#faustianfriday — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

#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)

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

#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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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There are many reason why people are taken to the Otherworld by the Fair Folk: they say trolls and fairies cannot have their own children and need human children, or they take those who are beautiful or interesting. Sometimes you can get them back; sometimes not. #FaustianFriday

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