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  1. Somewhere beneath Cardigan Bay, the bells are still ringing. Cantre'r Gwaelod, the drowned kingdom of Welsh legend, was a fertile land protected from the sea by great sluice gates. One night, the gates were left open, and the sea swallowed everything whole. On quiet evenings, so the story goes, you can still hear the bells of its sunken churches calling out beneath the waves. Some losses echo for a very long time. 🔔

    #FolkloreFriday #TalesFromWales #WelshFolklore
    Image © Roy Carpenter

  2. Somewhere beneath Cardigan Bay, the bells are still ringing. Cantre'r Gwaelod, the drowned kingdom of Welsh legend, was a fertile land protected from the sea by great sluice gates. One night, the gates were left open, and the sea swallowed everything whole. On quiet evenings, so the story goes, you can still hear the bells of its sunken churches calling out beneath the waves. Some losses echo for a very long time. 🔔

    #FolkloreFriday #TalesFromWales #WelshFolklore
    Image © Roy Carpenter

  3. The Gwragedd Annwn are Welsh lake maidens. Women of the Otherworld. Beautiful, gentle, dangerous to lose.

    They rise from hidden lakes. Marry mortal men. Teach healing secrets. Then vanish if sacred promises are broken.

    Perhaps they became the first Lady of the Lake. 🌿✨

    #FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore #WelshMythology

  4. The Gwragedd Annwn are Welsh lake maidens. Women of the Otherworld. Beautiful, gentle, dangerous to lose.

    They rise from hidden lakes. Marry mortal men. Teach healing secrets. Then vanish if sacred promises are broken.

    Perhaps they became the first Lady of the Lake. 🌿✨

    #FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore #WelshMythology

  5. Many are the tales and characteristics of Brigid, called Brigantia across the Celtic world but in the Irish form grew beyond Ireland to become something more. As St. Brigid she is worshiped by Catholics worldwide; as Maman Brigitte, she is the Voudon loa of death. #FolkloreFriday

    Artists:
    1.) Molly Brewer, showing the many-faced Irish goddess
    2.) Unknown artist, traditional Catholic iconography
    3.) Gracjana Zielinska, showing Maman Brigitte and her cock and rum

    More details on each form in the alt description!

  6. Black cats with white spots on their chest are known to the Scottish as Fairy Cats, cat-sith, huge as a dog with an attitude to match. Prone to stealing souls, on Samhain if given a saucer of milk they offer blessings, and a curse without. #FolkloreFriday

  7. Le deuxième lutin débarque ce matin. Giljagaur, dit Ravineur (ou Grand dadais du caniveau), se cache dans les ravins et guette le bon moment pour entrer dans les étables et voler la crème de lait. Il repartira rejoindre son frangin le 26 décembre.

    #iceland #christmas #folkloreFriday #Giljagaur

  8. Zapomniałem napomknąć, że aktualnie książką nie zajmuję się ja, ale mój tata, który przyjął na siebie zadanie złożenia jej. Nie mogę się doczekać efektów.

    #folkloreFriday #frogprincess #baśń #ilustracja #ilustracjeDlaDzieci #KsiążkaDlaDzieci

  9. Here's a fun Hungarian folktale about the origin of #mushrooms:

    When Jesus and St. Peter walked the earth Jesus sent Peter to a house to ask for some flat bread. Peter took an extra piece and hid it in his pocket. As they walked on he kept nibbling in secret, walking behind Jesus.
    However, every time he took a bite, Jesus asked a question, and Peter had to spit out the bread to answer.
    From the spat-out bites the first mushrooms sprouted along the road 🍄

    #FolkloreFriday #FungiFriday #folklore

  10. So, by no power invested in me whatsoever, I declare this week's #FolkloreFriday theme to be mushrooms, in honor of #FungiFriday

    #folklore #mushrooms #sporespondence

    🍄 🍄 🍄

  11. #FolktaleMoment
    One of my favorite beer #Folktales from Estonia:

    Sparrow wants to make beer, roasts 1 grain of barley and drops it into a pond. He offers animals a drink from his beer pond.

    The mouse and the dog pretend it's beer because they don't want to disappoint the sparrow.
    The cat pretends it's beer hoping to eat the sparrow. The horse tells the sparrow the truth, but still drinks.

