There is a lot of traditions around love and marriage at Halloween. They say on Samhain (Halloween) at the stroke of midnight if you look at a mirror whilst holding a candle you will see the one you are meant to be with. #FolkloreSunday #halloween #folklore #mythology #samhain

RT @frome_maude
Ellen Terry’s famous Lady Macbeth “beetle wing” dress was designed for her by Alice Comyns Carr & was first worn on stage in Dec 1888. Meant to invoke fear, the addition of 1000 beetle wing cases created the effect of scales. Recently restored. #ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday

🔁Coffin Boffin :
MANDRAKE This is me with a c.1500 mandrake root; said to scream when pulled from the earth; it is associated with fertility due to its magical and uncanny resemblance to the human form #FolkloreSunday

Some fun for #FolkloreSunday from my Recommended Reads list... I loved this article by Jennifer R. Povey about a possible origin for selkies (aka "seal folk") from Celtic and Norse mythology! #folklore

https://jenniferrpovey.medium.com/the-north-of-europe-selkie-brides-and-an-out-there-thought-932314349a41

Some fun for #FolkloreSunday from my Recommended Reads list... I loved this article by Jennifer R. Povey about a possible origin for selkies (aka "seal folk") from Celtic and Norse mythology! #folklore

https://medium.com/@jenniferrpovey/the-north-of-europe-selkie-brides-and-an-out-there-thought-932314349a4

Some fun for #FolkloreSunday from my Recommended Reads list... I loved this article by Jennifer R. Povey about a possible origin for selkies from Celtic and Norse mythology! https://medium.com/@jenniferrpovey/the-north-of-europe-selkie-brides-and-an-out-there-thought-932314349a41#folklore

RT @ElsaMc1878@twitter.com

#FolkloreSunday
In Arthurian legend Morgan le Fay is an enchantress & wise woman regarded by many as a witch. A skilled healer, with teleporting & shapeshifting abilities. She tries to kill and usurp Arthur but, it is she who tends to him when he is mortally wounded.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ElsaMc1878/status/1612033576739946497

@mikey I used to do #MythologyMonday, #LegendaryWednesday, #FolkloreThursday and #FolkloreSunday in the birdsite, but apart from the first one I don't think any of the organizers have migrated here yet.

On Winter Solstice, the Lithuanian & Latvian sun goddess, Saulė, flies in a sleigh pulled by reindeer. She catches her tears in a golden cup, which turns them to amber, & drops the amber pebbles to earth, reminders that sunlight will return #FolkloreSunday
🎨 Anastasia Arkhipova
Karen Lee Street@karenleestreet
#art

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#FolkloreSunday Norse goddess of winter Skadi was a jötunn, a race of giants with attributes linked to the Sami way of life, skiing, hunting & seiðr magic used by Norse witches/volva & the shamanic practices of the Sami. Origin of 'scathing.'
Skade (1893) -Carl Fredrik von Saltza

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/truetarottales/status/1604500075413049344

RT @MinaStillwater@twitter.com

#FolkloreSunday
“Keeper of the Keys”
[How Santa gets in your house👀]

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MinaStillwater/status/1604460406592131072

RT @BardCumberland@twitter.com

When we decorate our homes with evergreens, kiss under the mistletoe, and eat plum pudding, we are performing rites that originally formed part of Druid culture

#FolkloreSunday #Yule #Druids

'Druids cutting the mistletoe on the sixth day of the moon' by Henri Paul Motte

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BardCumberland/status/1604380789990309888

RT @SaCha1689@twitter.com

The karankoncolos, an evil creature in Northeast Anatolian Turkish-Islamic lore, stands at corners on cold winter nights, asks questions of passersby, & kills those who don't answer. They also imitate the voices of loved ones to lure people out to freeze to death. #FolkloreSunday

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SaCha1689/status/1601755795397705728

#FolkloreSunday

RT @whatters1@twitter.com

In Scottish folklore, the goddess of winter is called Beira. Beira reigns undisputed throughout the winter, a true winter witch queen, but variations of the tale tell of how her reign only ever lasts until the spring.

#FolkloreSunday
🎨Eran Fowler

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/whatters1/status/1601892734025048064

Eine herrliche Erzählung über die Geschichte des #Lakeland s zwischen Angelsachsen, Dänen, Kelten und nowegischen Wikingern. #Archaeology #FolkloreSunday
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RT @ChristineV8@twitter.com

Lussi, a Germanic sorceress, is the dark counterpart of Saint Lucia. On the night of December 13 -- 'Lussi Night' -- she rides through the sky on Odin's Wild Hunt, with her band of elves and faeries, called 'Lussiferda'.

#FolkloreSunday #GothicAdvent

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ChristineV8/status/1599490254716932098

The internet's favourite victim of festive arson, the Gävlebocken, first appeared in 1966, but the Yule Goat is a much older tradition. It may be connected to the traditional Jul sacrifice of a goat to honour Thor.

#FolkloreSunday #folklore #pagan #yule