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This week’s #FolkloreThursday theme is the lore of births & birthdays! Continuing with the theme of magical happenings following weird cravings during pregnancy, here is a positively gorgeous #Rapunzel #illustration by the great #trinascharthyman. #vintage #fairytales #art #book
In Germany it is believed that you should not lie a newborn baby on its left side first or it will grow up clumsy. #FolkloreThursday
A #PiedPiper Mystery by @boneandsickle for #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/Tl6iybNz5H
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#June is popular in folklore. Some say that if you see bats flying on a June evening, it's a sign hot weather's on its way. Also, if swallows fly near to the ground, it means rain is due, + 'a swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon'
🎨 Edmond Dulac
20 June. Remembering Jane Sharp, 17thC midwife author of The Midwives Book, in English rather than Latin. Female-centred, her book saved lives & was open about sex: "the clitoris being nervous & of pure feeling, when rubbed & stirred causeth lustful feelings" #FolkloreThursday
Hey it's #FolkloreThursday, what a good day for another 4 fairies! Mostly plants. I think the squirrel fairy looks more and more like a squirrel the longer she lives with them.
The magical birth of Princess Kaguya in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japan 10thc): A childless bamboo-cutter finds a baby girl inside a glowing bamboo stalk (He & his wife raise her but when grown she returns to her people on the moon) #FolkloreThursday (Print:Yōshū Chikanobu)
Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & put into a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. #FolkloreThursday Image: Cicely Barker
Leto gave birth to the children of Zeus on Delos which, unattached to the ocean floor, was neither ocean nor land. Artemis was born first, and then helped her mother give birth to her brother, Apollo, whereupon she became the goddess of childbirth & midwives. #FolkloreThursday
Valkyries (from Old Norse "valkyria" meaning "chooser of the slain") are female spirits from the retinue of the father of the gods Odin. They are fate bound and choose between the ones, who stay alive in battle or those who are supposed to die. #mythology #myths #folklore
@IndiiCreates helloo!! thank you for this thread!
i'm aven and i make illustrations inspired by nature, folklore, and fantasy.
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Pushing myself to #practice and not be a perfectionist about it. So here's a #Manananggal
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@mykr1996 I'm glad the folklore monster, nøkken approves of me dating dr habit
My take on the Manananggal, a vampire-esque monster in Philippine folklore who flies around, detached from the lower half of their body.
Tomorrow's episode is all about... Loki! Let's learn about a Norse shapeshifting trickster! #podcast #stonehousescast #folklore
@BelgianBoolean Hi! I'm a fantasy/horror illustrator and I specialise in traditional media. I like nature, folklore, ruins and humanoid creatures. 💀🌿✨
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Thanks for the #artshare :3
It’s very bad luck to kill an albatross... #FolkloreThursday #albatross #Coleridge
Forest trolls are the friendly sort, sharing magic herbs with travelers they meet in the #forest. One often hears them singing as one hikes in #Norway and #scandinavia - They especially love singing in the shower, er... waterfall. (John Bauer) #folkloreThursday #folklore #trolls