#FolkloreSunday

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>: `There are many examples of the hare having connections with the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Otherworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Otherworld</a> in Irish mythology and folklore. Hares are associated with spring, thus with the Goddess of the season, and represented love, fertility and growth. In Ireland Brigid is the Goddess of Spring, or Imbolc, which starts on February 1st.` Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

P J Richards💜🌛📖🌜💜New historical Witchcraft book from <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/folklorepod.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@folklorepod.bsky.social</a> (cover art by me)🪄 <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23MythologyMonday" target="_blank">#MythologyMonday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FairyTaleTuesday" target="_blank">#FairyTaleTuesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LegendaryWednesday" target="_blank">#LegendaryWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkyFriday" target="_blank">#FolkyFriday</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreSunday" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a> RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u6duqowlrnjw7pue3qmupnp3/post/3lqn25aoawk2m" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u6duqowlrnjw7pue3qmupnp3/post/3lqn25aoawk2m</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>: `Princess Lí Ban was turned into a mermaid with a salmon’s tail and a woman’s torso and head. Her pet dog became an otter, and together the pair swam in the waters of Lough Neagh for 300 years.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>`

P J Richards🔥🐾🔥Black Shuck - the huge and fiery-eyed spectral hound that haunts ancient sites and lonely roads in the English countryside. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreSunday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23MythologyMonday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MythologyMonday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FairyTaleTuesday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FairyTaleTuesday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WyrdWednesday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WyrdWednesday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkyFriday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkyFriday</a>

curious ordinaryI published a new article today about Nezu Jinja in Tokyo, one of my favourite Shinto shrines. I've included a brief history, some information about the deities enshrined, lots of photos, and even some woodblock prints. I hope you enjoy it! <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/curiousordinary/p/nezu-jinja-in-tokyo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2q0akd" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">open.substack.com/pub/curiouso...</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreSunday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Shinto" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shinto</a> <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/curiousordinary/p/nezu-jinja-in-tokyo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2q0akd" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nezu Jinja in Tokyo</a>

The Godyssey PodcastShe was the greatest teacher of arms of her age: all the warriors of Alba and Eire sent their sons and daughters to learn to fight under Scáthach the Shadow. She taught CuChulainn and Ferdiad how to fight, and only her sister Aífe was her equal. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>🖼: T. Wincinas

curious ordinaryIn <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a>, many rivers and ponds are believed to be inhabited by nushi, which are guardian spirits. They can be both benevolent and dangerous. There was one pond near the Asuwa River that was said to be home to a terrifying catfish nushi. Because of... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23SwampSunday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SwampSunday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreSunday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a> 1/6

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>: `Another that went to the Land of the Ever-Living Ones, but that came back again, was Tadg, son of Cian, son of Olioll. He and his men went forward till they found two strange islands where there were great flocks of wonderful birds, like blackbirds, and some of them the size of eagles or of cranes, and they red with green heads on them, and the eggs they had were blue and pure crimson. And some of the men began eating the eggs, and on the moment feathers began to grow out on them. But they went bathing after that, and the feathers dropped off them again as quick as they came.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

Mark Rees🌿Welsh folklore tells us that Palm Sunday is a time to remember the dead: "In some parts of Wales Palm Sunday, called in Welsh Sul-y-Blodau (Flowering Sunday), all the graves in churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-places are decorated with flowers." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PalmSunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>

The Godyssey PodcastThe moon is full of rabbits and food: in East Asia, Chang'e's companion the Jade Rabbit makes sweets, such as mochi in Japan; in Mesoamerica, the rabbit was placed in the moon by a thankful Quetzacoatl who drank from the willing rabbit when dying of thirst. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>: Scarcity of food, sometimes dearth, was not confined to the Highlands two centuries ago, but it was naturally more common in the remoter and least cultivated parts. One of the sayings very exactly expresses the Highland character in reference to food. A man can live on little, hut not on nothing. Moderation in meat and drink has always been a highland characteristic. The use of whisky is comparatively modern. Among the sayings here collected it is only once mentioned by name, while references to ale and wine are numerous. Source: „A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases: based on Macintosh's collection“

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>: “Nevertheless, O master Laeg,” the lady said, “it is only under my guidance that thou canst reach Moy Mell. Haste then, and come, for Labra waits for us.” `Still Laeg protested, and would not have gone, but that <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cuchulain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cuchulain</a> urged him; and at the last forward they went, Laeg and the women, walking together a long while, till they perceived an island in the lake, and on the near side lay a skiff of bronze, burnished and very light, waiting, it seemed, to carry them across. It had no oar or sail or men to guide or ferry it along, but as they touched it with their feet, swiftly it moved outward from the bank, and with straight aim across the lake it bore them to the door of the palace that was in the island.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

