#FolkloreThursday

In Finland, the Northern Lights are called "revontulet" or "fox fires". One old folktale tells of an Arctic fox running and scampering in the far north, throwing coloured lights up into the dark sky by sweeping frozen snow crystals upwards with his tail. #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/UfFPdFZ6bw

Poseidon, also known as ‘Earth-Shaker’, is the Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, storms and horses. The pine and all cone-bearing trees were dedicated to him as the wood of these trees was said to yield the finest timber for building ships. #FolkloreThursday #trees

One of the legends around Edinburgh's dormant volcano Arthur's Seat is that it is in fact a sleeping dragon who ate so much he went to sleep+hasn't woken since~seems fitting! #FolkloreThursday I wonder how many other volcanoes have fire breathing dragon legends attached to them?

🔥⚒️🔥The island of Vulcano in the Mediterranean, has given us the word 'volcano'. Romans believed it was the forge of Vulcan, blacksmith to the gods. Eruptions were the sparks flying up as he hammered out thunderbolts for Jupiter, and forged weapons for Mars. #FolkloreThursday

Janet Forsyth, a 17th century Orcadian, dreamed a storm would take her lover and warned him, he scoffed. But she was right. Devastated and branded a witch due to this and other premonitions, she was sentenced to death but disappeared before they could hang her. #FolkloreThursday

'In the morning mountains, in the afternoon fountains'. Old #weather sayings and #folklore stretch back many thousands of years. Here #clouds build up during the morning, followed by #storms later in the day #Folklorethursday #photography #nature https://t.co/NorXUz233Z

I'm gonna start doing #FolkloreThursday posts every week since Malay folklore is dying. Let's start with something simple. Malay belief held that anyone who can find the nest of the white-breasted waterhen (burung ruak-ruak) would acquire the ability to turn invisible

“If the goose honks high, fair weather. If the goose honks low, foul weather.” #folklorethursday

For this week's #FolkloreThursday theme, the folklore of volcanoes, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena, here's a piece on the elemental spirits of earth, air, water, and fire: https://t.co/DnIoFu8wLr

#FolkloreThursday German mathematician, astronomer,and astrologer Johannes Kepler, who died #OTD 1630, considered volcanoes as conduits for the tears and excrement of the Earth, voiding bitumen, tar and sulfur. https://t.co/Jwim0vELbe

Herodotus wrote of Persian invaders in 479BC preparing to assault a town on the Kassandra peninsula being swept away by an angry Poseidon. Modern scientists found evidence on the peninsula of a tsunami that occurred around 500BC. Don't mess with Poseidon. #FolkloreThursday

Folklore often begins where paved road becomes track, where good lanes becomes rough path. - #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday

Stories of "the wild men of the trenches" circulated on the western front in WW1. Soldiers claimed that whole regiments lived in caves under no man's land and came out to forage corpses. As the rumor legend grew, these deserters became primal and monstrous #folklorethursday

"Ghosts of bells are believed to haunt many parts of Wales. In Llangorse Lake, Brecon Beacons, an ancient city is said to lie buried, from whose cathedral bells on a calm day may be heard a faint & muffled chime pealing solemnly down in the sepial depths" #FolkloreThursday #Wales

"Tradition speaks of Fairies as being enamoured of the inhabitants of this earth, and content, for awhile, to be wedded to mortals. There are families in Wales who have Fairy blood coursing through their veins." #FolkloreThursday #Wales Art: Fairy Lovers by Theodor von Holst

In Shetland and Orkney we have our own version of da Midgard serpent, who wraps right around da world, biting da end of it's own tale. We call it da Stoor Worm. When it lashes around on da sea bed it causes quakes around da world. @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

I'm going to be sending my book, Cauldron off to the printers in the next few days. VERY exciting. It's all about witches and their familiars and filled with watercolour paintings. You can pre order here: https://t.co/biuaUNhI68 #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/SbSLgnGRwT

Re-sharing this new painting for the ever-lovely #FolkloreThursday crowd. A tiny, bog-dwelling Welsh dragon with, like most dragons, a fascination for all thing shiny... ...specifically small, shiny bugs. Well, a dragon’s gotta eat! #dragon #Folklore #FantasticBeasts

Hello #FolkloreThursday! This is @BenTheEpicure erupting into your day to share your folklore facts about volcanoes, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena. (Image: Pele by David Howard Hitchcock)

