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BECOMING A VAMPIRE. The myriad of ways one can become a #vampire according to Romanian folklore include: dying unmarried, dying a suicide, dying unforgiven, having a cat walk over your corpse, having the shadow of a man fall on your corpse, being born with a caul #FiendsAndGhouls
In #Tolkien’s mythology Yavanna is the Giver of Fruits. She is robed in green and loves “all things that grow in the earth”. There are clear resonances with Demeter from classical myth, but who is who? 👇
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Ëten, Öta et Üter. <3
Les prénoms de Öta et de son père sont des références à ces personnages - ce sont des prénoms mixtes - issus du folklore Estan~
C'est une légende très appréciée dans leur famille.
Peut-être qu'un jour je vous raconterais leur histoire ?
King Erysichthon cut down one of Demeter's sacred trees. She punished the king by calling upon Limos, the spirit of insatiable hunger, to enter his stomach. The more the king ate, the hungrier he became. Eventually, Erysichthon ate himself.#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
Before refrigerators, blocks of ice were cut from frozen rivers and ponds, and preserved in straw. [L: 'The Ice Harvest', Clarence Gagnon, ca. 1926. Private collection. R: 'Ice Cutting, Quebec City', Maurice Cullen, 1906, via @agotoronto.] #FolkloreThursday
Spirits live everywhere: homes and every place outside of the home have or had its guardian spirit: springs, old trees, fields, vineyards, boundary lines, and so forth. Deadliest of all was the water spirit, the Vodyanoy. #FolkloreThursday
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In European folklore is a tale of an old hag who turned into a hare to steal cow's milk. Driven until the last field in the village The hag could go no further and it was the unfortunate lot of the tardy farmer that he must support the hag or hare for a year.#FolkloreThursday
Púcaí, small #faerie creatures of Celtic #mythology, are shape changers, though their natural form is said to be #fairy-like. #Folklore says they run about harvested fields after Samhein, as is their due, for all that is left after harvest belongs to them.
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In Old French romance, a faie or fee was a woman skilled in magic, and who knew the power and virtue of words, of stones, and of herbs. Faie became Modern English fay, while faierie became fairy. #FolkloreThursday #Fairy #Faerie
The apparition of autumn..
Autumn and the Poet 1948-60 #EvelynDunbar #FolkloreThursday
The Fairies of the Autumn #CicelyMaryBarker #FlowerFairies #FolkloreThursday
Guardians of The Barleycorn #FolkloreThursday #painting #davidbezartist
Since today's #FolkloreThursday theme is #harvest for #Mabon & #HarvestFestival have a hell hound that harvests eye's for visions. #folklore #illustration #design
If only there were some way to read this text - what would it say?
History becomes folklore and folklore become fantasy. What is the true origin of this world?
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Myths come to life!
Following our last #folklorethursday post, one of our readers took their copy of #mythicalirishbeasts out to the sea and tried searching for the 'Beast Jasconious'!
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"I know that I hung on a windy tree
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run."
- Rúnatal, Odins Rune song, from the Hávamál of the Poetic Edda
#aMythForSunday #mythology #folklore
I wanted to put my paintings of two powerful women from Greek mythology side by side. Nyx and Persephone.
Who is your favourite character from mythology and folklore?