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RT @DeeringRachel
In Scotland, there was a Beltane tradition of making an oatcake, a Beltane bannock, cutting it and marking one piece with coal. People, blindfolded, would pick a slice from a bonnet. 1/2 #SuperstitionSat
https://twitter.com/DeeringRachel/status/1520377988524687360

Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @DeeringRachel
In Scotland, there was a Beltane tradition of making an oatcake, a Beltane bannock, cutting it and marking one piece with coal. People, blindfolded, would pick a slice from a bonnet. 1/2 #SuperstitionSat
https://twitter.com/DeeringRachel/status/1520377988524687360

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RT @KarenSloan
The first water drawn from a well on #Beltane, & even the morning dew, was seen as especially potent. Said to increase beauty, maintain youth, & fix skin ailments, maidens would rise at dawn to wash their face, & some would even roll in the dew. 🛁 #SuperstitionSat
https://twitter.com/KarenSloan/status/1388487190355881986

Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #FolkloreThursday
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RT @KarenSloan
The first water drawn from a well on #Beltane, & even the morning dew, was seen as especially potent. Said to increase beauty, maintain youth, & fix skin ailments, maidens would rise at dawn to wash their face, & some would even roll in the dew. 🛁 #SuperstitionSat
https://twitter.com/KarenSloan/status/1388487190355881986

RT @hidden_grove@twitter.com

“The Glass Lawyer” by Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote) is about a man called Tomás Rodaja who believes he’s made of glass.

“Glass Delusion” was a documented phenomenon from the Middle Ages to the C19th.

#SuperstitionSat @DisabledTales@twitter.com

https://hiddengroveextra.blogspot.com/2022/03/help-im-made-of-glass.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hidden_grove/status/1512706811710820352

RT @BlogTolkien@twitter.com

According to Serat Katuranggan Kucing, Javanese "manuscript of cats", specific cat types have characteristics that affect those who keep them. The manuscript describes various types of cats in tembang (verses to sing). 1/8

Thread for #SuperstitionSat theme on pets and #caturday

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BlogTolkien/status/1599047766990548993

#SuperstitionSat: In #Ireland it was considered unlucky to meet #sheep early in the morning, and it was considered best to knit in the evening, when the sheep were sleeping.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#SuperstitionSat: It was not good luck to encounter a stoat when setting out on a journey, even a short one, but one could turn the luck to good by greeting the stoat as a neighbor.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

RT @RobertEFuller@twitter.com

This stoat is beginning to turn white for winter...Can you spot the first sign of this magical change of coat? 🐾🐾
#stoat #ermine #wildlife

#Celtic #SuperstitionSat: Until recently in #Ireland, because its call betokened doom, farmers would abandon projects if they heard a #crow scream.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

RT @DiaryCrow@twitter.com

Is time to SCREAM

#crow #corvid

#Celtic #SuperstitionSat: The symbolic representations of horses on this rattle-hanging from the Oppidum Alkimoennis, served to ward off mischief; Archaeological Museum Kehlheim, Bavaria
Photocredit @NeuKelte@twitter.com

#Celtic #SuperstitionSat: Birds on a horse fibula as a magical mischief averting symbol from the Oppidum Alcimoennis; Archaeological Museum Kehlheim, Bavaria
Photocredit @NeuKelte@twitter.com

RT @H_P_Loveiscrap@twitter.com

When there are undesirable people outside our house, my mother, my grandmother or my sisters usually put an upside-down broom with salt on it to make them go away. #SuperstitionSat

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/H_P_Loveiscrap/status/1596519946330275841

#SuperstitionSat
The mandrake was linked with myths and magic, being one of the ingredients of the witches’ ‘flying ointments’ in the Middle Ages. In ancient legends, when the plant was uprooted it would scream, killing anyone who heard it.

#SuperstitionSat
The mandrake was linked with myths and magic, being one of the ingredients of the witches’ ‘flying ointments’ in the Middle Ages. In ancient legends, when the plant was uprooted it would scream, killing anyone who heard it.

RT @irishspiritmag@twitter.com

The ancient Irish believed the Ash tree had healing qualities and saw it as one of a trilogy of sacred trees, along with the Oak and the Hawthorn.
#SuperstitionSat

so my boob is itching and according to my irish gramma (god rest her soul) that means someone is playing with themselves and thinking of me. 🤨 I see you! jezebel!
😜😂
#SuperstitionSat

RT @takenincontext@twitter.com

#SuperstitionSat
IRISH SUPERSTITIONS
A fisherman that meets a woman with red hair will have a bad catch that day.

🎨Maybe this haircolor is auburn..in which case the catch will be promising....yes?

RT @frome_maude@twitter.com

The Witch On Her Broomstick, by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1921. #SuperstitionSat #Caturday #Halloween #Gothtober

RT @BonReposGites
Breton legend tells that, bested by exorcists, the Devil broke wind with such wild ferocity that the priests were blown to the floor; the sulphurous miasma so fouled the air that the leaves of the potatoes turned black and the potato crop blighted for two years! #SuperstitionSat

RT @irishspiritmag@twitter.com

Sheela na gigs are figurative carvings of naked women, usually bald with lug ears, squatting & pulling apart their vulva. These carvings are found on medieval churches and castles in Ireland & beyond. Some think they were used to ward off death, evil & demons. #SuperstitionSat