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As a child, the samurai Minamoto no Yoshitsune was exiled to Mount Kurama after his father was assassinated. He learned swordsmanship from the tengu Sojobo and used his skills to avenge his father's death and become a famous warrior hero.

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A Jack in the Green is a common sight around May Day festivities- once believed to be a remnant of a pre-Christianity fertility ritual, the practice is now thought to be tied to a seventeenth century custom of decorating milk pails, and then milk maids.

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You can read 2 of the folktales - “The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōichi” & “Yuki-Onna” - as written by Lafcadio Hearn in his 1904 book, 'Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things' :

https://t.co/QbiT6XCmXp

TY

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for those not versed in brazilian folklore, i'll tell you just one thing. if you're in the north region, mostly close to the Amazon. do not have the no no with a guy you met in a junine festivity.

só confia em mim.

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Tonight, April 30th is Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night), also known as the ‘other Halloween’ — a night that belongs to WITCHES.

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Joining flashmob.

➡️Banshee, Cyhyraeth, Badhbh (celtic heralds of death), Molly Grue (P.S.Beagle's 'Last Unicorn')
⬇️ Pesta (Black Death in norwegian folklore), Margret from 'Sweet William's Ghost' Ballad, shadowbinder of Asshai (ASOIAF, G.Martin)

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Hello, This is Crystal of joining as your host for the next hour. A huge thanks to for hosting before our break. Today’s theme is the folklore of heroines and heroes. Sharing is caring: https://t.co/pgFBNz2LkI. (Image: Rackham)

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For

Irish Tales of Terror, edited by Jim McGarry.
Welsh Tales of Terror, edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
Cornish Tales of Terror, edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
Scottish Tales of Terror, edited by Angus Campbell (a synonym of R. Chetwynd Hayes).

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Bellerophon (Ancient Greek: Βελλεροφῶν) is a hero of Greek myth, who defeated the monster Chimera, and captured the horse Pegasus using Athena's charmed bridle.

The Gods disowned him for trying to get into Mount Olympus flying on Pegasus.

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A little thread about Ireland's kick-ass legendary heroine, Macha!
🎨Kellepics on Pixaby

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‘Three Characters of the Play
The Villain, The Heroine, The Hero’

Achille Greco marionettes
Palermo, Sicily
📷 Harry B. Lachman (1886-1975)

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Thanks for your great shares this This is signing off, but we'll be back with the brilliant in an hour. Until then, do support the community by retweeting more epic folklore posts from this live feed: https://t.co/QUVD93PwNL

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A dhampir (dhampyre, dhamphir, dhampyr) is the child of a vampire and human, as told in Balkan folklore.

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Grace Darling assured her status as a real life & folk heroine in 1838, when she rowed out to rescue survivors from a shipwreck off the Northumberland coast. She inspired countless street ballads, fiction, even figurines, and many requests for locks of her hair

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In Norse mythology, Hel is ruler of the underworld. Alongside the crucial job of judging the dead, she also had a vital and terrifying role to play in the endtimes legend of Ragnarok, leading an army of the dead in a ship made from the fingernails of corpses.

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theme of - two Cumbrian called Tarquin & Isir lived on a diet of human flesh. A practice which lost its appeal when Sir Lancelot slew Tarquin in battle https://t.co/dR79xhRH82

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Maid Marian, the love interest of Robin Hood, was also described as his equal in combat in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Francis James Child, 1888). They battled (in disguise) for an hour until Robin invited the feisty heroine to join his band

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Cú Chulainn, Irish hero of the Rúraíocht/Ulster Cycle.

Nearing death, he wanted to die on his feet fighting his enemies. He tied himself to a large stone, usually identified as Cloghafarmore (Stone of the Big Man) in Co. Louth.


https://t.co/robZsFlQ8g

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Momotaro is a hero of Japanese folklore. He was found by a childless couple, inside a peach, floating down a river. He grew up and embarked on a quest, defeating a band of demons with the help of a talking dog, a monkey and a pheasant.

Image: Wikipedia commons.

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A dhampir (dhampyre, dhamphir, dhampyr) is the child of a vampire and human, as told in Balkan folklore.

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