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A Welsh Wild Woman was Ceridwen, the primeval chaotic mother, she who gave birth and to whom all returned. Mother of Afagddu and transformer of Taliesin (Gwion Bach).
Picture is Ceridwen’s Cauldron by Yuri Leitch.
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A pageant sleigh drawn by a pegasus & driven by a Wild-man riding a dragon appeared in the 1640 Bavarian winter parade as recorded in the “Album of Tournament & Parades in Nuremberg” which is held in Metropolitan Museum of Art
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3. The Hunters of Artemis are maidens who have sworn loyalty to the maiden goddess Artemis/Diana to join her in the Hunt and reject love for as long as they live. They gain eternal youth as long as they don't break their vows.
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#FolkloreThursday lumberman Albert Ostman told a tale of how he was kidnapped by a family of Sasquatch in the wild woods of British Columbia in 1924. He was snatched up in his sleeping bag and kept for 6 days, eventually escaping when the father fell ill after eating his snuffbox
Kintaro is a folk hero from Japan who was raised by a mountain witch. He had superhuman strength and befriended animals in the wild. He is depicted here refereeing a wrestling match between a monkey & a rabbit.
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'Moon of Kintoki's Mountain'- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Thanks everyone for a great start! @WillowWinsham signing off now, but #FolkloreThursday will return at 11am BST with @DeeDeeChainey for more folklore of wild men, wild women and wild places! (Image: The Wild Hunt of Odin, Peter Nicolai Arbo)
In old tales, the wild woman usually waits in liminal spaces, like the deep part of the forest, for whoever is lost & helps to reconnect with the wild. She offers help in the form of riddles or tasks, & sings hymns that infuse life into what needs to be reborn.#FolkloreThursday
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Britain has many stories of women able to turn themselves to hares
Our forthcoming #AudioDrama Hare Spell by @fayhield @terriwindling @slhesketh and @sarra1978 looks more deeply into the #mythology particularly from #Dartmoor
https://t.co/c0yn5ur5ts
Churn-milk Peg is the English guardian of unripe nuts. She sits, smoking her pipe, inside nut thickets. If a child tries to pluck a nut before it's ready she pinches the offender and chides: ‘Smoke! Smoke a wooden pipe! Getting nuts before they’re ripe!’ #FolkloreThursday
Good morning, #FolkloreThursday! How would you like to wake up to this wild woman, The Old Hag? Newfoundland's local succubus, one version of Herself was featured on a Canadian postage stamp in 2016!
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This week, the Folklore is for a #WildTheme, &what can be more Wild, than the separation between things? ‘#Chaos’-as pure energy potential;
between Heaven’s &Earth:
Most of the energy is caught, inbetween-as the electric field between plates of a Capacitor!
The Wild Huntsman, Wild Ride, Raging Host & Odin’s Hunt - some of the names given to Norse storm god Odin in his role as gatherer of the souls of the dead. This ghostly entourage rages across the sky in storms & if seen presages misfortune & death. #FolkloreThursday Img: Rackham
In Alpine folklore, Faengge was a wild-woman of colossal stature, lichen hair, a mouth that stretched from ear to ear and breasts so long, she had to throw them over her shoulders when she ran through the woods...
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[album art archive]
gonna start doing a quick-edit art thread. i'll pick 4 songs from an album I enjoyed and draw part of the lyrics using mainly 3 hues (for when i have free time and want to do something mej creative, pero ayoko magtagal sa paggawa)
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Taylor Swift
“Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen is ideal for fans of a coming-of-age story with a dark twist. Unafraid of being violent, gruesome and well immersed in English folklore.”
Read @valkyriesblog' full review of this folk-horror bombshell, out now in the UK. https://t.co/6CmbS8APRD
@BeryldeRF Happy birthday, I hope you have a lovely day today! 🎉
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I'm Pip and I love to draw all things fantasy and folklore!! ✨