folklore

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Wistman's Woods, on Dartmoor, Devon, are allegedly haunted by hellhounds. 'Wistman' is a dialect word for the Devil, with 'wist' meaning 'eerie' or 'uncanny'. The woods and their legends are said to have inspired the Sherlock Holmes mystery 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. The woods are one of Britain's few surviving patches of ancient temperate rainforest. #FairytaleTuesday #folklore #gothic #literature #weird #ghosts #paranormal #books #history #mythology

A photo of Wistman's Woods in winter, showing moss-covered rocks and twisting moss-covered tree branches.

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“More decidedly evil is the nosferatu, or vampire, in which every Roumanian peasant believes as firmly as he does in heaven or hell…”

—from THE LAND BEYOND THE FOREST: Facts, Figures, & Fancies from Transylvania, by the 19th-century Scottish author & anthropologist Emily Gerard (1849–1905) – born #OTD, 7 May

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https://crimereads.com/the-scottish-anthropologist-who-inspired-dracula/

#Scottish #literature #Dracula #vampire #Transylvania #folklore #anthropology #19thcentury #Victorian #womenwriters

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Greetings, Myth Lovers! Join us on Monday for the theme: STRENGTH. Which myths feature a strong person or a particular feat of strength? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts.

🎨 Hercules Farnese

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton

Marble sculpture commonly known as "Farnese Hercules", depicting the hero as a mature, bearded man with prominent muscles. He leans on his club over which the skin of the Nemean Lion has been draped. One hand is behind his back, holding the Apples of the Hesperides.

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A shepherd in Kintail, living alone in a bothy, far from other houses, after kindling in the evening a bright cheerful fire, threw himself on a heather bed on the opposite side of the house. About twenty cats entered and sat round the fire, holding up their paws and warming themselves…

—John Gregorson Campbell, 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵 & 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 & 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (1902) – online via @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58894

#Scottish #literature #cats #InternationalCatDay #folklore

A shepherd in Kintail, living alone in a bothy, far from other houses, after kindling in the evening a bright cheerful fire, threw himself on a heather bed on the opposite side of the house. About twenty cats entered and sat round the fire, holding up their paws and warming themselves. One went to the window, put a black cap on its head, cried “Hurrah for London!” and vanished. The other cats, one by one, did the same. The cap of the last fell off, and the shepherd caught it, put it on his own head, cried “Hurrah for London!” and followed. He reached London in a twinkling, and with his companions went to drink wine in a cellar. He got drunk and fell asleep. In the morning he was caught, taken before a judge, and sentenced to be hanged. At the gallows he entreated to be allowed to wear the cap he had on in the cellar; it was a present from his mother, and he would like to die with it on. When it came the rope was round his neck. He clapped the cap on his head, and cried “Hurrah for Kintail!” He disappeared with the gallows about his neck, and his friends in Kintail, having by this time missed him, and being assembled in the bothy prior to searching the hills, were much surprised at his strange appearance.

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The Scottish anthropologist who inspired Dracula

“More decidedly evil is the nosferatu, or vampire, in which every Roumanian peasant believes as firmly as he does in heaven or hell…”

—from Emily Gerard’s THE LAND BEYOND THE FOREST: Facts, Figures, & Fancies from Transylvania (1888). Her work was a key part of Bram Stoker’s research materials for Dracula.

Today, 26 May, is Dracula Day 🧛‍♂️

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https://crimereads.com/the-scottish-anthropologist-who-inspired-dracula/

#Scottish #literature #Romania #vampire #folklore #anthropology #DraculaDay

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Greetings, Myth Lovers! Join us today for the theme: ARMOUR. Which myths feature a person wearing armour? Which stories feature a piece of armour, such as cuirass, helmet or shield? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts.

🎨 Krisna Teja

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton

Drawing of a valkyrie in full armour with a red round shield and winged helmet. Her wings are rainbow-coloured.

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And another talk!

Free public post: What's the Deal with Narrative Genre? A Folklorist's Guide to Stories (Part 2). https://www.patreon.com/posts/whats-deal-with-160301254

You've heard us called "Homo sapiens," the wise hominid. Well we're not always wise, but we are always telling stories. In this talk I explore the types of stories we humans use to make sense of the past (history, myth and legend) and how they can each tell us the truth.

It's the second installment of three community talks that I gave in the spring of 2024, diving into how folklore theory can enrich the way we read and make meaning of stories.

#academicChatter #anthropology #folklore #folkloreThursday #folkloreSunday #histodons

White words on a purple background: "Myth is not a synonym for untrue."

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📖 Nouvel article sur le blog !

Suite à une rencontre crépusculaire, il y a de cela quelques jours, avec plusieurs Lucanes Cerf-volants mâles, j'ai voulu en savoir plus.

