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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: Among the talismans <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Lugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lugh</span></a> demanded from Tuireann's three sons as<br>punishment for the murder of his father <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cian</span></a> were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World). `Only these apples will satisfy me, as they are the best and most beautiful in the world. This is what they are made of: Their colour is that of polished gold, and the head of a one-month-old child is no larger than any one of these apples. When you dine on them, they taste like honey, and bleeding wounds and the most malignant diseases disappear. The apples do not diminish when eaten, even if one eats from them for a long time and constantly. Whoever succeeds in taking one of these apples has accomplished his greatest feat, since he will never lose it again.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Druiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Druiden</span></a>`</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: `A cattle-herding <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/brownie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brownie</span></a> of the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> islands, the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/gunna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gunna</span></a> hung about small farms making sure the cows did not trample the garden. As with many such helpful sprites, he went naked despite the weather. Any attempt to provide clothes drove the gunna away.`<br>Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>`<br><a href="https://x.com/DaubWattle/status/1174613244369129472" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/DaubWattle/status/117461</span><span class="invisible">3244369129472</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: `In the plain of Bray, lay the Gardens of the Sun-god <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Lugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lugh</span></a>. So sunny and so fair and fertile was that plain, with waving meadow-grass and buttercups, and the sweet may-blossom girdling the fields. Close all about the fort the gardens lay, with apple-trees shedding their pink and white upon the playing fields of brilliant green.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a><br>Source: Cuchulain, The Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: One of the greatest <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> visions of the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Otherworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Otherworld</span></a> was that of Emain Albach, the Isle of Apples, a beautiful place of everlasting summer whose handsome residents danced the sun-drenched days away. The Otherworld looked like this world, only more beautiful and changeless: trees bore blossom and fruit at the same time there, no one ever aged or grew infirm, death had no dominion in the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Otherworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Otherworld</span></a>.<br>Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>`</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: The apples significance continues into folkloric uses such as that in the British Cotswolds, where an apple tree blooming out of season meant coming death. Symbolizing harmony and immortality, abundance and love, the apple was considered a talisman of good fortune and prosperity. Some have connected the word to Apollo, whose name may have originally been Apellon, a word derived from the same source as our word “apple.”<br>Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>`</p>
curious ordinary<p>In <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> akaname is a <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yokai</a> often described as a small, child-like creature with a long tongue that is said to lick the grime and filth found in bathrooms. Aka means filth but is also a synonym for red and in many cases akaname are said to have slimy red skin... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> 1/3</p>
Simon Roy Hughes 🍄<p>A thought for Saturday: </p><p>There are people behind <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> of any sort. These people have told their stories, practised their rites, maintained their traditions because they believed in them, and because the folklore was theirs.</p><p>When we begin to view these people’s folklore as a means to our end (which nearly always means the extraction of filthy lucre, directly or otherwise), our practice removes us from the people who developed the folklore; we are rather conducting capitalistic, and ultimately colonialistic, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a>.</p><p>Is that who we want to be?</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>folklore</span></a></span> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EthicalFolklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EthicalFolklore</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: According to a legend, a young farmer was not careful to make any noise, and the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Saligen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saligen</span></a> Women took him as a love prisoner. They kissed and caressed him until he lay soulless on the ground. One day the noise of guns came from the valley, and the Saligen Women have not been seen since.</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: The <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Saligen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saligen</span></a> Women, also called Salk Women, Sala Women, Wild or White Women are figures of the world of legends, mainly from the Alpine region.<br>The Salige Women are described as shy but helpful and wise.</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: A <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Lindworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lindworm</span></a> lived by a mountain lake in the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Malta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malta</span></a> Valley, where it decimated the herds of farmers. So they decided to stuff a dead calf with quicklime and use it as bait. The <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dragon</span></a> ate it and started writhing in pain. In doing so, he broke through a large rock face and the water dammed behind it tumbled into the valley. The entire Malta Valley was flooded and the old village of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Malta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malta</span></a> was completely washed away. Source: <a href="https://drachen.fandom.com/de/wiki/Der_Lindwurm_im_Maltatal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drachen.fandom.com/de/wiki/Der</span><span class="invisible">_Lindwurm_im_Maltatal</span></a><br>Where the mountain lake used to be, huge masses of water are now dammed behind the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/K%C3%B6lnbreinsperre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kölnbreinsperre</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: A beautiful <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/nymph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nymph</span></a> lived on the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Koralpe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Koralpe</span></a> in a lake surrounded by high rocks. She promised protection and prosperity to the few elderly who ever saw her if they only left her alone. A young shepherd, longing to see her, threw a large stone into the lake. Immediately the lovely natural being rose from the depths, but with her also the floods that drowned the transgressor before peace and quiet were restored.