FolkloreThursday

Join us this Thursday (29th) for our spooky-themed #FolkloreThursday! Share your favourite terrifying folklore to the hashtag between the following times GMT: 9am-1pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm 🎃👻🧙‍♀️🧹

That's the end of another epic #FolkloreThursday 🐉 Today's equinox-worthy theme was "Autumn Folklore” 🍂 This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off! Wishing you the best of luck with your Halloween preparations 🎃 1906 Ivar Arosenius

In Irish folklore, there was a man in the wind - fear nagaoithe (the wind-man). In late autumn he destroyed stacks of corn and hay which the farmers hadn't put into the barn. He could also use his bellows to bring the storms... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Arthur Rackham

Migrating geese have long been seasonal timekeepers. Their great autumn formations told people something calendars now do more precisely...that the year was turning. Folklore and weather lore paid attention because sometimes the sky itself announced the season. #FolkloreThursday Art: Robert Bateman

#FolkloreThursday FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `An #Cailleach grows old in autumn and becomes younger as the winter passes, until in spring she relinquishes her hold and lets the summer flowers blossom.` Source: emeraldisle.ie/an-ca...

Tsukimi, the Autumn moon viewing party, is an old tradition in Japan, held on the night of the full moon of the eighth month of the solar calendar. Seasonal produce and round rice dumplings that represent the moon are served. #FolkloreThursday

The Harvest Moon isn't named because it's orange or enormous. It's the full moon nearest the autumn equinox. Around this time, successive moonrises occur unusually close together, historically giving farmers extra evening light during harvest. #FolkloreThursday Art: Samuel Palmer

In Ireland, the last harvest sheaf could be used to find the drowned. A candle was set by the sheaf which was then placed in the water where the person had fallen in. It was allowed to drift until it came to a rest and that was where the body would be found... #FolkloreThursday 📷Sir Benjamin Stone

#FolkloreThursday The Polevik is a Slavic spirit of grain fields, described as a dwarf dressed in white with dark earthy skin & grass for hair. If they chance upon someone drunk or asleep in the fields they strangle them to death, and are most active at noon and dusk. 🎨 @andy-paciorek.bsky.social

Picking Apples in the Orchard 1881 Thomas Crane

Momiji was a witch in the mountains of Nagano. Disguised as a princess, she invited some samurai to a leaf-viewing party. That night in a dream, the god Hachiman warned one of them and gave him a sword. He awoke with the sword in his hand and used it to slay her #folklorethursday art @yokai.com

In Western culture, the Grim Reaper is the personification of death. Wielding a scythe, he or she has been associated with Autumn as a harvester of souls since the Black Death of the 14th Century. The Grim Reaper's name emerged in the 1800s. #FolkloreThursday 1911 Petit Journal, 1915 M. Fingesten

#FolkloreThursday: `St. Michael’s feast day on September 29, called Michaelmas, is close enough to the autumnal Equinox that harvest festivals have collected around that day; in the Scottish islands a special harvest-bread called struan or struan Michael ( […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Hello there #FolkloreThursday 🐉 That was Crystal @crystalponti.bsky.social hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social your guide for the next one hour ✨ Celebrating teh change of seasons, today's theme is "Autumn Folklore” 🍄 🍂 🐿️ Late 19th century Carl Offterdinger

🍁 The autumn winds are calling me away! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social sending a huge thank you for making my #FolkloreThursday hour positively spellbinding. ✨ The storybook opens again at 6:30 BST, when @shanonsinn.bsky.social takes the lantern to host our final hour. 🍂🕯️ Art: UK Art Studio

The divine embodiment of the autumn season 🎨Iren Horrors #FolkloreThursday

#FolkloreThursday 🌾🎃 In the 1800s, Pennsylvania farmers tied red scarves onto mannequins to frighten crows from their fields. They called these eerie guardians “Bogeymen.” #Scarecrows #Bogeyman ~ Old Pennsylvania Folklore Art: Paintings By Simon / Simon Rudd #Scarecrow #Boogeyman

Non resident woodcock usually arrived in Ireland on the first full moon in November and it was believed they had spent their summers on the moon... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Michaelmas daisies earned their name because they bloom around the feast of St. Michael on September 29. Their late purple flowers became a traditional sign of the changing season. Before calendars were everywhere, the landscape itself announced autumn's progress. #FolkloreThursday Image: Unknown

Anything can come to monstrous life in Japan, including vegetables. In one legend, a pumpkin monster called Sunamura no onryō appeared in the neighborhood of Sunamura night after night, terrorizing people by chasing them around #FolkloreThursday

#FolkloreThursday 🎃🇨🇦 Halloween mischief, Nova Scotia style! In Acadian communities, young people once slipped out on Halloween night to steal vegetables from their neighbours’ gardens. Forget guarding the candy. Lock up your cabbages and turnips! 😂🥬🥕 🎨 Halloween Lucky Thirteen by Bonnie White

Garden magic suggests carrying an acorn in your pocket for protection against storms, evil intent and losing your way... #FolkloreThursday

#FolkloreThursday 🧹🍂 In European #Broomlore, sweeping after sunset could sweep in misfortune. Suspect a hex? 👁️ Spit on your broom to break it! 🌙 During #Mabon, a new broom swept away old energy. 🧹✨ Make a wish while sweeping and it might come true. 💫 🧹 Georgia Marfels on Etsy

