In Appalachian lore, July was when “the haints started pokin’ ‘round early.” The old folks said if you baked gingerbread in July, it summoned spirits looking for lost Yule offerings. They’d leave you a small gift… or take one. #FairyTaleTuesday Art: Muddy Colors

See? Not so difficult to figure out a Mother's Day present! *repeatedly looks out the window, impatiently waiting for the cabin to appear* #FolkloreSunday #MothersDay

There's no doubt real cunning and wise folk have been a force of resistance against snake-oil salesmen for centuries but it can be hard to tell who is who sometimes, and charlatan fairy doctors -often known today as health gurus- still exist. Beware. #educateyourself #NonViolentResistance #resist ✊

"...knowledge passed down by whispers and weeds." 💚

Before pills and prescriptions, there were bone setters, blood stoppers, and cunning folk. They used spider webs to clot wounds, onion poultices for coughs, and prayers to mend hearts and limbs. Not doctors, not witches—just folk. #FolkyFriday

A new mineral was discovered and named after the sky-ladder tree from Chinese mythology: umaine.edu/earthclimate... #mythology #chinesemythology #jianmuite #folklore

Dandelions weren’t always weeds. In old folk belief, blowing the seeds could carry wishes or reveal the name of a future lover. Root for tea, leaf for blood, flower for joy—the dandelion is a whole apothecary in disguise. #FolkloreThursday 🎨Krysten Tapwell

About the theme "tyrants" for #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday, I was struck by parts about refusal to study bitter history for "breeding useless regret", and how Gandalf spent years researching to understand about the Ring. I've seen those contrasting attitudes many times regarding history.

Little bunny reminds us of an important thing: to take the time to educate ourselves about the many kinds of carrots and the many kinds of sticks. Forewarned is forearmed. ✊ #NonViolentResistance #resist

the hart of the forest #art

I did not have "Easter Bunny gets a makeover" on my bingo card for 2025. One day, someone will write about this period of US history, based entirely around eggs. If you know #folklore, you understand this would tap into some serious stuff. (Someone do that please!) #FolkloreSunday #Easter

Call for art! Folklore, Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends ​ Deadline 1st May 2025 ​​ £10 SUBMISSION FEE PER ARTWORK​ ​ Exhibition dates 7th - 28th June 2025 Queen Street Gallery Neath www.queenstreetgalleryneath.co.uk/folklore-fai... #art #folklorethursday #illustration #artexhibition

Love this vairant of the Bluebeard/ Mr. Fox #FairyTale! We need to foster more "third sister" mentalities among our community sisterhoods today! Connection is important for survival, to keep truth alive AND to inspire hope, bravery, & savviness in action.✊ #resist #NonViolentResistance #FolkyFriday

🔥⚒️🔥Blacksmiths were unwilling to work on a #GoodFriday - most would not even light their forges - and none would hammer in a nail, out of remembrance and respect. #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy-Tales, by Béla Balázs. Parasols that create their own skies, men who are buried alive under mountains, and sages who travel back in time to relive the first years of their lives are only some of the marvels found in this utterly unique book.

More egg-cracking for Easter! Now imagine all those fairy tales & rhymes with eggs cracked to reveal all sorts of treasures/possibilities/answers & consider the cracking as the key event that began a new era/universe... (I should point out it's never specified Humpty was an egg.) #FolkloreSunday ✊

It’s the fool who thinks folklore is merely tales for children. The fool as well who thinks most lore is only pale misremembering of history. For folklore is a living conversation between yesterday and tomorrow, between people and place. It is an ark of shared wisdom. - #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday

Up for breaking some shells? I certainly am. Let's reveal the hidden things and activate some shared, community magic: 'tis the season to "Spring" into action! ✊ #resist #FolkloreSunday #NonViolentResistance PS It's no coincidence chocolate is a recommended addition to survival kits and "go-bags".🍫

German folklore once held that children who were good would be visited by the Osterhase, a magical egg-laying hare. Mischievous ones received nothing. He was judge, trickster, and spring sprite rolled into one long-eared shadow. #FolkloreSunday

"In the absence of war, they are less likely to form." Recommended #folklore tale thread re vengeful giant skeletons made of dishonored soldiers. It holds pertinent wisdom we can apply today: honor & care for #veterans or there will be consequences. #resist #NonViolentResistance #FolkloreSunday

It's SO important to honor & care for our #veterans! This giant skeleton made of dishonored soldiers is a memorable warning of why. It's bad enough. Let's not make it worse. Support vets, @altva.bsky.social & families. #FolkloreSunday PS Sharing wisdom-in-a-tale is a form of #NonViolentResistance✊

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

"... the Ifrit... wants your choices..." Still wondering what relevance old tales & #folklore have to today? Here's an evocative summary of how trying to find safe places & passage isn't easy in tough times. #NonViolentResistance isn't always easy, but a way through is possible. #FolkyFriday

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being of Jewish folklore, crafted from clay or mud. The most famous legend, "The Golem of Prague," claims a rabbi used mystical powers—based on divine knowledge of how God created Adam—to create a golem. #LegendaryWednesday

Wouldn't it be interesting if this is why adults tried to make children laugh? To help them keep their humanness? Maybe there's something to that. A child's right to play should be protected! ✊ #resist #FolkloreSunday (It should be noted: torturing changelings never brought the "humanness" back.)

