💫Thank you for the #LegendaryWednesday #equinox holiday posts. They were perfect. Hope you all have a great week! Will announce next week's theme by Monday. Follow us & we follow back. See you #Wednesday #Legend #poetry #folklore #fairytale #mythology #art #quote #film💫

Fascinating I also read that the Autumn Equinox is the original day when the veil thins.

The equinox has long been linked to prophecy. Ancient seers claimed visions were clearest when the world stood in balance. Day and night mirrored the mind poised between dream and waking. #LegendaryWednesday Art: Rob Rey

Folklore in England said that witches harvested herbs on equinox night, when plants were at their most potent. The equal hours of day and night lent charms their strongest balance of power. #LegendaryWednesday

Red in autumn. Both rosehips and toadstools feature in fairylore. Fly agaric is variously used as a fairy home, a table or a seat in art and literature while rosehip magic makes fairies invisible 🎨 Richard Doyle (1869) 📸 mine (from August/September 2025) #LegendaryWednesday

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `Michael O’Guggin from Cahir Cam was gravely ill. He had been swept from himself by a charm of the people from under the hill, and he had flown on an autumn wind across the land to their court next to Tráigh an […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Persian Zoroastrians marked Mehregan, the autumn festival of Mithra, God of covenant and light. Tables were spread with fruit, nuts, and pomegranates, reflecting harmony between humans and divine justice. #LegendaryWednesday

In Welsh folklore, the Black Wyrm of the Barrow was a huge serpent who lived in a labyrinthine barrow. As a barrow is a pagan tomb, some scholars assume the Wyrm was inspired by a pagan god. It was slain by Peredur (Sir Percival), one of King Arthur's most Christian warriors. #WyrdWednesday

Image by Alan Lee #LegendaryWednesday #BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #MythologySky #FolkloreSky #WelshSky #CelticSky #KingArthurSky #MonsterSky #Mythology #WelshMythology #CelticMythology #Folklore #WelshFolklore #CelticFolklore #Wales #Celtic #KingArthur #Arthurian #Monster #Serpent #Dragon

You should always leave a little bit of the harvest in the fields as tribute. The poor were allowed to glean food from this excess. Leave apples on the ground for the fairy folk. 🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3431... #LegendaryWednesday #art #illustration #folklore #Autumn

Flowers blooming a second time in #Autumn or holding their blooms into late Fall indicate a cold winter coming: “Flowers bloomin’ in late Autumn, A sure sign of a bad winter comin’.” 🎨Gustave Dore redbubble.com/shop/ap/3536... #LegendaryWednesday #art #homedecor #folklore #wallart #giftideas

Druids call the Autumn equinox Mea'n Fo'mhair, a time to give thanks for the earth's bounty & to honor the Green man. 🎨Edward J. Detmold redbubble.com/shop/ap/3715... #art #vintage #illustration #folklore #LegendaryWednesday #homedecor #mythology #giftideas #interiordesign

The Harvest Moon is the only one not tied to a month, but rather the equinox. It's the one closest to the #Autumn equinox, usually in Sept. When it falls in Oct it replaces the Hunter's moon. 🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3438... #LegendaryWednesday #art #folklore #illustration #folklore

#LegendaryWednesday: `The #Cailleach was preeminently the goddess of harvest, whose name was given to the last sheaf cut in each field; dressed in women’s clothes and honored during the harvest festivities, the Cailleach sheaf was kept safe until the next […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

In Druidic tradition, the equinox was a hinge of the year. Fires were lit on hilltops, not to celebrate victory of light but to honor the surrender to shadow. Balance was fleeting, and that made it sacred. #LegendaryWednesday

#LegendaryWednesday: `A roughly human-shaped figure constructed from straw at harvest time, the Corn Dolly/Maiden was often crafted from the last sheaf cut at harvest-time. Its origins are obscure but clearly mythic or ritual. In #Scottish and #Irish folklore […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Films echo the equinox too. Days of Heaven and Legends of the Fall bathe in golden light, turning harvest into metaphor - beauty pressed against inevitable loss. #legendarywednesday Art: Marcus Ashley

Higan is a seven-day Japanese Buddhist festival, a celebration of the equinoxes. The fall version is called shūbun, when farmers assess their harvest and families have ceremonies at ancestral graves. The red spider lilly, a symbol of death, marks the holiday. #LegendaryWednesday

Mid-Autumn is Mehregān in the faith of Zoroastrianism, praising Mithra and celebrating friendship, sharing, and all types of love. It marks the harvest and collection of taxes in Old Persia, and so the Shah would repay his people in a grand celebration. #LegendaryWednesday

The ancient Cahokia Mound near Collinsville, IL, has a ring of poles that, when hit by the fall equinox's sun, illuminates the entire ring. After its rediscovery, festivals were held there yearly but in recent years in respect, these have been discontinued. #LegendaryWednesday

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🍂📜🍂'Storyteller, with Listeners' - by Wendy Froud #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

The perfect autumn #yokai for #LegendaryWednesday.

