This time of year, spiders start coming inside. While it might terrify many of us (myself included), killing them is bad luck in some cultures, perhaps because they are such good pest control. Killing a spider might bring bad winter luck. #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: V. Rybakow

Known for their grand migrations southwards this time of year, monarch butterflies in many cultures are associated with the souls of the dead. They guarantee souls find their way home, but sometimes, when they return, they might just be those souls revisiting us. #FolkloreSunday

In Daoist astrology, autumn is the time of the White Tiger of the West and the element of metal. It represents a movement inward, a time to reflect, to grieve, and to celebrate the good things life brings, in preparation for the harsh truths of winter. #FolkloreSunday

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Once some young men of the Cherokee set out to see what was in the world and traveled south until they came

I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism. Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.

Mont Saint-Michel #UrbanGaze #Architecture #Photography #SkyBridge

It's #FolkyFriday friends, with our theme this week being "Blood Month and Folkloric Sacrifices!" 🖤 From St Brice's Day to the Minoan Labyrinth, Wicker Men to the Threefold Death, someone must volunteer as tribute! Tag related lore, art and customs #FolkyFriday for sharing from 10am-6pm UK time!

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

'Monkey and Moon' - Ohara Koson, ca. 1910. #FullMoon #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

Love a good dragon myth!

My earliest memories are listening to Greek & Norse mythology and not long after reading mythology for myself. By my teens I had graduated to the myths of eastern Asia and Africa. To this day, reading foundation myths like Kagutsuchi here is like inhaling that first aroma of coffee, gets me going.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Daily reminder to improve on your #eris knowledge. #shadowrun #berlin #diskordianismus

Heer and Ranjha are famed Punjabi lovers, mad about one another but separated by her family's disdain for the unlanded flute player. Her jealous uncle poisons Heer's food, and in grief at failing to save her, Ranjha eats it too, choosing death over separation. #LegendaryWednesday

In the second attempt at Creation, Izanami succeeded in her mission by having ten thousand children, who are the land and kami that inhabits Japan. One of the last born was Kagutsuchi, the god of fire: he destroyed his mother, and created death. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: H. Mansouri

The Lament for Enkidu is a song of sorrow within the Epic of Gilgamesh, where a weeping Gilgamesh holds the body of his tender friend and weeps for all of Uruk to see: for grief is never shameful when it is earned. #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️: merriya

The Vestal Virgins maintained the sacred fire of Vesta, goddess of hearth and home, for the goddess was quite at home at Rome and a sacred order of women was made to maintain the fire for official sacrifices and rituals; Christians extinguished it in 394. #WyrdWednesday

Daughters of Eris, the Algea are the Three Sorrows: Lype, she of pain; Achos, she of grief; and Ania, she of sorrow. Their anguish was both physical and mental, making them diverse goddesses felt by all but loved by none. #LegendaryWednesday

The akugyo (悪魚) has the head and arms of a woman and breathes fire, a malevolent Japanese mermaid who ensnares the ships of sailors in rocks and then breaks the ship, devouring them. Japanese lords have tried to take her down, and failed. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: Sabnock_

💫This week's theme is grief! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your mourning legends, your lamentation traditions, bereavement rituals, tales of sorrowful woe, & deities of misery. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫

Penny for the guy, you Wydlings? With Bonfire Night falling on #WyrdWednesday, we go one better and give you: “Burn, Baby, Burn!” As this week’s topic. Let’s hear some fiery stories from lore, myth, lit and history!

Look at this book! BOG PEOPLE: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror. "Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain’s most iconic working-class voices." 10 stories!

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where he derives his strength and power from: HER

Fenrir did nothing wrong!

Don't Rule It, Read It

The recurring thread in Norse ethos, as highlighted by myth and sagas, is that fate cannot be avoided. Called Wyrd, fate rules everyone and everything, and simply knowing fate is not enough to stop it. The Norns do not rule it, but can read fate. #FairyTaleTuesday 🖼️: A. Lewis

One way of looking at the whole of Norse sagas is as the tragedy of the Gallows God: Odin does his best to mitigate the destructive power of Ragnarok. For all the wisdom of the Nine Worlds, he cannot save them: for this, Odin is the Grim One. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼: G. von Rosen

Draugr are the reanimated remains of Nordic graves and palaces, driven by greed and a lust for bloodshed. With the power to shapeshift and relying on deception, they are the stuff of terror in Scandinavian sagas and folklore. #FairytaleTuesday

Wind comes from Yggdrasil, for at the top of the mighty Norse World Tree sits a nameless eagle, a falcon on his beak. In fury from rumors whispered to him by that rascal Ratatoskr, he flaps furiously, his winds spreading across the Nine Worlds. #FairytaleTuesday

Jörð is Mother Earth, goddess of the world itself. Her most well-known role in Norse myth is as mother of Thor: this connection to the Earth is where he derives his strength and his power over the denizens of Jotunheim. She may be a name for Frigga. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼: L Hunt

over the weekend I painted two layers on all the gold suns & signed & numbered & packed them up & if you want a cheeky crow thief I'd recommend you get a move on 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #crow

I'm giving two public talks this week in different parts of the country. The first in this Thursday, 6 Nov, at 5pm in Watkins Bookshop, London, when @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social and I will be discussing our book Devon's Forgotten Witches. RSVP on this link www.watkinsbooks.com/event-detail...

It was a kind of warning, they said later: the Phantom Waka of Lake Tarawera was sighted in the fog, and eleven days later Mt. Tarawera erupted, devastating parts of New Zealand. If the ghost canoe appears again, they say disaster is at hand. #MythologyMonday 🖼: K. Watkins

In Ireland and in particular on its western coast, fog is a harbinger of the beyond, of the sidhe and of the coming of Tir na nOg. Even Hy-Brasil, that mythical moving island, was cloaked in mist and fog when seen. #MythologyMonday

If you are near a body of water near Obon in Japan, and you see mists on the water, don't wait for it to get closer. This is a Funayūrei, a Ghost Ship in the fog, full of resentful drowned sailors and prepared for you to join their crew. #MythologyMonday 🖼: M. Meyer

Greetings, Myth Lovers! This Monday's theme is MIST, FOG & BRUME! Tell us a misty myth that features fog of any kind using the hashtags #MythologyMonday for boosts. If joining from #BlueSky: follow @ap.brid.gy so we can interact with your posts. See you on […] [Original post on thefolklore.cafe]

THAT'S FEAR THAT CHILLS YOU LIKE A WRAITH!

Gawain answered the Green Knight's challenge. He would not run when the quest meant certain death. He did not speak up when his host's wife approached him. When he returned to Camelot with a green scarf it became fashionable: a reminder that honesty is key. #FolkloreSunday

Inanna came to the Underworld and was met with false pretenses: instead of being treated diplomatically, she was forced to remove one article of her magic clothing, until after the seven gates of the Underworld, she was naked and vulnerable. #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: michellenolte

And here’s the famous “the Rabbis hated entitled incels” passage. Ht to @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social for reminding me of it before I’ve had coffee.

#Commissions for gaming groups are some of my favourite ways to create #fantasymaps and I’ve been fortunate to help #TTRPG game masters around the world bring their worlds to life! If you’re interested, be sure to reach or pay me a visit at thevoyagersworkshop.com #handcrafted #fantasyart #noai

And if we’re acclaiming masterpieces: Charles Addams’ marvellous cover for the Halloween 1963 cover of The New Yorker. (At first glance, I took that hunter’s expression for bafflement, but now I’m pretty sure he’s terrified. As he darn well should be.)