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Feed for the folklore and mythology enthusiasts highlighting #MythologyMonday, #FairyTaleTuesday, #WyrdWednesday, #FolkloreThursday, #FaustianFriday and #SuperstitionSat posts BlueskyFeedCreator.com Info & Donate: https://blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/thebluefaery.northsky.social/aaajgh2rasf5g#donate

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 21 days ago
That's the end of another epic #FolkloreThursday 🐉 Today's equinox-worthy theme was "Autumn Folklore” 🍂 This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off! Wishing you the best of luck with your Halloween preparations 🎃 1906 Ivar Arosenius
An illustration of a scarecrow flying like a kite above a field of wheat. Four impish beings with red faces and bat wings – representing the four winds – are blowing on him from the different directions.
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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 21 days ago
In Irish folklore, there was a man in the wind - fear nagaoithe (the wind-man). In late autumn he destroyed stacks of corn and hay which the farmers hadn't put into the barn. He could also use his bellows to bring the storms... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Arthur Rackham
Autumn leaves are orange, a crowd of faces with hair flying is blowing the trees and the leaves.
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 21 days ago
Migrating geese have long been seasonal timekeepers. Their great autumn formations told people something calendars now do more precisely...that the year was turning. Folklore and weather lore paid attention because sometimes the sky itself announced the season. #FolkloreThursday Art: Robert Bateman
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 21 days ago
Tsukimi, the Autumn moon viewing party, is an old tradition in Japan, held on the night of the full moon of the eighth month of the solar calendar. Seasonal produce and round rice dumplings that represent the moon are served. #FolkloreThursday
Ukiyo triptych of three women in kimono looking at the moon, with a table full of round rice dumplings. according to https://ichiban-japan.com/tsukimi-japon/ by Utagawa Kuniteru
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 22 days ago
The Harvest Moon isn't named because it's orange or enormous. It's the full moon nearest the autumn equinox. Around this time, successive moonrises occur unusually close together, historically giving farmers extra evening light during harvest. #FolkloreThursday Art: Samuel Palmer
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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 22 days ago
In Ireland, the last harvest sheaf could be used to find the drowned. A candle was set by the sheaf which was then placed in the water where the person had fallen in. It was allowed to drift until it came to a rest and that was where the body would be found... #FolkloreThursday 📷Sir Benjamin Stone
A life-size figure of a person made with a white dress and a sheaf of corn for a head, set amid the leaves.
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 22 days ago
#FolkloreThursday The Polevik is a Slavic spirit of grain fields, described as a dwarf dressed in white with dark earthy skin & grass for hair. If they chance upon someone drunk or asleep in the fields they strangle them to death, and are most active at noon and dusk. 🎨 @andy-paciorek.bsky.social
Line drawing of a corn field with a bearded face woven amongst the stalks.
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