There are many plants thought of protective in Scottish folklore, and Holly(cuileann in Gaelic) is one of them.
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#FolkloreFriday #Folklore #ScottishFolklore https://blairtales.wordpress.com/2023/04/21/scottish-folklore-for-holy/

No one can deny the fact that highland coos are incredibly cute, but have you heard about cro-sith (fairy cattle)? 🐮
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#ScottishFolklore #Folklore #FolkloreFriday https://blairtales.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/fairy-cows%f0%9f%90%ae-scottish-folklore/

Opposite St James' church in Chilton Cantelo (Somerset) is a farm that remains associated with a screaming skull, supposedly the skull of Theophilus Broome.

Broome died in 1670. His body lies in a tomb within St James's Church, but his skull, as he instructed, remains in the farmhouse. As in other screaming skull legends, any attempts to bury it have resulted in endless shrieking and poltergeist activity. The skull can now only be seen by written appointment.

#folklore #occult #FolkloreFriday

The Volcano, The Elf Rock, And The Rainbow

Eyjafjallajökull, Pétursey, and the view from Dyrhólaey in southern #Iceland.

It is said that good elves live on one side of Pétursey and, on the other side, bad elves live. It's also rumoured that an infamous troll called Gilitrutt has lived in that volcano for centuries.

#FolkloreFriday #FollowBackFriday #DailyPhoto #photography #WeatherPhotography #LandscapePhotography #Landscape

In #JapaneseFolklore, chochin obake (lantern ghost) is a paper or silk lantern that has transformed into a #yokai after many years of service. It has one or two eyes and a long tongue protruding from a split in the lantern that forms a mouth. Like other tsukumogami, it is believed that after 100 years of service (which may just mean a very long time) objects can develop supernatural powers and gain their own spirit. Chochin obake...
#FolkloreFriday #folklore #DailyFolklore @folklore
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A good bit of Texas folklore concerns so-called "mystery lights" and the stories that have grown up around them.

In Saratoga, TX, some say a ghost with a lantern is searching for his lost head.

"According to local legend, the light on Bragg Road is the ghostly lantern of an unfortunate railroad employee. Decapitated in a wreck, his spirit now walks the road nightly, eternally searching for his head."

#TexasFolkore #TexasGhosts #GhostStories #FolkloreFriday

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/light-of-saratoga

More Texas folklore for #FolkloreFriday: "The Crying Mermaid of Salado"

This story concerns a young woman who is magically granted the man of her dreams. Of course, there is a catch.

"The story of Sirena the Tonkawa maiden has been passed down through generations in the town of Salado. Every year there is a festival and parade dedicated to the Crying Mermaid, and one can pay homage to her story at the bronze statue in Salado Creek."

#TexasFolklore #Folklore #Mermaid

https://talesoftexas.com/2021/09/12/the-crying-mermaid-of-salado/

"Young women were the true originators of the Grimms tales"

Really interesting article on how the young Grimm brothers collected their stories.

#FairyTales #Folklore #FolkloreFriday #FolkTales #BrothersGrimm #Grimm

https://psyche.co/ideas/young-women-were-the-true-originators-of-the-grimms-tales

#FolkloreFriday #RightToRoam

Apparently rights of way have their origins in corpse paths (routes to burying places)

https://hcommons.social/@kingsdh/109647244175612110

The last of my four postcards from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this last describing the 'Spriggins' or, more commonly, 'Spriggans' and showing one here cavorting naked beside Trethevy Quoit on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. #ATCooper #TrethevyQuoit #BodminMoor #Dolmens #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday

Printed monochrome postcard with an illustration by Stan T. Chaplin showing ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggetty beasties and featuring the words to the old Cornish Litany rhyme regarding the same. Publisher not stated, but is by Harvey Barton & Son, Bristol, No 6, c.1920s. #FolkloreFriday #ACornishLitany #Cornwall #NurseryRhymes #Postcards #StanTChaplin

Another postcard from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this time relating the tale of St Neot and the doe, who encountered the saint whilst being pursued by a hunter on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. #ATCooper #StNeot #BodminMoor #CornishSaints #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday

Little #FolkloreFriday for you. In the Dane Hills, Leicestershire, there lies a cave belonging to an ogress witch that terrorised the area. This blue faced #hag was renowned for eating disobedient children who stayed too close to her den.

Another from my and Kirsty Logan's zine full of #queer folklore reimaginings from the British Isles. Might make a good stocking filler!

Read more here:
https://www.blockforest.co.uk/bestiary/2022/10/7/black-annis

#FolkloreThursday #Folklore #Witch #Zine #Spooky #Story #Writer #Horror #Goth

A further postcard from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this time relating the tale of Roker Peendy and his attempt to steal the gold coins of the piskies in Cornwall. #ATCooper #Looe #Piskies #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday

A little #FolkloreFriday for you. A piece inspired by the very haunted Pengersick Castle in Cornwall which features in my and Kirsty Logan's zine.

The castles long history has seen many supernatural events.

From mermaids, serpent ladies, ghosts, and sightings of demonic black dogs, the castle has a rich and varied paranormal reputation.

You can read more about it here:
https://www.blockforest.co.uk/bestiary/pengersick-castle

#Cornwall #Castle #Linocut #Haunted #Folklore #FolkloreThursday #UK #zine #writing #story

The White Lady of Sanquhar Castle was a golden-haired girl who appeared on moonlit nights. She is believed to be Marion McMath of Dalpeddar, who disappeared in 1590, possibly murdered by the Lord of Sanquhar. In 1875, workmen digging a pit in the grounds found a pair of 16th-century shoes, a broken silver chain, and the skeleton of a young woman lying head down, with tresses of long, golden hair still sticking to her skull.
The White Lady was last seen in 1974. #FolkloreFriday #ghosts

Help yourself to a dose of festive cheer with my article about Shropshire's Christmas Folklore! There's some absolutely lovely stuff featured- I hope you enjoy it!

https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-very-shropshire-christmas.html

#Folklore #Christmas #Folktales #Shropshire #christmasfolklore #FolkloreNerd #folkloreFriday

Help yourself to a dose of festive cheer with my article about Shropshire's Christmas Folklore! There's some absolutely lovely stuff featured- I hope you enjoy it!

https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-very-shropshire-christmas.html

#Folklore #Christmas #Folktales #Shropshire #christmasfolklore #FolkloreNerd #folkloreFriday

Just enjoying how I can cleanse my mental palate after Antifash shit poasting & info amping with folklore, fungi, fenster (windows) & macro photography. #mastodonrocks #FungiFriday #folkloreFriday #MAGARepublicansAreFascists #fensterfreitag #Fediverse #livingmybestlife 😁✌️

Just enjoying how I can cleanse my mental palate after Antifash shit poasting & info amping with folklore, fungi, fenster (windows) & macro photography. #mastodonrocks #FungiFriday #folkloreFriday #MAGARepublicansAreFascists #fensterfreitag #Fediverse #livingmybestlife 😁✌️