#Folklore
Day one of Folktober is the sad Welsh tale of a Gelert the dog! A loyal good boy he was mistakenly killed by his owner because it was believed he had killed their child. But in fact he'd saved the kid from a wolf. No good deed goes unpunished hey!
#folktober3 #folktober3 #linocut #dog #goodboy #grave #drawtober #drawtoberovergrowncemetary #dogart #folklore #myth #legend #gelert #welshmyth #wales
For the start of both Caribbean Folklore Month and Black Speculative Fiction Month, I highly recommend the anthology Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root, edited by the inimitable Nalo Hopkinson, for lovers of fantasy, Caribbean stories, and folklore. Go on and treat your shelf!
#Caribbean
#Folklore
#CaribbeanFolklore
#CaribbeanFolkloreMonth
#CaribbeanLiterature
#BlackSpeculativeFiction
#BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth
#SpeculativeFiction
#Books
#Bookstodon
Vodka O’Clock Podcast Ep. 2023-06 with author V.Castro https://www.amberunmasked.com/ep2023-06/
#writing #horror #writers #LaLlorona #folklore #legends #scary
It gladdens my heart that "Scooby Doo"-type plots have well-established precedents in old folklore.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghosts-within-50179425
#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: `The fierce temperament of hares was sometimes assigned to the #Fairy Rabbit, a bold being that tried to drown people at sea. If the potential victims were carrying earth from their home, or from legendary Tory Island, they could survive even the onslaught of this malicious spirit.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/WNborderlands/status/1510401861261570053?t=DrPgAEn5bBLXLRu3Tmqa9g&s=09
Although tanuki are notorious tricksters, the Japanese tale of Kachi-Kachi Mountain features a rabbit tricking one of these tricksters into burning himself alive and then drowning in order to avenge an old couple who were the latest victims of that particular tanuki’s wicked deeds. #FolkloreSunday
🎨: Ogata Gekkô
#Folklore #Folktale #Japan #JapaneseFolklore #Rabbit #Tanuki
Folks! A-Yokai-A-Day for 2023 is here!
In celebration of #Halloween season, I'll be sharing #ayokaiaday each day this month, and I hope you'll join me in reading these tales, and creating or sharing your own yokai artworks!
Today's tale is here: https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2023/10/01/a-yokai-a-day-how-horikoshi-from-totomi-province-was-infatuated-with-his-daughter-in-law/
Norwegian, one German, and several English covers and/ or title pages for Norwegian Folktales, etc. Stops in 1969.
#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday
p/t #Folklore Society job alert:
https://folklore-society.com/blog-post/job-at-the-folklore-society/
I've recently been working with the Traditional Music Forum to put together a Directory of collections of Scottish Traditional Music, inside and outside Scotland.
We're now inviting organisations which hold these collections to submit their details for inclusion in the Scottish Traditional Music Archive Directory.
