Author and historian, specialising in witchcraft, folklore and cats. Co-founder of #FolkloreThursday
The Story of Witches - Out Now
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That's the end of another epic #FolkloreThursday 🐉
Today's theme was "Folklore of the Animal Kingdom!” This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today.
Thank you for sharing your lore about animals! It was a wild ride hehe ✨
19th CE Wett-Turnen
There have been countless stories of sea serpents in the waters around Vancouver Island, since time immemorial. In the last century, nonIndigenous communities have given some of them names. Victoria’s Cadborosaurus or "Caddy" being the best known 🐉
E.D. Moyer and Thos H Guptil
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An old European superstition claimed that barnacle geese actually hatched as adults from barnacles rather than as chicks from eggs. This belief came from the fact that people never saw the barnacle geese's eggs and didn't know that they migrated north to nest.
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The three-legged crow Yatagarasu is the messenger of the gods of the Shinto shrines of Kumano. It's also the symbol of the Japan Football Association, perhaps because they feel that an extra leg would often be a handy thing to have? #FolkloreThursday
11 years since we first launched #FolkloreThursday! 😱 Join us next Thursday to celebrate in full folkloric style!
Thanks so much everyone! What a load of fabulous folklore! 😻😻😻#FolkloreThursday
Look what arrived in the mail just in time for #FolkloreThursday
Willow Winsham’s latest book!
Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines
Can’t wait to read it!
youtu.be/3rv3kGAxh_A?... the podcast in question!
Excited to read ‘Witches: Folklore, history and superstition’ by @willowwinsham.bsky.social after listening to her interview with @icysedgwick.bsky.social on the Fabulous Folklore podcast.
Featuring foster kitten Liquorice, because of course.
#FolkloreThursday is 11 years old on 18th June!
Celebrate with us by sharing your favourite folklore to the hashtag between 9am-4.30pm and 6.30-7.30pm BST and join us for the final @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social 5.30-6.30pm BST.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cultur...
(Image:James Petts)
#FolkloreThursday was brought to you today by:
@folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
@willowwinsham.bsky.social
@botanicafabula.bsky.social
@mythcrafts.bsky.social
@shanonsinn.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone for a fab day and we'll see you all next month!
🎨Circe and her Swine, Briton Rivière
