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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
#FolkloreThursday #1600s
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...
🎨MadLaid/DeviantArt #folklorethursday @FolkloreThurs
[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!! ✨
Folklore comes alive in the playful universe of Orestes Gaulhiac (Cuban b.1960) #painting #cuba #artilove https://t.co/xKtvkce5PF