#FolkMusic #TradMusic #Music #Folk #Folklore #Scotland #Archive #Archives #Libraries #Museums #Audio #Sound #Records #Recording #Musicology #Ethnomusicology
中秋節快樂! Happy #MidAutumnFestival! 🌕🥮 http://www.facebook.com/TheJennyLam/posts/pfbid0uRJy35sKmHQKA3NHnKpXjxQsfx6DTnmY6PBbQb9vgNTxKaMV69wFUv9GdPoDxoBjl Today we celebrate the fullest #moon of the year! Spend time with your loved ones, gaze at the Super #HarvestMoon tonight, and eat #mooncakes! (The reasoning behind the bunny motif? It's the Jade Rabbit, the companion of the #Chinese Moon Goddess Chang'e. 🐇)
#Culture #Mythology #Folklore #Food #Mooncake #FullMoon #SuperMoon #ChineseFood #Nature #Outdoors #Photo #Photography #Photographer #Fall #FallFoliage #Autumn #AutumnLeaves
Nrocinus - [Fearsome Critter] - A pocket-sized, soot covered relative to the unicorn, local to the mountains of Vancouver BC. They live on old sodden rooftops (They like to lick soot from chimneys!) Very easy to catch, their horns sell for a high price! • Full story: https://samkalensky.com/products/nrocinus #folklore #MastoArt
中秋節快樂! Happy #MidAutumnFestival! 🌕🥮 http://www.instagram.com/p/CxykZM1PFMR Today we celebrate the fullest #moon of the year! Spend time with your loved ones, gaze at the Super #HarvestMoon tonight, and eat #mooncakes! (The reasoning behind the bunny motif? It's the Jade Rabbit, the companion of the #Chinese Moon Goddess Chang'e. 🐇)
#Culture #Mythology #Folklore #Food #Mooncake #FullMoon #SuperMoon #ChineseFood #Nature #Outdoors #Photo #Photography #Photographer #Fall #FallFoliage #Autumn #AutumnLeaves
#342 John Rhys - The Legend of Llyn-y-Fan-Fach: A Tale of the Lady of the Lake on Carmarthen Black Mountain and The Origin of the Physicians of Myddfai. Llanerch Publishers, Felinfach, 1994, facsimile reprint. #JohnRhys #Folklore #LlynYFanFach #Carmarthenshire #LlanerchPublishers #BookOfTheDay
Never eat Brambles after Michaelmas (today) as the Devil has pissed on them 👿
According to Dartmoor legend, Vixana was an evil witch that once resided inside a rock formation known as Vixen Tor. She would conjure up a thick fog to disorient those traveling through the area and lead them into the adjacent bog to drown. #FaustianFriday
📷: Martin Bodman
#Folklore #Folktale #Legend #Dartmoor #England #Witch #VixenTor
#FolkloreMoment : Once, a man in the village of Werkel discovered to his horror that his wife was a witch. To his great relief, she eventually fell sick and died.
But then he discovered that his young daughter had apparently learned witchcraft from her mother! Distraught, he went to the priest for advice.
"Well," said the priest, "we can't do anything here but to give her something so that she dies as well."
They did so, and since then the man had peace from witches.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #witch #witchcraft
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11014716?page=192,193
Star Uyghur Scholar Who Vanished Was Sentenced to Life in China
Rahile Dawut, who recorded her people’s traditions, disappeared in 2017. New information indicates that she faces decades in prison.
🌕 Happy Transmitter moon delicious friends.
Today’s story is called “Drown”, and is about normal people.
Listen here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/56989138
#AudioFiction, #FolkHorrorRevival, #Folklore, #Huntingparty, #UKAudioFiction
According to English folklore, it was on this day that the Devil fell from Heaven, landed on a blackberry bush, and cursed the berries. Therefore, it is unlucky to pick Blackberries after Michaelmas.
10 Michaelmas traditions from around the world:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2021/09/29-september-michaelmas.html
There is a gateway to Paradise on the summit of Glishorn Mountain, in the Valais region of Switzerland.
Those who wish to reach it must traverse a perilous aerial path.
#Switzerland #folktale #folklore #Heaven @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/walking-to-41854056
"Michaelmas Day (Sep 29) was credited with uncanny power in Wales. There was an old superstition that on this night the Cistfaens, or warriors' graves, were illuminated by spectral lights, for the ghosts of ancient warmen were engaged in deadly fray."
#michaelmas #folklore
Getting there. I has a new vertical whitespace filler.
#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore @folklore @folklorethursday
@SJohnRoss Yeah, I am trying to find things to get that way!
Jack's Giant of the Week: Blunderbore, for #dnd5e #ttrpg #giants #folklore #mythology
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/dnd5e/jacks-giant-of-the-week-blunderbore
So, I'm starting on 娥病与桑落 (Ebing and Sangluo), another piece of #Dai #folklore. While the book is only 50 pages longer (~180 pages vs ~130), the nature of the story-telling is very different and requires a more in-depth look. I've thus decided that I will approach it differently with, perhaps, a more rigorous look.