</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: The legend "The Lindworm of Goggausee" tells that a seven-year-old rooster once laid a red egg in a dunghill, from which a <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Lindworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lindworm</span></a> hatched after three years. The worm grew quickly and ate the cattle of the farmers in the area, so they made plans to kill the creature.<br>A sorcerer who lived in the area had the saving idea. He hid a poisonous black lump in a hay cart, and harnessed two oxen to the device. However, since no one dared to steer the cart to the dragon, a mentally handicapped servant was sent off with the cart. When the servant led the wagon past the Goggausee, the dragon jumped out and swallowed it along with the servant and the oxen. A short time later he died of the poison.<br>Source: <a href="https://drachen.fandom.com/de/wiki/Lindwurm_vom_Goggausee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drachen.fandom.com/de/wiki/Lin</span><span class="invisible">dwurm_vom_Goggausee</span></a></p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: `<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Fairies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fairies</span></a> were not evil. However, they were amoral, not tied to the moral and ethical demands of humanity. They were merely playful troublemakers rather than devilish opponents. They commonly tried to lead travelers astray. This was a minor inconvenience and could be quite frightening, but even without protection, the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/fairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairy</span></a> eventually grew bored with the trick and released the ensnared human.<br>More seriously, the fairies attempted to lure useful or attractive people into the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Otherworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Otherworld</span></a>, to do their bidding until released.`<br>Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>`</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: `If contacted in their lovely woodland grottoes with running streams (in French, grotte aux fées, or in Breton, feunteun ar corrigan), <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/korrigans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>korrigans</span></a> could sometimes tell the future. Seeking them out could bring danger, however, for korrigans like other <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/fairies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairies</span></a> were immoral and might as readily steal a person or child as tell a fortune.`<br>Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>`</p>
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<p><a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a>: Melusine orchestrated a raid on her father’s castle, confining him and all his attendants inside a magical mountain. Her mother Pressina wasn`t happy at this vengeful action. Instead, the descendant of serpents cursed Melusine to become a snake for part of every Sunday.<br>Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celtic</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a>`</p>
curious ordinary<p>In <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> Kintaro is a hero who was raised in the mountains by a Yama Uba (mountain witch). He had superhuman strength and an eclectic group of animal companions. One day there was a very unusual wrestling competition and Kintaro was the referee. The first match... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> 1/2</p>
The Swamp Wytch<p>Cecile Hulse Matschat, a geographer &amp; botanist, wrote about her time living in the Okefenokee Swamp in her seminal ethnography "Suwannee River: Strange Green Land" (published 1938). One figure she writes about she calls "Snake Woman". (1 of 4) <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Okefenokee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Okefenokee</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkWitch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkWitch</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WitchSky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WitchSky</a></p>
Hypnogoria<p>A selection of postcards featuring the Cornish Pisky <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a></p>
Simon Roy Hughes 🍄<p>The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen &amp; Moe. The most comprehensive edition ever. The whole collection appears for the first time in English.</p><p>Paperback editions, or .pdf files for less than half the price. Details here: <a href="https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">norwegianfolktales.net/books/t</span><span class="invisible">he-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianfolktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>norwegianfolktales</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianlegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>norwegianlegends</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklorethursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklorethursday</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folktales</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/norwegianfolktales" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>norwegianfolktales</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>folklore</span></a></span> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairytales</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklorethursday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>folklorethursday</span></a></span> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>According to the Goetia, Leonard is a demon lord who serves as grandmaster at many witches' banquets and orgies. He will mark each initiate with one of his three goat horns. Leonard can teach people how to transform into monstrous animals or incubi. In his spare time, he disguises himself as a handsome soldier to seduce women.<br>🎨 Louis Le Breton</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkloreThursday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/31DaysofHaunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>31DaysofHaunting</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Occult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Occult</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horror</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Sorcery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sorcery</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Demonology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Demonology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Demon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Demon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Monster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monster</span></a></p>
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