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That's the end of another #FolkloreThursday ✨🐉✨ Today's theme was the "Folklore of the Stars and Skies." This is @shanonsinn.bsky.social signing off - your last host today! Wishing you a happy full moon eclipse this weekend 🌝 1910 C. Wilhelm

Beware! Even if a vampire has been felled by a silver bullet, if it is left in the moonlight, it could still rejuvenate, especially if it is the light of a full moon... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Edward Gorey

In Norse mythology Sól/'Sun' & Mani/'Moon' ride through the skies on horse drawn chariots. Sol travels with Svalinn, a celestial shield that blocks rays from scorching the earth, giving warmth & light, not burning. Their journey is swift; they're pursued by the wolves Mockery& Hate #FolkloreThursday

You should wish upon the first star of the evening & recite: Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight. 🎨Rie Cramer redbubble.com/shop/ap/1556... #FolkloreThursday #illustration #Folklore #art #homedecor #giftideas

Nyx was the Greek goddess of night and daughter of Chaos. She drove her chariot across the sky bringing darkness. 🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/shop/ap/3510... #FolkloreThursday #mythology #wallartforsale #homedecor #interiordesign #art #giftideas #folklore #fairytales

Many Tarot readers interpret The Star card as connecting to the universe, creation, and divine guidance. Stars also appear on The Chariot card, on The Empress’s crown, and in The Hermit’s lantern. As pentacles, they have their own suit #FolkloreThursday 1909 Pamela Coleman Smith (colour U.S. Games)

The Yuracaré people interpreted the Moon's spots as a four-eyed jaguar that escaped to the skies... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Janelle Penner

on July 7 in Japan, Tanabata, the Star Festival, celebrates the once-yearly meeting of lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi - the stars Vega and Altair - who are separated by the river of the Milky Way. Traditional decorations include colorful streamers. #FolkloreThursday

Sailors once whispered that St. Elmo’s fire, the blue glow of plasma at a ship’s mast, was a star’s blessing. They believed it meant protection from storms, a guiding light sent from heaven when seas were rough and hope was thin. #FolkloreThursday Art: Lemmi Wizard

"Did you see this UFO? "It looked like a huge butterfly about eight foot across with flashing lights all round the edge of these giant wings. It came from the south-east and tended to move westwards," she said." #Bexhill Observer 18.4.1981. #FolkloreThursday #UFO #1980s

In Norse mythology, Odin and his brothers killed the giant Ymir, and made the world from his body. Ymir's flesh became the earth, his blood the water, his bones the rocks.... They crafted the vault of the sky from Ymir's skull, and hung his brains from it as clouds. 🎨Franz Stassen #FolkloreThursday

Mesopotamian culture believed the milky way was smoke rising from sacrificial offerings. Egyptians saw it as the Nile River risen to the heavens by Isis. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3676... #FolkloreThursday #art #illustration #gifts #homedecor #folklore #mythology #wallart

Publishing in September, 'Folklore' by leading experts @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social and @odavies9.bsky.social is a gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore both past and present. Coming to a city near you this Autumn: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/ #FolkloreThursday

In Paraguayan lore the Moon's spots are actually his intestines, disembowelled, when ducks that he was trying to catch, tore him to pieces... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Olav Stromme

Hello everyone and happy #FolkloreThursday ✨🌛✨ Thank you to @crystalponti.bsky.social for hosting before the break! I'm @shanonsinn.bsky.social and I will be your folklore host for the next one hour. Today's theme is "The Folklore of the Stars and Skies" 1872 Eleanor Vere Boyle

And that’s me shooting off like a stray comet. ☄️ I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social signing off. Don't wander too far! The skies sparkle again at 6:30 BST when @shanonsinn.bsky.social steps in to host the final hour of #FolkloreThursday. Until next time, my friends! Art: Universitätsbibliothek Kassel

According to Irish folklore, the sign of dark, ominous clouds approaching a cemetery signal that a funeral will soon follow. #FolkloreThursday

Across Europe, folk once said sleeping in the moonlight resulted in insanity, lunacy, literally one would become moon-mad... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Gerard Dillon

"UFO puzzle - aircraft solution." Bexhill Observer 8.12.1979. "'UFO was no aircraft' says air hostess Chris." Bexhill Observer 15.12.1979. #FolkloreThursday #UFO #1970s

The traditional name in Japan for the constellation Orion is Tsuzumi Boshi, which is a double-ended hourglass-shaped drum used in Kabuki theater that the star pattern resembles. The three belt stars represent the string tied around the drum in the middle. #FolkloreThursday

The Mayans believed that the Milky Way was the road souls used to travel to the underworld. 🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3515... #FolkloreThursday #art #homedecor #interiordesign #illustration #vintage #mythology #folklore #giftideas #wallart

Why do so many northern cultures see a bear in Ursa Major? Perhaps it’s a shared memory from a common ancestor. Neanderthals revered bears, leaving traces in their caves and rituals. Could their myths echo in ours, written in the night sky? 🐻✨ #FolkloreThursday #pagansky

In ancient Greece, many believed that shooting stars were souls of the dead soaring to the heavens. It was said that if you wished upon the star, the soul would grant your wish. ‘L'étoile filante’ by J.J. Grandville (1849) #FolkloreThursday #FolkloreSunday

Perchta is a witch-like figure from Germanic folklore said to fly through the skies with her followers during the 12 days of Christmas. She leaves a silver coin for those who have been good, but slits the bellies of the bad and stuffs them with straw. #FolkloreThursday 🎨 Katie Ponder