    The sparrow decides to use two grains next year. 🍺

    #InternationalBeerDay #Folklore #FolkloreFriday

  12. I have no official capacity to do this, but I'm declaring this week's #FolkloreFriday theme DRINKS, because it's also #InternationalBeerDay. 🤷‍♀️🍻🍾🍹🧋☕️🥛🫖🫗🧃

  13. Do we have actual #FolkloreFriday on here (like, with themes and everything) or is it just the hashtag?...

    #folklore

  14. What I am learning is that the most off-the-wall music suggestions bring me the best ideas 😄 Keep them coming!

    #music #FolkloreFriday #Folktales #storytelling

  15. #OldEnglish #WordOfTheDay

    áttorsceaða [ ᚪᛏᛏᚩᚱᛋᚳᛖᚪᚪ ]: venom-enemy / A poisonous destroyer; a venomous dragon

    áttor (áttres/áttru): poison / venom

    sceaða: scathe / harm / cause injury /a spiritual enemy / a fiend

    Pronunciation: files-thefolklore-cafe.ams3.di

    The great áttorsceaða -- a deadly and venom-destroyer/enemy. A monster, like a dragon, who spreads poison where-ever it goes. This creation is a great wyrm (worm) or serpent. Deadly and fearsome; it lives in those dark and lonely places, marshes and swamps and destroys all living things.

    #histodons #medieval #EarlyMedieval #medievodons #folklore #FolkloreFriday #Storytelling #dragon #monster #NationalStorytellingWeek

    @folklore
    @histodons
    @languagelovers
    @medievodons
    @anglosaxon
    @oldenglish

  16. A tidbit I just came across, for #FolkloreFriday

    In parts of Transylvania it used to be a habit to chew pine resin (as if it was chewing gum). People did it for fun, or to clean their teeth, or to gather saliva for spinning thread.

    Apparently, young men gifted pre-chewed resin to the girls they fancied. If the girl accepted the gift, it meant she liked the guy.

    In case you needed gift ideas for #ValentinesDay... 😄

    #folklore #Transylvania

  17. Hugh Lupton is an amazing storyteller with a vast repertoire. He is trying to publish a book of fifty of his best folktales, old traditional stories he has retold.

    If you are interested in folklore and storytelling, you can fund/preorder here:
    unbound.com/books/fifty-tales-

    #bookstodon #folklore #folktales #FolkloreFriday #storytelling

  18. What folklore-related hashtags do we have around here? Trying to make a weekly list.
    #MythologyMonday
    #FolkloreFriday ?

    Anything else?
    #folklore

  19. The last of my four postcards from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this last describing the 'Spriggins' or, more commonly, 'Spriggans' and showing one here cavorting naked beside Trethevy Quoit on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. #ATCooper #TrethevyQuoit #BodminMoor #Dolmens #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday

  20. Printed monochrome postcard with an illustration by Stan T. Chaplin showing ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggetty beasties and featuring the words to the old Cornish Litany rhyme regarding the same. Publisher not stated, but is by Harvey Barton & Son, Bristol, No 6, c.1920s. #FolkloreFriday #ACornishLitany #Cornwall #NurseryRhymes #Postcards #StanTChaplin

  21. Another postcard from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this time relating the tale of St Neot and the doe, who encountered the saint whilst being pursued by a hunter on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. #ATCooper #StNeot #BodminMoor #CornishSaints #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday

  22. Another postcard from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this time relating the tale of St Neot and the doe, who encountered the saint whilst being pursued by a hunter on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. #ATCooper #StNeot #BodminMoor #CornishSaints #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday

  23. Another postcard from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this time relating the tale of St Neot and the doe, who encountered the saint whilst being pursued by a hunter on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. #ATCooper #StNeot #BodminMoor #CornishSaints #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday

  24. Another postcard from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this time relating the tale of St Neot and the doe, who encountered the saint whilst being pursued by a hunter on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. #ATCooper #StNeot #BodminMoor #CornishSaints #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday

  25. A further postcard from 1972 by A.T. Cooper, this time relating the tale of Roker Peendy and his attempt to steal the gold coins of the piskies in Cornwall. #ATCooper #Looe #Piskies #Cornwall #Postcards #FolkloreFriday