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  1. In the deep woods, it’s no toy. The "dumb-bull" or bullroarer whirs with a low, heavy vibration that makes blood run cold. Old folks call it "the Old Boy’s holler" - a frequency used to call the Devil’s own hounds. Spin the wood until it screams, and listen for the reply. #FaustianFriday #Folklore

  2. "When a west country witch wishes to draw to her spirit forces... she makes use of a wind roarer... Little wonder that the spirits come flocking in to see what all the ghastly moaning is about." (ALT: Cecil Williamson) (1 of 2) #FaustianFriday #Pellor #FolkWitch #WitchSky youtu.be/5PgGDMmBtDg?...

    Loud Bullroarer Demonstration

  3. During sun-showers in the South, you will hear someone say, "The Devil is beating his wife!" Some say he is angry with God for creating beautiful sunny days, & takes his anger out on her. In turn, she cries large tears / raindrops. #FaustianFriday #SouthernFolklore #WitchSky #FolkWitch

  4. During sun-showers in the South, you will hear someone say, "The Devil is beating his wife!" Some say he is angry with God for creating beautiful sunny days, & takes his anger out on her. In turn, she cries large tears / raindrops. #FaustianFriday #SouthernFolklore #WitchSky #FolkWitch

  5. During sun-showers in the South, you will hear someone say, "The Devil is beating his wife!" Some say he is angry with God for creating beautiful sunny days, & takes his anger out on her. In turn, she cries large tears / raindrops. #FaustianFriday #SouthernFolklore #WitchSky #FolkWitch

  6. #Celtic #FaustianFriday: „Whilst in wolf form the Ossorian’s would live together as wolves, they would hunt and live of the land attacking sheep and cattle for food as a real wolf would. But if they sustained an injury during their time as a wolf this was said to carry with them back into their human form. And if they were to die as a wolf, then that was the end of them.
    Source: The Werewolves of Ossory | Ed Mooney Photography (wordpress.com)

  7. According to Greek folklore, a person that committed the sacrilegious act of eating a sheep that had been killed or wounded by either a wolf or werewolf would transform into a vampiric creature known as a vrykolakas upon their death. #FaustianFriday

    🎨: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

    #Folklore #Superstition #Vrykolakas #Wolf #Werewolf #Vampire #Greece #GreekFolklore

  8. According to Greek folklore, a person that committed the sacrilegious act of eating a sheep that had been killed or wounded by either a wolf or werewolf would transform into a vampiric creature known as a vrykolakas upon their death. #FaustianFriday

    🎨: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

    #Folklore #Superstition #Vrykolakas #Wolf #Werewolf #Vampire #Greece #GreekFolklore

  9. According to Greek folklore, a person that committed the sacrilegious act of eating a sheep that had been killed or wounded by either a wolf or werewolf would transform into a vampiric creature known as a vrykolakas upon their death. #FaustianFriday

    🎨: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

    #Folklore #Superstition #Vrykolakas #Wolf #Werewolf #Vampire #Greece #GreekFolklore

  10. According to Greek folklore, a person that committed the sacrilegious act of eating a sheep that had been killed or wounded by either a wolf or werewolf would transform into a vampiric creature known as a vrykolakas upon their death. #FaustianFriday

    🎨: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

    #Folklore #Superstition #Vrykolakas #Wolf #Werewolf #Vampire #Greece #GreekFolklore

  11. According to Greek folklore, a person that committed the sacrilegious act of eating a sheep that had been killed or wounded by either a wolf or werewolf would transform into a vampiric creature known as a vrykolakas upon their death. #FaustianFriday

    🎨: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

    #Folklore #Superstition #Vrykolakas #Wolf #Werewolf #Vampire #Greece #GreekFolklore

  12. #Celtic #FaustianFriday: „Sometimes, the influence of witchcraft helped to explain the unusual in the uncertain world around them such as a sudden blast or a whirlwind. These freak wind occurrences also played a part in forecasting the weather; a whirlwind was sometimes taken as an indicator of an impending rainfall that would last for three days and a whirlwind headed to the southwest or towards the sea was said to be fetching rain.  Sudden gusts of wind that carried away stalks of hay or straw were taken as a sign that the coming winter would be a harsh one; the straw being carried aloft to help God prepare for a cold winter.“
    Source: The Wind-Charmers of Brittany – Bonjour From Brittany

  13. The Irish folktale of ‘The Witches’ Excursion’ begins with a man named Shemus coming downstairs during the night to discover a half-dozen witches, including his own housekeeper, raucously drinking punch in his kitchen before flying off to England together. #FaustianFriday

    📷: Scott Warman

    #Folklore #Folktale #Witch #Witches #Ireland #IrishFolklore

  14. According to Dartmoor legend, Vixana was an evil witch that once resided inside a rock formation known as Vixen Tor. She would conjure up a thick fog to disorient those traveling through the area and lead them into the adjacent bog to drown. #FaustianFriday

    📷: Martin Bodman

    #Folklore #Folktale #Legend #Dartmoor #England #Witch #VixenTor

  15. Both benevolent and malevolent in the tellings, the Slavic leshy is the wild man of the forest, a spirit that abduct children but also protect from harm: entering a forest is a thing of intention, and that determines the forest's intention too. #FaustianFriday

