#folklore — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #folklore, aggregated by home.social.
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The stuff you find in this free #book : "In a tale from Botswana, the children are pursued by an ogre, take refuge up a tree, and are rescued before it cuts it down by a 'great thing called Phuku-phuku,' which is not further described. What seems to be a parallel version attributes the rescue to “a great bird,” which “hovered over them and said, ‘Hold fast to me.’”
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www.ododopress.com/non-fiction/myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu/
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The stuff you find in this free #book : "In a tale from Botswana, the children are pursued by an ogre, take refuge up a tree, and are rescued before it cuts it down by a 'great thing called Phuku-phuku,' which is not further described. What seems to be a parallel version attributes the rescue to “a great bird,” which “hovered over them and said, ‘Hold fast to me.’”
Subscribe to download
www.ododopress.com/non-fiction/myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu/
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It's that haunting day of the week again tomorrow with #SpookySunday, the feed for all things ghost-related: #folklore, fact(ish), works of fiction, poetry, haunted sites, popular culture of all description. Anything #ghost! Please join in! All reposts: @[email protected]
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Strange, foreign mages travel the German mountain ranges in secret to unearth their riches.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Venice
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Strange, foreign mages travel the German mountain ranges in secret to unearth their riches.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Venice
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The dwarves of the Petersberg near Goslar have hidden many things within their hills - from treasures to giant babies to sleeping emperors!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #dwarf
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The dwarves of the Petersberg near Goslar have hidden many things within their hills - from treasures to giant babies to sleeping emperors!
#Germany #folktale #folklore #dwarf
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Some of the strangest English legends concern screaming skulls. Usually seen as belonging to former residents of a house, they emit horrifying screams if anyone tries to remove them or if anything unusual happens. One skull from Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, screamed to announce the births and illnesses of farm animals and family deaths. Some robbers once stole it, but returned it after being tortured by its incessant shrieks. When a railway was being built across the house's land, the skull would allegedly undo all progress after work finished for the day. The skull was eventually appeased by an interview with the chief engineer, who promised it free passage over the line forever. The painting below is 'Vanitas Still Life' by Pieter Claesz, 1630. #folklore #gothic #weird #skull #history #mythology #paranormal #ghosts #death #art #arthistory
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Some of the strangest English legends concern screaming skulls. Usually seen as belonging to former residents of a house, they emit horrifying screams if anyone tries to remove them or if anything unusual happens. One skull from Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, screamed to announce the births and illnesses of farm animals and family deaths. Some robbers once stole it, but returned it after being tortured by its incessant shrieks. When a railway was being built across the house's land, the skull would allegedly undo all progress after work finished for the day. The skull was eventually appeased by an interview with the chief engineer, who promised it free passage over the line forever. The painting below is 'Vanitas Still Life' by Pieter Claesz, 1630. #folklore #gothic #weird #skull #history #mythology #paranormal #ghosts #death #art #arthistory
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 55
#Wss366 return #TimeTravelAuthors 8/14 What everI’d pictured that once we entered the castle’s gate, we would cross a yard and enter the main citadel, much like a European castle. There was indeed a large courtyard, but I already saw things would be more complicated than I’d assumed. Ahead rose buildings, walls, and sprawling paths. Above us, my nosy, big-billed cousins circled, so I couldn’t even scout.
Sumika unhesitantly followed one of the broad avenues that led around a vast green. I hoped it was the right way.
As if reading my mind, Mistress said, “I visited Himeji when I was a kid. This part’s easy, but it turns into a maze later. I got lost on the #return trip; what a nightmare! Someone found me crying in a dead-end courtyard. So embarrassing.”
I managed a soft coo. “Ohooo oh.” I could picture it. Even though I hated kids, it touched my heart.
“There’s another gate ahead,” she said after walking a good way and navigating two more intersections.
We slipped through this barrier as well, then stopped.
“This is where it starts getting complicated,” Sumika said.
“Starts,” I thought. “I’m already lost.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 55
#Wss366 return #TimeTravelAuthors 8/14 What everI’d pictured that once we entered the castle’s gate, we would cross a yard and enter the main citadel, much like a European castle. There was indeed a large courtyard, but I already saw things would be more complicated than I’d assumed. Ahead rose buildings, walls, and sprawling paths. Above us, my nosy, big-billed cousins circled, so I couldn’t even scout.
Sumika unhesitantly followed one of the broad avenues that led around a vast green. I hoped it was the right way.
As if reading my mind, Mistress said, “I visited Himeji when I was a kid. This part’s easy, but it turns into a maze later. I got lost on the #return trip; what a nightmare! Someone found me crying in a dead-end courtyard. So embarrassing.”
I managed a soft coo. “Ohooo oh.” I could picture it. Even though I hated kids, it touched my heart.
“There’s another gate ahead,” she said after walking a good way and navigating two more intersections.
We slipped through this barrier as well, then stopped.
“This is where it starts getting complicated,” Sumika said.
“Starts,” I thought. “I’m already lost.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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The mysterious mages of the Steineberg Lay took care never to drink other people's milk - nor did they allow others access to their own milk.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
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The mysterious mages of the Steineberg Lay took care never to drink other people's milk - nor did they allow others access to their own milk.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
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Listening to Adam and Matt chat about Monmouth Inn in Natchez, MS on a new episode of GraveYard Tales #paranormal #folklore #podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/graveyard-tales/id1294529191?i=1000783294813
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Listening to Adam and Matt chat about Monmouth Inn in Natchez, MS on a new episode of GraveYard Tales #paranormal #folklore #podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/graveyard-tales/id1294529191?i=1000783294813
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The production of beef has a huge carbon footprint.
