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
If a cat jumped over a corpse in its coffin, it was said the soul of the dead belonged to the devil or that they would return as one of the walking undead... #FolkloreThursday
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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In Swedish folklore, a fungus known as witch's butter was made from the vomit of a witch's cat...!
#FolkloreThursday 📷Daniel Greenwood
Forget St. Pat, the 17th March belongs to St Gertrude of Nivelles - patron saint of cats, invoked by the souls of purgatory and those troubled by mice...
#FolkloreThursday 🎨Carolee Clark
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That was @willowwinsham.bsky.social reposting your lore before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social our last host today -- for the next one hour 🙈 🙉 🙊
Today's theme is "Folklore of the Animal Kingdom”
1912 Arthur Rackham
Welcome back to today's animal kingdom themed #FolkloreThursday! @willowwinsham.bsky.social here for the next hour of of fabulous folklore!
🎨Joanna Lisoweic, from Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines by Willow Winsham
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Some Chinese folklore for #PhantomsFriday
Wyraj – according to Slavic beliefs a fabulous land where birds fly away for winter and from which spring comes, and also (in folklore) from which storks arrive carrying children.
Departing to Wyraj and the birds returning from it in spring were identified
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The monster cat, Cath Palug, has been associated with King Arthur since the 11th century. Some even say that the legendary king met his end after a fierce fight with the creature. #FolkloreThursday
🎨Joanna Lisoweic, from Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines by Willow Winsham
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In Chinese folklore, the tides are not moved by moonlight alone. They are pushed by the drowned.
Known as Tide Ghosts or Tidal Workers, 潮鬼 / 潮工, these spirits were once people who died in the water. After death, river gods record their names and bind them to the waves. 1/2