The book is, as before, published by #Wuhan University Press as part of its Southern Folklore line.
ISBN 978-7-307-21455-2
(0-1/1)
Can’t remember if I already shared this one. But he makes me so happy so I am sharing again. This is Nøkken, a shapeshifting water spirit. Would you dare to take his invitation to join him on the rock? #FolkloreThursday #folklore #DigitalArt #MastoArt
#FolkloreMoment : Near Dörnhagen, there is a large stone. Once, a woman gave birth to twins there, and since then the stone refuses to let anyone pass the road nearby who travels there around midnight...
...and no, I don't see how one logically follows from the other.
#Germany #folktale #folklore
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11014716?page=176,177
Eyes to the skies: it's Harvest Moon time!
Folklore tells us that the nearest full moon to the autumn equinox is so-called because it rises soon after sunset, allowing farmers to harvest their summer crops.
The last supermoon of 2023 peaks on Fri, Sep 29.
#HarvestMoon #folklore
https://liminal11.com/product/fascinating-folklore/ Fascinating Folklore is now available to preorder! Filled with rich and informative essays that dance hand in hand with breathtaking comics! From and @johnreppion
You may have heard of ghosts taking on the shapes of headless horsemen.
But have you heard of the one about the ghost of a headless horse?
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #horse @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-animal-53103139
#FolkloreMoment : This is the first time I saw a werewolf described as "a very long black dog" that "moved with snake-like movements.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #werewolf
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11014716?page=170,171
There are voices in the storm...
Voices that scream for vengeance!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-stories-25895373
So I've finally struggled my way through 召树屯 (Zhao Shutun)¹, a piece of #Dai #folklore in #epic #poetry form. The volume I have is published by #Wuhan University Press and is a translation into both #Mandarin and #English. Unfortunately the foreword and introduction are both only in Mandarin which proved to be a real slog.
Folklore read live!
She waits for lost hunters in the deep dark woods--where the trails disappear into the undergrowth--but why?
Find out LIVE right now: https://youtube.com/live/S7cHg9ny6gs
#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #ghost #ghoststories #halloween #horrorstories
#FolkloreMoment : I really need to write a book on "Fortean phenomena" in German folklore one day.
But even among other weird phenomena, a cow stable that somehow transforms into a boulevard while a woman is milking cows inside is something special.
There is no explanation for this, either. It's just something that happens.
#Germany #folktale #folklore
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11014716?page=170,171
Funded #Folklore PhD alert.
Healthy Folk – The role of vernacular knowledge in health-related decision-making, project funded at the OU in partnership with the Folklore Society
Excellent supervision team - Victoria Newton (OU) and Richard Jenkins (FLS)
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/healthy-folk-role-vernacular-knowledge-health-related-decision-making
Top of the pops on my website this week is my accidental growing of the massively poisonous and hallucinogen Datura stramonium or devil’s snare! A fascinating plant in #mythology and #folklore the world over but not one to have with a family around.
https://www.mandycanudigit.com/2021/07/20/hallucinogenic-devils-snare-or-datura-stramonium/
#gardening #poisonous #hallucinogenic #witches #voodoo #zombies #sadhus #Algonquian #Navajo #Cherokee #Luiseno #thornapple #Haiti #werewolves
Reading about #plantscience be like : "modern researchers have discovered that ancient and not understood uses of #plants are indeed backed-up by science"
#botanical #folklore #history #science
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If you're open and curious, and/or like :
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#occult, #folklore, #tarot, #divination and #cartomancy
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Today in #MinCup23 I am hoping rhodochrosite will win.
I posted about the Roses in the Mountains legends here in the last round:
https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/111073175038609971
Vote for underground rose gardens full of rhodochrosite flowers, and legendary Dwarf kingdoms 😄
A fascinating #BBC compilation of clips from the 1960s onwards. Expect some cool #Music, fascinating traditions, #Swords, #Vikings, #Magic, #Hauntology, #Occultism, and a bit of nudity! Guest starring the #MariLwyd, and what can be best described as a ritual punch-up between two villages.
