How folk remedies can fuel misinformation #folklorethursday #medicine #health

https://theconversation.com/how-folk-remedies-can-fuel-misinformation-210993

#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: #Amorgen ("The birth of song/lament") was the first Milesian to disembark on landing in #Ireland, putting his right foot first on Irish soil. The hero`s epithet Glúngel means „with the white-knee(s) or also `with the shining kin`. The #druid teaches #CuChulainn the #Ogham Script and makes the first three judgments in Míle's conquest period.

It's storytime on this week's bonus episode of Ether & Ichor! Tune in for a tale of revenge, jingling, and terrible gifts for babies.

https://vcaudley.blogspot.com/2023/09/ether-ichor-35x02-im-not-here-to.html

#fairytales #FolkloreThursday #podcast

This month's edition of the newsletter contains a link to the updated 'What is language and verbal lore?" edition of the dispatch and podcast along with a discussion of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale.

https://csmaccath.com/blog/september-2023-problem-propp

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Illustrating Myths & Folktales
5 Sep, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – tickets by donation

Join illustrator Jordan Hunter to discover more about creating convincing characters, landscapes, & supernatural beings inspired by #Scottish #myth & #folklore

#folktale #FolkloreThursday #illustration
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illustrating-myths-and-folktales-tickets-638104125617

A very short, very daft Lancashire legend this rainy last day of August: THE KING OF CATS! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐱 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU6uqs4IEGc&list=PL-4vLDOLzORzceyIFzPrggv8-StIntjFG&index=20&t=5s #FolkloreThursday #TalesofBritain

#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: „A buggane was a huge ogre-like creature native to the Isle of Man. A shapeshifter, the buggane is generally described as a malevolent being that can appear as a large black calf or human with ears or hooves of a horse. Its natural form is described as "covered with a mane of coarse, black hair; it had eyes like torches, and glittering sharp tusks". Another tales describes it as a huge man with bull's horns, glowing eyes and large teeth. As magical creatures, bugganes were unable to cross water or stand on hallowed ground.“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggane

#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: `The #Manx #glashtin is said to be a goblin that appears out of its aquatic habitat, to come in contact with the island folk; others claim it takes the shape of a colt, or equate it to the water horse known locally as cabyll-ushtey. Yet another source claims the glashtin was a water-bull (tarroo-ushtey in Manx), half-bovine and half-equine.
Some tales or lore recount that it has pursued after women, ending in the stock motif of escape by cutting loose the skirt-hem, although in one modern version her escape is achieved by a rooster's crowing; in that tale the glashtin pretends to be a handsome man but is betrayed by his horse-ears.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glashtyn

#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: `Moore says there was a sighting of the cabyll-ushtey, a #Manx Water-Horse, in 1859 at Ballure Glen, and after being spotted people from nearby Ramsey flocked to see, but no one caught sight of it. The glen beneath the Glen Meay Waterfall was haunted by the ghost of a man who unwittingly rode on the horseback of the glashtin or cabbyl-ushtey, and was drowned at sea.
One tale recounts how a cabbyl-ushtey emerged from the Awin Dhoo (Black River) and devoured a farmer's cow, then later it took his teenaged daughter. Nevertheless, recent literature makes the cabyll-ushtey as being more benign than the Scottish Gaelic each-uisge.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glashtyn

#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: `The tarroo-ushtey, the #Manx Water-Bull, is an "amphibious creature" with every semblance of a natural bull, but a cow mating with it calves only a misshapen "lump of flesh and skin without bones" and often dies giving birth. Waldron also wrote that a neighbor detected a stray bull in his herd and, suspecting it to be a Water-Bull, rounded up a group of men with pitchforks to give it chase. The beast, however, dove into a river and eluded them, bobbing its head up in mockery.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glashtyn

St Peter's, Barnburgh, S Yorks. Legend tells how in the 15th C Sir Percival Cresacre was attacked by a wildcat at Ludwell Hill, fighting all the way to the church, where he killed it in the church porch before expiring himself.

#History #FolkloreThursday #blackandwhitephotography

In fairy lore there is the concept of fairy gold. It is money given by the fairies. At first appearance it looks usable but it isn’t. Some stories it turns into leaves when the fairies depart. #folklorethursday #folklore #mythology #fairies #fairylore

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This month's edition of the newsletter contains a link to the updated 'What is a conspiracy theory?" edition of the dispatch and podcast along with a Pagan-centric discussion of the phrase "accurate folklore."

https://csmaccath.com/blog/august-2023-accurate-folklore-and-other-fictions

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Norns are among the most mysterious and powerful #Norse deities. They are women deeply linked with the fate of every human being (and maybe every living being, in general).

They are said to draw water from a sacred well Urðarbrunnr¹ to nourish Yggdrasil², the #tree at the center of Norse cosmology, the Nine Worlds.
Norns are best known to spin the thread of life, which determines the life or fate of all individuals — #spinning is a very common topic in many legends and tales, check out this link³ from @IcySedgwick!
They represent the past (Urðr), future (Skuld) and present (Verðandi).

They have #runes on their nails, and they carved runes on wooden pieces, too. Furthermore, they could be benevolent, but also could cause tragic events. Pre-Christian Scandinavians attested to Norns who visit a newborn child in order to determine the person's future.

In Slavic #mythology, there are three goddesses who watch over pregnant women, and decide the baby's fate three days after the birth.

At last, let's focus on the term Wyrd⁴. It was the name of a silent Anglo-Saxon goddess who had the control on women and men's fate. Nowadays, it is a concept to indicate the destiny. It is quite certain that the modern word "weird" has the same, old, meaning.
Shakespeare, in Macbeth, refers to the Norns as the "Weird sisters".

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur%C3%B0arbrunnr
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil
³ https://www.icysedgwick.com/spinning-in-folklore/
⁴ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd

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Saint George is the patron saint of Palestine. Here’s a short folktale from my family’s village:

Unlike most folktales, this one is in a category that blurs the line between tale and anecdote because it is apparently something that happened within living memory at the time it was recorded.

https://soniasulaiman.com/2023/07/13/palestinian-folktale-and-lore-saint-george-elijah-el-khadr/

@folklore @palestine

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There are a lot of ghoul stories in Palestinian folklore. Here’s one of them. It’s called Pomegranate Seeds. It begins with a woman who had an only child, a daughter. This was in the olden days when there were no schools…

https://soniasulaiman.com/2023/07/06/palestinian-folktale-pomegranate-seeds/

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More than stones linger,
A woman in white is seen,
Haunting the castle

#haiku #poetry #photography
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Quiet Moments - The Daily Haiku Project
https://www.hypnogoria.com/haiku_home.html

FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 85 - The Faeries

A reading of a Victorian poem rich in faery folklore,
in which Irish poet William Allingham reveals the darker side of the little people...

https://www.hypnogoria.com/gl_faeries.html

#podcast #faeries #FolkloreThursday