#FolkloreThursday

Gem Folklore - Sailors believed that burning AMBER would keep them safe from sea monsters #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/4YSYY4S1AR

*All* my medieval dragon tiles. Identification legend in link: http://williammorristile.com/medieval/bestiary_dragons.html … #dragons #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/maZTRH7tq6

Gorgeous article on the folklore of hares and rabbits - by @terriwindling http://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2014/12/the-folklore-of-rabbits-hares.html … #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/db8p1ZSOFz

#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. #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/M2lREvwvJN

Victorian practice, shells on graves denotes pilgrimage and crossing the river to afterlife. #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/w2RGc4QRNl

In the Nibelungenlied, drinking the blood of the dragon made Siegfried invulnerable! #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/gD9SQjE0oQ

Chinese tomb guardians protect the deceased's soul from demons (and ward off a few tomb raiders?)#FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/upUjkm1R3c

If you go to the crossroads, which 3 powerful people might you meet? #FolkloreThursday http://wp.me/p4pQTq-Ly pic.twitter.com/8amKzo8oJj

Dancers dressed as the demon queen Rangda from Barong play in Bali #FolkloreThursday Photo by Walter Spies 1937 pic.twitter.com/rOUFYzN0yp

Merrivale stone row, was used as a market place in times of plague #FolkloreThursday #Dartmoorpic.twitter.com/0EESRPhTXL

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. #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/26F67isPLh

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 … #FolkloreThursday great read :) pic.twitter.com/pbIqv4P8Uv

"Wake up mother," Mittens crooned menacingly. "It's #FolkloreThursday and we have business to attend to." pic.twitter.com/1dIsQy0Vjg