🖤🐦‍⬛🖤Ravens are said to carry messages between the Otherworld and mortal realms. #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday

Greetings, myth lovers! Our #MythologyMonday theme is BRUSHES AND BROOMS. Which myths feature a tool such as a brush or broom? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. If joining from #BlueSky: follow @ap.brid.gy so we can […] [Original post on thefolklore.cafe]

When the Wildg'fahr ventures forth, it makes "a rustling noise like dried furs". #mythologymonday #austria #folktale #folklore #wildhunt https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wildg%27fahr

The Sorcerer of Sistrans used a magical tome bound in pig leather in order to compel thieves to bring their stolen books back to him. #mythologymonday #austria #folktale #folklore #magic https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Sorcerer_of_Sistrans

The third gift the spirit Hinzelmann gave upon his departure from Hudemühlen Castle was a leather glove that was adorned with pearls. #mythologymonday #germany #folktale #folklore #kobold #castle https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Hinzelmann

#MythologyMonday: "Will you show me where the king's daughter is?" said #Diarmuid. "I will do that," said the woman; "I will put you in the sheaf of rushes, and I will put the rushes under you and over you, and I will carry you to her on my back." "That is a […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The Mountain Monk - a spirit of the mountains and mines - sometimes appeared wearing a "rear leather", which is a piece of leather miners wore so that they could sit down in the moist and cold mines of Germany. #mythologymonday #germany #folktale #folklore […]

#MythologyMonday: While walking on a plain under the sea, #Diarmuid `met with a drop of blood. He took it up and put it in a napkin. "It is the greyhound lost this," he said. And after a while he met with another drop of blood, and then with a third, and he […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The strange spirit of Herrenwieser See lake was clad in rat furs, of all things. #mythologymonday #germany #folktale #folklore https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Baden_and_the_Wildbad

A particularly gruesome talisman was made from used hangman's ropes, with a dual purpose. For the sick, it alleviated headaches and illness of the head. For gamblers and card players especially, even a thread offered the protection of Lady Luck. #MythologyMonday

Disease comes on ill winds: Pazuzu is the Demon King of Pestilence and Disease, a Mesopotamian god not just of illness but the defender against it. From Sumer to Babylon Pazuzu would be invoked, asking for his blessing wind to prevent death and disease. #MythologyMonday

Daughter of Tuonetar, Queen of the Underworld, Loviatar was the Finnish goddess of death and disease. The wind impregnated her with the Nine Diseases: consumption, colic, gout, rickets, ulcers, scabs, cancer, plague, and the ninth is worst and unknown (COVID?). #MythologyMonday

While the alchemist Kunkel von Löwenstern dwelled on Peacock Island near #berlin, a dog with fiery eyes and glowing fur guarded it - no doubt a creation from one of Kunkel's many alchemical experiments. #mythologymonday #germany #folktale #folklore #alchemy #Berlin […]

The Metternich stele records the spells and talismans taught to Isis to restore life to her son, Horus. #mythologymonday 🔗👇 The Magical/Medical Cippi of Horus mythcrafts.com/2020/02/06/h...

A cross between between sea serpent, leopard and whale, the Dingonek was thought to help grow crops and cure illness. #mythologymonday 🔗👇 Waiting for Dingonek: An End to the Dread Plague. mythcrafts.com/2020/04/23/w...

#MythologyMonday: `Great desire and envy came on Ailell, so that he fell sick, and they brought him to a house in Teffia. And he stopped there through the length of a year, and he was wasting away, but he told no one the cause of his sickness. And at the end […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The Map of Nordic Legends is everything I aspire to build one day. Except, you know, in English. #mythologymonday #maps #cartography #folklore #scandinavia #norway #sweden #denmark #finland https://www.isof.se/other-languages/english/the-map-of-nordic-legends

An _extremely_ impressive map of Icelandic folk tales and folklores - I would need a few further decades for my own mapping efforts of German folklore to get this comprehensive. Alas, the entire site is in Islandic. But perhaps there are some people out there who are interested in translating […]

