythCrafts signing off, but the wonderful @HistoriumU will be back after the break for more winter folklore. We wish you all fabulous holidays however you celebrate.
Img: The Four Seasons: Winter by François Boucher
2. #Skaði is the #jötunn (#giant) and #goddess of #snow, #skiing, #bowhunting, #winter and the #mountains in #NorseMythology. She is said to have married the #god #Njörðr, mother some of #Odin's children, and place the dripping #snake above #Loki.
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1. #Khione is the #goddess of #snow in #GreekMythology. She is a #Nymph of #MountHaimos and the daughter of the #NorthWind, #Boreas and #Oreithyia. In later #myths she is the mother of #Eumolpus by #Poseidon.
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#FolkloreThursday Bocuk is the name of a witch-like evil creature in Thracian folk beliefs. By appearing in the coldest days of winter,she does evil & harms people.Although Bocuk is referred to as a male in some villages, she is mostly described as a woman https://t.co/oPUp0sD1lX
Barbegazi are kindly mountain spirits from the French-Swiss Alps. Their name comes from the French ‘barbe glacée’ meaning ‘frozen beard’. They wear bright white fur clothes to stay camouflaged in the snow and have long icicles hanging from their hair and beards. #FolkloreThursday
If one heard a pitiful “meow”
Something evil would happen soon.
Everybody knew he hunted men
But didn’t care for mice.
🖼️ Mia H (@gardenkeyart)
📜 "The Yule Cat" by Johannes ur Kotlum
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According to a Flemish folktale a woman who was thought to be a witch only left her house during the winter months. It's said she gave her neighbours a fright by gifting them enchanted apples that would dance during the night.
🎨Alla Tsank
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“Onion skins, very thin.
Mild winter coming in;
Onion skin is thick and tough.
Coming winter, cold and rough.“ - An Old English rhyme.
Is there any truth in this old #gardening adage? If you “know your onions” I’d be interested to learn more! #FolkloreThursday #Allotment
Kappa are aquatic, reptilian humanoids that inhabit the rivers and streams flowing over Japan. They are generally the size and shape of a human child, yet despite their small stature, they are physically stronger than a grown man.
#yokai #kappa #japan #folklore #FolkloreThursday
An event with Kirsty Hartsiotis @StroudStory author of 'Gloucestershire Folk Tales for Children' is at The Museum in the Park in Gloucestershire on Sunday 18th of December.
More details of tickets here: https://t.co/mRquL7i0S8 #Localevents #Localhistory #FolkloreThursday
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In Germanic folklore Holda/Frau Holle, the Dark Grandmother and White Lady reigns over the dark, cold months of winter. It is said that, it is, she who causes the snow to fall, – whenever she shakes out her feather pillow. It would seem she’s been busy of late.