🍀🐎🍀An old Devonshire superstition claimed that a horse marked with four white feet was unlucky, but a single white stocking was lucky.
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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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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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The hare was held in special regard by the Celts, they never hunted them to eat them, as they believed them to be shapeshifters from the otherworld. Below, the hare immortalised in the old 3 pence Irish coin. #FolkloreSunday
Marco Polo described Khanbaliq (元大都), a city that is fascinating.
Born in Italy, he arrived in Yuan Dadu, the Yuan Dynasty's capital, in 1275. There, he befriended Kublai Khan, the first emperor, and held a court position.
In his book, he wrote:
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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
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
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
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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.
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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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Batik besurek from Bengkulu, Sumatra, has giant padma (Rafflesia arnoldii) as a common motif. Rejang people call it the devil's bowl flower, while others call it ibeun sekedei/the ghost cup, used for storing betel leaves for supernatural forest creatures. 1/2 #FolkloreSunday
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the extant oldest cemetery in New Orleans, and as such, has more ghosts than most cities as a whole. Wander those labyrinthine crypts long enough and you may glimpse the long-dead, including Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau. #FolkloreSunday
Some flower fairies of the garden for the #FlowerMoon . Here are: Candy Tuft, Heliotrope, Sweet Pea & Flox. #FolkyFriday #fullmoon #FolkloreSunday #Art : Cicely Mary Barker
In folklore pink purslane is said to ward off evil spirits and nightmares, to protect soldiers in battle and to attract love and good luck.
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Local tradition has it that this structure is Will Scarlet’s grave in Blidworth, Nottinghamshire. #RobinHood #FolkloreSunday
According to folklore, fairies are most likely to make their homes in Hawthorn trees. And those trees are in full bloom in Scotland just now. #FolkloreSunday
