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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
Welcoming Kazumi Komiya! Kazumi creates dreamlike collages and is inspired by Japanese folklore and vintage ads. Her mesmerising illustrations are perfect for advertising, editorial and publishing projects.
More from Kazumi: https://t.co/A6La8XXn17
#illustration#collage #ITSME
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
#folklorethursday #gothicadvent #ofdarkandmacabre #31daysofhaunting #yuletide
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
#FolkloreThursday
“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
#FolkloreThursday
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.
Snow Woman, by Tirzah Garwood, (1908-51). The wife of #artist #EricRavilious, she was a painter & engraver whose career went quiet during her marriage, but was resumed in the 1940s following her husband’s death. #FolkloreThursday #snow
Christa helps everyone just settle down a little. Go check out today's update for tips on conflict resolution!
https://t.co/be9iGJgW0J
#hiveworks #webcomics #Folklore #webcomicwednesday
@bromojumbo SHAPES, I LOVED SHAPED POKÉMON Oh my gosh and so many fit that category, I love the Kappa folklore from Lombre and how fluid celebi’s shape is,, just a little onion guy ;-;
✨Folklore Collection✨
1/1 pieces on @objktcom
Do you like Norse Mythology?
1. Gold of Freyr
2. Power of Loki
3. Freyja's Falcon Cloak
4. The Norse Goddess Skadi
⬇️Link
Deda Mraz in Eastern Slavic folklore is a winter spirit who looks like a greyish old man made of snow & wind with a staff made of an icicle that he taps on surfaces that begin to crackle, as they turn to frost, waters turn to ice, as he paints the winterscapes. #FairytaleTuesday
Lucia Day on December 13 is a Scandinavian festival of light that is rooted in Norse winter solstice celebrations, and was originally associated with Lussi, a troll-like creature of folklore. Nowadays the celebration centers around the Sicilian St. Lucia.
#FairyTaleTuesday