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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: `There are many stories of the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Irish</a> Wolfhound in <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mythology</a>. The most famous hounds are, without doubt, <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Fionn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fionn</a>’s two favourites, Bran and Sceolán. They were said to have been so tall, that their heads reached chest height to a man. Bran was described as ‘ferocious, white-breasted, sleek-haunched, with fiery deep black eyes that swim in sockets of blood’. Sceolán was slightly smaller, ‘small-headed, with the eyes of a dragon, claws of a wolf, vigour of a lion, and the venom of a serpent’. They feature as prominently in the exploits of the Fianna as do the warriors themselves.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/NationalPetsMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalPetsMonth</a> Source: Ali Isaac

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: `The <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/duck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duck</a> was the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/animal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animal</a> of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Sequana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sequana</a>, goddess of the source of France’s river Seine, who was often depicted sailing in a boat whose prow was shaped into a duck’s head. Birds are often symbols of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> divinity, especially of goddesses.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>`

curious ordinary<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BatAppreciationDay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BatAppreciationDay</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lj3irorm6c2s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nmcsr56ct2zzxtl6gi6vdorj/post/3lj3irorm6c2s</a>

Mark ReesWelsh folklore warns us to take it easy on the Thursday before Easter: "Maundy Thursday was important for doing good deeds. If anybody performed unnecessary work on this day they would be in danger of being stricken by thunder & lightning" Folklore of Wales 1909 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>

curious ordinaryToday is <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BatAppreciationDay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BatAppreciationDay</a> so I thought I'd re-share my article about bats in Japanese folklore. It has information about the symbolism of bats, some yokai bats, and lots of Japanese art featuring bats. <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/curiousordinary/p/bats-in-japanese-folklore?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2q0akd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">open.substack.com/pub/curiouso...</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/curiousordinary/p/bats-in-japanese-folklore?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2q0akd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bats in Japanese Folklore</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: `When death approached, the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/skriker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#skriker</a> appeared like a Banshee, predicting the event to come. Sometimes this portentous figure wandered the forests of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Yorkshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yorkshire</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Lancashire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lancashire</a>, screaming. Or like other <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/fairies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairies</a> he engaged in shape-shifting, transforming himself into a terrifying dog.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>` <a href="https://x.com/Calleenscrafts/status/1448604748257628162?t=_g1UQrf0F9K_T_AFUPVyQA&s=09" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/Calleenscrafts/status/1448604748257628162?t=_g1UQrf0F9K_T_AFUPVyQA&s=09</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: `In the North Riding of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Yorkshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yorkshire</a>, Jeannie of Biggersdale was said to live in Musgrave Woods where, like other <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/bogies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bogies</a> or <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/boggarts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boggarts</a>, this dreadful spirit threatened passing travelers. One farmer who attempted to drive her out of the region lost his horse when Jeannie cut it in two. The man was lucky to escape with his life.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>` <a href="https://x.com/STANHELSING13/status/1575526768601088000?t=vyL0ldVzfI422eLkzDF1OA&s=09" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/STANHELSING13/status/1575526768601088000?t=vyL0ldVzfI422eLkzDF1OA&s=09</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: `In areas of modern France that were once Celtic territory, we find folktales about the Dames Vertes who lurk in the forests, luring travelers into ravines by their beauty and their sweet voices, then tormenting them by holding them upside down over waterfalls and laughing at their terror.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>` <a href="https://todon.eu/@NeuKelte/112089133782239929" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://todon.eu/@NeuKelte/112089133782239929</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: `The <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/wodwose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wodwose</a>/#woodwose is a British and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> folkloric figure. In the forests, it was long believed, lived great hairy wild men, shy beings who avoided human contact but did no harm to anyone. Some traditional British dances and mummers’ parades include cavorting imitations of the wodwose.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>` <a href="https://x.com/SwearingsCaring/status/1648863665402134528?t=CfzBOtMpojlMHzzb7P_fgQ&s=09" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/SwearingsCaring/status/1648863665402134528?t=CfzBOtMpojlMHzzb7P_fgQ&s=09</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: One account from the 19th century tells of an encounter with the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Puca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Puca</a> during the Kildare Hunt: `The <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Pooka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pooka</a> easily leaped across a gorge, disappearing into woodlands, but the pack of hounds hard on scent of the fox went headlong into the turbulent waters below.` “Looking down, Grennan saw fox and hounds trying desperately to swim to safety through swirling swell; other hounds dashed against rocks were yelping in pain and dying. He wept as most of pack went under. Suddenly his sorrow give way to terror, he heard a diabolical neighing, like an animal laughing – from woods opposite. Grennan knew then it was Pooka." <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: The Pooka | Emerald Isle Irish and Celtic myths, fairy tales and legends

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: Among the talismans <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Lugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lugh</a> demanded from Tuireann's three sons as punishment for the murder of his father <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cian</a> were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World). `Only these apples will satisfy me, as they are the best and most beautiful in the world. This is what they are made of: Their colour is that of polished gold, and the head of a one-month-old child is no larger than any one of these apples. When you dine on them, they taste like honey, and bleeding wounds and the most malignant diseases disappear. The apples do not diminish when eaten, even if one eats from them for a long time and constantly. Whoever succeeds in taking one of these apples has accomplished his greatest feat, since he will never lose it again.` <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Druiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Druiden</a>`

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: `A cattle-herding <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/brownie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brownie</a> of the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> islands, the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/gunna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gunna</a> hung about small farms making sure the cows did not trample the garden. As with many such helpful sprites, he went naked despite the weather. Any attempt to provide clothes drove the gunna away.` Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>` <a href="https://x.com/DaubWattle/status/1174613244369129472" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/DaubWattle/status/1174613244369129472</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: One of the greatest <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> visions of the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Otherworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Otherworld</a> was that of Emain Albach, the Isle of Apples, a beautiful place of everlasting summer whose handsome residents danced the sun-drenched days away. The Otherworld looked like this world, only more beautiful and changeless: trees bore blossom and fruit at the same time there, no one ever aged or grew infirm, death had no dominion in the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Otherworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Otherworld</a>. Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>`

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: The apples significance continues into folkloric uses such as that in the British Cotswolds, where an apple tree blooming out of season meant coming death. Symbolizing harmony and immortality, abundance and love, the apple was considered a talisman of good fortune and prosperity. Some have connected the word to Apollo, whose name may have originally been Apellon, a word derived from the same source as our word “apple.” Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Folklore</a>`

curious ordinaryIn <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JapaneseFolklore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFolklore</a> akaname is a <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23yokai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yokai</a> often described as a small, child-like creature with a long tongue that is said to lick the grime and filth found in bathrooms. Aka means filth but is also a synonym for red and in many cases akaname are said to have slimy red skin... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FolkloreThursday" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> 1/3

Simon Roy Hughes 🍄A thought for Saturday: There are people behind <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklore</a> of any sort. These people have told their stories, practised their rites, maintained their traditions because they believed in them, and because the folklore was theirs.When we begin to view these people’s folklore as a means to our end (which nearly always means the extraction of filthy lucre, directly or otherwise), our practice removes us from the people who developed the folklore; we are rather conducting capitalistic, and ultimately colonialistic, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exploitation</a>.Is that who we want to be?<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@folklore</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EthicalFolklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EthicalFolklore</a>

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻<a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/FolkloreThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FolkloreThursday</a>: According to a legend, a young farmer was not careful to make any noise, and the <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Saligen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saligen</a> Women took him as a love prisoner. They kissed and caressed him until he lay soulless on the ground. One day the noise of guns came from the valley, and the Saligen Women have not been seen since.

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