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MOTHER SHIPTON
..the royal forest of Knaresborough, where the prophetess was born, next to the petrifying well, a unique geological phenomenon, as it's waters appear to turn objects to stone..
Tårntjernet is a tarn in Jomfruland in Southern Norway, where Theodor Kittelsen painted his iconic image of Nøkken, a water creature in Norwegian folklore. Kittelsen wrote that he had an eerie encounter with Nøkken by this tarn.
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Local tradition has it that this structure is Will Scarlet’s grave in Blidworth, Nottinghamshire. #RobinHood #FolkloreSunday
Back to my hometown of Ayr for #FolkloreSunday
A 'Black Shuck' haunts woodland on the outskirts of Ayr. These large, black dogs from folklore generally have malevolent natures. This shuck however, was attempting to save a child from a wolf
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St Catherine’s Island, the crag of rock at the eastern end of South Beach, Tenby. The story of the mysterious ship and its strange passenger.
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Tradition has it that Little John “the friend & lieutenant of Robin Hood” is buried in the churchyard of St. Michael’s in Hathersage, Derbyshire. The character’s association with Hathersage has been worked into the modern #RobinHood legend. #Derbyshire #FolkloreSunday #LittleJohn
St Ives, Cornwall is named after 5-6th C Irish princess, Ia! 'This princess didn’t want to sit in a castle all day, sewing, painting, or doing whatever else princesses did...!' A miracle happened & she floated across the seas to Cornwall on an expanded leaf! #FolkloreSunday 🍃🌊
A lot of villages claim a connection with #RobinHood . Among them is Edwinstowe, near the Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre. It’s said Robin Hood and Maid Marian married in the local church. Statues of the legendary couple are outside the library. #FolkloreSunday
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One of the most haunted sites in Norwich, the cellar of Lollards Pit Pub was where people were placed before being burned at the stake - including Cicely Armes, condemned for refusing to attend church & to keep her beliefs to herself ...
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The 1988 British horror based on the 1911 Bram Stoker novel of the same name and drawing upon the Lambton Worm folk tale
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The Lair of the White Worm, 1988
dir. Ken Russell
There are some things that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
~Alice Hoffman #folkloresunday
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Another Bavarian folktale:
There used to be a small cottage outside a village in the mountains. Things were often not quite right there. Once, on Walpurgis Night, a young lad passed by it.
As part of ancient celebrations of the Babylonian New Year, the king would kneel to the statue of Marduk at the city's main temple. The king allowed the priest to remove his royal regalia & slap him across the face in a show of humility before their patron god. #FolkloreSunday
The Ishtar Gate—the eighth gate into the city of Babylon—was constructed circa 575 BCE by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II. Its design features the god Marduk & his dragon Mušḫuššu, along with the god Adad & his sacred animal, the aurochs. #FolkloreSunday
The world's first museum was founded circa 530 BCE by a woman: Ennigaldi-Nanna, princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire & high priestess of the Mesopotamian city-state of Ur. The artifacts she displayed were excavated by herself & her father, King Nabonidus. #FolkloreSunday
