#americanfolklore — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #americanfolklore, aggregated by home.social.
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Illustration by Margaret Tryon for Henry H. Tryon's "Fearsome Critters." #GothicSpring #AncientSky #Folklore #FolkloreSky #AmericanFolklore #Mythology #MythologySky #AmericanMythology #America #UnitedStates #TallTale #FearsomeCritter #Cryptid #CryptidSky #Monster #MonsterSky #Dog
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"Big Bad John" is a country song written and originally performed by #JimmyDean. It was released in September 1961 and by the beginning of November it had gone to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It won Dean the 1962 #GrammyAwardForBestCountryAndWesternRecording, and was nominated for the #GrammyAwardForSongOfTheYear. The song and its sequels tell a story typical of #AmericanFolklore, reminiscent of #PaulBunyan or #JohnHenry.
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"Big Bad John" is a country song written and originally performed by #JimmyDean. It was released in September 1961 and by the beginning of November it had gone to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It won Dean the 1962 #GrammyAwardForBestCountryAndWesternRecording, and was nominated for the #GrammyAwardForSongOfTheYear. The song and its sequels tell a story typical of #AmericanFolklore, reminiscent of #PaulBunyan or #JohnHenry.
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Tommyknockers, the American counterpart to the Cornish Knocker, are beings of gnome-like appearance that dwell deep within the mines of Pennsylvania and the Western United States. Some miners believed them to be the ghosts of fellow miners that died on the job. #FolkloreThursday
📷: Dane Deaner
#Folklore #Tommyknockers #Ghosts #Gnomes Miners #AmericanFolklore
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Upon learning that she was pregnant with her 13th child, Mother Leeds cursed the unborn baby out of frustration, inadvertently transforming it into a monster with the head of a goat and bat-like wings. The Jersey Devil, as the creature came to be known, still haunts the New Jersey Pine Barrens to this day. #FolkyFriday
#Folklore #Folktale #TheJerseyDevil #JerseyDevil #Devil #Monster #Cryptid #AmericanFolklore #NewJersey