🗓️ 5 septembre 2026
📍 Mons-Boubert (80)
🐸 Championnat du Monde de Crapeud din ch'treu !
A qui le tour, en 2026 d'être Champion du Monde ?
➡️ https://www.thomas-dupont.net/blog/causeries/championnat-du-monde-de-crapeud-din-ch-treu-2026.html
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Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us Monday for the theme: HATS, HELMETS, CROWNS. Which myths feature this type of headwear? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon! 👑
🎨 pickpik
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Free book! The Myths and Legends of the Bantu and Other Africans is now available for download to email subscribers, and will be free until the end of the month.
This is an entertaining book that brings you a wonderful world of legends, folklore, and amazing creatures that will fuel your imagination.
It might be of interest to #academia
Get it here
https://www.ododopress.com/non-fiction/myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu/
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Greetings, Myth Lovers! Join us Monday for the theme: PILLOWS & CUSHIONS. Which myths feature a pillow or cushions of any kind? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you Monday!
🎨 Isurumuniya Temple, Sri Lanka
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Dagon was the father of the gods in ancient Syria, as well as a god of fertility, prosperity, and kingship. Because his name sounds similar to the Hebrew word for "fish," Dagon is mistakenly called a sea god in medieval texts, and gets reinvented as a fish-like demon.
#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Syria #MiddleEast #Demonology #Demon #Dagon
Bird & Beast 2026
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival returns 21–31 Oct with 10 days of myths, folklore & stories from Scotland & beyond, exploring this year’s theme: Bird and Beast. Check out the programme online now!
Greetings, Myth Lovers! I won't be able to boost today but the theme is: GAMES. Share your myths with games, contests or tournaments and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday if you like! I'll return on September 7.
🎨 "A Game of Chess" by Lucas van Leyden
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Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for the theme: FURNITURE! Which myths feature a piece of furniture? How is it featured or used in the story? Tell us your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon! 🪑
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Scottish Peasants in the Magical Landscape
22 September, 7–8:30 p.m. BST, online. £6.00.
A Folklore Society Online talk by Professor Julian Goodare
The common folk experienced the pre-modern Scottish landscape as benevolent and dangerous, negotiating with it in rituals and traditions
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-peasants-in-the-magical-landscape-tickets-1992159418448
#Scottish #folklore #tradition #premodern #history #folkbelief
“Back home there was a heat wave. Arthur’s Seat was on fire, as were the Cairngorms … we felt untethered from time, from nature’s predictable rhythms. How one week felt like four seasons. A local artist said that the effects of climate change had been felt in the arctic for a long time, & that it seemed that us southerners were only noticing it now.”
Iona Lee considers storytelling as a means of survival in colder climates
“It all started in the playground – the word was there was a vampire and everyone was going to head out there after school”
Beginning #OTD, 23 September 1954, and for three consecutive nights, over 200 children aged from 4 to 14 – armed with knives, clubs, & even a crucifix – hunted a 7-foot-tall vampire through Glasgow’s Southern Necropolis
#Scottish #folklore #Glasgow #Gorbals #vampires #vampire #urbanmyths #20thcentury
Night Eater
by Louise Welsh
Currently on BBC Sounds: An ambitious young librarian journeys deep into the Bavarian forest in search of ancient folk tales, & encounters a mysterious “wise woman”
I just realized that I have the perfect anti-AI story:
King Cormac and the Silver Branch
It's an Irish legend about a wise king who is visited by a mysterious otherworldly stranger bearing a silver branch with golden apples. Shaking the branch produces such a wonderful music that people immediately forget their pain and sorrows and daily worries.
King Cormac covets the branch, and is willing to pay whatever price the stranger sets for it.
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Hello, Myth Lovers! I'm back, so join us tomorrow for the theme: THINGS WITH WINGS. What myths feature a person, animal, or object with wings? Tell us your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon!
🎨 Winged Scarab (The Met)
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New Talking Galloway Episode! Links follow.
Tonight we're bringing you our monthly podcast - featuring guest Kathleen Cronie - Storyteller, and features on the refurbished RNLI lifeboat station at Kirkcudbright and Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels.
This will all be available on YouTube as video and on RSS.com as audio.
#Scotland #Galloway #culture #podcast #Rural #galloway #rurallife #Glenkens #witches #scotland #ghosts #ghoststories #folklore #supernatural #rnli #squirrels #nature #lifeboats
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It's here; I did it.
A complete DRM-free ePub edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. Fully illustrated.
Exclusively available at Ko-Fi.
https://ko-fi.com/s/dc2dc44e47
#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #ePub #Folklore #Folktales #Legends #Trolls #WhiteBears #Witches #SelfPublishing #IndieAuthors #Bookstodon
This #Halloween meet new creatures from African #folklore.
In Congo they call lightning Nzazi, and it takes the form of a kind of a dog, either red or black, with shaggy hair and a curly tail. When it comes down it gives one sharp bark – ta! – and with the second bark it goes up again. No charm can protect against it and no medicine person can avert its attack.
This book, free to download, has more wonderful monsters like this!
https://www.ododopress.com/non-fiction/myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu/
#book #books #bookstodon #sff #fantasy
In Irish folklore, the Fomorians are demonic beings who come from the sea to battle the divine Tuatha Dé Danann for control of Ireland. Many Fomorians have a monstrous appearance, such as the head of a goat or only one eye, arm, and leg. However, some are beautiful.