Over the Sea to the Fairies: https://t.co/Ax2I8cUsD9 #FolkloreThursday #Scotland https://t.co/rhiYABRw2w

The four pieces of the fallen, broken 20m high menhir at Locmariaquer can be clearly seen in Levy's card no. 6. Reasons offered for why it fell include lightning strike, earthquake and deliberate human destruction. The latter seems most likely! #FolkloreThursday

Good Morning #FolkloreThursday There were 3 main sacred sites on the #IsleOfWight, one was the Pinnacle of Ur. When the last of the Arch-Druids died in the 17th Century it caused the Pinnacle to fall into the ocean; the tremor and sound was so great that it work the restless dead

Do the dead need shoes? "In the parish of Defynnog, Breconshire, there was a custom (up to 1843, when it ceased through the angry action of a lawless widower) of giving to the parish clerk the best pair of shoes and stockings left behind by the deceased." #FolkloreThursday #Wales

Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl are adjacent volcanoes at the south end of the Valley of Mexico. Itzaccihuatl's resemblance to a reclining woman (pictured below) gave rise to a legend the volcanoes were lovers that could not bear to be out of each others sight. #FolkloreThursday

In Japanese mythology Namazu is a giant catfish who lives under the islands of Japan & causes violent earthquakes. Once people prayed to the gods to stop the earthquakes and they searched everywhere for the cause, finally realising it was Namazu. 1/2 #FolkloreThursday #mythology

Its not just fairytales! @KJSoar #CCLSheffield @C3RINews #folklorethursday

Vesuvius in Eruption, Joseph Malllord William Turner, 1817-20. #Artlovers #arte #art #watercolour #FolkloreThursday

It’s #folklorethursday again in #folktaleweek2018 so today I’lll warn you about the Boggart, an always malevolent creature who attaches to families. It makes the milk sour and animals lame, just enough mischief to cause suffering and pain. Such a shame.

We love it when #FolkloreThursday is close to home! https://t.co/oW0Rl3WSxf

The kelpie myth reflected a cultural fear of water in an age when many lived by the coast but were unable to swim. Just cultural explanations of unexplainable phenomena #FolkloreThursday #ThursdayThoughts

And on those ancient trails, smoothed by the feet of those long lost, long dead, live the stories of our ancestors. Black hound, cart of souls and the Devil-a-travelling. #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday

“Certain wonderfull overflowings.” The Great Flood of 30th Jan 1607 hit S/W England at 30 mph, with waves of 25 ft rushing up the Bristol Channel. It covered 200 sq miles of land & killed 2000 people, wiping out whole villages. One theory is it was a tsunami. #FolkloreThursday

Volcanic action made gold settle in pockets. Shepherd in 1800s UK found such a pocket. He filled his pockets and started back down mountain, he fell, broke neck, was found on track gold spilling from him. No one ever found the gold source, the story now lore. #FolkloreThursday

#KistInThyme all packed+ready to go.Exciting weekend planned as I take my workshop on Scottish Herbal Magic +storytelling to the @AshmoleanMuseum for their #OneWorld event . Would be lovely to see some #FolkloreThursday friends there if you’re in the area https://t.co/3cHJBvz27M

Costa Rican myth: a girl was to be sacrificed to appease the Poás Volcano but the Rualdo, a plain bird with a glorious song, flew into the volcano & offered its voice to save its friend. Poás accepted and the Rualdo was rewarded with beautiful plumage. #Folklorethursday

Sailors used to believe that should a bird alight on board ship it should not be handled. If you touch a seabird, so too will you have to touch the sails due to the resultant storms. #FolkloreThursday

The 13th century Icelandic saga, Tale of the Mountain-dweller is about a troll in a cave that recites a poem to travelers, describing an epic volcanic eruption. You learn the poem or you die... #FolkloreThursday #storytelling

Folklore meets science in Catfish and Earthquake Predictions; the Mythology of Namazu. #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/CHs63iLAyr via @mythcrafts

Making #Folklore respectable in English universities @CeriHoulbrook on how team from @UniofHerts @odavies9 launched the new MA in Folklore Studies #CCLSheffield #FolkloreThursday

