On the fourth day of #GothicChristmas

Join me for the Tale of The Cargast Coins

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/ETPnCeaQv-0

Written and Performed by Me.

The fallow season is a time of rest for the living; also a time for us to put away all the things that have entertained us through the brighter months. However, for the creatures of the night and the jealous souls of the restless dead, it is a time for them roam free. The spectres and ghosts use this time to travel far and while, fore they know their time is limited and the days are slowly growing longer... Listen to hear the whole story

#Folklore #Folktales #audiobooks #audio #AngloSaxonArt #WyrdWednesday #Storytelling #paganism #pagan #histodon #histodons #history #ChristmasTide #Yule #YuleTide #FolkHorror

@folklore @pagan @pagans
@mythology
@mythologybot

On the third day of #GothicChristmas

Here is the tale of the Wintercearig [ ᚹᛁᚾᛏᛖᚱᚳᛖᚪᚱᛁᚷ ] (The Winter Sorrow).

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/rcS94juVi9Y

This story is based on an old tale that was told as child.

The Wintercearig is that feeling of despair that we feel in the darkest nights at this time of year as is also a reference to the regret of old age.

This is the story of Þori (Thori) and the Wintercearig -- Join me as I tell the story of a man in search of the perfect log for the hearth and ends up crossing paths with the supernatural.

#Folklore #Folktales #audiobooks #audio #AngloSaxonArt #FairytaleTuesday #Storytelling #paganism #pagan #histodon #histodons #history #ChristmasTide #Yule #YuleTide

@folklore @mythologybot @histodons

On the second day of #GothicChristmas

Have you heard the tale of The Clacuwist -- The Battle of the Wist?

Join me as I tell the story of the Wūscfrēa [ ᚹᚢᛋᚳᚠᚱᛖᚪ ] and the Nihtgena [ ᚾᛁᚻᛏᚷᛖᚾᚪ ] -- told in the style of an #OldEnglish poem. Join me as we explore as tyrant tries to take the deep magics and the Wisting away

#Folklore #Folktales #audiobooks #audio #AngloSaxonArt #MythologyMonday #Storytelling #paganism #pagan

@folklore @mythologybot @mythologymonday
@pagan
@pagans

(Written, performed and art by me)

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/3g06Cpe1i7o

Born of fire, these fatherless fraternal two of Niht
From the day they first breathed this darkened air
Conflict was their nature as it was built
betwixt their bones; siblings and rivals.
Like whisps of smoke sailing into the night,
The brother of the sister floats forever on,
He brings that waking dream, Nobleman of the Wist,
And known to ethereal edgelands as Wūscfrēa...

It's #Monday or #Mōnandæg [ ᛗᚩᚾᚪᚾᛞᚫᚷ ] - Mōna or Mōnē's day, the Day or the Moon God, his name is rooted on the old proto-germanic word for "to measure". It also the root of the word "mæl" (meal today) and #Mōna is the root of the word #mōnaþ [ ᛗᚩᚾᚪᚦ ] or Month.

There is very little written evidence left about Mōna, apart from his name being given to the word for today. However, as he is cognate to #Mani (Norse Moon #God) who is attested in Prose #Edda and the Poetic Edda.

I for one however, like to look at Mōna how the Germanic tribes might have, and let us create our own stories and traditions. That is how storytelling works -- nothing is made up, just remembered differently.

The #Moon was what was used to mark time, he travelled the heavens, guiding us forward, from the cradle to the grave. That is why some people believe he was also the protector of Children and life.

This piece of art, that I drew shows Mōna, cradling the children that he protects as he crosses the night sky and the passage of their lifetime. It is done in the Early Medieval Style

#History #Histodons #Folklore #Storytelling #Histordon #AngloSaxon #Jutes #Jutish #Art #AngloSaxonArt #MedievalArt

@folklore @histodons