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@FolkloreThurs#FolkloreThursday is place to share folklore related blog posts and facts every Thursday! Managed by@WillowWinsham and@DeeDeeChainey. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/how-the-folklorethursday-hashtag-on-twitter-has-become-a-global-event-a6919731.html …United Kingdom • folklorethursday.com
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Gem Folklore - Sailors believed that burning AMBER would keep them safe from sea monsters
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*All* my medieval dragon tiles. Identification legend in link: http://williammorristile.com/medieval/bestiary_dragons.html …
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Gorgeous article on the folklore of hares and rabbits - by
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#FolkloreThursday Off-duty fairies having a smoke in Cottingley, Yorkshire. pic.twitter.com/sSuupB42KF -
The Alp, an incubus-like sleep-demon of Teutonic myth, for
#FolkloreThursday - http://www.vampires.com/the-nightmarish-alp/ …#horrorpic.twitter.com/7r2DfOms9J -
Folklore is often change through tradition. From mediaeval to modern, it's same evolving beast.
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Victorian practice, shells on graves denotes pilgrimage and crossing the river to afterlife.
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In the Nibelungenlied, drinking the blood of the dragon made Siegfried invulnerable!
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Chinese tomb guardians protect the deceased's soul from demons (and ward off a few tomb raiders?)
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If you go to the crossroads, which 3 powerful people might you meet?
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Dancers dressed as the demon queen Rangda from Barong play in Bali
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Merrivale stone row, was used as a market place in times of plague
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Tomorrow is
#BurrymansDay - here's an article on it by@aliasmacalias! https://shar.es/1Z9XJc#FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/k4g00PnHgG -
Happy
#FolkloreThursday, Twitter! [Witches Club, Presbyterian College for Women, 1910, via@ncdhc]pic.twitter.com/0LSh6Zy9DT -
It’s
#FolkloreThursday today! Visit our exhib on Cornish traditions & customs in Penzance: https://cornishculture.co.uk/news/pop-up-exhibition-on-cornish-traditions-in-penzance/ …pic.twitter.com/DwgS3V7XIf -
Wulver- a benign werewolf of the Shetland isles, leaves fish m on the windowsills of the poor.
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A violin-playing skeleton on a hangman’s noose: the stuff
#FolkloreThursday’s are made of. http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/thackerayana-1875/ …pic.twitter.com/t0vtdysNbq -
ENGLISH ORATURE, ENGLISH LITERATURE: THE CASE OF CHARMS https://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol24/engcharm.pdf …
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"Wake up mother," Mittens crooned menacingly. "It's
#FolkloreThursday and we have business to attend to." pic.twitter.com/1dIsQy0Vjg
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