Tonight is Bonfire Fire night but a little village has a unique ritual all of its own - the turning of the Devil's Stone! https://www.hypnogoria.com/folklore_devilstone.html
#folklore
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Once, the dwarves of the Petersberg near Goslar abducted the beautiful daughter of a giant.
This did not go out well for _anyone_ concerned.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dwarf
https://www.patreon.com/posts/where-emperors-113900677
I always find it curious when entities from #folklore which cause sleep paralysis are described as "little grey men".
#folktale #folklore #UFO
https://sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/323069
Witches are just for Christmas, not for life.
The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. The most comprehensive edition ever. The whole collection appears for the first time in English. Available from Amazon. Order early for Christmas.
#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folkloreThursday @norwegianfolktales @folklore @folklorethursday #bookstodon
'New exhibition exploring how #folklore has shaped #Scotland'... https://www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/new-exhibition-exploring-how-folklore-has-shaped-scotland/
'#Beasts of the bog unearthed for sculpture trail'... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05zpyp3jrro #folklore
“In the year C.S. Lewis published THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE, 1950, Naomi Mitchison published a very different fantasy novel for children”
—Rob Maslen on how Naomi Mitchison’s THE BIG HOUSE mixes folklore, class war, global conflicts, & the supernatural
6/8
https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/naomi-mitchison-the-big-house-1950/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Womenwriters #Fantasy #ChildrensLiterature #class #classwar #folklore
The Grey Paw (Spòg liath)
In the big church of Beauly (Eaglais mhor na manachain, i.e. of the Monastery) mysterious and unearthly 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…
—from Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1902), via @gutenberg_org
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58894/pg58894-images.html#Page_194
#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #folklore #folktale #supernatural #Halloween
5 Things you might not know about Medieval Werewolves https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-medieval-werewolves/ #Halloween #werewolves #folklore #medieval
Day 31: RIP
Kept my newest and most appropriate sticker for last! I am so burnt out 🔥💀
17 new linocuts, 8 digital designs, and 4 new stickers is a lot of work in one month but I got there! Hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. All the linocuts and stickers are available on my Etsy. Gonna crawl into my grave now.
#mdwc24d31 #RIP #burntout #fire #skeleton #spookyseason #Halloween #happyhalloween #folklore #horrorart #TrickorTreat #linocut #Illustration #Print
The earliest potential source located for the “quaint of litany” is David Fergusson’s (d. 1598) SCOTTISH PROVERBS (1641), which provides the pithy
“God keip us from gyrcarlings & all long nebbed things”
Page from the 1924 Scottish Text Society edition, via the National Library of Scotland 👇
https://digital.nls.uk/publications-by-scottish-clubs/archive/106944457
![SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
452] Gaines slokens paines
Good aill is wynes eveinis [1]
Good aill maks good saill Gaunting [2] is wil wanting
God send us better handsell [3] nor fart at the masking [4]
Gar ane devill ding ane other
God let my honestie never ly on your tongue rootis
God keip us from gyrcarlings [5] & all long nebbed things
460] Go to your bed your bellie rumbles & ilk ane toord over other tumbles
Go to your bed god nor yow be dryt it
God help us all to heaven for ill can we climb
God let never the well go dry that ilk body trowes [6] water be in
God send you a wise goodman [7] els yow wil fill the cuntry ful of fools
Giv it a pavie [8] fley it [9] & lild [10]
God mak al weil as Maister Wm Kellie sayes to his sones spurs
Giv good respect to al fear nather grit nor small
Go near it
God let sorow never go so near your heart
470] Grand wind grand treason. [11]
1 equal.
2 [yawning, gaping.]
3 [luck.]
4 [mashing (mixing malt with warm water).]
5 witches.
6 [believes.]
7 [husband.]
8 [shake.]
9 [warm.]
10 drink it off quickly [lill = hang out the tongue].
11 [This proverb is in a later hand.]](/images/status/6df0c9a7-920f-459a-9dcb-c666539ea57b.jpeg "SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
452] Gaines slokens paines
Good aill is wynes eveinis [1]
Good aill maks good saill Gaunting [2] is wil wanting
God send us better handsell [3] nor fart at the masking [4]
Gar ane devill ding ane other
God let my honestie never ly on your tongue rootis
God keip us from gyrcarlings [5] & all long nebbed things
460] Go to your bed your bellie rumbles & ilk ane toord over other tumbles
Go to your bed god nor yow be dryt it
God help us all to heaven for ill can we climb
God let never the well go dry that ilk body trowes [6] water be in
God send you a wise goodman [7] els yow wil fill the cuntry ful of fools
Giv it a pavie [8] fley it [9] & lild [10]
God mak al weil as Maister Wm Kellie sayes to his sones spurs
Giv good respect to al fear nather grit nor small
Go near it
God let sorow never go so near your heart
470] Grand wind grand treason. [11]
1 equal.
2 [yawning, gaping.]
3 [luck.]
4 [mashing (mixing malt with warm water).]
5 witches.
6 [believes.]
7 [husband.]
8 [shake.]
9 [warm.]
10 drink it off quickly [lill = hang out the tongue].
11 [This proverb is in a later hand.]")
From ghoulies and ghosties
and long-leggity beasties
and things that go bump in the night—
Good Lord deliver us!
Scots? Irish? Cornish? Folklore or fakelore? The convoluted history of “things that go bump in the night”…
http://jsbookreader.blogspot.com/2014/04/things-that-go-bump-in-night.html
#Scottish #Irish #Cornish #folklore #Halloween #supernatural
Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist Halloween
Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film – via the National Trust for Scotland
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidhche-shamhna-a-south-uist-halloween
“Burns’s tale provides a humorous, yet complex reflection upon human nature as well as a colourful and energetic survey of antiquarianism, folklore and the supernatural”
—Glasgow University’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies looks at “Tam o’ Shanter”
https://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/robert-burnss-tam-o-shanter-happy-halloween/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Halloween #18thCentury #gothic #romanticism #folklore #supernatural #Scots #Scotslangauge
The wind blew as ’twad blawn its last;
The rattling showers rose on the blast;
The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d;
Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand…
Hamish MacDonald reads Robert Burns’s “Tam o’ Shanter”, with illustrations by Gary Welsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqVwCa_x5o
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Halloween #18thCentury #gothic #romanticism #folklore #supernatural #Scots #Scotslangauge