The Godyssey PodcastThe Feathered Serpent of Mesoamerica is often quite woolly with plumage, calling to mind images of feathered dinosaurs. Such beings, like Quetzecoatl, are often associated with fertility and rain, and represents a dual nature, slithering in air and ground. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>: `The Sons of the Gael went to Teamhair, where the three sons of Cermait Honey-Mouth, son of the Dagda, that had the kingship between them at that time held their court. And these three were quarrelling with one another about the division of the treasures their father had left, and the quarrel was so hot it seemed likely it would come to a battle in the end. And the Sons of the Gael wondered to see them quarrelling about such things, and they having so fruitful an island, where the air was so wholesome, and the sun not too strong, or the cold too bitter, and where there was such a plenty of honey and acorns, and of milk, and of fish, and of corn, and room enough for them all. Great grandeur they were living in, and their Druids about them, at the palace of Teamhair. And <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Amergin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amergin</a> went to them, and it is what he said, that they must give up the kingship there and then, or they must leave it to the chance of a battle. And he said he asked this in revenge for the death of Ith, of the race of the Gael, that had come to their court before that time, and that had been killed by treachery. When the sons of Cermait Honey-Mouth heard Amergin saying such fierce words, there was wonder on them, and it is what they said, that they were not willing to fight at that time, for their army was not ready. "But let you make an offer to us," they said, "for we see well you have good judgment and knowledge. But if you make an offer that is not fair," they said, "we will destroy you with our enchantments." At that Amergin bade the men that were with him to go back to Inver Sceine, and to hurry again into their ships with the rest of the Sons of the Gael, and to go out the length of nine waves from the shore. And then he made his offer to the Tuatha de Danaan, that if they could hinder his men from landing on their island, he and all his ships would go back again to their own country, and would never make any attempt to come again; but that if the Sons of the Gael could land on the coast in spite of them, then the Tuatha de Danaan should give up the kingship and be under their sway. The Tuatha de Danaan were well pleased with that offer, for they thought that by the powers of their enchantments over the winds and the sea, and by their arts, they would be well able to keep them from ever setting foot in the country again.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook <a href="https://x.com/EllenLloydAP/status/1567584266338373633" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/EllenLloydAP/status/1567584266338373633</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>: After their landing in Ireland the Milesians `marched in good order as far as Slieve Mis. And there they were met by a queen of the Tuatha de Danaan, and a train of beautiful women attending on her, and her Druids and wise men following her. Amergin, one of the sons of Miled, spoke to her then, and asked her name, and she said it was <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Banba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Banba</a>, wife of Mac Cuill, Son of the Hazel. They went on then till they came to Slieve Eibhline, and there another queen of the Tuatha de Danaan met them, and her women and her Druids after her, and they asked her name, and she said it was <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Fodhla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fodhla</a>, wife of Mac Cecht, Son of the Plough. They went on then till they came to the hill of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Uisnech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Uisnech</a>, and there they saw another woman coming towards them. And there was wonder on them while they were looking at her, for in the one moment she would be a wide-eyed most beautiful queen, and in another she would be a sharp-beaked, grey-white crow. She came on to where Eremon, one of the sons of Miled, was, and sat down before him, and he asked her who was she, and she said: "I am <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Eriu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eriu</a>, wife of Mac Greine, Son of the Sun." And the names of those three queens were often given to Ireland in the after time. ` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

The Godyssey PodcastWhy do we pinch people not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day? The original superstition was that green made one invisible to leprechauns and thus they could not pinch you. So don't do the leprechaun's job for them by pinching those who don't wear green! <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>

curious ordinaryIn <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> there is a belief that bodies of water contain a nushi, or guardian spirit. There is one tale of a man named Botaro who was the son of farmers. Instead of helping on the farm, each day he chose to go fishing alone at a nearby pond which... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23SwampSunday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SwampSunday</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreSunday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a> 1/5

Bevan ThomasIn Scottish folklore, if a house goblin such as a brownie is treated with disrespect, it can transform into a "bogle." This nasty goblin will devote itself to vandalizing the house and tormenting its inhabitants with the same dedication that the brownie kept things neat and tidy.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/31DaysofHaunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#31DaysofHaunting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ScottishMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScottishMythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CelticMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CelticMythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Folklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ScottishFolklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScottishFolklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CelticFolklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CelticFolklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FairyTale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FairyTale</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ScottishFairyTale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScottishFairyTale</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CelticFairyTale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CelticFairyTale</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fairy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Faerie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Faerie</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Goblin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Goblin</a>

The Godyssey PodcastThe Vestal Virgins maintained the sacred fire of Vesta, goddess of hearth and home, for the goddess was quite at home at Rome and a sacred order of women was made to maintain the fire for official sacrifices and rituals; Christians extinguished it in 394. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>

The Godyssey PodcastLeave out milk, bread, and honey and you'll have less housework to do: the brownie is a Scottish spirit that at night will tidy up the home a bit if given offerings. If ignored or offended, they become boggarts, so be kind. <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/FolkloreSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FolkloreSunday</a>🖼: T. DiTerlizzi

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