The "Map of Myth, Legend & Folklore" focuses a bit too much on visual effects over utility for my liking, but you have to admit that the visual effects are rather impressive! #mythologymonday #maps #cartography #folklore https://mythsmap.english-heritage.org.uk/

#mythologymonday: This map is showing the general direction taken by Meave’s forces in the Táin bó Cuailgne from Eleanor Hull’s „The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature“ (1898, frontispiece). The map was ‘drawn up’ by Standish Hayes O’Grady. #celtic

Since today's #mythologymonday theme is #maps , let's showcase some folkloric-themed cartography! First, check out this map of "Mythical Beasts of Germany" by Púca Printhouse. Long-time readers of my own work will find some of my favorites! […]

#MythologyMonday: This map locates Caiseal Mhanannán within the #Rathcroghan mythylogical landscape. `Caiseal Mhanannán, which means #Manannan’s Fort, is referring to a deity from #Irish #mythology, Manannán mac Lir. It consists of the foundation remains of a […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

1/ Since the theme of this #mythologymonday is "Maps", I'd like to talk about the importance of maps for my research of German #folklore . A majority of German folk tales mention real world physical locations, but actually finding these locations can be tricky, since they are often obscure, have […]

3/ But this is not enough - I frequently translate tales from regions that are within modern-day Poland, Russia, and the Czech Republic, where the formerly German place names have changed into different languages. Sometimes Wikipedia can help me out, but often it does not. In such cases, I go to […]

4/ Sometimes I also have to search for historical town and city maps to find specific streets that have been renamed in the modern day. And that's it! If you also research historical #maps of Central Europe and have any further suggestion where I could look for researching historical locations […]

#MythologyMonday: This map shows the Lia Fail located in the centre of an earthwork enclosure known as the Forradh, or Royal Seat. `Originally, it stood before the Mound of Hostages, a burial chamber also located on the site, and was only moved to its present […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

2/ I am fairly satisfied with how it looks now, but if you have any suggestions for improvement please share them! It will be easier to make major changes now, with 101 tales on the wiki, rather when I have added all 753 to it (or however many there are when I have finished this thing). Also […]

3/ ...since those happen rather frequently, especially when multiple people are trying to access it at once (if it happens to you, just wait a few minutes and try again). Eventually, this will replace my current German Folklore Map, which is based on #googlemaps . For the time being, the latter […]

#MythologyMonday: `Europeans called it Hy-Brasil, taking its name from Breasal, the Celtic High King of the World, and it was marked on many medieval maps such as those of Genoese cartographer Dalorto, often to the southwest of Galway bay, but otherwise off […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The nautical charts of our coastlines all date back to the pioneering efforts of Doctor Faust. #mythologymonday #germany #folktale #folklore https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Doctor_Faust_and_the_Nitz

#MythologyMonday: `In this episode of the Irish Mythology Podcast, Marcas Ó hUiscín & Stephanie Ní Thiarnaigh include an episode in their retelling of events in which the king of the Fomorians, Indech Mac De Domhnan, uses a map to decide, which route his host […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The Fenn Treasure was a $2M cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn stashed in the Rocky Mountains. He then penned a poem full of clues, leaving many a treasure seeker looking for the loot. #MythologyMonday 🔗👇 mythcrafts.com/2020/06/09/a...

Loadstones (magnets) always aligned themselves to Polaris, the North Star. So what could possibly be attracting all of these Magnets North? To famed cartographer Gerardus Mercator the answer seemed obvious: It had to be a Big Magnet. 🔗👇 #MythologyMonday mythcrafts.com/2023/01/29/t...