J'ai fait quelques recherches, découvert le site Gallica de la BNF (que de ressources), et, fort de ces informations/inspirations, j'ai eu envie de créer une histoire...

➡️ Article à lire ici : https://www.thomas-dupont.net/blog/habiter/le-lucane-cerf-volant.html

#blog #nature #insecte #légende #folklore #histoire

Dessin d'un Lucane Carf-volant mâle.

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Rated Bilal: A New Breed of Hero 4/10

This was really disappointing. There are definitely moments of brilliant direction, stunning character design, and impressive uses of the score and soundtrack, but the script needed a lot more polish. For the entire film there wasn't a single character that I felt I could latch on to and it made this viewing a slog. (I actually fell asleep during the first 40 minutes on my first viewing.) This movie is easily half an hour longer than it needs to be and I still don't have a clear understanding of why--not everything that was included needed to be and the film's plot turns feel as though they are pilfering pretty unabashedly from THE PRINCE OF EGYPT. I really like films in this genre, especially when animated, so this, while not awful, was definitely a letdown.

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I present to you the Bronze Age standing stone, known as Queen's Stone.

Excavated in 1926 by Alfred Watkins (of Ley Lines fame), twice as much lies buried beneath the ground.

It sits alone in a huge bend of the River Wye, near Symonds Yat.

And the strangest thing about it? There appears to be no surviving folklore about this remarkable stone 🤷🏼‍♀️

#standingstones #folklore #ukcountryside #bronzeage #todaysadventure #history #landscapephotography #dogsofmastodon

A small cream-coloured dog rests beside the weathered Queen's Stone, its tall sandstone pillars rising against a blue summer sky. Fields stretch away behind, with an irrigation sprinkler misting crops beneath drifting white clouds.

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Greetings, Myth Lovers! Join us today for the theme: BATHS. Which myths feature a person washing or bathing or being inside a bath or bathroom? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts.

🎨 Turkish Bath of Goreme

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton

Turkish bath, all stone, with two washing basins and a table on which there is a jug to pour water from and a few folded towels on a polished stone table.

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Mollie Hunter (1922–2012) was born #OTD, 30 June. Although she produced work for all ages she is best remembered as a writer of fantasy & historical fiction for children & YAs. She received numerous awards including the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year Award, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award & the Carnegie Medal.

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https://discoverkelpies.co.uk/kelpies-author/mollie-hunter/

#Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore

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Greetings, Myth Lovers! Climate change is not myth but join us on Monday for the theme: HEAT. Which myths feature heat, hot creatures, places or things? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts 🥵

🎨 https://www.deviantart.com/nightblue-art/art/Muspelheim-Scenic-Spot-207537694

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton @riffraff @lankohr

Concept art of the fire realm Muspeheim from Norse mythology for the video game Thor: God of Thunder (Marvel) by Nightblue-art. It shows a mountain with liquid fire or lava flowing out of what seems like a building structure.

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#ScribesandMakers #Introduction

I am a web novelist of #Mythpunk, #UrbanFantasy, #HistoricFantasy, #TimeTravel, #Fantasy, and #Sapphic Fiction—fueled by #Folklore & #UrbanLegend. Currently on my 4th light novel series: Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost.

Bijou the Time-Traveling Ghost

For Love of a Konbini Idol

My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed (R18)

AO3 Link:

Arisu: The Girl Who Saw Ghosts

I also write Poetry: Tanka, Renga, and Rengay.
And I am an urban photographer

#NMFic #writingcommunity

Three series covers:
Left: Two women looking at a giant meteor crash
Middle: Two women fleeing a ghost
Right: Two woman kissing on a swing

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Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us Monday for the theme: FABLED PLACES. Which myths talk about a legendary land or place? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon! 🗺️

🎨 Settequattro

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton @riffraff @lankohr

A map of the island of Atlantis between Africa and Hispania on the left and America on the right.

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Greetings, myth lovers! Join us on Monday for the theme: DISABILITY. Which myths feature a character or creature who lives with a disability? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon!

🎨 Odin

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton @riffraff @lankohr

Medieval painting of one-eyed Odin with his ravens Huginn and Munin on his shoulder.

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Belle Stewart (1906–1997) – singer, storyteller, tradition-bearer – was born #OTD, 18 July, in a bow tent on the banks of the Tay at Caputh, near Blairgowrie. She ranks alongside Jeannie Robertson in the roll of the finest Scots ballad-singers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sMwlevTMU

#Scottish #literature #travellers #folklore #folksong

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Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us on Monday, July 20, for the theme: UNDER THE SEA. Which myths feature a creature who lives under the sea? Or a place? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon! 🦀

🎨 Disney

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton @riffraff @lankohr

A screenshot from Disney's 1989 animated film The Littel Mermaid. It shows the golden castle in which the titular little mermaid lives, with the silhouettes of several merfolk approaching it.

