🍂✨Autumn is the perfect time to work on your beech body, gnarled and mossy and deep in a haunted forest, visited only by owls and deer and foxes and ghosts, whispered secrets to by the stars ✨🍂

Super proud of our #SeaTember release- an episode all about #Selkies with resident sea #folklore experts @icftmaritimespod.bsky.social Link in our bio to listen 🌊🌊🌊

Spooky Content Creators from September 1st: NO. SLEEP. 'TIL. SAMHAIN.

Oh Percy. #mythologymonday #medusa

"NOTHING BEATS A JET2-" Me:

June 23 is St John’s Eve — Midsummer Night. In Welsh folklore, it was a night to beware the Cŵn Annwn —ghostly hounds from the Otherworld — who roam the lonely roads and byways of Wales in eerie procession. Listen carefully, they might be closer than you think... #Wales #Folklore

#MysteryMonday 🔍 What appears to be a mermaid is actually a siren. According to Greek mythology, sirens were dangerous creatures, whilst mermaids were gentle. This siren is combing her hair and singing, in order to lull some sailors to sleep. Once asleep, she will attack and tear them to pieces.

You should get to leave work early if the eldritch horror in the forest is whispering to you

Good morning y'all, today is an important event in Slavic mythology, Noc Kupały. It's focused on women and finding love, where you make a flower crown and see if it floats and you'll find love. Then at night there is a bonfire and finding a mystical fern flower in the forest for good fortune.

Us discussing Hermes and his fedora / dorky lil sandals combo #folklorefriday

The Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg A 25-35 year old woman, buried during the Mesolithic in present-day Germany. Included in the grave goods, the remains of an extraordinary head-dress made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane, turtle.

Ripley never fails to look like she's just been told they stopped making wet food. Nevertheless, it's #Caturday

Unique to Ireland is the Morrigan, the Phantom Queen, the crow goddess of fate, prophecy, and battle. She is oft depicted as three in one, making three sisters into a single goddess. Her warcry is death; her forms are many, her prophecy fatal. #FolkyFriday 🖼️: Mikadze

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✨️🖐🕯#FolkloreFriday is a great day to release our Pine Cones short on the #handofglory, A grisly relic from the crossroads of folklore and true crime... #darkhistory #folklore #thiefshand #tattooculture

Do you ever just #caturday

A little leprechaun history to prepare you for Monday: www.history.com/news/leprech... #leprechaun #folklore #folkloring #irish #irishhistory #potofgold #stpatricksday

Women will get cute nail art to match the holiday & tell a stranger she has lipstick on her teeth or that she smells good & stick pictures of their secret goals in a scrapbook & learn a craft so they can make gifts & distract someone's baby if they look overwhelmed. I love being a woman 🥰

Black cats with white spots on their chest are known to the Scottish as Fairy Cats, cat-sith, huge as a dog with an attitude to match. Prone to stealing souls, on Samhain if given a saucer of milk they offer blessings, and a curse without. #FolkloreFriday

🚨BREAKING 🚨 Due to the rise in gold value, the Leprechaun Faction will be employing extra security at the end of the rainbow effective immediately for the foreseeable 🌈💰 #folklorefriday

It's always The Church, not the church. #witchsky #christiancringe

New book by RFK Jr, a sequel to his first book, The Very Hungry Brain Caterpillar.

We posted a short explainer on Incantations yesterday for anyone who missed it. Linked in Bio! ✨️🌙🌿 #witchsky #folklorefriday #witchhistory #spirituality

Just as Persephone plants flowers in the Underworld, I carve a slice of Heaven out of this Hell.

Luteal phase vs ovulation

In a Flemish folktale, a farmhand went to a pond and asked the water spirit who dwelt there to bake him a waffle. Back on the farm, a waffle was waiting for him. He returned to the pond and she dragged him into the water. He's still there, and the spirit can often be heard singing. #WyrdWednesday

Reading "Blodeuwedd" recently, by @ynysafallon.bsky.social, and feeling a bit flower-faced myself... Sharing this, my poem, Blodeuwedd, for the woman made of flowers. First published in Sabrina Bridge, 2017, from Black Pear Press. #PoetrySky #PaganSky #WelshMyth #Blodeuwedd

WE ARE BACK! We kick off Season 3 in honour of #Blodeuwedd and somehow get into all that mess with #biancacensori and #Kanye because this stuff has been happening for YEARS. #welshfolklore #Mabinogion #folklore #mythology #folklorepodcast #podcastclip #womenshistory #feminism

Excited to share that tonight (tomorrow?) we are joining #BBCRadio2 to play Midnight Mastermind on the OJ Borg Show! We will be live at 12:30am to quiz the host on our specialist mythology subject 😀 you can listen live or later via BBC Sounds.

Don't fold to the pressure of January to overhaul your life. Make small changes: Choose honey over sugar. Curate silence. Seek out the sea. Visit the woods. Move to said woods, become the eldritch horror that lurks there and demand a sacrifice during each new moon. Meditate. Read. Foster a puppy.

NEW EPISODE ALERT! Jason has seen the end of the world in his dreams. It will happen soon. Just after midnight, at the start of the new year... shows.acast.com/haunted-tale... Special mention @rowanpinepodcast.bsky.social! #horror #horrorpodcast #newyear #podcast #audiodrama #creepy #scary

#FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent A German nun named Ursula loved singing but was so awful she disturbed the rest of the choir. Even after death she joined in until she was banished and turned into an owl. She joined the Wild Hunt and now lives her best life hooting with the Hunt in the winter skies.

I've been laughing all day about the word #paddystinian. Genius. Raging we didn't come up with it ourselves honestly. #speirgorm #spéirgorm

Anyone in Ireland catch sight of Mars next to the moon this morning? 🌌 #speirgorm

Gave up on my search for a non-cheesy Christmas film i haven't seen before so now I'm watching a murder drama 🤷‍♀️

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Little reminder that we have a #FridaytheThirteenth episode giving you a rundown of the folklore about this infamous date 🖤✨️

Happy Saint Lucia's Day! This is a very important festival in Sweden, a day which celebrates light in their long, dark winter. Girls adorn their heads with crowns of candles and adults celebrate with mulled wine and coffee. Sounds pretty Pagan to me 😉🍷 #WitchSky #PaganSky

What's your Yuletide Folklore Persona & Chaotic Activity? The comments on this over on Insta are gold.🤣🖤✨️

✨🎄7 sacred plants for Yule/Winter Solstice 🎄✨ www.learnreligions.com/sacred-plant... #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #wintersolstice #yule

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Another slightly sinister winter folklore print: my #linocut of Perchta, also known as Frau Perchta or Berchta (or Bertha in English), a figure from Alpine folklore, who visits during the 12 days of Christmas. Her name may come from “the bright one” 🧵

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a tale about three brothers and an oni (demon #yokai). A mother who couldn't afford to feed her children toom them deep into the woods and left them there. They came across the house of an oni and were hidden by his kindly... #FairyTaleTuesday #dontgointothewoods 1/2

The Christmas card was invented in Victorian times, but many people disliked cards with birds on. This was due to a folkloric belief that wild birds entering the house heralded a death in the family. #FolkloreSunday #folklore #history #Christmas #GothicAdvent #Yule

It's time to recapture what this time of year is all about. Scaring the piss out of little kids so they'll be obedient. #Europeanfolklore #krampus #grýla #belsnickel ##PèreFouettard

Don't knock those new socks from your mum this holiday season... #yulecat #folklore #icelandicfolklore #folktale

Me, online shopping for new jeans: I'm protecting against the Yule Cat #folklore