The fuzzy woolly bear caterpillar supposedly predicts winter by the width of its rusty middle band: wider means mild, narrower means severe. It isn't a reliable meteorologist, but every autumn this tiny caterpillar gets dragged back into forecasting anyway. #FolkloreThursday Art: Hillary Farmer

Everyone talks about the cherry blossoms, but the autumn blooming chrysanthemum is also a traditional symbol of Japan, depicted in the Imperial crest and on passports. A remarkable traditional way of growing them prunes and trains a single plant into a large cascade of flowers #FolkloreThursday

flesh shifting to fur hungering lycanthrope leers forms caped in crimson moon discs bleeding from within it laps the pooling craters #vss365 #hunger #vsshorror #FolkloreThursday #tanka

🌿🌊🌿'Undine' - written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - illustrated by Arthur Rackham. "Forget not that I am here with thee as a guide." #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

"School Harvest Festival Parents and friends were present at the Down County Modern School for Girls, on Friday last week, for the school's harvest festival, which was conducted by the Rev. F. E. Walker." Bexhill Observer 4.10.1947 #FolkloreThursday #HarvestFestival #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1940s

#FolkloreThursday 🎃🐎 Beware the Headless Horseman! Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) echoes older European headless-rider lore, often compared with Ireland’s dreaded Dullahan. 🐎 🎃 🔥 Some legends never die. They just keep riding. 💀🌙 #AutumnReads 🍂

After the Devil went out collecting nuts on Devil’s Nutting Day (21 Sept), the Virgin Mary suddenly appeared. Startled by this, Satan dropped the sack of nuts which turned into the Devils’ Bag of Nuts (aka Alcock’s Arbour), a hill near Haselor, Warwickshire. #FolkloreThursday

Inspired by the Latin word for “star” due to its shape Asters were revered as a sacred flower (possibly created by the goddess Astraea) by Greeks and Romans who decorated shrines with Aster wreaths. It’s also called the Michaelmas Daisy because it flowers around Sept 29th #FolkloreThursday

#FolkloreThursday: `The Corn Dolly was often crafted from the last sheaf cut at harvest-time. Its origins are obscure but clearly mythic or ritual. Often the Corn Dolly was stored in a house or barn from fall until spring, when it played a role in sowing or […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#FolkloreThursday 🐺 Sept 24 in the old Romanian shepherd villages: Teclele (Teclele Berbecilor). Don’t sweep the house, don’t spin wool, don’t work skins, don’t lend fire. 🔥 The day wears St Thecla’s feast, but the taboos are older fire-and-wolf spirits. Break them and the pack takes your rams 🐏

🍁🍂 Welcome, autumn wanderers! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social, taking the #FolkloreThursday reins for the next hour! Thanks to @mythcrafts.bsky.social for hosting before the break. Now bring on the falling leaves, harvest lore, autumn omens, & old seasonal magic! 🌾🍎✨ Art: Muy Lindo

Thank you for all the #Folklorethursday treats over the last hour. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social signing off, but keep those tweets coming as @crystalponti.bsky.social will be back to host after the break. Img: Autumn Leaves, by Georgia O’Keeffe

“The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach).—In harvest, there was a struggle to escape being the last done with the shearing… The fear entertained was that of having the ‘famine of the farm’ (gort a bhaile), in the shape of an imaginary old woman (cailleach), to feed till next harvest” #FolkloreThursday

The Jinmenju is a tree that bears fruit in the autumn that looks exactly like a human head. They can't speak, but they can laugh, and if they laugh too hard they fall off the tree. #FolkloreThursday hyakumonogatari.com/2012/06/03/j...

THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER STROKE is on display at the RCA giving access to the stunning detail of a fairy #autumn. Dadd depicts the fairy 'feller' about to split a large chestnut with his axe to make a new carriage for Queen Mab, amid the prickly fruits of the London Plane Tree #FolkloreThursday

The eerie autumn call of the barn owl helped give owls ominous reputations in folklore. Their nocturnal habits, pale faces, and uncanny cries made them natural companions to stories of death and supernatural warning. Evolution accidentally designed an excellent ghost. #FolkloreThursday Art: Alyssa

The seven whistlers manifest on stormy nights as a shrieking, whistling noise across the English skies. It is said they are seven of the devil’s demons loose from the Wild Hunt, in search of lost souls. A portent of doom for any who hear them... 🎨Valentin Ruths #FolkloreThursday

‘If you catch a falling leaf, you will have twelve months of continued happiness' Dip in beeswax to make a garland. The beeswax is a pain to melt, but the scent fills the house and the leaves last for ages. #FolkloreThursday

The Greek demi-god Triptolemus presides over the sowing of grains and the milling of wheat and was the first initiate into the Eleusian Mysteries. His name literally translating to ‘he who pounds the husks’. #FolkloreThursday mythcrafts.com/2017/09/21/t...

Gathering beech mast is for my workshop at Allen valley folk festival this coming Sunday where we’ll be looking at tree lore and creating a giant beech mast poem in this beautiful clearing said to have inspired W.H.Auden and been used by John Wesley to share his beliefs💫🍂 #folklorethursday

Hello #Folklorethursday and thank you @botanicafabula.bsky.social for hosting the last session. This is @mythcrafts.bsky.social offering you a virtual cup of mulled wine as we toast to the stories of the harvest season. Img: The Autumn by Alphonse Mucha

Houseleeks on the roof to protect from lightning, horseshoe to protect and hold good luck, all the ancient tricks come to play as the grain arrived to be milled…has this all been lost in the last 60 years or are the fragments still there amongst modern farming monoculture? #folklorethursday