Perchten awaken! Perchten in German-speaking Alpine regions are Winter spirits representing nature's energies slumbering beneath the earth. Appeasing them guarantees good luck & harvest in coming year. From Luis Trenker's 1934 film "Verlorene Sohn"(Prodigal Son) #FolkloreThursday

According to the book Kentucky Superstitions by Daniel Lindsey Thomas and Lucy Blayney Thomas, thunder during a funeral means "the soul will go down." Thunder after a funeral means "the spirit of the deceased has gone to heaven". #FolkloreThursday

Various legends surround the Pascagoula River, also known as the Singing River for the eerie humming noises it makes. Some believe the Pascagoula people drowned themselves while singing their death song. More river lore here -> https://t.co/QqgRtKOVZW #folklorethursday

Kamapua‘a a suitor of Pele visited her home she rejected him w/ contempt a fight broke out Pele was forced into her crater and he poured water on her. But Pele rose up from the crater and drove him to the sea w/ thunder, lightning, and showers of large stones. #FolkloreThursday

Namazu, a giant catfish in Japanese folklore was said to cause earthquakes #FolkloreThursday

Some believe that it was Whale Cove, Oregon & not Point Reyes, California where Francis Drake careened the Golden Hinde & claimed the land for England. There is a story that Francis Drake buried treasure in Oregon possibly from a local Native American legend #FolkloreThursday

Good afternoon #FolkloreThursday! @DeeDeeChainey here for the folklore of natural phenomena! It's everything from natural disasters, to the northern lights, to rainbows... Bring on the lore! More ideas: https://t.co/Z9Vo13uzKw [Img: Urania's Mirror - Hercules and_Corona Borealis]

So not zinc deficiency then...? #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/cBRqhiLPsC

#FolkloreThursday - the belief of Tommyknockers were imported with the Cornish miners. Deep in the bowels of the earth, they warned of impending disaster.

Thank you #FolkloreThursday, @MythCrafts has had a blast this week - pun intended- Stay tuned for the always lovely @DeeDeeChainey up next. See you next week! [Image: Offerings left for Pele on the Kilauea lava fields - taken by me]

Happy #FolkloreThursday everyone! On today’s #Minnesota episode of Go Folk Yourself, we dig into the land of hot dishes, Paul Bunyan, and the #wendigo! Don’t forget to follow us and leave a review! https://t.co/eh7Ce8QIiX

Sailors traditionally believed that should you break an oath on board ship then a violent storm would follow. #FolkloreThursday

#FolkloreThursday the elvencloak lichen, said to be used in the making of elfish garments, making them invisible to the naked human eye, & also indicative of “enchanted” locations

There are local legends from the Nisga'a People in British Columbia around the eruption of Tseax Cone (1690) which refer to an extended period of unrest including the destruction of two villages near the Nass River and deaths from "poison smoke." #FolkloreThursday

The Legend of the Stone Circle ‘Long Meg and Her Daughters’ #FolkloreThursday #Cumbria https://t.co/YonzBe2o4X

We're feeling matchy-matchy this #folklorethursday with yet another stunning illustration by Mark Joyce from #MythicalIrishBeasts, our new book brimming with mythical monsters and beasties from Irish folklore.

Japan’s Mt. Fuji was once the home to the goddess Sengen, also known as the Goddess of Fuji, whose temple resided on the summit of the mountain. She was known to throw “wanderers” from the mountain if they got to close to its heart. (Img: Unknown) #FolkloreThursday

🎶 Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, it's off to the Dwarfie Stane we go! 🎶 Is this enormous block of sandstone carved with small chambers on Hoy the home of Trollid the dwarf? (Probably not! Experts reckon it's a unique prehistoric tomb https://t.co/5iX1KP1aXW) #FolkloreThursday

So Cool.. American Folklore through a distinct Japanese lens. #FolkloreThursday find. Thanks for sharing. https://t.co/M8GbXz8tWZ

#excited Posters just arrived for our #FREE #event next week! Who wants to display them publicly? #Cork #PureCork #WeareCork #corkireland #corkcity #folklore #folklorethursday #corktogether

The Hmin Nat lives in the woods of Burma. When confronted by an unwelcome intruder, as punishment for their trespass, the Hmin Nat will shake them until they’re reduced to a state of incurable madness. #FolkloreThursday Art: Spiritual Hour by Jacek Yurka