Appalachian folk medicine blended Native traditions, European herbalism, and Bible verse. A poultice might be laid with a prayer, and cures often depended as much on faith and family as on plants. #MythologyMonday

So much eating in #FairyTales: of houses, people... Early H&G texts had "a house made a bread with a roof of cake & windows of sugar". A transformation to "candy house" says something about society & history. Question: Anyone changed "candy house" to "McBurger house" yet? #resist #FolkloreSunday

Adds "The most dangerous invitations often came with the finest feasts" to my "How to survive a fairy tale" notebook. Thinks for a moment. Also adds it to my "How to survive extreme capitalism" notebook. #FolkloreSunday #Resist

*Adds "more onions" to shopping list. (I shall leave you to speculate as to why.) #FolkloreSunday

Mead was born of the blood of Kvasir, and it makes all a poet. The Mead of Poetry was stolen from the giants by the god but spilled out into the world: so when you find inspiration, know it comes from on high... but so does bad poetry. #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: F. Stassen

See some of y’all tomorrow. #HandsOff

Made this poster based on some amazing artwork I found here this morning. Thank you for your beautiful image, kind person. #HandsOff #50501Protest #Indivisible #Resist

Got my sign ready for the April 5th #handsoff protest.

OMG♥️ When looking for #NonViolentResistance, #Art is often mentioned but easy to dismiss. This article is a piece of art itself, showing how the writer moved from being against something to being FOR something and how powerful that shift is. You will see why art truly is resistance.✊ #resist

This idea, though still imperfect, is more in line w/successful democracies, and would retain US' unique identity. We need to understand the current system began as an idea. Once we realize this, we can also begin to see it can be replaced with a different - better - idea. #resist #CivicImagination

Time for a new hashtag and a new anti-regime rallying slogan: #RedeemTheDream!

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

Cory Booker

Sen. Booker is still speaking right now at 24:38:07 but this is not just an astonishing feat of physicality but the passion & love for America he has shown -CONSISTENTLY- thru the entire full day-plus, & still, is profoundly moving & inspiring example of #nonviolentresistance.✊ #resist #goodtrouble

There are so many ways to engage in #NonViolentResistance. Here is a soul-inspiring one. 💚 Read stories in which people (& hobbits) hope, then create some of those elements in the real world. It helps the hope & the spirit of resistance infuse your heart & day. Be a hobbit. Hope. #Resist✊ #booksky

My old tutor Herve told me about an apple tree in France that has over eighty varieties grafted onto it and it's one of the most magical fairytale things I've ever heard. All the branches blooming in hues of pink and white, the varied shapes and colours of the fruits as they grow and ripen

"Eye-gougingly boring art" means all design/visuals, movies, books, music, theater, fashion, 1/2-time shows. It makes for homogenized AI visuals, censored writing, humor, exhibits, uniforms/decor, single/ruling culture expression... How about we use #art for #NonViolentResistance instead? #resist ✊

Not much bandwidth for movies at present but beautiful cultural representation in these Thai posters - #Marvel 's Brave New World - is worth seeing. Diff. takes on #resist ing power. #folklore #art The link discusses themes of US movies as seen thru other cultures: umatechnology.org/incredible-t...

Morning. Buryat women curtsied and said a prayer to the first swan they saw in Spring. Something we should all be doing. 🦢 🖼 The Swan Maidens, Walter Crane, 1894.

Folkloric stamps! (And they include selkies and, one of my faves, Blodeuwedd!) "Royal Mail has unveiled a set of stamps featuring mythical creatures and fabled figures from UK folklore." (Designed by London-based artist Adam Simpson) #FolkloreThursday #folklore #folkloresky

I am delighted to reveal the cover of my new book Household Lore! It's publishing on 11 November 2025 with @watkinswisdom.bsky.social and you can pre-order your copy here! watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore #FolkloreThursday #BookologyThursday #AdoorableThursday #Bookchatweekly #Bloomscrolling

Exciting news: I’m thrilled to share a project I’ve loved working on – Royal Mail’s brand-new Myths and Legends Special Stamps, released this week! Keep an eye out for the stamps – let me know which legendary figure is your favourite! #FolkloreThursday www.culturalfuturesfoundry.com/royal-mail-m...

I wrote this poem over a year ago. Seems like now is a good time to post it again.

From: Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird (1987), dir. Toshio Hirata, Toei Doga/Madhouse