Persian myth describes the Simurgh, a giant bird whose wings stretched across the heavens. Some stories say the stars were sparks from its feathers as it flew between worlds, a guardian of fate and wisdom older than humankind. #FolkloreThursday Art: Exotic India Art

The Star Lovers is a Japanese #fairytale. Celestial lovers are separated by the Milky Way. On the 7th day of the 7th moon, magpies gather to form a bridge so the lovers can be reunited. redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkloreThursday #art #vintage #illustration #folklore #illustration

Fishermen in Hokkaido once kept scythes on their boats to defend themselves when the sky turned red, because that is a warning of the giant red octopus Akkorokamui, which can swallow a ship in a single gulp #folklorethursday art by @yokai.com

Luna is the Roman embodiment of the moon goddess. Her Greek counterpart was Selene. Her symbols are the crescent moon & two yoked chariot. The poet Horace called her the 'two horned queen of the stars'. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3538... #FolkloreThursday #art #mythology #wallart #folklore

If you can see the Milky Way it means the weather will be changeable. #FolkloreThursday

From a children’s tale: On the 3rd day of the Lunar New Year, the mice welcome their brides. #Taiwan #folktale #folklore #FolkloreThursday

Theme of stars and sky for #FolkloreThursday you say??? I have just the thing for that! 💫

This wiley youngest daughter of a king so poor that the queen abandons the princesses Hansel and Gretel-style not only gets them out of their plight, but kills two giants in the process! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨John Bauer

'Tree Scene 126' - Namiki Hajime, 2007. #JapaneseArt #FolkloreThursday

In #JapaneseFolklore Tennyo are heavenly beings who appear as extraordinarily beautiful women. They sometimes fly down to earth wearing magical feathered kimonos. There are many tales of love stories between Tennyo and human men. Similarly to western swan maiden or selkie... #FolkloreThursday 1/2

Known as a rare, gentle centaur, Chiron, was sought out as a teacher of the arts. When poisoned by a painful and incurable toxin, Chiron prayed for his immortality to be revoked & Zeus turned him into the constellation Sagittarius. #FolkloreThursday Art: J Singer Sargent

According to a Flemish folktale, will-o'-the-wisps weren't ghost lights at all but stars that came out of the ground and floated between the trees. Apparently, they left behind a layer of magical foam on the ground. #FolkloreThursday

Asteria was a Greek Titan and goddess of falling stars, dream divination & astrology. She was also the mother of Hecate. 🎨Franz von Stuck redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkloreThursday #mythology #art #homedecor #Interiordesign #wallart #decor #folklore #giftideas

Hi friends! I’m @crystalponti.bsky.social taking over the next hour of #FolkloreThursday. A huge thanks to @mythcrafts.bsky.social for their guiding light before the break. Our theme is stars and skies, so bring on your cosmic critters, moonlit mischief, and starlit stories. 🚀🌙✨ Art: Deb Enhams

Thank you #FolkloreThursday for sharing all your wonderful lore with us, this is @mythcrafts.bsky.social signing off, but stick around for @crystalponti.bsky.social who will be back after the break @3.30 BST. Img; Star tarot card from the Rider Waite

Nut (Nwt), the Egyptian sky goddess, is pictured stretched over the world as she forms the heavens above. Each morning she gives birth to the sun, a red disk that travels along the length of her body until it is swallowed whole each evening. #folklorethursday 🔗👇 mythcrafts.com/2017/09/28/n...

Sacred to Apollo, the migratory swan pulled his chariot across the sky. It is said when the mute swan prepares for death, it sings its only song before perishing: this is known as their "swan song." #FolkloreThursday 🖼️: W. List

The position of the heavens mattered in ancient cultures, to the point rulers would plan wars to get the stars in the right position before attacking a foe. Bad stars spelled doom: that is the origin of the word disaster (dus+aster=bad star in Ancient Greek). #FolkloreThursday

While Solomon is often tied to demons or djinn, rarely are those tied to stars: in the Testament of Solomon, the demons are connected to the 36 decans, which are 36 stars or constellations used by the Egyptians to divide the sky into 360 degrees. #FolkloreThursday

If a shower of rocks mysteriously falls from the sky, beware! It may be the work of tengu - especially if the rocks are invisible! If you're struck by the rocks you may fall ill, and just witnessing the phenomenon brings bad luck #folklorethursday yokai.com/tengutsubute/

Some speculate that Scottish Selkie myths grew from sightings of Finnish women traveling the seas in their sealskin kayaks or from shipwrecked foreigners with long, jet-black hair 🦭🌕 🎨 by Arthur Rackham #FolkloreThursday #folklore #fairytale #selkies #SelkieMoon #debutnovella #summeroftheselkie

When Halley’s Comet appeared in 1066, it was seen as an omen of doom across Europe. To the Normans, it was a sign of victory, while to the Anglo-Saxons it foretold King Harold’s death. A single streak of fire carried two destinies. #FolkloreThursday Image: Public Domain

#FolkloreThursday 1920 Kentucky If you see a star fall, expect a death in the family. If a star falls, it is a sign that some one is dying and his soul is going to heaven. #TheVictorianBookoftheDead #DeathToken

"The Eclipse Of The Moon In Constantinople: Turks Firing Guns To Frighten Away The Evil Spirit." The Illustrated London News 24.3.1877. #FolkloreThursday #1870s

According to a Flemish folktale, the Wagon from Hell was a group of stars pulled across the night sky by horses. In other tales, the wagon lived inside a giant star and flew through the night sky to terrify people. 🎨Franz von Stuck #FolkloreThursday