How many of these old rites remain?
Life Sentence for Professor Rahile Dawut Confirmed: According to a source in the Chinese government, Professor Rahile Dawut (راھىلە داۋۇت, 热依拉 · 达吾提), an acclaimed Uyghur intellectual and expert on Uyghur folklore and traditions, is serving a life sentence for endangering state security.
The Dui Hua Foundation (Dui Hua) had previously been told by a Chinese official that Professor Rahile Dawut was tried in December 2018, one year after her detention, for the crime of “splittism” — a crime of endangering state security — by an intermediate people’s court in Xinjiang. She was convicted and appealed the sentence. The most recent information confirmed that her appeal was subsequently rejected by the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region High People’s Court.
Professor Rahile Dawut’s sentence comes with the supplemental sentence of deprivation of political rights for life.
https://duihua.org/life-sentence-for-professor-rahile-dawut-confirmed/
Doing an online talk on 30 October at 6 pm GMT - From Guising to Fancy Dress: The Lore of Costumes at Halloween! Come along!
It's free, but in conjunction with Creswell Crags.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-guising-to-fancy-dress-the-lore-of-costumes-at-halloween-tickets-723296939617?aff=oddtdtcreator
Exorcists have a bad habit of dumping malevolent spirits at the nearest convenient hill, swamp, or forest - without considering that other people might want to use those places, too.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dreadful-52009109
Once, the famous Doctor Paracelsus came across the Devil - who had been imprisoned in a tree, and wanted to get out again...
#MythologyMonday #Austria #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://www.patreon.com/posts/something-this-76986912
Today we launched the #Kickstarter for our Jewish-inspired #ttrpg Society of Rafa (@rafa.dice.camp). This is a passion project of more than a year, trading in the Hero's Journey for Community Care.
In the game, you are a Rafa, a healer, charged with caring for the health of your community and keeping the peace with the local spirits. Solve complex moral dilemmas bound only by your chosen healing skills and creativity.
Today in #MinCup23 I'm voting for quartz.
I already shared one legend about it (read here: http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/q-is-for-quartz-crystals-gemstone.html ) but there is also the legend from the Cairngorms about a giant, brilliant smokey quartz crystal on a cliff over Loch Avon. People can see it from afar, but no one can locate it...
Hi, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: #Trees. Which myths feature trees? Write up a story & tag #MythologyMonday with your tree lore tweets. See you Monday! 🌳
Art: Two Trees of Valinor by Roger Garland
@mythology @folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey
The war of the twelve #zodiac animals, #Japanese #handscroll, ink, pigment and gold on paper, #Japan, 17th-18th century. Depicts the #poetry contest of the twelve zodiac animals, the messengers of the Twelve Divine Generals (jūni shinshō) in the retinue of the #MedicineBuddha. Seen in the #Museum of #EastAsian #Art #Cologne.
#JapaneseArt #Folklore #JapaneseFolklore
It isn't only zombies who are searching for brains.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/searching-ghosts-41303631
Today's #MinCup23 vote has my favorite: Rhodochrosite!
There's a legend from South Tyrol about King Laurin's Rose Garden. (That part of the Dolomites is actually called Rosengarten).
The legend tells about a Dwarf king who falls in love with a human woman and elopes with her. However, her human relatives decide she must have been kidnapped, and mount a rescue mission.
King Laurin has a famous rose garden in the mountains, planted in honor of a daughter he lost.
Don't usually do the hard sell here but bizarrely Etsy is covering a £5 off of orders over £25+ for this weekend only (ends Sunday eve) so head over to my shop - https://blockforest.etsy.com - if you want a little discount.
Offer is open to buyers in UK, USA and Canada only (etsy's rules - not mine).
I don't usually do sales so this as good as it gets!
#linocut #goth #gothic #art #illustration #stickers #handmade #zine #vampire #folklore #myth #horror #linoprint #artist #monsters #queer #smallbiz
"Four white #swans flew about Aonghus Óg’s head when he traveled.”