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Art captures equinox mood in golden hues. From Van Gogh’s orchards heavy with fruit to Bruegel’s peasants gathering grain, paintings turn autumn labor into sacred ritual. #LegendaryWednesday Art: Van Gogh

The Celts marked the equinox with Mabon, a harvest festival of balance. Offerings of apples, grains, and wine were made to honor the waning sun. Day and night stood equal, a fragile truce before darkness claimed the year. #legendarywednesday Art: Elaine Bayley

Pomona was a mythical goddess who protected fruit #trees & #orchards. Known in Roman times for her #gardening skills & expertise. Pomona represented the nurturing and cultivation of fruit-bearing plants, embodying the flourishing of #nature. #LegendaryWednesday

Wednesday # #WednesdayGreen #AquilineWednesday #BookshopWednesday #EgyptologyWednesday #GothicWednesday #HillfortsWednesday #HollowayWednesday #WaterTowerWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #ReliefWednesday #RoseWednesday #WallsOnWednesday

September skies are full of migrating hawks. In myth & folklore, they’re messengers of the gods: sacred to Horus in Egypt, omens of Apollo in Greece, guardians in Native traditions, & watchers in Norse & Celtic lore. Hawks=vision, wisdom, & change. #LegendaryWednesday #history #mythology #folklore

💫This week's theme is Fall Equinox Holidays. Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your autumnal legends, your Rosh Hashanah traditions, Mabon rituals, Shubun no Hi festivals, & harvest deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫

💫Thank you for the #LegendaryWednesday breakup posts. They were perfect. Hope you all have a great week! We will announce next week's theme by Monday. Follow us & we follow back. See you #Wednesday #Legend #poetry #folklore #fairytale #mythology #art #quote #film💫

"Lady Meng Jiang" is the Chinese tale about a woman whose husband is forced into slave labor at the Great Wall of China, and dies by the time she arrives to bring him a change of clothes. She weeps for days until part of the Great Wall collapses, revealing his bones. #LegendaryWednesday

If not for all the wonderful content on the various folklore days of the week, I really doubt I'd stick around on social media. Cheers to #MythologyMonday #WyrdWednesday #FairyTaleTuesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreFriday #Myth&Folklore and others for adding magic & mystery to my days & nights.

In the ancient Persian epic "Khosrow and Shirin," the Sasanian king Khosrow romantically pursues the Armenian princess Shirin. Soon after she finally agrees to marry him, Khosrow is murdered by his son, who wants Shirin for himself. Shirin then dies by suicide. #LegendaryWednesday

In the Spanish legend "The Lovers of Teruel," a poor man, Diego, leaves town to build a fortune so he can marry the wealthy Isabel. He returns just after she weds another man, and dies of heartbreak. Isabel wears her wedding dress to his funeral, where she dies too. #LegendaryWednesday

Slavic folklore tells of Rusalki, spirits of women betrayed or abandoned. They haunt rivers, luring lovers with beauty, then drowning them. Heartbreak becomes vengeance in the water’s depths. #LegendaryWednesday Art: Andrey Shishkin

#LegendaryWednesday: After Midir learned that his wife #Etain, whom he missed dearly, had been reborn, he persuaded her husband, Eochaid, the King of Tara, to wager a kiss from her lips in a game of Fidchell. Eochaid lost the game and also lost his wife when […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Even modern rituals echo old grief. Burning letters, deleting photos, cutting hair of all acts of breakup magic meant to sever ties. Folklore remade in private rooms, binding sorrow into gesture. #LegendaryWednesday Art: Zainab Shahid

Thus Perish the Memory of Our Love 1865 John George Brown #legendarywednesday

#LegendaryWednesday Hellelil fell in love with one of her guards, Hildebrand, triggering a tragic series of events which resulted in the death of her father, six of her brothers and Hildebrand. Hellelil subsequently died of a broken heart ... 🎨Frederic William Burton [Meeting on the Turret Stairs]

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: Etain Echraide was transformed into a wonderful insect and forcibly driven away from her husband by his first wife Fuamach. The following happened afterwards: `Giddy with sweetness, greedy for more, I leap from bloom to […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” —Leo Tolstoy #LegendaryWednesday

Sorrowful deities haunt myth. Inanna descends to the underworld grieving the death of her beloved Dumuzi. Each year she mourns his absence, and the earth withers in sympathy until his return. #LegendaryWednesday Art: Judith Shaw

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: #Etain Echraide was transformed into a wonderful insect and forcibly driven away from her husband by his first wife Fuamach. This is what happened next: `I am Etain. Once I was Sidhe, and a Queen, adored and admired. Now, I […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#LegendaryWednesday: `The beautiful maiden Sadb, daughter of the great magician Bodb Derg, was turned into a deer by one of his magical enemies, Fear Doirche. Later the dark druid found that Sadb had managed to slip out of her deer form and had enjoyed many […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Divorce traditions carry folklore too. In some cultures, broken pottery symbolized the severing of a bond, each shard a piece of what once was whole. Ritual destruction as catharsis. #LegendaryWednesday Art: Michelle Calkins

#LegendaryWednesday Accompanying Iseult [Isolde] on her journey to marry his uncle King Mark, Tristan falls in love with her himself. Despite her marriage the pair's love endures, ending tragically with their deaths, each believing the other has forsaken them ... 🎨J W Waterhouse & Marc Fishman

When Rama returned home – and was crowned king – Sita was pregnant. Even though she had passed the trial by fire and established her faithfulness, the locals were talking…. #legendarywednesday 🔗👇 mythcrafts.com/2017/05/23/s...

An Eswatini tale of a woman & her children fleeing an abusive relationship. They find a nest; its 3 magical eggs accompany them, advising the best courses. The woman breaks a curse on a kingdom & affects a transformation on its prince; they marry & she is Queen. The abuser dies. #LegendaryWednesday

... Liang. From the grave emerged their spirits in the form of a pair of butterflies, finally united for eternity. This tale has been adapted for opera, theatre, musicals & films. 🎨I can't find artist details for any of the art in this thread. I'm so sorry as I always make sure I credit artists. 6/6