However, you can reduce it drastically if you eat the same cow more than once!
#Austria #folktale #folklore #cow
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The production of beef has a huge carbon footprint.
However, you can reduce it drastically if you eat the same cow more than once!
#Austria #folktale #folklore #cow
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If someone has messed with the supplies in your attic, it might be a wild animal.
Then again, it might be a dragon!
#France #folktale #folklore #dragon
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If someone has messed with the supplies in your attic, it might be a wild animal.
Then again, it might be a dragon!
#France #folktale #folklore #dragon
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Akusmi - Anima
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#MusiQuinta piano y voz: ¿cómo no va a estar el Cuchi Leguizamón? Cantando la zamba "Maturana".
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The Venetians of old could use dream-travel to move back and forth to their homeland - a magical realm of crystal houses and talking animals.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Venice
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The Venetians of old could use dream-travel to move back and forth to their homeland - a magical realm of crystal houses and talking animals.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #Venice
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That August night
the Perseid shower rained
on moor and lily-loch, on a frightened world –
on us, in a roofless shielingwith all our tat…
—Kathleen Jamie, “One of Us”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Perseids #astronomy #folklore
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That August night
the Perseid shower rained
on moor and lily-loch, on a frightened world –
on us, in a roofless shielingwith all our tat…
—Kathleen Jamie, “One of Us”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Perseids #astronomy #folklore
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A count of Oldenburg once stole a marvelous drinking horn from a queen of the dwarves.
When his line died out, it was taken by the Danish crown in turn.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #dwarf
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A count of Oldenburg once stole a marvelous drinking horn from a queen of the dwarves.
When his line died out, it was taken by the Danish crown in turn.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #dwarf
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The unsettling part isn't the granite skin or the mica eyes. It's that it already knows why you're there before you've said it out loud. Travelers passing through get a warning. People actively harming the mountain get something closer to a verdict — and only one chance to walk it back. Do you take that chance for the better option, or do you risk it?
#TTRPG #TTRPGCommunity #IndieGameDev #WorldBuilding #CreatureDesign #Folklore
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The unsettling part isn't the granite skin or the mica eyes. It's that it already knows why you're there before you've said it out loud. Travelers passing through get a warning. People actively harming the mountain get something closer to a verdict — and only one chance to walk it back. Do you take that chance for the better option, or do you risk it?
#TTRPG #TTRPGCommunity #IndieGameDev #WorldBuilding #CreatureDesign #Folklore
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Mouse-pulled wagons have never really caught on as public transportation.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #mouse
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Mouse-pulled wagons have never really caught on as public transportation.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #mouse
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Rahu, an Indian demon, illicitly swallowed the nectar of immortality. The moon and sun saw him and told the gods so Vishnu decapitated Rahu with his discus. The severed head ascended to the heavens, where it chases these celestial orbs in anger, sometimes catching and eating them, thereby causing eclipses. However, as the head has no body attached to swallow the luminaries, the sun and moon soon reappear. Rahu is also sometimes considered an invisible planet. This planet has a maleficent influence, being associated with deceit, corruption, hedonism, swindlers, jokers and criminals. #wyrdwednesday #folklore #mythology #history #eclipse #religion
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Rahu, an Indian demon, illicitly swallowed the nectar of immortality. The moon and sun saw him and told the gods so Vishnu decapitated Rahu with his discus. The severed head ascended to the heavens, where it chases these celestial orbs in anger, sometimes catching and eating them, thereby causing eclipses. However, as the head has no body attached to swallow the luminaries, the sun and moon soon reappear. Rahu is also sometimes considered an invisible planet. This planet has a maleficent influence, being associated with deceit, corruption, hedonism, swindlers, jokers and criminals. #wyrdwednesday #folklore #mythology #history #eclipse #religion
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There are ways of becoming an infallible marksman.
All it requires is a little sacrilege.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Freisch%C3%BCtz_(Gl%C3%BCcksburg) -
There are ways of becoming an infallible marksman.
All it requires is a little sacrilege.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #magic
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Freisch%C3%BCtz_(Gl%C3%BCcksburg) -
Il mistero della Monchella del Teatro Massimo di Palermo
I palermitani la chiamano "a Munachiedda" (la Monachella), la piccola suora il cui spirito, secondo la leggenda, infesta i corridoi del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, da quando la sua tomba fu profanata durante la demolizione dell'antico convento su cui oggi sorge il maestoso edificio.
E se per costruire il Teatro ci vollero 23 anni e per altri 23 rimase chiuso e abbandonato... beh, per i palermitani non è certo un caso.
https://web.palermo.nohost.me/write/leggi.php?page=il-mistero-della-monchella-del-teatro-massimo-di-palermo-c6dc6e
#palermo #panormus #sicilia #sicily #italy #europe #world #picoftheday #picture #image #immagine #photo #photography #fotografia #storia #story #cultura #culture #arte #art #aspassoneltempo #aspassonellastoria #memorie #tradizioni #leggende #credenze #popolari #teatro #folklore #misteri #esoteria #fantasmi #fediphoto #fediverso