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
#FolktaleMoment of the day:
Exploding pears
I read a Hungarian Roma folktale today that featured an evil dragon woman trying to kill a man by cursing him with hunger, and planting an enticing pear tree in his way.
Luckily a girl knocked the pear out of the man's hand. The pear screamed so loud it made trees snap. Had he eaten it, she says, he would have exploded from the sound.
#DnD writers take note 😂
Hello I’m going to do another #introduction
I’m Vanessa a full time professional storyteller. I work with adults and children in various settings like #museums #galleries and festivals and once I did a TEDx talk about finding magic!
My interests are # #london #weirdStuff #esoteric #pagan #occult #folklore #folktale #myths #legends #UntoldStories
PS I have a family of foxes in the garden who regularly try and become our pets by coming into the house and following us around.
`The #Scots cat-sìth or #Irish cat sí is a #fairy creature from #Celtic #mythology, said to resemble a black cat with a white spot on its chest. It is described as being as large as a dog and chooses to display itself with its back arched and bristles erect.
Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands. The legends surrounding this creature are more common in #Scottish #folklore, but a few occur in Irish. Some common folklore suggested that the cat-sìth was not a fairy, but a witch that could transform into a cat nine times.`
Source: Cat-sìth - Wikipedia
Today I'm voting for bischofite because it's Permian sea salt evaporate, which is pretty cool.
No specific #folklore for it, but it reminded me of a Colombian folktale about a boy who carries salt for a chief, and gets caught in a rain that washes he salt away. The boy prays to the god Bochica, who takes him on a journey, shows him the hidden riches under the earh, and on a beach teaches him how to create salt pans to collect sea salt.
My third is an interview with Zuza Zak about her wonderful new book Slavic Kitchen Alchemy. This book is a wonderfully illustrated notebook steeped in Slavic lore recreated from memories of Zuza’s grandmothers & her own contemporary research. It contains natural remedies, recipes & wellbeing rituals with folktales. Many of these are achievable without access to expensive equipment & even if the only nature you can access is a city park. https://bit.ly/3LgKHjO
@folklore #Folklore
My second is an interview with a wonderful human being about how food and rituals around funerals can help ease the pain of grief & bring people together. I interviewed Ashley-Anne Masters about Food, Funerals & Mourning in the American South. Although discussions around death can be hard, we talked about how food and humour and ritual can really be of help during difficult times. I hope you are as comforted & uplifted as I was after our discussion: https://bit.ly/3ZgguaI
@folklore #Folklore
Shiny new things alert! It’s the podcast’s 3rd anniversary episode, so in order to honour the all powerful story rule of 3, I am bringing you not one but three episodes! My first has everything you might want in a story: bees, a blue eyed hare, a wise old woman, a witch & All Hallows Eve plus some interesting things you may not know about bees, honey, death & the Underworld: https://bit.ly/3Zd68rQ
Fun fact for today's #MinCup23: Galena was Mineral of the Year in Hungary in 2019!
I don't have a folktale for it specifically, but it is a lead ore, so let me introduce you to one of my favorite Hungarian folktale villains:
The Lead Monk
Sometimes also called "Snotty Lead Monk" (🤷♀️ ), this supernatural entity can cover the landscape with lead, has superhuman strength, and can turn people into stone. It would make a great #DnD villain.
More here:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/l-is-for-lead-monk-wtf-hungary-weird.html
That’s it, 3 third birthday podcast episodes & blog posts in the bag (well uploaded and scheduled for tomorrow anyway). They are 3 very different episodes and I hope people get something from at least one, whether that’s entertainment, knowledge or maybe even a touch of healing. I’m off now to make noodle soup, play with the cat beast and enjoy making pretty things that might persuade people to listen to them.
#Folklore @folklore
Listen to @rorystarr 's reading of German folk tales where the Devil punishes sinners with much relish!
And, as they say, like and subscribe!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661r85LkCDY