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Marjolein Robertson: Shetland Folklore
24–25 & 28–30 August, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Tickets £16

Join Marjolein Robertson for an hour of immersive tales – beautiful, sad, funny & magical – from Scotland’s most northerly isles.

https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:6705/

#Scottish #literature #folklore #folktale #Scotland #Shetland

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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 shieling

with 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

One of Us
by Kathleen Jamie

We are come in a stone boat,
a miracle ship that steers itself
round skerries where guillemots
and shags stand still as graves.
Our sealskin cloaks are clasped
by a fist-sized penannular brooch,
our slippers are feathery
gugas’ necks: so delicate
we carried them over the wracky shore,
past several rusted tractors. Truth:
this was a poor place, a
ragged land all worn to holes. No one,
nothing, but a distant
Telecom van, a bungalow
tied with fishing floats
for want of flowers.
That August night
the Perseid shower rained
on moor and lily-loch, on a frightened world –
on us, in a roofless shieling

with all our tat: the
golden horn of righteousness,
the justice harp; what folks expect.
We took swans’ shape
to cross the Minch, one last fling
with silly magic – at our first
mainland steps a dormobile
slewed into a passing place; cameras flashed.
So we stayed high, surprised
a forester making aeolian flutes
from plastic tubes,
he shared his pay. ‘Avoid
the A9. For God’s sake,
get some proper clothes.” We ditched
the cloaks, bought yellow
Pringle sweaters in Spean Bridge,
and house by safe house
arrived in Edinburgh. So far so
tedious: we all hold
minor government jobs, lay plans, and bide our time.

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Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for the theme: FORTUNE-TELLING! Which myths feature a person who tells fortune? What fortune-telling devices are used in various myths? Tell us your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon!

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton @riffraff @lankohr

A man in Rhumsiki, Cameroon, attempts to tell the future by interpreting the changes in position of various objects as caused by a freshwater crab through the practice of nggàm, a type of divination.

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Cover reveal! So finally getting ready to finally share this book with you in a day or two, and in this blog I give hints on what inspired the cover artwork. (I don't know if it is an improvement from the previous version, but hope you enjoy it!)

https://www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-reveal-myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu-and-other-african-people/

PS. I'll release the book for free to subscribers of our newsletter by 1st August, so be sure to sign up!

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #book #books #bookstodon #mythology #folklore

The front cover of a book, Myths and Legends of the Bantu and Other Africans, Revised and Edited by Dilman Dila, written by Alice Werner. It has earth brown tones, and the main image on the front cover has two creatures that are colorful like moths, with blueish tones, and they are half-people, with only one arm, one leg, and one eye.

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Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for the theme: GHOSTS and SPIRITS of the Dead! Which myths feature ghosts? How are spirits of the dead used in the story? Tell us your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon! 👻

📷️ Thalia Ruiz

#folklore #mythology

@TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @AnnaJunePage @JessMahler @FolkloreFun @PatFurstenberg @david_castleton @riffraff @lankohr

Photograph of two bedsheet ghosts sitting on a fence. Trees and a river are in the background.

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My new book 'Atlas Gothica: An Alternative Guide to the World's Most Curious Destinations' (Headline/Hachette) is now on pre-order! The book takes in 50 Gothic destinations around the world, including vampire-plagued Victorian graveyards, haunted English libraries, witch-haunted caves, mummy-stuffed catacombs, Dracula's Whitby and much more. You can discover the very raven the inspired Edgar Allan Poe, a Chinese city based on a blueprint of hell, the tombs of Voodoo queens, and the lair of the legendary Mothman. Grab it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Atlas-Gothica-Alternative-Curious-Destinations/dp/1035434385/ #gothic #folklore #history #mythology #weird #paranormal #literature #travel #books #graveyard #death #ghost #vampire #vampires

The front cover, back cover and spine of the book 'Atlas Gothica: An Alternative Guide to the World's Most Curious Destinations' by David Castleton. The book has the title and blurb in silver lettering on a mainly black background, with silver highlights in an abstract map-like design.

The blurb reads: "Step off the tourist trail to discover 50 darkly captivating locations - from the eerie Lockrum Island monastery to the legendary lair of the Mothman, and from China's mysterious ghost city of Fengdu to the windswept moors that inspired 'Wuthering Heights'. With rich storytelling and atmospheric photography revealing the myths, legends and histories behind each destination, this is the ultimate gothic travel guide for anyone drawn to the dark side."

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#Selfpublishing #folklore
@bookstodon

The next edition is complete and goes to BoD for a test book.

Paperback, 322 pages, 284 illustrations of which 239 are in color.

Cover front of the Book "Maypole Traditions and Related Phenomena, A Brief World Trip" by Gunivortus Goos

Depicting a Maypole in a winter landscape in the mountains.

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