"As above, so below" was a phrase credited to Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary sage of Western occultism. It means the human body and the heavens reflect each other. Thus, the stars are a map for understanding humanity while the human body is a map for understanding the universe. #MythologyMonday

Our #MythologyMonday theme is FURS, LEATHER & HIDES. Which myth features a significant fur, leather, or hide of some sort? Write out your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. If joining from #BlueSky: follow @ap.brid.gy so we can interact […] [Original post on thefolklore.cafe]

Our #MythologyMonday theme is MAPS but your host @AimeeMaroux will be unable to boost your posts on Monday. You may still post your myths and enjoy all the stories shared using the hashtag #MythologyMonday. We'll boost all stories on the following Monday […] [Original post on thefolklore.cafe]

#MythologyMonday: `The Irish hero Craiphtine is one of those credited with the invention of the musical instrument most connected to Ireland, the harp, this musician appeared in myths of the hero Labhraigh, whose fitful sleep he eased with his melodies. So […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Wait I have a question: selain pontianak, does any of the other sister hantus can also change form/made docile with an iron nail? Are *you* raised with the story that you can keep it away with an iron nail #tootsea #mythologymonday (but Tuesday) #malaysia #singapore #indonesia #philippines

In Welsh folklore, the great bard Taliesin claimed to be the embodiment of the Awen, the spirit of inspiration and prophecy. He claimed that as a spirit, he had been with Jesus at his crucifixion and Noah on his arc. Though it is ambiguous how literally Taliesin meant this. #MythologyMonday

#MythologyMonday: While #CúChulainn was wooing Emer, they conversed in secret speech that puzzled everyone around them: `I see one excellence thou hast not noted in thy speech. Never before, until this day, among all women with whom I have at times conversed […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

🧡🍇🧡Autumn - by Alphonse Mucha #MythologyMonday #SeptemberVibes

There are many versions of the riddle of the Sphinx to Oedipus, including this one from later in Antiquity: “There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first. Who are the two sisters?” #MythologyMonday

The Emperor of Rome's dream was a riddle, which Merlin saw through: his wife's twelve guards were secretly men, not women, and his wife's lovers, and he should marry the knight who solved it: except Sir Grisandoles was no man, but Princess Avenable. #MythologyMonday 🖼️: E. Tsami

#MythologyMonday: While #CúChulainn was wooing Emer, they conversed in secret speech that none of those standing around could understand: „Cuchulaind saw the breasts of the maiden over the bosom of her smock. Then he said: ‘Fair is this plain, the plain of the […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a giant crab #yokai known as kanibozu. These creatures take on the form of priests and move into empty temples. If a new priest arrives to lead the temple the kanibozu demands they answer a riddle & if they can't solve it, they get eaten. #MythologyMonday 🎨Matthew Meyer

Ever feel like you’ve hit a wall and can’t keep going? You may have run into a #yokai known as nurikabe. Translating as ‘plaster wall,’ this odd phenomenon occurs on roads late at night in the form of a huge invisible wall, blocking the way for travellers. Any attempts to... #MythologyMonday 1/4

...walk around it, or climb over it, will prove futile. It is believed that if you tap the ground with a stick near the bottom left of the wall, you may be able to pass. Some descriptions of nurikabe are of a dark or invisible wall, but other depictions show it resembling an elongated.... 2/4

...creature blocking the way forward. Nurikabe experiences have also been attributed to tanuki, who are the notorious tricksters of #JapaneseFolklore. In the video game Yo-Kai Watch, the character Noway is based on the #yokai Nurikabe. 3/4

There is even a puzzle game named after nurikabe that was invented in 1991. More about it here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurikab... 🎨1. Matthew Meyer @yokai.com 2. Tatsuya Morino 3. Yoshiharu Masuda 4. artist unknown 5. Yo-Kai Watch 6. 'Nurikabe' from 'Bakemono no e,' ca. 1700. 4/4

...a bloody mouth cut from ear to ear. She then asks 'how about now?' If you scream or say no, she'll cut your mouth with her bloody scissors to look just the same as hers. If you lie and say she's still beautiful, she'll walk away, but will silently follow you home and brutally kill you. The... 2/4