    🖼️: I. Yizhakevych

  16. Made famous by Princess Mononoke, kodama are trees powerful enough to let their spirits roam outside their woody bodies, often in humanoid form. These trees are often marked with shimenawa, sacred rope indicating the elevated status of the tree spirit. #FaustianFriday

  17. Herne the Hunter is a famed British spirit, tied to Windsor Forest and made famous by Shakespeare (if not outright created by him). Supposedly a former forest keeper, he now haunts a specific oak of Windsor at wintertide and his horn marks the passing of monarchs. #FaustianFriday

  18. The Hākuturi are birdlike guardians of the forest from Māori mythology. In one story, they re-erected a sacred tree that Rātā had cut down to build a canoe because he failed to perform the appropriate rites, even going so far as to put every wood chip back into its proper place. #FaustianFriday

    📷: Daniel Hopper

    #Mythology #Folklore #Maori #MaoriMythology #NewZealand #Hakuturi #Forest

  19. A Venetian legend tells that four of the statues in Venice's Campo dei Mori were once a trio of merchant brothers & their servant. After being accused of selling poor quality goods, one of the merchants exclaimed “May the Lord turn us to stone if this is not the best cloth in Venice!” #FaustianFriday

    📷: Doris Antony
    commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

    #Folklore #Folktale #Venice #Italy #Statues #ItalianFolklore

  20. A Welsh fairy tale tells of a boy who, while skipping school, was invited by a pair of elves to come play in fairyland instead. However, after stealing one of their golden balls to give to his poor mother, the boy was exiled from fairyland forever.

    #FaustianFriday #FaerieFriday #Fairies #Elves #FairyTales #Fairyland #Folklore #Wales #WelshFolklore

    🎨: Emily Gertrude Thomson

  21. The land of Faerie can be an enchanting place, but those who wish to return home again should be sure to abstain from eating or drinking while visiting. According to folklore, anyone who consumes fairy food while within their realm becomes eternally trapped there.

    #FaustianFriday #FaerieFriday #Folklore #Fairy #Fairies

    🎨: John Anster Fitzgerald

  22. A hill in Slovenia was a favorite dancing spot for fairies until the sheep of local farmers began grazing there. To protect their hill, the enraged fairies flooded the valley that surrounded it, leaving only the top of the hill (now known as Bled Island) above water.

    #FaustianFriday #Folklore #Folktale #Fairies #Slovenia #LakeBled #BledIsland

    📷: Erin O’Brien

  23. #Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Fianna came upon the mouth of the #CavesOfKesh, before which sat three hags of evil and revolting aspect. Drewing near they found themselves suddenly entangled in strands of the yarn which the hags had spun about the place like the web of a spider, and deadly faintness and trembling came over them, so that they were easily bound fast by the hags and carried into the dark recesses of the cave.
    Source: Myths and Legends of the #Celtic Race by Thomas William Rolleston
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    RT @NeuKelte
    #Celtic #FaustianFriday: Deceived by the splendid sight of Midac`s palace that was surrounded by magical rowan trees, #FinnMacCool entered and made himself comfortable in the…
    twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/16

  24. `Connla’s well is the source of the River #Boyne, which is now known as Trinity Well. #Boann went there seeking knowledge against the will of her husband, Nechtan, who owned the well. The waters rose and carried her out to sea, where in some versions she was drowned, but in others survived although maimed.`
    `The other name for the #Boyne is Sruth Segsa, “river of Segáis,” a name given to #Bóand herself in the #Otherworld. If the well were in the possession of Bóand from the start, as this implies, rather than of her husband #Nechtan, the likelihood that her drowning was not punishment but creation is heightened.`
    Sources: Ali Isaac; P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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    RT @NeuKelte
    #Celtic #FaustianFriday: #Boann/#Bóand, the goddess of the Boyne River, brought the `bricht neime` (literally `poison spell`) to her nephew, the …
    twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/15

  25. `Connla’s well is the source of the River #Boyne, which is now known as Trinity Well. #Boann went there seeking knowledge against the will of her husband, Nechtan, who owned the well. The waters rose and carried her out to sea, where in some versions she was drowned, but in others survived although maimed.`
    `The other name for the #Boyne is Sruth Segsa, “river of Segáis,” a name given to #Bóand herself in the #Otherworld. If the well were in the possession of Bóand from the start, as this implies, rather than of her husband #Nechtan, the likelihood that her drowning was not punishment but creation is heightened.`
    Sources: Ali Isaac; P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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    RT @NeuKelte
    #Celtic #FaustianFriday: #Boann/#Bóand, the goddess of the Boyne River, brought the `bricht neime` (literally `poison spell`) to her nephew, the …
    twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/15

  26. `Connla’s well is the source of the River #Boyne, which is now known as Trinity Well. #Boann went there seeking knowledge against the will of her husband, Nechtan, who owned the well. The waters rose and carried her out to sea, where in some versions she was drowned, but in others survived although maimed.`
    `The other name for the #Boyne is Sruth Segsa, “river of Segáis,” a name given to #Bóand herself in the #Otherworld. If the well were in the possession of Bóand from the start, as this implies, rather than of her husband #Nechtan, the likelihood that her drowning was not punishment but creation is heightened.`
    Sources: Ali Isaac; P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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    RT @NeuKelte
    #Celtic #FaustianFriday: #Boann/#Bóand, the goddess of the Boyne River, brought the `bricht neime` (literally `poison spell`) to her nephew, the …
    twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/15