🎨 John Duncan
#FolkloreThursday #Gothtober #31DaysofHalloween #Folklore #Mythology #Ireland #Celtic #Horror #Monster #Halloween
In the big church of Beauly, mysterious & unearthly sights & sounds were seen & heard at night, & none who went to watch the churchyard or burial-places within the church ever came back alive…
—from Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, by John Gregorson Campbell (Glasgow, 1902) – available as a free ebook via @gutenberg_org
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www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58894
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #folklore #Halloween #Highlands
![In the big church of Beauly (Eaglais mhor na manachain, i.e. of the Monastery) mysterious and unearthly[195] sights and sounds were seen and heard at night, and none who went to watch the churchyard or burial-places within the church ever came back alive. A courageous tailor made light of the matter and laid a wager that he would go any night, and sew a pair of hose in the haunted church. He went and began his task. The light of the full moon streamed in through the windows, and at first all was silent and natural. At the dead hour of midnight, however, a big ghastly head emerged from a tomb and said, “Look at the old grey cow that is without food, tailor.” The tailor answered, “I see that and I sew this,” and soon found that while he spoke the ghost was stationary, but when he drew breath it rose higher. The neck emerged and said, “A long grizzled weasand that is without food, tailor.” The tailor went on with his work in fear, but answered, “I see it, my son, I see it, my son, I see that and I sew this just now.” This he said drawling out his words to their utmost length. At last his voice failed and he inhaled a long breath. The ghost rose higher and said, “A long grey arm that is without flesh or food, tailor.” The trembling tailor went on with his work and answered, “I see it, my son, I see it, my son; I see that and I sew this just now.” Next breath the thigh came up and the ghastly apparition said, “A long, crooked shank that is without meat, tailor.” “I see it, my son, I see it, my son; I see that and I sew this just now.” The long foodless and fleshless arm was now stretched in the direction of the tailor. “A long grey paw without blood or flesh, or muscles, or meat, tailor.” The tailor was near done with his work and answered, “I see it, my son, I see it, my son; I see that and I sew this just now,” while with a trembling heart he proceeded with his work. At last he had to draw breath, and the ghost, spreading out its long and bony fingers and clutching the air in front of him, said, “A big grey claw that is without meat, tailor.” At that moment the last stitch was put in the hose, and the tailor gave one spring of horror to the door. The claw struck at him and the point of the fingers caught him by the bottom against the door-post and took away the piece. The mark of the hand remains on the door to this day. The tailor’s flesh shook and quivered with terror, and he could cut grass with his haunches as he flew home.](/proxy/post_attachment/1211312/c80a231b9e.webp "In the big church of Beauly (Eaglais mhor na manachain, i.e. of the Monastery) mysterious and unearthly[195] sights and sounds were seen and heard at night, and none who went to watch the churchyard or burial-places within the church ever came back alive. A courageous tailor made light of the matter and laid a wager that he would go any night, and sew a pair of hose in the haunted church. He went and began his task. The light of the full moon streamed in through the windows, and at first all was silent and natural. At the dead hour of midnight, however, a big ghastly head emerged from a tomb and said, “Look at the old grey cow that is without food, tailor.” The tailor answered, “I see that and I sew this,” and soon found that while he spoke the ghost was stationary, but when he drew breath it rose higher. The neck emerged and said, “A long grizzled weasand that is without food, tailor.” The tailor went on with his work in fear, but answered, “I see it, my son, I see it, my son, I see that and I sew this just now.” This he said drawling out his words to their utmost length. At last his voice failed and he inhaled a long breath. The ghost rose higher and said, “A long grey arm that is without flesh or food, tailor.” The trembling tailor went on with his work and answered, “I see it, my son, I see it, my son; I see that and I sew this just now.” Next breath the thigh came up and the ghastly apparition said, “A long, crooked shank that is without meat, tailor.” “I see it, my son, I see it, my son; I see that and I sew this just now.” The long foodless and fleshless arm was now stretched in the direction of the tailor. “A long grey paw without blood or flesh, or muscles, or meat, tailor.” The tailor was near done with his work and answered, “I see it, my son, I see it, my son; I see that and I sew this just now,” while with a trembling heart he proceeded with his work. At last he had to draw breath, and the ghost, spreading out its long and bony fingers and clutching the air in front of him, said, “A big grey claw that is without meat, tailor.” At that moment the last stitch was put in the hose, and the tailor gave one spring of horror to the door. The claw struck at him and the point of the fingers caught him by the bottom against the door-post and took away the piece. The mark of the hand remains on the door to this day. The tailor’s flesh shook and quivered with terror, and he could cut grass with his haunches as he flew home.")
A wife was sitting at her reel ae night;
And aye she sat, and aye she reeled, and aye she wished for company…
Sadie Stein recalls “The Strange Visitor” – an eerie Scots tale. Performed well it should cause “a scream of alarm”
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/01/16/the-stranger/
#Scottish #literature #Halloween #19thcentury #folklore #poem #poetry #performance
“If you could even guess the nature of this castle’s secret,” said Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore, “you would get down on your knees & thank God it was not yours.”
What is the secret of Glamis Castle?
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-monster-of-glamis-92015626/
#Scottish #literature #history #folklore #legend #Glamis #19thcentury #Halloween
Hello, Myth Lovers! This week's theme is NIGHT & DARKNESS! Tell us your myth and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon!
🎨 Edward Burne-Jones (1870)
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Hamish Henderson Memorial Lecture
14 November, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Free
Dr Stephanie Smith, former Archives Director at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage in Washington DC, recalls a lifetime of learning from & alongside Hamish Henderson, & reflects on his impact across her life & career.
https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:6916/913:30818/
#Scottish #literature #culture #folklore #folklife #HamishHenderson